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  • Re-Searching Black Music by Jongintaba, Yahya
    Yahya Jongintaba

    Re-Searching Black Music

    In this provocative book, Yahya Jongintaba offers a new paradigm for the study of African American music. Proceeding from the proposition that Black culture in America cannot be considered apart from its religious and philosophical roots, Jongintaba argues that "theology and musicology serving together"...
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  • Intonations: A Social History of Music and Nation in Luanda, Angola, from 1945 to Recent Times by Moorman, Marissa J.
    Marissa J. Moorman

    Intonations: A Social History of Music and Nation in Luanda, Angola, from 1945 to Recent Times

    Intonations tells the story of how Angola's urban residents in the late colonial period (roughly 1945-74) used music to talk back to their colonial oppressors and, more importantly, to define what it meant to be Angolan and what they hoped to gain from independence....
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  • Inner Rhythms: The Kabbalah of Music by Pinson, Dovber
    Dovber Pinson

    Inner Rhythms: The Kabbalah of Music

    What is Jewish Music? What makes a song "sound Jewish?" What is the place of music in Jewish history and philosophy?The author writes, "What is known to us as Jewish music is actually a compilation of styles and rhythms gathered over centuries and obtained...
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  • The North American Folk Music Revival: Nation and Identity in the United States and Canada, 1945-1980 by Mitchell, Gillian
    Gillian Mitchell

    The North American Folk Music Revival: Nation and Identity in the United States and Canada, 1945-1980

    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...
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  • Lutyens, Maconchy, Williams and Twentieth-Century British Music: A Blest Trio of Sirens by Mathias, Rhiannon
    Rhiannon Mathias

    Lutyens, Maconchy, Williams and Twentieth-Century British Music: A Blest Trio of Sirens

    Elisabeth Lutyens (1906-1983), Elizabeth Maconchy (1907-1994) and Grace Williams (1906-1977) were contemporaries at the Royal College of Music. The three composers' careers were launched with performances in the Macnaghten-Lemare Concerts in the 1930s - a time when, in Britain, as Williams noted, a woman...
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  • Master Musicians of India: Hereditary Sarangi Players Speak by Qureshi, Regula Burckhardt
    Regula Burckhardt Qureshi

    Master Musicians of India: Hereditary Sarangi Players Speak

    Beginning with Ravi Shankar and Ali Akbar Khan, Indian art music is renowned internationally for its improvised raga performance. This ancient tradition has for centuries been transmitted orally within the seclusion of hereditary families. Few such families remain today, and not enough is known...
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  • Roots of the Revival: American and British Folk Music in the 1950s by Cohen, Ronald D.
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    Ronald D. Cohen

    Roots of the Revival: American and British Folk Music in the 1950s

    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...
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  • Punk Aesthetics and New Folk: Way Down the Old Plank Road. by John Encarnacao by Encarnacao, John
    John Encarnacao

    Punk Aesthetics and New Folk: Way Down the Old Plank Road. by John Encarnacao

    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 'new folk' artists challenge...
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  • Music and Institutions in Nineteenth-Century Britain by Rodmell, Paul
    Paul Rodmell

    Music and Institutions in Nineteenth-Century Britain

    In nineteenth-century British society music and musicians were organized as they had never been before. This organization was manifested, in part, by the introduction of music into powerful institutions, both out of belief in music's inherently beneficial properties, and also to promote music occupations...
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  • Twentieth-Century Music and Politics: Essays in Memory of Neil Edmunds by Fairclough, Pauline
    Pauline Fairclough

    Twentieth-Century Music and Politics: Essays in Memory of Neil Edmunds

    When considering the role music played in the major totalitarian regimes of the century it is music's usefulness as propaganda that leaps first to mind. But as a number of the chapters in this volume demonstrate, there is a complex relationship both between art...
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  • Representing Black Music Culture: Then, Now, and When Again? by Banfield, Bill
    Bill Banfield

    Representing Black Music Culture: Then, Now, and When Again?

    In this collection of essays, interviews, and profiles, William Banfield reflects on his life as a musician and educator, weaving together pieces of cultural criticism that pay homage to artists who have created and sustained Black music for more than 40 years.Author: Bill BanfieldISBN-10:...
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  • The Bodhrán: Experimentation, Innovation, and the Traditional Irish Frame Drum by Harte, Colin F.
    Colin F. Harte

    The Bodhrán: Experimentation, Innovation, and the Traditional Irish Frame Drum

    In the past fifty years, the bodhrán, or traditional Irish circular frame drum, has undergone a rapid evolution in development. Traditionally, it is a shallow drum ranging from ten to twenty-six inches in diameter, covered in goatskin on the top (or drum) side and...
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  • Venceremos: Víctor Jara and the New Chilean Song Movement by San Román, Gabriel
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    Gabriel San Román

    Venceremos: Víctor Jara and the New Chilean Song Movement

    When the socialist politician Salvador Allende dramatically won Chile's presidential election in 1970, a powerful cultural movement accompanied him to power. Folk singers emerged at the forefront, proving that music could help forge the birth of a new society. As the CIA actively funded...
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  • Easily Slip Into Another World: A Life in Music by Threadgill, Henry
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    Henry Threadgill

    Easily Slip Into Another World: A Life in Music

    A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR - Winner of the 2024 American Book Award and the 2024 JJA Jazz Award - An autobiography of one of the towering figures of contemporary American music and a powerful meditation on history, race, capitalism,...
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  • Traditional Musical Instruments of Southern Italy by Marisi, Rossella
    Rossella Marisi

    Traditional Musical Instruments of Southern Italy

    Southern Italy's traditional musical instruments come to life in this comprehensive study of ethno-organology. Tracing their origins from pre-Christian times through the accounts of early travelers, the book reveals how instruments-idiophones like sistra and rattles, membranophones including frame and friction drums, chordophones such as...
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  • Wake Up Dead Man: Hard Labor and Southern Blues by Jackson, Bruce
    Bruce Jackson

    Wake Up Dead Man: Hard Labor and Southern Blues

    Making it in Hell, says Bruce Jackson, is the spirit behind the sixty-five work songs gathered in this eloquent dispatch from a brutal era of prison life in the Deep South. Through engagingly documented song arrangements and profiles of their singers, Jackson shows how...
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  • Slave Songs Of The United States (1867) by Allen, William Francis
    William Francis Allen

    Slave Songs Of The United States (1867)

    Slave Songs of the United States is a book first published in 1867 by William Francis Allen, Charles Pickard Ware, and Lucy McKim Garrison. It is a collection of African American spirituals, work songs, and folk songs sung by slaves in the United States...
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  • Vaishnava Temple Music in Vrindaban: the Radhavallabha Songbook by Beck, Guy L.
    Guy L. Beck

    Vaishnava Temple Music in Vrindaban: the Radhavallabha Songbook

    This is a collection of 108 songs from the Radhavallabha tradition, a major North Indian bhakti tradition dating from the 16th century. The songs have been collected by ethno-musicologist Guy L Beck over a period of thirty years during which time he paid many...
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  • Athens - The Truth: Searching for Manos, Just Before the Bubble Burst. by Cade, David
    David Cade

    Athens - The Truth: Searching for Manos, Just Before the Bubble Burst.

    Short Description: Charmed for decades by the music of Oscar-winning Greek composer Mános Hadjidákis, David Cade explores Athens as news breaks at the end of 2009 that Greece is in serious financial difficulty. After years in the neighbouring Middle East, the author talks to...
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  • Music in Brazil: Experiencing Music, Expressing Cultureincludes CD [With CD] by Murphy, John P.
    John P. Murphy

    Music in Brazil: Experiencing Music, Expressing Cultureincludes CD [With CD]

    Music in Brazil is one of several case-study volumes that can be used along with Thinking Musically, the core book in the Global Music Series. Thinking Musically incorporates music from many diverse cultures and establishes the framework for exploring the practice of music around...
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  • The Black Body by Gehnyei, Anna Maria
    Anna Maria Gehnyei

    The Black Body

    In her memoir, Anna Maria Gehnyei, better known as singer, rapper, and producer Karima 2G, reveals the challenges she faced as the child of Liberian immigrants, born and raised in Rome but perpetually viewed by her fellow Italians as a foreigner. The daughter of...
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  • Mazurka by Vogel, Katieann
    Katieann Vogel

    Mazurka

    "Mazurka, Katieann Vogel's radiant, debut chapbook, more than lives up to its name. These are musically rich, imagistically strong, visually inventive poems that dance across the page and linger long in the ear and mind of the reader. Encompassing the self and the world,...
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  • The Aesthetic Character of Blackness: Sounds Like Us by Decristo, Jemma
    Jemma Decristo

    The Aesthetic Character of Blackness: Sounds Like Us

    In The Aesthetic Character of Blackness, Jemma DeCristo theorizes the means by which black art liberates the free world but does not and cannot liberate black people. Drawing on Frederick Douglass, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Alain Locke and as well as the...
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  • A Study of Omaha Indian Music by Fletcher, Alice C.
    Alice C. Fletcher

    A Study of Omaha Indian Music

    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...
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  • Bibliography of Black Music, Volume 3: Geographical Studies by Dominique-Rene de Lerma
    Dominique-Rene de Lerma

    Bibliography of Black Music, Volume 3: Geographical Studies

    Product information not available.Author: Dominique-Rene de LermaISBN-10: 0313235104ISBN-13: 9780313235108Publisher: GreenwoodLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/14/1982Pages: 284Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.17lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.69d
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  • Corridos in Migrant Memory by Sánchez, Martha I. Chew
    Martha I. Chew Sánchez

    Corridos in Migrant Memory

    Corridos in Migrant Memory examines the role of ballads in shaping the cultural memories and identities of transnational Mexican groups.Author: Martha I. Chew SánchezISBN-10: 0826334784ISBN-13: 9780826334787Publisher: Unm PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/16/2006Pages: 246Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 8.96h x 6.08w x 0.69d
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  • Tikopia Songs: Poetic and Musical Art of a Polynesian People of the Solomon Islands by Firth, Raymond William
    Raymond William Firth

    Tikopia Songs: Poetic and Musical Art of a Polynesian People of the Solomon Islands

    Sir Raymond Firth is the most distinguished living British anthropologist, and one also internationally acclaimed. His latest work forms part of one of the fullest and most professional ethnographic accounts by any anthropologist of a nonindustrial people, an account which extends over many years....
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  • Accordion Dreams: A Journey Into Cajun and Creole Music by Kilpatrick, Blair
    Blair Kilpatrick

    Accordion Dreams: A Journey Into Cajun and Creole Music

    By age thirty-nine, Blair Kilpatrick had settled into life as a practicing psychologist, wife, and mother. Then a chance encounter in New Orleans turned her world upside down. She returned home to Chicago with unlikely new passions for Cajun music and its defining instrument,...
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  • The Exotic Self: Mexican and Brazilian Modernists Abroad and at Home by Burns, Chelsea
    Chelsea Burns

    The Exotic Self: Mexican and Brazilian Modernists Abroad and at Home

    When Europeans and North Americans listen to music by Latin American composers, what do they hear? What, for that matter, do these composers' compatriots hear? The answer, historically, has been the sound of the nation. Scholars, critics, patrons, and audiences have often suggested that...
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  • The Day Is So Long and the Wages So Small: Music on a Summer Island by Charters, Samuel B.
    Samuel B. Charters

    The Day Is So Long and the Wages So Small: Music on a Summer Island

    Author: Samuel B. ChartersISBN-10: 071453076XISBN-13: 9780714530765Publisher: Marion Boyars PublishersLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/2002Pages: 176Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.49lbsSize: 8.51h x 5.36w x 0.46d
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  • Arab Techno for the People: Sonic Responses to Orientalism in Toronto and Montreal by Fulton-Melanson, Jillian
    Jillian Fulton-Melanson

    Arab Techno for the People: Sonic Responses to Orientalism in Toronto and Montreal

    Arab Techno for the People analyses electronic music soundscapes as a field site to explore the lived experiences of cosmopolitan, Arab individuals living in Toronto and Montreal, Canada. This book seeks to move readers-and Canadians more broadly-to a more nuanced understanding of the misinterpellation,...
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  • The Aesthetic Character of Blackness: Sounds Like Us by Decristo, Jemma
    Jemma Decristo

    The Aesthetic Character of Blackness: Sounds Like Us

    In The Aesthetic Character of Blackness, Jemma DeCristo theorizes the means by which black art liberates the free world but does not and cannot liberate black people. Drawing on Frederick Douglass, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Alain Locke and as well as the...
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  • Music in Turkey: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture [With CD (Audio)] by Bates, Eliot
    Eliot Bates

    Music in Turkey: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture [With CD (Audio)]

    ** Music in Turkey is one of several case-study volumes that can be used along with Thinking Musically, the core book in the Global Music Series. Thinking Musically incorporates music from many diverse cultures and establishes the framework for exploring the practice of music...
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  • Insight of Music; comprehensive by Koga, Masayuki
    Masayuki Koga

    Insight of Music; comprehensive

    This writing is comprehensive yet much more details of Insight of Music series. 100pages, color ink. The contents of the book is similar to volume-I. and volume-II. but different angle of those and different angle to see and understanding of "I think so, I...
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  • The Black Body by Gehnyei, Anna Maria
    Anna Maria Gehnyei

    The Black Body

    In her memoir, Anna Maria Gehnyei, better known as singer, rapper, and producer Karima 2G, reveals the challenges she faced as the child of Liberian immigrants, born and raised in Rome but perpetually viewed by her fellow Italians as a foreigner. The daughter of...
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  • Divine Utterances: The Performance of Afro-Cuban Santeria [With CD] by Hagedorn, Katherine J.
    Katherine J. Hagedorn

    Divine Utterances: The Performance of Afro-Cuban Santeria [With CD]

    This compelling and personal exploration of Afro-Cuban Santería comes with a CD featuring 20 mesmerizing songs from prominent Afro-Cuban musicians that embody the book's themes In Divine Utterances, Katherine J. Hagedorn explores the enduring cultural and spiritual power of the music of Afro-Cuban Santería...
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  • Traditional Music: Sounds in Harmony with Nature by Koehler, Robert
    Robert Koehler

    Traditional Music: Sounds in Harmony with Nature

    This book explores Korean court music, which has an understated beauty and calmness, and folk music.Author: Robert KoehlerISBN-10: 8991913881ISBN-13: 9788991913882Publisher: Seoul Selection USA, Inc.Language: EnglishPublished: 08/31/2012Pages: 108Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 7.00h x 5.00w x 0.50d
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  • Music, Poetry and Identity in Badakhshan, Tajikistan: Singing and Sounding Community by Goibnazarov, Chorshanbe
    Chorshanbe Goibnazarov

    Music, Poetry and Identity in Badakhshan, Tajikistan: Singing and Sounding Community

    In the riverine valleys of the Pamir Mountains of Tajik Badakhshan, a thriving millennium-old community of Nizari Ismaili Muslims created a unique spiritual culture in which the performance of music and poetry plays a central role. This book focuses on the central musical and...
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  • Mahler: Das Lied Von Der Erde (the Song of the Earth) by Hefling, Stephen E.
    Stephen E. Hefling

    Mahler: Das Lied Von Der Erde (the Song of the Earth)

    Since its premiere Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth) has been widely regarded as his finest masterpiece. It was written in the wake of personal events that shook the foundations of his life in 1907 and, like all his...
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  • Roots Music in America: Collected Writings of Joe Wilson by Bartenstein, Fred
    Fred Bartenstein

    Roots Music in America: Collected Writings of Joe Wilson

    "Joe Wilson represented a deep diversity in American vernacular music and culture. He directed the National Folk Festival and roots music tours, engaging government support for traditional communities. Joe combined Appalachian wisdom with searching intellect to create original brilliance. 'America's foremost hillbilly intellectual, '...
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  • Singing From The Heart: The Dady Brothers, Irish Music, and Ethnic Endurance in an American City by Shannon, Christopher
    Christopher Shannon

    Singing From The Heart: The Dady Brothers, Irish Music, and Ethnic Endurance in an American City

    In January of 1961, The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show and launched a revival of Irish music that continued through the 1980s and 1990s with the success of The Chieftains and Riverdance. Far from the Irish music centers...
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  • The Routledge Companion to Diasporic Jazz Studies by Havas, ?d?m
    ?d?m Havas

    The Routledge Companion to Diasporic Jazz Studies

    The Routledge Companion to Diasporic Jazz Studies recognizes the proliferation of jazz as global music in the 21st century. It illustrates the multi-vocality of contemporary jazz studies, combining local narratives, global histories, and cultural criticism. It rests on the argument that diasporic jazz is...
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  • Make Rappers Rap Again: Interrogating the Mumble Rap Crisis by Lewis, Heidi R.
    Heidi R. Lewis

    Make Rappers Rap Again: Interrogating the Mumble Rap Crisis

    In Make Rappers Rap Again: Interrogating the Mumble Rap "Crisis," author Heidi R. Lewis interrogates the ways Mumble Rap has been subjugated within real Hip Hop. Many critics claim mumble rappers are ignorant about Hip Hop history, disrespectful toward their Hip Hop elders, too...
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  • Nikolay Bessonov Painter by Berna, Cristina
    Cristina Berna

    Nikolay Bessonov Painter

    Nikolay Vladislavovich Bessonov was born in 1962 and died in 2013 in Moscow. He has a higher art education (MVHPU).Bessonov painted wonderful, romantic paintings of Roma (Gypsies). Roma in art is a different story altogether, a subject we hope to take up later.Another line...
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  • The Azuma Kabuki Dancers and Musicians by Azuma Kabuki Dancers
    Azuma Kabuki Dancers

    The Azuma Kabuki Dancers and Musicians

    The book ""The Azuma Kabuki Dancers And Musicians"" is a comprehensive guide to the traditional Japanese dance form known as Kabuki. Written by the Azuma Kabuki Dancers themselves, this book provides an in-depth look at their unique style of Kabuki, which is characterized by...
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  • 150 Klezmer Tunes with Tablature by Rader, Gary
    Gary Rader

    150 Klezmer Tunes with Tablature

    Author: Gary RaderISBN-13: 9798345968994Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/08/2024Pages: 208Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.09lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.44d
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  • The Art Song in East Asia and Australia, 1900 to 1950 by Tokita, Alison McQueen
    Alison McQueen Tokita

    The Art Song in East Asia and Australia, 1900 to 1950

    This book explores art song as an emblem of musical modernity in early twentieth-century East Asia and Australia. It appraises the lyrical power of art song - a solo song set to a poem in the local language in Western art music style accompanied...
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  • New Negroes & Their Music: Success of the Harlem Renaissance by Jongintaba, Yahya
    Yahya Jongintaba

    New Negroes & Their Music: Success of the Harlem Renaissance

    Boldly conceived and compellingly argued, this revisionist work offers a new interpretation of the Harlem Renaissance by focusing on its music. Jon Michael Spencer challenges the emphasis of earlier studies--which tended to bypass music in favor of literature--as well as their general conclusion that...
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  • The Guitar Music of Argentina by Hal Leonard Corp
    Hal Leonard Corp

    The Guitar Music of Argentina

    (Music Sales America). A collection of popular Argentinean music edited and arranged by John Zaradin for solo guitar. Suitable for intermediate guitarists and arranged in standard and guitar tab notation. Includes: El Cuando * Derecho Viejo * La Firmeza * Gato * El Maroto...
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  • Music and Encounter at the Mediterranean Crossroads: A Sea of Voices by Davis, Ruth F.
    Ruth F. Davis

    Music and Encounter at the Mediterranean Crossroads: A Sea of Voices

    Music and Encounter at the Mediterranean Crossroads: A Sea of Voices explores the musical practices that circulate the Mediterranean Sea. Collectively, the authors relate this musical flow to broader transnational flows of people and power that generate complex encounters, bringing the diverse cultures of...
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