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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498130578Author Frances DensmoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 726Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 953g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781258980887Author Frances DensmoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 59g

This is a historical overview of folk dance ensembles in Los Angeles and the Orange Counties. It stretches back fifty years and examines groups such as Krakusy, Podhale, Gorale, and Polskie Iskry; popular Polish dances like Goralski, Zbojnicki,...

In this book Bill C. Malone 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, he shows us that it was a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995848535Author Anthony L Sanchez CruzFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Ditrie Marie BowiePublisher Ditrie Marie BowieWeight(grams) 159g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692627020Author John Daniel McWilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 30Imprint Rose Rock MediaPublisher Rose Rock MediaWeight(grams) 95gDimensions(mm) 279mm...

First published in 1867, Slave Songs of the United States represents the work of its three editors, all of whom collected and annotated these songs while working in the Sea Islands of South Carolina during the Civil War, and also of other collectors who...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788772889313Author Bo MarschnerFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint Aarhus University PressPublisher Aarhus University Press

'Music Scenes and Migrations' brings together new work from Brazilian and European scholars around the themes of musical place and transnationalism across the Atlantic triangle connecting Brazil, Africa and Europe. Moving beyond now-contested models for...

Yellow Music is the first history of the emergence of Chinese popular music and urban media culture in early-twentieth-century China. Andrew F. Jones focuses on the affinities between "yellow" or "pornographic" music-as critics...

Winner of the 2004 ARSC Award for Best Research in Recorded Rock, Rhythm & Blues or Soul, The Holy Profane explores the strong presence of religion in the secular music of twentieth-century African American artists as diverse as Rosetta Tharpe, Sam...

The essays in New Mansions for Music: Performance, Pedagogy and Criticism look at one of the most ancient and rigorous classical musical traditions of India, the Karnatik music system, and the kind of changes it underwent once it was relocated from...

The Mexican American orquesta is neither a Mexican nor an American music. Relying on both the Mexican orquesta and the American dance band for repertorial and stylistic cues, it forges a synthesis of the two. The ensemble emerges historically as a...

World Music CONCISE: A Global Journey, Third Edition, explores the diversity of musical expression around the world, taking students across the globe to experience cultural traditions that challenge the ear, the mind, and the spirit. Based on the Fifth...

1) An updated study of music in the Mediterranean that reconsiders the region’s status as a crossroads between Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, exploring the encounters of performance and aesthetics 2) Describes how experiences of the Mediterranean...

Brazilian Research on Creativity Development in Musical Interaction focuses on creativity that involves interactive musical activities, with different groups, such as professional musicians, students, and student teachers. It seeks to present research...

This is the first systematic literary study of one of the masterpieces of classical Arabic literature, the fourth/tenth century Kitab al-aghani (The Book of Songs) by Abu I-Faraj al-Isbahani. Until now the twenty-four volume Book of Songs has been...

Louisiana State Penitentiary is one of the largest and most brutal maximum-security prisons in the United States. Built on the grounds of a former plantation, the prison is commonly referred to as "Angola" apropos of the country of origin for many of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865432857Author Ashenafi KebedeFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 251g

Approximately 1300 ethnographic field recordings of Tiwi songs, made between 1912 and 1981, are archived at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) in Canberra. In November 2009, Genevieve Campbell and eleven...

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...

Yellow Music is the first history of the emergence of Chinese popular music and urban media culture in early-twentieth-century China. Andrew F. Jones focuses on the affinities between "yellow" or "pornographic" music-as critics derisively referred to the...

This is the first systematic literary study of one of the masterpieces of classical Arabic literature, the fourth/tenth century Kitab al-aghani (The Book of Songs) by Abu I-Faraj al-Isbahani. Until now the twenty-four volume Book of Songs has been...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789382381778Author Vidya ShahFormat HardbackPage Count 120Imprint Tulika BooksPublisher Tulika BooksWeight(grams) 1016gDimensions(mm) 285mm * 247mm * 16mm

Evidence indicates that the concertos of Vivaldi, Bach, Haydn etc were performed as chamber music, not the full orchestral works commonly assumed. The concertos of Vivaldi, Bach, Handel and their contemporaries are some of the most popular, and the...

Indian Music and the West examines perceptions and representations of Indian music in the West over a period of two hundred years, ranging from orientalist studies of Indian history and culture in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, to the adoption...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781527203907Author Reena KaurFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Reena KaurPublisher Reena KaurWeight(grams) 209g

Fiddling has had a lengthy history in Africa which has long been ignored. Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje corrects this oversight with an expansive study on fiddling in the Fulbe, Hausa, and Dagbamba cultures of West Africa. DjeDje not only explains the...

How does structural economic change look and feel? How are such changes normalized? How are these trends represented in movement, in performance, and in culture? Looking at Detroit's postindustrial revitalization, The Heidelberg Project, and Michael...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781032273631Author Ascensiaon Mazuela-AnguitaImprint Taylor & Francis LtdPublisher Taylor & Francis Ltd

Site-specific expressive ecologies sustain Korean folk culture in a globalizing world /> />The madang is a key space and concept for Korean drummers and dancers. Literally a village circle, the madang is also a metaphor for an expressive occasion or...

Site-specific expressive ecologies sustain Korean folk culture in a globalizing world /> />The madang is a key space and concept for Korean drummers and dancers. Literally a village circle, the madang is also a metaphor for an expressive occasion or...