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The North American Folk Music Revival: Nation and Identity in the United States and Canada, 1945-1980
ISBN: 9780754657569 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work represents the first comparative study of the folk revival movement in Anglophone Canada and the United States and combines this with discussion of the way folk music intersected with, and was structured by, conceptions of national affinity and national identity. Based on original archival research carried out principally in Toronto, Washington and Ottawa, it is a thematic, rather than general, study of the movement which has been influenced by various academic disciplines, including history, musicology and folklore. Dr Gillian Mitchell begins with an introduction that provides...
This work represents the first comparative study of the folk revival movement in Anglophone Canada and the United States and combines this with discus...
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730,17 |
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The Beautiful Music All Around Us: Field Recordings and the American Experience [With CD (Audio)]
ISBN: 9780252036880 / Angielski / Twarda / 504 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "The Beautiful Music All Around Us" presents the extraordinarily rich backstories of thirteen performances captured on Library of Congress field recordings between 1934 and 1942 in locations reaching from Southern Appalachia to the Mississippi Delta and the Great Plains. Including the children's play song "Shortenin' Bread," the fiddle tune "Bonaparte's Retreat," the blues "Another Man Done Gone," and the spiritual "Ain't No Grave Can Hold My Body Down," these performances were recorded in kitchens and churches, on porches and in prisons, in hotel rooms and school auditoriums. Documented... "The Beautiful Music All Around Us" presents the extraordinarily rich backstories of thirteen performances captured on Library of Congress field re... |
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128,05 |
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Revival and Reconciliation: Sacred Music in the Making of European Modernity
ISBN: 9780810881839 / Angielski / Twarda / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sacred music has long contributed fundamentally to the making of Europe. The passage from origin myths to history, the sacred journeys that have mobilized pilgrims, crusaders, and colonizers, the politics and power sounded by the vox populi--all have joined in counterpoint to shape Europe's historical longue duree. Drawing upon three decades of research in European sacred music, Philip V. Bohlman calls for a reexamination of European modernity in the twenty-first century, a modernity shaped no less by canonic religious and musical practices than by the proliferation of belief systems that...
Sacred music has long contributed fundamentally to the making of Europe. The passage from origin myths to history, the sacred journeys that have mobil...
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702,11 |
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The Oxford Handbook of Children's Musical Cultures
ISBN: 9780199737635 / Angielski / Twarda / 656 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Oxford Handbook of Children's Musical Cultures is a compendium of perspectives on children and their musical engagements as singers, dancers, players, and avid listeners. Over the course of 35 chapters, contributors from around the world provide an interdisciplinary enquiry into the musical lives of children in a variety of cultures, and their role as both preservers and innovators of music. Drawing on a wide array of fields from ethnomusicology and folklore to education and developmental psychology, the chapters presented in this handbook provide windows into the musical...
The Oxford Handbook of Children's Musical Cultures is a compendium of perspectives on children and their musical engagements as singers, danc...
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755,69 |
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Bulgarian Jewish Musicians: A Short Survey in Facts and Pictures
ISBN: 9781478233459 / Angielski / Miękka / 60 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a short study about Jewish Bulgarian culture and musicians, with lists, bios and pictures.
This is a short study about Jewish Bulgarian culture and musicians, with lists, bios and pictures.
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80,70 |
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The Journey of the Sitar in Indian Classical Music: Origin, History, and Playing Styles
ISBN: 9781475947069 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since the thirteenth century, the sitar-a stringed, plucked instrument of India-has transformed into an instrument beloved by millions in its country of origin as well as all over the world. "The Journey of the Sitar in Indian Classical Music" details the origin, history, and playing styles of this unique stringed instrument. Dr. Swarn Lata relies on more than thirty-five years of experience teaching sitar to students from diverse cultures and communities as well as extensive research from libraries, museums, temples, and musicologists to compile a comprehensive guidebook filled with... Since the thirteenth century, the sitar-a stringed, plucked instrument of India-has transformed into an instrument beloved by millions in its count... |
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57,46 |
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The Journey of the Sitar in Indian Classical Music: Origin, History, and Playing Styles
ISBN: 9781475947083 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since the thirteenth century, the sitar-a stringed, plucked instrument of India-has transformed into an instrument beloved by millions in its country of origin as well as all over the world. "The Journey of the Sitar in Indian Classical Music" details the origin, history, and playing styles of this unique stringed instrument. Dr. Swarn Lata relies on more than thirty-five years of experience teaching sitar to students from diverse cultures and communities as well as extensive research from libraries, museums, temples, and musicologists to compile a comprehensive guidebook filled with... Since the thirteenth century, the sitar-a stringed, plucked instrument of India-has transformed into an instrument beloved by millions in its count... |
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95,89 |
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Hip Hop Illuminati: How and Why the Illuminati Took Over Hip Hop
ISBN: 9781479124152 / Angielski / Miękka / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ever wonder how someone can go to sleep in public housing and wake up in a mansion seemingly overnight? Having worked 25 years in the Hip-Hop music industry and witnessed firsthand the inner workings of the fame machine up close; I personally KNOW entertainers that are now or were employed by the Illuminati who promised them fame, money and power if they "sold out." This book reveals those who sold out and those who didn't.
Ever wonder how someone can go to sleep in public housing and wake up in a mansion seemingly overnight? Having worked 25 years in the Hip-Hop music in...
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60,53 |
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Celebrate the Native American Flute: Learn to play the Native American flute!
ISBN: 9781483908199 / Angielski / Miękka / 150 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Native American flute tutorial, "Celebrate the Native American Flute," is a comprehensive system for learning to play this instrument, regardless of previous music knowledge or experience. This book has been a steady best seller in ebook form. Now the book is in print. If you have ever had the desire to play the Native American flute, this book is exactly what you are looking for. Dick Claassen, master music teacher of various popular folk instruments, will teach you how to play the Native American flute from scratch, even if you have no music background. Dick introduces you to the...
The Native American flute tutorial, "Celebrate the Native American Flute," is a comprehensive system for learning to play this instrument, regardless ...
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80,50 |
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The Raga Guide: A Survey of 74 Hindustani Ragas
ISBN: 9780954397609 / Angielski / Miękka / 191 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ragas are complex entities. Performers, who have spent many years acquiring their knowledge, often prefer to keep silent, and in any case few have been taught to approach ragas from an analytical point of view. Musicologists, on the other hand, often lack a thorough practical insight into raga music. The authors of this guide are all well-versed in the theory and practice of raga music. Of the hundreds of ragas that exist, the guide surveys seventy-four of the most performed and well-established ones, with specially commissioned recordings by Hariprasad Chaurasia (flute), Buddhadev DasGupta...
Ragas are complex entities. Performers, who have spent many years acquiring their knowledge, often prefer to keep silent, and in any case few have bee...
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194,47 |
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The Latin Tinge: The Impact of Latin American Music on the United States
ISBN: 9780195121018 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Tejano superstar Selena and the tango revival both in the dance clubs and on Broadway are only the most obvious symptoms of how central Latin music is to American musical life. Latino rap has brought a musical revolution, while Latin and Brazilian jazz are ever more significant on the jazz scene. With the first edition of The Latin Tinge, John Storm Roberts offered revolutionary insight into the enormous importance of Latin influences in U.S. popular music of all kinds. Now, in this revised second edition, Roberts updates the history of Latin American influences on the American music...
The Tejano superstar Selena and the tango revival both in the dance clubs and on Broadway are only the most obvious symptoms of how central Latin musi...
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96,18 |
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The Garland Handbook of African Music [With CD]
ISBN: 9780415961028 / Angielski / Miękka / 508 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Features essays that offer regional studies of the different musical cultures of Africa. This work focuses on issues and processes, such as notation and oral tradition, dance in communal life, and intellectual property. It also focuses on the different regions, countries, and cultures of Africa with selected regional case studies.
Features essays that offer regional studies of the different musical cultures of Africa. This work focuses on issues and processes, such as notation a...
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374,78 |
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A History of Russian Music: From Kamarinskaya to Babi Yar
ISBN: 9780520248250 / Angielski / Miękka / 441 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Francis Maes's comprehensive and imaginative book introduces the general public to the scholarly debate that has revolutionized Russian music history over the past two decades. Based on the most recent critical literature, A History of Russian Music summarizes the new view of Russian music and provides a solid overview of the relationships between artistic movements and political ideas. The revision of Russian music history may count as one of the most significant achievements of recent musicology. The Western view used to be largely based on the ideas of Vladimir Stasov, a friend...
Francis Maes's comprehensive and imaginative book introduces the general public to the scholarly debate that has revolutionized Russian music history ...
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146,03 |
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Shpil: The Art of Playing Klezmer
ISBN: 9780810882911 / Angielski / Miękka / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Shpil: The Art of Playing Klezmer is both a history of this popular form of traditional Jewish music and an instructional book for professional and amateur musicians. Since the revival of klezmer music in the United States in the mid-1970s, Yiddish songs and klezmer dance melodies have served as the soundtrack for a resurgence of interest in Ashkenazic Jewish culture across the globe. Klezmer has taken root not only in America's major urban centers--New York City, Chicago, San Francisco--but also in emerging Jewish music hotspots like St. Petersburg, Buenos Aires, Krakow, and Tokyo. Its high...
Shpil: The Art of Playing Klezmer is both a history of this popular form of traditional Jewish music and an instructional book for professional and am...
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372,84 |
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Tudor Songs and Ballads from MS Cotton Vespasian A-25
ISBN: 9780674433137 / Angielski / Twarda / 181 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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281,57 |
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The Encyclopedia of World Rhythms, Vol. 1
ISBN: 9781943333011 / Angielski / Miękka / 394 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume is designed to assist you in taking your exploration of rhythm further, and advancing faster The precision in attribution of rhythms and orchestrations facilitates further, deeper source research and targeted study, and the website support makes acquisition of foundational materials a click away Ideal for all purposes from classroom use to expanding your rhythmic pattern vocabulary for drum circle application, this compendium is an invaluable resource for every hand drummer or student of world rhythms.
This volume is designed to assist you in taking your exploration of rhythm further, and advancing faster The precision in attribution of rhythms and ...
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171,95 |
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The Cambridge Companion to Jewish Music
ISBN: 9781107023451 / Angielski / Twarda / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A global history of Jewish music from the biblical era to the present day, with chapters by leading international scholars.
A global history of Jewish music from the biblical era to the present day, with chapters by leading international scholars.
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366,01 |
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Punk Aesthetics and New Folk: Way Down the Old Plank Road. by John Encarnacao
ISBN: 9781409433996 / Angielski / Twarda / 298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Joanna Newsom, Will Oldham (a.k.a. 'Bonnie Prince Billy'), and Devendra Banhart are perhaps the best known of a generation of independent artists who use elements of folk music in contexts that are far from traditional. These (and other) so called a new folk' artists challenge our notions of 'finished product' through their recordings, intrinsically guided by practices and rhetoric inherited from punk. This book traces a fractured trajectory that includes Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music, Bob Dylan, psych-folk of the sixties (from Vashti Bunyan to John Fahey), lo-fi and...
Joanna Newsom, Will Oldham (a.k.a. 'Bonnie Prince Billy'), and Devendra Banhart are perhaps the best known of a generation of independent artists who ...
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778,85 |
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Craùni - Canti tradizionali dal Cilento: 51 canti, 3 racconti e 1 poesia
ISBN: 9781494940751 / Włoski / Miękka / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 51 italian folk songs from Cilento, 3 story and 1 poem. Serenade, work songs, tarantella, religious songs from real old singers around Campania area called Cilento.
51 italian folk songs from Cilento, 3 story and 1 poem. Serenade, work songs, tarantella, religious songs from real old singers around Campania area c...
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22,60 |
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Roots of the Revival: American and British Folk Music in the 1950s
ISBN: 9780252038518 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Roots of the Revival: American and British Folk Music in the 1950s, Ronald D. Cohen and Rachel Clare Donaldson present a transatlantic history of folk's midcentury resurgence that juxtaposes the related but distinct revivals that took place in the United States and Great Britain. After setting the stage with the work of music collectors in the nineteenth century, the authors explore the so-called recovery of folk music practices and performers by Alan Lomax and others, including journeys to and within the British Isles that allowed artists and folk music advocates to absorb native...
In Roots of the Revival: American and British Folk Music in the 1950s, Ronald D. Cohen and Rachel Clare Donaldson present a transatlantic history of f...
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cena:
442,97 |