Music-Genres & Styles-Folk & Traditional
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Klezmer: Music, History, and MemoryVendor: Walter Zev FeldmanKlezmer: Music, History, and Memory is the first comprehensive study of the musical structure and social history of klezmer music, the music of the Jewish musicians' guild of Eastern Europe. Emerging in 16th century Prague, the klezmer became a central cultural feature of the...
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Music in East Africa: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture [With CD]Vendor: Gregory BarzMusic in East Africa 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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The Transformation of Black Music: The Rhythms, the Songs, and the Ships of the African DiasporaVendor: Sam FloydPowerful and embracive, The Transformation of Black Music explores the full spectrum of black musics over the past thousand years as Africans and their descendants have traveled around the globe making celebrated music both in their homelands and throughout the Diaspora. Authors Samuel A.Floyd,...
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Alan Lomax: The Man Who Recorded the WorldVendor: John SzwedThe definitive biography of Alan Lomax-from John Szwed,"the best music biographer in the business" (L.A. Weekly). One of the most remarkable figures of the twentieth century, Alan Lomax was best known for bringing legendary musicians like Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Muddy Waters, Lead Belly,...
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Musical Solidarities: Political Action and Music in Late Twentieth-Century PolandVendor: Andrea F. BohlmanMusical Solidarities: Political Action and Music in Late Twentieth-Century Poland is a music history of Solidarity, the social movement opposing state socialism in 1980s Poland. The story unfolds along crucial sites of political action under state socialism: underground radio networks, the sanctuaries of the...
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Singing Out: An Oral History of America's Folk Music RevivalsVendor: David King DunawayIntimate, anecdotal, and spell-binding, Singing Out offers a fascinating oral history of the North American folk music revivals and folk music. Culled from more than 150 interviews recorded from 1976 to 2006, this captivating story spans seven decades and cuts across a wide swath...
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The Flatlanders: Now It's Now AgainVendor: John T. DavisA group of three friends who made music in a house in Lubbock, Texas, recorded an album that wasn't released and went their separate ways into solo careers. That group became a legend and then--twenty years later--a band. The Flatlanders--Joe Ely, Jimmie Dale Gilmore,...
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A Texas-Mexican Cancionero: Folksongs of the Lower BorderVendor: Américo ParedesThe 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, Américo Paredes presents sixty-six of these songs in bilingual text--along with their music, notes on tempo and performance, and...
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The Chieftains: The Authorized BiographyVendor: John GlattThe history of the Chieftains over the last thirty-five years is the remarkable tale of how an unlikely group of enthusiasts came together to rescue some of the world's most beautiful music from near-extinction, brought it to an audience of millions, and became stars....
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Southwest Shuffle: Pioneers of Honky-Tonk, Western Swing, and Country JazzVendor: Rich KienzleSouthwest Shuffle documents an important period in country music history. During the '30s and early '40s, hundreds of thousands of "Okies," "Arkies," and other rural folks from around the Southwest resettled in California, in search of work. A country music scene quickly blossomed there,...
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Negro Folk Music U.S.A.Vendor: Harold CourlanderThis thorough, well-researched exploration of the origins and development of a rich and varied African American musical tradition features authentic versions of over 40 folk songs. These include such time-honored selections as Wake Up Jonah, Rock Chariot, Wonder Where Is My Brother Gone, Traveling...
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The Invention of 'Folk Music' and 'Art Music': Emerging Categories from Ossian to WagnerVendor: Matthew GelbartWe tend to take for granted the labels we put to different forms of music. This study considers the origins and implications of the way in which we categorize music. Whereas earlier ways of classifying music were based on its different functions, for the...
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The Oklahoma Cowboy BandVendor: Carla ChlouberThe Oklahoma Cowboy Band was the first western string band in the nation to broadcast over the radio and appear on vaudeville, drawing large audiences throughout the Midwest and Northeast. The band began in Ripley as Billy McGinty s Cowboy Band and first played...
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Political Folk Music in America from Its Origins to Bob DylanVendor: Lawrence J. EpsteinMany American folk singers have tried to leave their world a better place by writing songs of social protest. Musicians like Woody Guthrie, Leadbelly, Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan, and Joan Baez sang with fierce moral voices to transform what they saw as an uncaring...
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Ryan's Mammoth Collection: 1050 Reels and Jigs, Hornpipes, Clogs, Walk-Around, Essences, Strathspeys, Highland Fligns and Contra Dances, with FigVendor: Patrick SkyAuthor: Patrick SkyISBN-10: 0786603003ISBN-13: 9780786603008Publisher: Mel Bay PublicationsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/20/1995Pages: 176Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.05lbsSize: 11.77h x 8.75w x 0.36d
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