Music-Ethnic

The hit movie La Bamba (based on the life of Richie Valens), the versatile singer Linda Ronstadt, and the popular rock group Los Lobos all have roots in the dynamic music of the Mexican American community in East Los Angeles. The "Eastside Renaissance" in...

Some of Franz Liszt's most renowned pieces -- most famously his Hungarian Rhapsodies -- are written in a nineteenth-century Hungarian style known as verbunkos. Closely associated with the virtuosic playing tradition of the Hungarian-Gypsy band, the meaning and uses of this style in Liszt's...

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....

The composer Erik Satie (1866-1925) came of age in the bohemian sub-culture of Montmartre, with its artists' cabarets and cafés-concerts. These colorful milieux decisively shaped his aesthetic priorities and compositional strategies, from the esoteric Gymnopédies of the 1880s to the avant-garde ballets of the...

Groundbreaking study of the world's largest archive of field recordings of African musicWinner of IASPM Book Prize, given by IASPM, 2023Winner of the Bruno Nettl Prize, given by the Society for Ethnomusicology, 2023Joint-Winner of the Ruth Stone Prize (with Jessica Perrea), given by the...

Music, Health and the Body: Cross-Cultural Perspectives focuses on the role of music in understanding new dimensions of health and healing through a unique relationship between identity, social interactions and the human body under the overarching paradigm of culture. The recent Covid-19 pandemic also...

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...

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...

Cultural hybridity is a celebrated hallmark of U.S. American music and identity. Yet hybrid music is all too often marked -and marketed - under a single racial label. Resounding Afro Asia examines music projects that counter this convention; these projects instead foreground racial mixture...

Do rappers sell their souls for fame and fortune? If you want to learn more about the Illuminati, then read my.... Illuminati Secrets Revealed Book SeriesStarting with Rap Music Exposed, Christian Author Mack C. Moore takes you on a journey to expose the Illuminati...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

Examines reggae culture as an expression of cultural, racial, and gender empowerment in the West Indian Diaspora In popular media Caribbean culture has either been reduced to stereotypes of laziness, marijuana, and reggae music, or conversely, to an identity centered around a refutation of...

Originally published in 1867, this book is a collection of songs of African-American slaves. A few of the songs were written after the emancipation, but all were inspired by slavery. The wild, sad songs capture the feelings of their creators perfectly; of crushed hopes,...

(Musicians Institute Press). Maria Martinez provides in-depth coverage of: Mambo, Songo, Nanigo and Mozambique patterns; cowbell and ride cymbal variations; studies to develop left-foot clave; ostinatos, rhythm studies, 2-bar phrases; and much more The recordings feature 40 full-band tracks with demos and play-alongs. The...

Why is the battle between good and evil a recurring theme in rap lyrics? What role does the devil play in hip hop? What exactly does it mean when rappers wear a diamond-encrusted "Jesus" around their necks? Why do rappers acknowledge God during award...

This is the first English-language volume to consider oral music of Jewish communities in a sociocultural context. Jewish Musical Traditions is the first English-language volume to consider oral music of Jewish communities in a sociocultural context. Amnon Shiloah, the world's leading authority on the...

This book is the ideal primer for anyone wishing to participate in an Irish session.Author: Cari FuchsISBN-10: 0786625422ISBN-13: 9780786625420Publisher: Mel Bay PublicationsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/31/1997Pages: 128Format: SpiralWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 11.73h x 8.96w x 0.29d

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...

Author: Martin MunroISBN-10: 0197759793ISBN-13: 9780197759790Publisher: Oxford University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/02/2024Pages: 216Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.04lbsSize: 9.34h x 6.43w x 0.76d

Empowering Song: Music Education from the Margins weaves together subversive pedagogy and theories of resistance with community music education and choral music, inspiring professionals to revisit and reconsider their pedagogical practices and approaches.Author: André de Quadros, Emilie AmreinISBN-10: 0367630338ISBN-13: 9780367630331Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/29/2024Pages: 160Format:...

Unlock your ukulele students' potential with this comprehensive 80-page workbook covering all essential rhythm and strumming concepts: Rhythm NotationTime SignaturesStrumming SymbolsCounting RhythmsComposing Strum PatternsRhythm & Strumming ExercisesActivities Include: Writing Up & Down Strum SymbolsRhythm CountingRhythm & Strumming ExercisesRhythm Compositions4/4, 3/4, and 2/4 Strum Pattern...

Examines reggae culture as an expression of cultural, racial, and gender empowerment in the West Indian Diaspora In popular media Caribbean culture has either been reduced to stereotypes of laziness, marijuana, and reggae music, or conversely, to an identity centered around a refutation of...

Musicians who are interested in learning an ethnic instrument, such as a bandura, often encounter several obstacles. Bandura study has traditionally been learned orally which may or may not be accurate. For a musician, there are several disadvantages when self-learning: slowness of progress, loneliness,...

Reflecting the growing interest in popular music from the developing world, this unique book is the first to examine all major non-Western urban music styles, from increasingly familiar genres like reggae and salsa, to the lesser-known regional styles of Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa,...

Music and Performance Culture in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Essays in Honour of Nicholas Temperley is the first book to focus upon aspects of performance in the broader context of nineteenth-century British musical culture. In four Parts, 'Musical Cultures', 'Societies', 'National Music' and 'Methods', this volume...

How Black musicians and composers used their craft to define and influence public discourse. This groundbreaking analysis examines how Black music functions as rhetoric, considering its subject not merely reflective of but central to African American public discourse. Author, musician, and scholar Earl H....

This book vibrantly demonstrates how the study of music allows for identification and interpretation of the forces that form Taiwanese society, from politics and policy to reactions to and assertions of such policies.　Author: Nancy GuyISBN-10: 0367529424ISBN-13: 9780367529420Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/31/2023Pages: 236Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 9.21h...

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...

In 1933, newly elected President Franklin Delano Roosevelt summoned ideas that might allay the financial calamity that characterized the Great Depression of the 1930s. Among the myriad programs Roosevelt initiated was the WPA, the Works Progress Administration (later re-named the Work Projects Administration) that...

The complex notion of rasa, as understood by Javanese musicians, refers to a combination of various qualities, including: taste, feeling, affect, mood, sense, inner meaning, a faculty of knowing intuitively, and deep understanding. This leaves us with a number of questions: how is rasa...

From the coffeehouses of Greenwich Village to the stage of Woodstock, folksingers became a powerful cultural force in the 1960s, Mixing music and politics, tradition and innovation, romance and righteousness, these men and women were outspoken voices for their generation, each with a story...

Every nation in the Americas--from indigenous Peru to revolutionary Cuba--has been touched by the cultural and musical impact of rock. Rockin\u2019 Las Am\u00e9ricas is the first book to explore the production, dissemination, and consumption of rock music throughout the Caribbean, Mexico, Central America, Brazil,...

I began listening to Celtic music in the early 90's when a friend introduced me to Fiona Ritchie's NPR radio program, The Thistle and Shamrock. I'd already become aware of some session tunes through the pennywhistle primer my father had given me in the...

In Music and Recording in King Chulalongkorn's Bangkok, James Leonard Mitchell provides the first comprehensive history of Siamese music during the celebrated reign of Rama V. Following up on his previous exploration of Thailand's most popular music genre, luk thung, Mitchell focuses on the...

From the dance halls to the main stage, from small town Texas to the big cities, and from treasured local cultural traditions to the national display of Mexican Texas' finest talent, m俍ica tejana is rapidly becoming known as a rich and vibrant form of...

Indian classical music has long been fascinating to Western audiences, most prominently since the Beatles' sessions with Ravi Shankar in the 1960s. This fascination with the musical genre still prevails in the twenty-first century. Hindi Poetry in a Musical Genre examines Thumri Lyrics, a...

This book was created by Grand Master Drummer Mamady Keita, from Guinea, West Africa for his international schools, the Tam Tam Mandingue Djembe Academy, International Schools of Percussion. Specifically, this is curriculum and instruction for traditional djembe and dunun (djembe orchestra) music. It also...

Author: Kongo ZabanaISBN-10: 9964702175ISBN-13: 9789964702175Publisher: African Books CollectiveLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/1997Pages: 48Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.22lbsSize: 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.10d

Author: Kongo ZabanaISBN-10: 9964702159ISBN-13: 9789964702151Publisher: African Books CollectiveLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/1997Pages: 108Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.44lbsSize: 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.22d

Hear the music that the D.J. spins that's how it all begins scratch cut and little chants it started at house parties that made you dance. Then came the lyrics that put you in a trance and when they were finished they had a...

Transcultural Jazz: Israeli Musicians and Multi-Local Music Making studies jazz performance and composition through the examination of the transcultural practices of Israeli jazz musicians and their impact globally. Author: Noam LemishISBN-10: 0367488787ISBN-13: 9780367488789Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/22/2023Pages: 240Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.76lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.54d

All too often an incident or accident, such as the eruption in Crown Heights with its legacy of bitterness and recrimination, thrusts Black-Jewish relations into the news. A volley of discussion follows, but little in the way of progress or enlightenment results--and this is...

Time in Indian Music is the first major study of rhythm, metre, and form in North Indian rag, or classical, music. Martin Clayton presents a theoretical model for the organization of time in this repertory, a model which is related explicitly to other spheres...

Author: Oliver N. GreeneISBN-10: 1516552237ISBN-13: 9781516552238Publisher: Cognella Academic PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/25/2017Pages: 454Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.51lbsSize: 10.00h x 8.00w x 1.00d

Song & Social Change in Latin America offers seven essays from a diverse group of scholars on the topic of music as a reflection of the many social-political upheavals throughout Latin America from the 20th century to the present. Topics covered include: the Tropic疝ia...

(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook). From sentimental favorites to happy-go-lucky singalongs, this songbook celebrates the Irish cultural heritage of music. 30 songs, including: Danny Boy (Londonderry Air) * The Girl I Left Behind Me * Killarney * My Wild Irish Rose * Too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ral, That's An Irish Lullabye...

A compendium of ten Georgian traditional dances arranged for the piano, plus five dances from Z. Phaliashvili operas "Daisi" and "Abesalom y Etery" and the Lecuri de Concert by Redjeb Jordania.Author: Joseph Jordania, Redjeb JordaniaISBN-10: 1499576579ISBN-13: 9781499576573Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/01/2014Pages: 98Format:...

When We Were Good traces the many and varied cultural influences on the folk revival of the sixties from early nineteenth-century blackface minstrelsy; the Jewish entertainment and political cultures of New York in the 1930s; the Almanac singers and the wartime crises of the...

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...

"50 Armenian Folk Songs Anyone Can Sing" is an invaluable resource for anyone interested in exploring the rich tradition of Armenian folk music. The book features a collection of 50 easy-to-play melodies that are perfect for both singers and musicians. Whether you are an...