Trompeta: Chappott'n, Chocolate, and Afro-Cuban Trumpet Style
ISBN: 9780810846807 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Afro-Cuban music evolved into one of the great musical traditions of the 20th century. This volume provides a comprehensive history of mainstream Cuban music, examining the music of all its eras from the perspective of two seminal trumpet players: Felix Chappottin and Alfredo Chocolate Armenteros. One or the other was present at almost every significant turning point in the stylistic development of Cuban music. An overview of the entire Afro-Cuban genre and its development is provided, as well as an in-depth examination of both Chappottin's and Armenteros' performance styles.
Afro-Cuban music evolved into one of the great musical traditions of the 20th century. This volume provides a comprehensive history of mainstream Cuba...
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463,24 zł |
Music in Cuba
ISBN: 9780816632305 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Originally published in 1946 and never before available in English, Music in Cuba is not only the best and most extensive study of Cuban musical history, it is a work of literature. Drawing on such primary documents as church circulars and musical scores, Carpentier encompasses European-style elite Cuban music as well as the popular rural Spanish folk and urban Afro-Cuban music.
Originally published in 1946 and never before available in English, Music in Cuba is not only the best and most extensive study of Cuban musical histo...
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121,57 zł |
Music of the Common Tongue: Survival and Celebration in African American Music
ISBN: 9780819563576 / Angielski / Miękka / 509 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In clear and elegant prose, Music of the Common Tongue, first published in 1987, argues that by any reasonable reckoning of the function of music in human life the African American tradition, that which stems from the collision between African and European ways of doing music which occurred in the Americas and the Caribbean during and after slavery, is the major western music of the twentieth century. In showing why this is so, the author presents not only an account of African American music from its origins but also a more general consideration of the nature of the music act and of its...
In clear and elegant prose, Music of the Common Tongue, first published in 1987, argues that by any reasonable reckoning of the function of music in h...
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124,15 zł |
Singing Our Way to Victory: French Cultural Politics and Music During the Great War
ISBN: 9780819564733 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Winner of the International Book Award from International Association for the Study of Popular Music (2003) The practice of singing and songwriting in France during the Great War provides an intriguing tool for the exploration of the French cultural politics of the epoch. Responding to the dearth of cultural studies of the First World War, Regina Sweeney's unique cross-disciplinary study illuminates many of the hitherto unexplored corners of an era that many historians consider to exhibit a break with recognizable trends. In early twentieth century Europe, singing was...
Winner of the International Book Award from International Association for the Study of Popular Music (2003) The practice of singing and son...
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108,95 zł |
Bound for Shady Grove
ISBN: 9780820321974 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In "Bound for Shady Grove," essayist Steven Harvey celebrates the spirit of the music of his adopted home in the southern Appalachian mountains. There, at the wellspring of mountain music, he took up his guitar and assumed the journey that culminated in this book. Harvey's essays measure out in words the four seasons of a life in music. Springtime pieces describe playing music in the log house of friends born and raised in the mountains or entering a banjo contest and losing with style. There are essays about fiddles and the devil, homemade instruments and homemade weapons, and a trip to... In "Bound for Shady Grove," essayist Steven Harvey celebrates the spirit of the music of his adopted home in the southern Appalachian mountains. Th... |
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128,63 zł |
Slave Songs of the Georgia Sea Islands
ISBN: 9780820323893 / Angielski / Miękka / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A valuable collection of folk music and lore from the Gullah culture, "Slave Songs of the Georgia Sea Islands" preserves the rich traditions of slave descendants on the barrier islands of Georgia by interweaving their music with descriptions of their language, religious and social customs, and material culture. Collected over a period of nearly twenty-five years by Lydia Parrish, the sixty folk songs and attendant lore included in this book are evidence of antebellum traditions kept alive in the relatively isolated coastal regions of Georgia. Over the years, Parrish won the confidence... A valuable collection of folk music and lore from the Gullah culture, "Slave Songs of the Georgia Sea Islands" preserves the rich traditions of sla... |
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189,12 zł |
Singing Cowboys and Musical Mountaineers
ISBN: 9780820325514 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this slim, lively book our foremost historian of country music recalls the lost worlds of pioneering fiddlers and pickers, balladeers and yodelers. As he looks at "hillbilly" music's pre-commercial era and its early popular growth through radio and recordings, Bill C. Malone shows us that it was a product not only of the British Isles but of diverse African, German, Spanish, French, and Mexican influences.
In this slim, lively book our foremost historian of country music recalls the lost worlds of pioneering fiddlers and pickers, balladeers and yodelers....
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129,59 zł |
Millennium Folk : American Folk Music Since the Sixties
ISBN: 9780820328294 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This first ethnographic study of the American folk music revival that began in the late 1980s examines its people, economy, and politics. Covering the perspectives of fans, performers, marketers, and others, Thomas Gruning takes on some of the folk community's stickiest issues, many of which have roots extending to the previous folk heyday in the 1960s--and sometimes to even more distant eras. Today, such issues are most evident in the clash between the folk community's entrepreneurial, tech-savvy present and its idealized memory of origins in some rural, egalitarian, blue-collar... This first ethnographic study of the American folk music revival that began in the late 1980s examines its people, economy, and politics. Covering ... |
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330,71 zł |
Millennium Folk: American Folk Music Since the Sixties
ISBN: 9780820328300 / Angielski / Miękka / 197 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This first ethnographic study of the American folk music revival that began in the late 1980s examines its people, economy, and politics. Covering the perspectives of fans, performers, marketers, and others, Thomas Gruning takes on some of the folk community's stickiest issues, many of which have roots extending to the previous folk heyday in the 1960s--and sometimes to even more distant eras. Today, such issues are most evident in the clash between the folk community's entrepreneurial, tech-savvy present and its idealized memory of origins in some rural, egalitarian, blue-collar... This first ethnographic study of the American folk music revival that began in the late 1980s examines its people, economy, and politics. Covering ... |
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140,42 zł |
Hip-Hop Japan: Rap and the Paths of Cultural Globalization
ISBN: 9780822338765 / Angielski / Twarda / 249 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this lively ethnography Ian Condry interprets Japan s vibrant hip-hop scene, explaining how a music and culture that originated halfway around the world is appropriated and remade in Tokyo clubs and recording studios. Illuminating different aspects of Japanese hip-hop, Condry chronicles how self-described yellow B-Boys express their devotion to black culture, how they combine the figure of the samurai with American rapping techniques and gangsta imagery, and how underground artists compete with pop icons to define real Japanese hip-hop. He discusses how rappers manipulate the Japanese...
In this lively ethnography Ian Condry interprets Japan s vibrant hip-hop scene, explaining how a music and culture that originated halfway around the ...
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554,74 zł |
Hip-Hop Japan: Rap and the Paths of Cultural Globalization
ISBN: 9780822338925 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this lively ethnography Ian Condry interprets Japan s vibrant hip-hop scene, explaining how a music and culture that originated halfway around the world is appropriated and remade in Tokyo clubs and recording studios. Illuminating different aspects of Japanese hip-hop, Condry chronicles how self-described yellow B-Boys express their devotion to black culture, how they combine the figure of the samurai with American rapping techniques and gangsta imagery, and how underground artists compete with pop icons to define real Japanese hip-hop. He discusses how rappers manipulate the Japanese...
In this lively ethnography Ian Condry interprets Japan s vibrant hip-hop scene, explaining how a music and culture that originated halfway around the ...
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121,57 zł |
Last Night's Fun: A Book about Irish Traditional Music
ISBN: 9780865475311 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Last Night's Fun's is a sparking celebration of music and life that is itself a literary performance of the highest order. Carson's inspired jumble of recording history, poetry, tall tales, and polemic captures the sound and vigor of a ruthlessly unsentimental music. Last Night's Fun is remarkable for its liveliness, honesty, scholarship, and spontaneous joy; certainly there has never been a book about Irish music like this one, and few books ever written anywhere about the experience of music can compare with it. Last Night's Fun's is a sparking celebration of music and life that is itself a literary performance of the highest order. Carson's inspired... |
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81,60 zł |
Celtic Music: Third Ear: The Essential Listening Companion
ISBN: 9780879306236 / Angielski / Miękka / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Explores the music of the world's Celtic regions, profiles popular performers of Celtic and Celtic-influenced music, and recommends essential recordings.
Explores the music of the world's Celtic regions, profiles popular performers of Celtic and Celtic-influenced music, and recommends essential recordin...
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85,85 zł |
Reggae & Caribbean Music: Third Ear: The Essential Listening Companion
ISBN: 9780879306557 / Angielski / Miękka / 546 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Thompson has written over 70 rock music books, as well as articles for a variety of leading music magazines and liner notes for many major artists. In this text, he provides an encyclopedic guide to reggae and other music styles from the English-speaking Caribbean region of the past and present. Cov
Thompson has written over 70 rock music books, as well as articles for a variety of leading music magazines and liner notes for many major artists. In...
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107,32 zł |
Arabic Musical Scales: Basic Maqam Teachings
ISBN: 9780974588247 / Angielski / Miękka / 62 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Musicians desiring to play the Dance music, the Sacred music or the Folk music of the Arab and Turkish worlds must study these scales. Discover the musical basis for the incredibly rich emotions associated with Middle Eastern music. Forty-Five Arabic Musical Scales are taught in this book. Many scales include "quartertone" intervals. From Cairo to Tunisia, Damascus to Baghdad, Beirut to Aleppo and as far west as Istanbul and even into Greece, musicians know these scales. Long missing from Western musical training, this book now makes these ancient scales available. Knowledge of these... Musicians desiring to play the Dance music, the Sacred music or the Folk music of the Arab and Turkish worlds must study these scales. Discover the... |
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85,68 zł |
From Kokopelli's to Electric Warriors: The Native American Culture of Music
ISBN: 9781403347695 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the red earth of the reservation to the glitter of the Grammys(, the heartfelt music of Native America is getting into the mainstream. This informative and entertaining book includes profiles of some of the major Native artists, activists, and performers such as Robbie Robertson, Rita Coolidge, Bill Miller, Hank Williams III, and Joey Ramone. 44 photos. (Music)
From the red earth of the reservation to the glitter of the Grammys(, the heartfelt music of Native America is getting into the mainstream. This infor...
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62,28 zł |
Musical Migrations: Transnationalism and Cultural Hybridity in Latin/O America, Volume I
ISBN: 9781403960016 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The transcultural impact of Latin American musical forms in the United States calls for a deeper understanding of the shifting cultural meanings of music. Musical Migrations examines the tensions between the value of Latin popular music as a metaphor for national identity and its transnational meanings as it traverses national borders, geocultural spaces, audiences, and historical periods. The anthology addresses the role of popular music in Caribbean diasporas in the US and Europe; the trans-Caribbean identities of Salsa and reggae; the racial, cultural, and ethnic hybridity in rock across...
The transcultural impact of Latin American musical forms in the United States calls for a deeper understanding of the shifting cultural meanings of mu...
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194,97 zł |
Slave Songs of the United States
ISBN: 9781565545939 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart, and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by tears." "It is hard to explain why no systematic effort has hitherto been made to collect and preserve slave] melodies. The public had well-nigh forgotten these genuine slave songs, and with them the creative power from which they sprung. These are the songs that are still heard upon the Mississippi . . . wild and strangely fascinating." Many haunting melodies were created during the nineteenth... "The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart, and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by tears." |
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112,73 zł |
In Griot Time
ISBN: 9781566397582 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Djelimady Tounkara is only one of the memorable people you will meet in this dramatic narrative of life among the griot musicians of Mali. Born into families where music and the tradition of griot story-telling is a heritage and a privilege, Djelimady and his fellow griots -- both men and women -- live their lives at the intersection of ancient traditions and the modern entertainment industry. During the seven months he spent living and studying with Djelimady, Banning Eyre immersed himself in a world that will fascinate you as it did him.
Eyre creates a range of unforgettable portraits.... Djelimady Tounkara is only one of the memorable people you will meet in this dramatic narrative of life among the griot musicians of Mali. Born into f...
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390,18 zł |
In Griot Time
ISBN: 9781566397599 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Djelimady Tounkara is only one of the memorable people you will meet in this dramatic narrative of life among the griot musicians of Mali. Born into families where music and the tradition of griot story-telling is a heritage and a privilege, Djelimady and his fellow griots -- both men and women -- live their lives at the intersection of ancient traditions and the modern entertainment industry. During the seven months he spent living and studying with Djelimady, Banning Eyre immersed himself in a world that will fascinate you as it did him.
Eyre creates a range of unforgettable portraits.... Djelimady Tounkara is only one of the memorable people you will meet in this dramatic narrative of life among the griot musicians of Mali. Born into f...
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136,76 zł |