Mediterranean Mosaic examines the diverse musical styles of the region including Turkey, the Middle East, North Africa, Italy, Greece, and Spain and discusses how the cultures within these countries are interconnected. Looking at traditional musics within the region as well as outside influences on these tradition, topics covered include Klapa singing and Cha Wave from Croatia, the pop group Alibina, Pop-Rai from Algeria, and jazz in the Mediterranean.
Mediterranean Mosaic examines the diverse musical styles of the region including Turkey, the Middle East, North Africa, Italy, Greece, and Spain and d...
Mediterranean Mosaic examines the diverse musical styles of the region including Turkey, the Middle East, North Africa, Italy, Greece and Spain, and discusses how the cultures within these countries are interconnected. Looking at traditional musics within the region as well as outside influences on these tradition, topics covered include Klapa singing and Cha Wave from Croatia, the pop group Alibina, Pop-Rai from Algeria, and jazz in the Mediterranean.
Mediterranean Mosaic examines the diverse musical styles of the region including Turkey, the Middle East, North Africa, Italy, Greece and Spain, and d...
Made in Italy will serve as a comprehensive and rigorous introduction to the history, sociology and musicology of 20th century Italian popular music. The volume will consist of essays by leading scholars of Italian music and will cover the major figures, styles and social contexts of pop music in Italy. Each essay will provide adequate context so readers understand why the figure or genre under discussion is of lasting significance to Italian popular music. The book first presents a general description of the history and background of popular music, followed by essays that are organized...
Made in Italy will serve as a comprehensive and rigorous introduction to the history, sociology and musicology of 20th century Italian popular musi...
Many regard jazz as the soundtrack of America, born and raised in its cities and echoing throughout its tumultuous century of progress. So when Ernest Hemingway wrote about seeing jazz in 1920s Paris, and when British colonial officials danced to jazz in the clubs of Calcutta in the waning years of the Raj, how, exactly, had it gotten there? Jazz Worlds/World Jazz aims to answer these questions and more, bringing together voices from countries as far flung as Azerbaijan, Armenia, and India to show that the story of jazz is not trapped in American history books but alive in global...
Many regard jazz as the soundtrack of America, born and raised in its cities and echoing throughout its tumultuous century of progress. So when Ernest...
