Music-Ethnic

Ideal for introductory undergraduate courses in world music or ethnomusicology and for upper-level courses on music of the Iberian Peninsula, Music in Portugal and Spain: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture introduces students to the diverse musical cultures of these two Iberian countries. This unique text...

(Strum & Sing Guitar). This collection features 22 Stapleton favorites arranged with lyrics, chord symbols, and guitar chord diagrams, including: Arkansas * Broken Halos * Millionaire * Parachute * Starting Over * Tennessee Whiskey * Traveller * You Should Probably Leave * and more.Author:...

Building on his 2006 book, Which Side Are You On?, Dick Weissman's A New History of American and Canadian Folk Music presents a provocative discussion of the history, evolution, and current status of folk music in the United States and Canada. North American folk...

Field Guide to the Irish Music Session is the first and only book devoted entirely to the dynamics and etiquette of the traditional Irish musical gathering. There's more to these events than meets the eye or ear, and Field Guide covers it all, with...

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...

This volume is designed to assist you in taking your exploration of rhythm further, and advancing faster The precision in attribution of rhythms and orchestrations facilitates further, deeper source research and targeted study, and the website support makes acquisition of foundational materials a click...

Unwritten Literature of Hawaii: The Sacred Songs of the Hula (1909) is a collection of hulas and essays by Nathaniel B. Emerson. Translating previously unwritten songs, interviewing native Hawaiians, and consulting the works of indigenous historians, Emerson provides an entertaining and authoritative look at...

The kalimba came from Africa, but it is perfectly suitable for any kind of ethnic music. The kalimba has a rather meditative quality since each sound can be observed separately. Mindful observation of playing each note can even induce a trance state in the...

(Music Sales America). A definitive view of Portuguese Fado including 26 great songs arranged for voice and guitar; with a unique CD containing classic recordings of every song, performed by the original artistsAuthor: Donald CohenISBN-10: 0711982295ISBN-13: 9780711982291Publisher: Wise PublicationsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/2004Pages: 144Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.57lbsSize:...

(Piano Collection). This distinctive and sizable piano solo collection presents 99 authentic Argentine tangos. It truly is the "best ever collection" of this passionate genre. The book includes stylish black & white photographs on glossy paper, and four articles: on the history of the...

The folksongs of Texas's Mexican population pulsate with the lives of folk heroes, gringos, smugglers, generals, jailbirds, and beautiful women. In his cancionero, or songbook, Am駻ico Paredes presents sixty-six of these songs in bilingual text--along with their music, notes on tempo and performance, and...

(Strum Together). The Strum Together series enables players of five different instruments or any combination of them to "strum together" on dozens of great songs. This easy-to-use format features melody, lyrics, and chord diagrams for five popular folk instruments: standard ukulele, baritone ukulele, guitar,...

(Ukulele). "Saddle up" with 50 cowboy songs arranged for ukulele: Abilene * Back in the Saddle Again * The Colorado Trail * Don't Take Your Guns to Town * Empty Saddles * Happy Trails * Home on the Range * I Want to Be...

At Home in Our Sounds illustrates the effect jazz music had on the enormous social challenges Europe faced in the aftermath of World War I. Examining the ways African American, French Antillean, and French West African artists reacted to the heightened visibility of racial...

The Third Edition of Armenian Duduk Method is the only trilingual comprehensive and easy-to-use guide designed for anyone interested in playing Armenian Duduk from the complete novice just learning the basics to the more advanced player. Using his prominent performance and pedagogy background Georgy...

An in-depth study (324 pages) of all the percussion instruments, rhythms and song styles of Afro-Cuban music, along with their applications to the drumset. Detailed technical studies of each instrument are presented along with notations of many rhythm styles. The entire rhythm section (parts...

Ever wonder how someone can go to sleep in public housing and wake up in a mansion seemingly overnight? Having worked 25 years in the Hip-Hop music industry and witnessed firsthand the inner workings of the fame machine up close; I personally KNOW entertainers...

(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook). This book features 14 fabulous Latin songs from the Grammy-winning soundtrack to Wim Wenders' Academy Award-nominated documentary on Ry Cooder's journey to Havana to capture Cuba's legendary local musicians in action. Includes the songs: Amor De Loca Juventud * Buena Vista Social...

Taking as a thread the concept of national identity, this book elucidates the sound transformations that have taken place in the world of the Latin American art song since its appearance in the late nineteenth century to the present day. The book focuses in...

Since the thirteenth century, the sitar-a stringed, plucked instrument of India-has transformed into an instrument beloved by millions in its country of origin as well as all over the world. The Journey of the Sitar in Indian Classical Music details the origin, history, and...

Thelonius Monk, Billy Taylor, and Maceo Parker--famous jazz artists who have shared the unique sounds of North Carolina with the world--are but a few of the dynamic African American artists from eastern North Carolina featured in The African American Music Trails of Eastern North...

Ora de Despertar, or Time to Wake Up, is a songbook of all-original Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) children's songs - the only of its kind The songs, which match the music album of the same title, are catchy and whimsical, and fun for all ages young...

If you want to learn about Kpop, then get KPOP 101 to learn about korean pop. This is a fantastic guide for kpop fans written from a real kpop fan's perspective What is Kpop and why is everyone talking about it? Get Kpop Explained...

(Educational Piano Solo). Introduce piano students, young and old, to the culture and music of the Malay-speaking world, which includes the Southeast Asian countries of Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, and Indonesia. Includes notes on all 24 songs, illustrations, and a map of the region. Titles...

With its five thematic sections covering genres from cantorial to classical to klezmer, this pioneering multi-disciplinary volume presents rich coverage of the work of musicians of Jewish origin in the Polish lands. It opens with the musical consequences of developments in Jewish religious practice:...

Being the first ever scales and exercise book published for Armenian traditional and extended range duduk (invented by Georgy Minasyan himself) Duduk Virtuoso has been written having the future of duduk in mind. While the traditional duduk has limited playing range of around one...

This is an instruction book on how to play the Japanese bamboo flute: the Shinobue.It includes songs from Japanese folk songs as well as original new compositions by Marco Lienhard. The songs and Etudes will challenge any level of playing. The exercises will help...

(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook). The fourth studio release by Chris Stapleton topped the Billboard Country Albums chart upon its release in November 2020 and was nominated for Album of the Year by the Academy of Country Music Awards. Our matching folio features 14 piano/vocal/guitar arrangements:...

Focusing on the Cornish Music and Dance Revival, this book investigates the revivalists' claims about Cornwall's cultural distinctiveness and Celtic heritage, both which are presently used as arguments to promote the English county's political status as an independent Celtic nation. The author describes two...

The most difficult thing about playing Native American songs is their irregular rhythms. It might change several times during a song because rhythm is generally more important than melody. Songs for American tribes are traditionally a method of communicating with their ancestors and supernatural...

Activism through Music during the Apartheid Era and Beyond documents the grassroots activism of Sharon Katz & the Peace Train against the backdrop of enormous diversity and the volatile social and political climate in South Africa during the early 1990s. Among the intersections of...

From Two Live Crew's controversial comedy to Ice Cube's gangsta styling and the battle rhymes of a streetcorner cypher, rap has always drawn on deep traditions of African American poetic word-play, In Talking 'Bout Your Mama, author Elijah Wald explores one of the most...

From Washington Square Park and the Gaslight Café to WNYC Radio and Folkways Records, New York City's cultural, artistic, and commercial assets helped to shape a distinctively urban breeding ground for the folk music revival of the 1950s and 60s. Folk City explores New...

The Oxford Handbook of Children's Musical Cultures is a compendium of perspectives on children and their musical engagements as singers, dancers, players, and avid listeners. Over the course of 35 chapters, contributors from around the world provide an interdisciplinary enquiry into the musical lives...

Author: Frances DensmoreISBN-10: 0803266316ISBN-13: 9780803266315Publisher: Bison BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/2001Pages: 589Format: PaperbackWeight: 2.16lbsSize: 8.84h x 5.96w x 1.62d

Beginning with the arrival of the first Africans in the English colonies, Eileen Southern weaves a fascinating narrative of intense musical activity. As singers, players, and composers, black American musicians are fully chronicled in this landmark book. Now in the third edition, the author...

A major new contribution to the study of African music, Soweto Blues tells the remarkable story of how jazz became a key part of South Africa's struggles in the 20th Century, and provides a fascinating overview of the ongoing links between African and American...

The first book-length history of an essential American music festivalThe first-ever book exclusively devoted to the history of the Newport Folk Festival, I Got a Song documents the trajectory of an American musical institution that began more than a half-century ago and continues to...

" 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 Cooke, Stevie...

Despite centuries of suppression and oppression, American Indian music survives today as a profound cultural force. Heartbeat, Warble, and the Electric Powwow celebrates in depth the vibrant soundscape of Native North America, from the "heartbeat" of intertribal drums and "warble" of Native flutes to...

The late composer and musicologist Habib Hassan Touma compiled a number of authoritative books on Arab music in his lifetime. Originally published in Germany in 1989, _The Music of the Arabs_ from Amadeus Press is the first English translation of the book, joining French...

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. First published in 1925, this resource includes narrative and lyric songs that were transmitted orally, as well as popular songs...

With its five thematic sections covering genres from cantorial to classical to klezmer, this pioneering multi-disciplinary volume presents rich coverage of the work of musicians of Jewish origin in the Polish lands. It opens with the musical consequences of developments in Jewish religious practice:...

"" Spiritual Folk-Songs Of Early America"" by George Pullen Jackson is a collection of traditional American folk songs that have a spiritual or religious theme. The book includes songs from a variety of religious traditions, including Christian hymns, African American spirituals, and Native American...

The term 'Jewish music' has conveyed complex and diverse meanings for people around the world across hundreds of years. This accessible and comprehensive Companion is a key resource for students, scholars, and everyone with an interest in the global history of Jewish music. Leading...

This collection presents written texts of songs in Shoshoni and English, with both figurative and literal translations, and is packaged with a CD containing performances of the songs by Earl and Beverly Crum. The songs fall into several categories based on the contexts of...

This long-awaited book vividly documents the folk music of El R o Grande del Norte, an area extending from the Mexican border on the south to Southern Colorado on the north and from the Great Plains on the east to the Continental Divide on...

While Karnatic music, a form of Indian music based on the melodic principle of raga and time cycles called tala, is known today as South India's classical music, its status as "classical" is an early-twentieth-century construct, one that emerged in the crucible of colonial...

Shpil: The Art of Playing Klezmer is both a history of this popular form of traditional Jewish music and an instructional book for professional and amateur musicians. Since the revival of klezmer music in the United States in the mid-1970s, Yiddish songs and klezmer...

In American music, the notion of "roots" has been a powerful refrain, but just what constitutes our true musical traditions has often been a matter of debate. As Benjamin Filene reveals, a number of competing visions of America's musical past have vied for influence...