wyszukanych pozycji: 12
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Tenement Songs the Popular Music of the Jewish Immigrants
ISBN: 9780252065620 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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128,37 zł |
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Music at Wesleyan: From Glee Club to Gamelan
ISBN: 9780819570789 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This is the first account of the evolution of music at Wesleyan University, a campus known since the mid-nineteenth century for its musical life--first as the "Singing College of New England" and then, after 1960, as the home of a renowned undergraduate and graduate department that integrates world music studies with more traditional Western and experimental musical forms. Through excerpts from accounts in the campus newspaper over the earlier decades and eyewitness accounts by key figures in recent times, the book compactly surveys a wide range of musical formations, practices, repertoires,...
This is the first account of the evolution of music at Wesleyan University, a campus known since the mid-nineteenth century for its musical life--firs...
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59,21 zł |
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Chosen Voices: The Story of the American Cantorate
ISBN: 9780252070891 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Chosen Voices is the definitive survey of an often overlooked aspect of American Jewish history and ethnomusicology and an insider's look at a profession that is also a vocation.
Week after week, year after year, Jews turn to sacred singers for spiritual and emotional support. The job of the hazzan -- much more than the traditional "messenger to God" -- is deeply embedded in cultural, social, and religious symbolism, negotiated between the congregation and its chosen voices. Drawing on archival sources, interviews with cantors, and photographs, Slobin traces the development of the... Chosen Voices is the definitive survey of an often overlooked aspect of American Jewish history and ethnomusicology and an insider's look at a profess...
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112,97 zł |
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Folk Music: A Very Short Introduction
ISBN: 9780195395020 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. When we think of folk music, most of us picture Pete Seeger singing "This Land is My Land" or Joan Baez singing "Barbara Allen." But this stimulating Very Short Introduction throws open the doors on a remarkably diverse musical genre, in a wide-ranging portrait that goes far beyond America's shores to discuss folk music of every possible kind and in every corner of the globe. Written by award-winning musicologist Mark Slobin, this is the first compact introduction to folk music that offers a truly global perspective. Slobin offers an extraordinarily generous portrait of folk music, one that...
When we think of folk music, most of us picture Pete Seeger singing "This Land is My Land" or Joan Baez singing "Barbara Allen." But this stimulating ...
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48,62 zł |
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Old Jewish Folk Music: The Collections and Writings of Moshe Beregovski
ISBN: 9780815628682 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 579 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This volume presents a cultural record of the Jewish folk music of Eastern Europe, through the eyes of ethnomusicologist, Moshe Beregovski. It includes contextual responses to Jewish folk music, essays on musical influences, and notes and lyrics of nearly 300 folk songs.
This volume presents a cultural record of the Jewish folk music of Eastern Europe, through the eyes of ethnomusicologist, Moshe Beregovski. It include...
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122,96 zł |
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Motor City Music: A Detroiter Looks Back
ISBN: 9780190882082 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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152,25 zł |
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Global Soundtracks: Worlds of Film Music
ISBN: 9780819568823 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This stimulating collection of essays analyzes the music of films ranging from mainstream and subcultural American films through case studies of those from China, India, Indonesia, Egypt, Nigeria, Latin American, and the Caribbean, and includes a variety of key films, periods, and studio practices. The focus of the essays is the social and cultural meanings of film music, not just composers' careers and the musical support of storyline and psychology that are the center of most film music studies. Global Soundtracks is the first anthology to suggest methods for understanding how the...
This stimulating collection of essays analyzes the music of films ranging from mainstream and subcultural American films through case studies of those...
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140,32 zł |
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American Klezmer: Its Roots and Offshoots
ISBN: 9780520227187 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Klezmer, the Yiddish word for a folk instrumental musician, has come to mean a person, a style, and a scene. This musical subculture came to the United States with the late-nineteenth-century Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe. Although it had declined in popularity by the middle of the twentieth century, this lively music is now enjoying recognition among music fans of all stripes. Today, klezmer flourishes in the United States and abroad in the world music and accompany Jewish celebrations. The outstanding essays collected in this volume investigate American klezmer: its roots,...
Klezmer, the Yiddish word for a folk instrumental musician, has come to mean a person, a style, and a scene. This musical subculture came to t...
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189,93 zł |
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Old Jewish Folk Music
ISBN: 9780812278330 / Angielski / Twarda / 1982 / 640 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Here presented for the first time in English are Beregovski's surviving essays, plus his anthologies containing hundreds of folk songs with full Yiddish and English texts.
Here presented for the first time in English are Beregovski's surviving essays, plus his anthologies containing hundreds of folk songs with full Yiddi...
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369,87 zł |
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Retuning Culture: Musical Changes in Central and Eastern Europe
ISBN: 9780822318477 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. As a measure of individual and collective identity, music offers both striking metaphors and tangible data for understanding societies in transition--and nowhere is this clearer than in the recent case of the Eastern Bloc. "Retuning Culture" presents an extraordinary picture of this phenomenon. This pioneering set of studies traces the tumultuous and momentous shifts in the music cultures of Central and Eastern Europe from the first harbingers of change in the 1970s through the revolutionary period of 1989-90 to more recent developments.
During the period of state socialism, both the... As a measure of individual and collective identity, music offers both striking metaphors and tangible data for understanding societies in transition--...
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128,37 zł |
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Fiddler on the Move: Exploring the Klezmer World Book & CD
ISBN: 9780195161809 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. "Klezmer" is a Yiddish word for professional folk instrumentalist-the flutist, fiddler, and bass player that made brides weep and guests dance at weddings throughout Jewish eastern Europe before the culture was destroyed in the Holocaust, silenced under Stalin, and lost out to assimilation in America. Klezmer music is now experiencing a tremendous new spurt of interest worldwide with both Jews and non-Jews recreating this restless volatile, and vibrant musical culture. Firmly centered in the United States, klezmer has paradoxically moved back across the Atlantic as a distinctly "American"...
"Klezmer" is a Yiddish word for professional folk instrumentalist-the flutist, fiddler, and bass player that made brides weep and guests dance at wedd...
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149,82 zł |
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Russians Abroad: Literary and Cultural Politics of Diaspora (1919-1939)
ISBN: 9781618112149 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 225 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This book presents an array of perspectives on the vivid cultural and literary politics that marked the period immediately after the October Revolution of 1917, when Russian writers had to relocate to Berlin and Paris under harsh conditions. Divided amongst themselves and uncertain about the political and artistic directions of life in the diaspora, these writers carried on two simultaneous literary dialogues: with the emerging Soviet Union and with the dizzying world of European modernism that surrounded them in the West. The book's chapters address generational differences, literary...
This book presents an array of perspectives on the vivid cultural and literary politics that marked the period immediately after the October Revolutio...
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459,59 zł |