English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians, Vol 2
ISBN: 9781935243199 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 1932, Cecil Sharps English Folk-Songs from the Southern Appalachians contains 274 songs -- ballads, songs, hymns, nursery songs, jigs, and play-party games -- with 968 tunes, collected between 1916 and 1918 from traditional singers in the mountains of Virginia, North Carolina, Kentucky, and Tennessee. It remains one of the foundational collections of American folk music.
First published in 1932, Cecil Sharps English Folk-Songs from the Southern Appalachians contains 274 songs -- ballads, songs, hymns, nursery songs, ji...
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145,99 zł |
Black Recording Artists, 1877-1926: An Annotated Discography
ISBN: 9780786472383 / Angielski / Miękka / 500 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This annotated discography covers the first 50 years of audio recordings by black artists in chronological order, music made in the "acoustic era" of recording technology. The book has cross-referenced bibliographical information on recording sessions, including audio sources for extant material, and appendices on field recordings; Caribbean, Mexican and South American recordings; piano rolls performed by black artists; and a filmography detailing the visual record of black performing artists from the period. Indexes contain all featured artists, titles recorded and labels.
This annotated discography covers the first 50 years of audio recordings by black artists in chronological order, music made in the "acoustic era" of ...
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591,43 zł |
Delia
ISBN: 9781935243885 / Angielski / Miękka / 38 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First found in Georgia at the beginning of the nineteenth century, in the Bahamas in the 1920s and 1950s, and popularized during the folk revival of the 1960s, variations of the song "Delias Gone" have been in circulation for over a century. The murder of an obscure woman has been celebrated by bluesmen, country singers and folk singers across North America. But less well known is the fact that Delia was a real person. Here, for the first time, John Garth presents the full story of the crime behind the song.
First found in Georgia at the beginning of the nineteenth century, in the Bahamas in the 1920s and 1950s, and popularized during the folk revival of t...
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34,82 zł |
Czech Music Guide
ISBN: 9788070082690 / Angielski / Miękka / 72 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Průvodce české hudby (v anglickém jazyce) představuje současnou českou hudební scénu. Obsahuje krátkou historii české hudby, portréty významných osobností, adresy institucí apod.
The Czech Music Guide presents an up-to-date panorama of Czech music life with a short historical overview for everyone with an interest, whether layperson or professional, in understanding Czech music culture and its milieu. Contents: About the Czech Republic, A Short History of Music, Contemporary Music Life, Current Culture Policy, Music Institutions, The Music Education System, Archives,... Průvodce české hudby (v anglickém jazyce) představuje současnou českou hudební scénu. Obsahuje krátkou historii české hudby, portréty vý...
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15,30 zł |
The Ten Polish Folk Songs with English Translations - Sheet Music for Piano
ISBN: 9781528701334 / Angielski / Miękka / 26 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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98,50 zł |
Musical Intimacies and Indigenous Imaginaries
ISBN: 9780199747641 / Angielski / Twarda / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Musical Intimacies and Indigenous Imaginaries explores several styles performed in the vital aboriginal musical scene in the western Canadian province of Manitoba, focusing on fiddling, country music, Christian hymnody, and step dancing. In considering these genres and the contexts in which they are performed, author Byron Dueck outlines a compelling theory of musical publics, examines the complex, overlapping social orientations of contemporary musicians, and shows how music and dance play a central role in a distinctive indigenous public culture. Dueck considers a wide range of...
Musical Intimacies and Indigenous Imaginaries explores several styles performed in the vital aboriginal musical scene in the western Canadian...
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643,89 zł |
Musical Intimacies and Indigenous Imaginaries: Aboriginal Music and Dance in Public Performance
ISBN: 9780199747658 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Musical Intimacies and Indigenous Imaginaries explores several styles performed in the vital aboriginal musical scene in the western Canadian province of Manitoba, focusing on fiddling, country music, Christian hymnody, and step dancing. In considering these genres and the contexts in which they are performed, author Byron Dueck outlines a compelling theory of musical publics, examines the complex, overlapping social orientations of contemporary musicians, and shows how music and dance play a central role in a distinctive indigenous public culture. Dueck considers a wide range of...
Musical Intimacies and Indigenous Imaginaries explores several styles performed in the vital aboriginal musical scene in the western Canadian...
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155,84 zł |
The Never-Ending Revival: Rounder Records and the Folk Alliance
ISBN: 9780252079290 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Focusing on American folk music and roots music since the 1950s, The Never-Ending Revival analyzes the intrinsic contradictions of a commercialized folk culture. In recent years, both Rounder Records and the North American Folk Music and Dance Alliance have sought to make folk music widely available, while simultaneously respecting its defining traditions and unique community atmosphere. By tracing the histories of these organizations, Michael F. Scully explores the lively debates about the difficulty of making commercially accessible music, honoring tradition, and remaining artistically...
Focusing on American folk music and roots music since the 1950s, The Never-Ending Revival analyzes the intrinsic contradictions of a commercialized fo...
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124,19 zł |
A Sacred Feast: Reflections on Sacred Harp Singing and Dinner on the Ground
ISBN: 9780803248632 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Some have called Sacred Harp singing America's earliest music. This powerful nondenominational religious singing, part of a deeply held Southern culture, has spread throughout the nation over the past two centuries. In A Sacred Feast, Kathryn Eastburn journeys into the community of Sacred Harp singers across the country and introduces readers to the curious glories of a tradition that is practiced today just as it was two hundred years ago. Each of the book's chapters visits a different region and features recipes from the accompanying culinary tradition-dinner on the ground, a hearty...
Some have called Sacred Harp singing America's earliest music. This powerful nondenominational religious singing, part of a deeply held Southern cultu...
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67,25 zł |
African American Folksong and American Cultural Politics: The Lawrence Gellert Story
ISBN: 9780810884885 / Angielski / Twarda / 298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In African American Folksong and American Cultural Politics: The Lawrence Gellert Story, scholar and musician Bruce Conforth tells the story of one of the most unusual collections of African American folk music ever amassed-and the remarkable story of the man who produced it: Lawrence Gellert.
In African American Folksong and American Cultural Politics: The Lawrence Gellert Story, scholar and musician Bruce Conforth tells the story of one of...
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770,05 zł |
Klezmer's Afterlife: An Ethnography of the Jewish Music Revival in Poland and Germany
ISBN: 9780199995790 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Klezmer in Europe has been a controversial topic ever since this traditional Jewish wedding music made it to the concert halls and discos of Berlin, Warsaw, Budapest and Prague. Played mostly by non-Jews and for non-Jews, it was hailed as "fakelore," "Jewish Disneyland" and even "cultural necrophilia." Klezmer's Afterlife is the first book to investigate this fascinating music scene in Central Europe, giving voice to the musicians, producers and consumers of the resuscitated klezmer. Contesting common hypotheses about the klezmer revival in Germany and Poland stemming merely from...
Klezmer in Europe has been a controversial topic ever since this traditional Jewish wedding music made it to the concert halls and discos of Berlin, W...
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643,89 zł |
Flowing Tides: History and Memory in an Irish Soundscape
ISBN: 9780199380084 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Despite its isolation on the western edge of Europe, Ireland occupies vast amounts of space on the music maps of the world. Although deeply rooted in time and place, Irish songs, dances and instrumental traditions have a history of global travel that span the centuries. Whether carried by exiles, or distributed by commercial networks, Irish traditional music is one of the most popular World Music genres, while Clare, on Ireland's Atlantic seaboard, enjoys unrivaled status as a "Home of the Music," a mecca for tourists and aficionados eager to enjoy the authentic sounds of Ireland. For the...
Despite its isolation on the western edge of Europe, Ireland occupies vast amounts of space on the music maps of the world. Although deeply rooted in ...
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280,96 zł |
Orain Ceilidh Teaghlaich: The Family Ceilidh Gaelic Song Collection
ISBN: 9780957498204 / Angielski / Miękka / 95 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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48,35 zł |
The Globalization of Irish Traditional Song Performance
ISBN: 9781409434238 / Angielski / Twarda / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In The Globalization of Irish Traditional Song Performance Susan Motherway examines the ways in which performers mediate the divide between local and global markets by negotiating this dichotomy in performance practice. In so doing, she discusses the globalizing processes that exert transformative influences upon traditional musics and examines the response to these influences by Irish traditional song performers. In developing this thesis the book provides an overview of the genre and its subgenres, illustrates patterns of musical change extant within the tradition as a result of...
In The Globalization of Irish Traditional Song Performance Susan Motherway examines the ways in which performers mediate the divide between local and ...
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750,67 zł |
Folk-Songs of the South: Collected Under the Auspices of the West Virginia Folk-Lore Society
ISBN: 9781938228681 / Angielski / Twarda / 600 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Folk-Songs of the South: Collected Under the Auspices of the West Virginia Folk-Lore Society is a collection of ballads and folk songs from West Virginia.
Folk-Songs of the South: Collected Under the Auspices of the West Virginia Folk-Lore Society is a collection of ballads and folk songs from West Virgi...
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131,94 zł |
Lord Peter and Little Kerstin: Medieval Ballads from Sweden
ISBN: 9780957612006 / Angielski / Miękka / 60 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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78,79 zł |
Romany Songs
ISBN: 9781473303676 / Angielski / Miękka / 42 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work by Hermann Lohr was originally published in the early 20th century and we are now republishing it for the modern reader. 'Romany Songs' is a collection of Romany songs complete with lyrics and musical notation."
This work by Hermann Lohr was originally published in the early 20th century and we are now republishing it for the modern reader. 'Romany Songs' is a...
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Sand County Songs - audiobook
ISBN: 9780299160074 / Angielski / CD-ROM Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sand County Songs draws themes and lyrics from Aldo Leopold s landmark environmental essays inA Sand County Almanac. From thoughtful ballads and beautiful instrumentals to spirited bluegrass and finger-style blues, songwriter Tim Southwick Johnson gives voice to the honesty and respect of Leopold s land ethic.Songs and tunes included are: Prologue, Coffee Cup Chorus, Loving Pines, Come High Water, Red Lanterns, Crane Song, Green Fire, Sky Dance, Good Oak, If I Were the Wind, Winter Book, Draba, Better Way, and Epilogue."
Sand County Songs draws themes and lyrics from Aldo Leopold s landmark environmental essays inA Sand County Almanac. From thoughtful bal...
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125,12 zł |
Shout Because You're Free: The African American Ring Shout Tradition in Coastal Georgia
ISBN: 9780820346113 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The ring shout is the oldest known African American performance tradition surviving on the North American continent. Performed for the purpose of religious worship, this fusion of dance, song, and percussion survives today in the Bolton Community of McIntosh County, Georgia. Incorporating oral history, first-person accounts, musical transcriptions, photographs, and drawings, Shout Because You're Free documents a group of performers known as the McIntosh County Shouters. Derived from African practices, the ring shout combines call-and-response singing, the percussion of a stick... The ring shout is the oldest known African American performance tradition surviving on the North American continent. Performed for the purpose of r... |
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Folk Visions & Voices: Traditional Music and Song in North Georgia
ISBN: 9780820346137 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sampling virtually all of the old-time styles within the musical traditions still extant in north Georgia, Folk Visions and Voices is a collection of eighty-two songs and instrumentals, enhanced by photographs, illustrations, biographical sketches of performers, and examples of their narratives, sermons, tales, and reminiscences.
Sampling virtually all of the old-time styles within the musical traditions still extant in north Georgia, Folk Visions and Voices is a collect...
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136,16 zł |