Webspinner

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Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 149684159X
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)

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Book Synopsis Webspinner by : John D. Niles

Download or read book Webspinner written by John D. Niles and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2022-09-20 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in 1928 in a tent on the shore of Loch Fyne, Argyll, Duncan Williamson (d. 2007) eventually came to be recognized as one of the foremost storytellers in Scotland and the world. Webspinner: Songs, Stories, and Reflections of Duncan Williamson, Scottish Traveller is based on more than a hundred hours of tape-recorded interviews undertaken with him in the 1980s. Williamson tells of his birth and upbringing in the west of Scotland, his family background as one of Scotland’s seminomadic travelling people, his varied work experiences after setting out from home at about age fifteen, and the challenges he later faced while raising a family of his own, living on the road for half the year. The recordings on which the book is based were made by John D. Niles, who was then an associate professor at the University of California, Berkeley. Niles has transcribed selections from his field tapes with scrupulous accuracy, arranging them alongside commentary, photos, and other scholarly aids, making this priceless self-portrait of a brilliant storyteller available to the public. The result is a delight to read. It is also a mine of information concerning a vanished way of life and the place of singing and storytelling in Traveller culture. In chapters that feature many colorful anecdotes and that mirror the spontaneity of oral delivery, readers learn much about how Williamson and other members of his persecuted minority had the resourcefulness to make a living on the outskirts of society, owning very little in the way of material goods but sustained by a rich oral heritage.

Electric Folk

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195158784
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book Electric Folk written by Britta Sweers and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-01-13 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Britta Sweers chronicles the history of the genre and explores its cultural implications. She characterizes electric folk as both a result of the American folk revival of the early 1960s and a reaction against the dominance of American pop music abroad.

Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Folk Music Journal

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Folk Music Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Irish Travellers, Tinkers No More

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
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Book Synopsis Irish Travellers, Tinkers No More by : Alen MacWeeney

Download or read book Irish Travellers, Tinkers No More written by Alen MacWeeney and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The slow passing of an itinerant culture in Ireland

College Music Curricula for a New Century

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019065841X
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Book Synopsis College Music Curricula for a New Century by : Robin D. Moore

Download or read book College Music Curricula for a New Century written by Robin D. Moore and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-03 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critiques and calls for reform have existed for decades within music education, but few publications have offered concrete suggestions as to how things might be done differently. Motivated by a desire to do just that, College Music Curricula for a New Century considers what a more inclusive, dynamic, and socially engaged curriculum of musical study might look like in universities. Editor Robin Moore creates a dialogue among faculty, administrators, and students about what the future of college music instruction should be and how teachers, institutions, and organizations can transition to new paradigms. Including contributions from leading figures in ethnomusicology, music education, theory/composition, professional performance, and administration, College Music Curricula for a New Century addresses college-level curriculum reform, focusing primarily on performance and music education degrees, and offer ideas and examples for a more inclusive, dynamic, and socially engaged curriculum of applied musical study. This book will appeal to thoughtful faculty looking for direction on how to enact reform, to graduate students with investment in shaping future music curricula, and to administrators who know change is on the horizon and seek wisdom and practical advice for implementing change. College Music Curricula for a New Century reaches far beyond any musical subdiscipline and addresses issues pertinent to all areas of music study.

Chicano Periodical Index

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 690 pages
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Download or read book Chicano Periodical Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Well of Souls: Uncovering the Banjo's Hidden History

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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393866815
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (938 download)

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Book Synopsis Well of Souls: Uncovering the Banjo's Hidden History by : Kristina R. Gaddy

Download or read book Well of Souls: Uncovering the Banjo's Hidden History written by Kristina R. Gaddy and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2022-10-04 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of The New Yorker’s Best Books of the Year Named one of the Most Memorable Music Books of the Year by No Depression: The Journal of Roots Music “Compelling.… [R]eveals [an instrument] intimately rooted in the African diaspora and capable of expressing flights of sorrow and joy.” —David Yezzi, Wall Street Journal An illuminating history of the banjo, revealing its origins at the crossroads of slavery, religion, and music. In an extraordinary story unfolding across two hundred years, Kristina Gaddy uncovers the banjo’s key role in Black spirituality, ritual, and rebellion. Through meticulous research in diaries, letters, archives, and art, she traces the banjo’s beginnings from the seventeenth century, when enslaved people of African descent created it from gourds or calabashes and wood. Gaddy shows how the enslaved carried this unique instrument as they were transported and sold by slaveowners throughout the Americas, to Suriname, the Caribbean, and the colonies that became U.S. states, including Louisiana, South Carolina, Maryland, and New York. African Americans came together at rituals where the banjo played an essential part. White governments, rightfully afraid that the gatherings could instigate revolt, outlawed them without success. In the mid-nineteenth century, Blackface minstrels appropriated the instrument for their bands, spawning a craze. Eventually the banjo became part of jazz, bluegrass, and country, its deepest history forgotten.

Burma, Kipling and Western Music

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317298896
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Book Synopsis Burma, Kipling and Western Music by : Andrew Selth

Download or read book Burma, Kipling and Western Music written by Andrew Selth and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-11-03 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For decades, scholars have been trying to answer the question: how was colonial Burma perceived in and by the Western world, and how did people in countries like the United Kingdom and United States form their views? This book explores how Western perceptions of Burma were influenced by the popular music of the day. From the First Anglo-Burmese War of 1824-6 until Burma regained its independence in 1948, more than 180 musical works with Burma-related themes were written in English-speaking countries, in addition to the many hymns composed in and about Burma by Christian missionaries. Servicemen posted to Burma added to the lexicon with marches and ditties, and after 1913 most movies about Burma had their own distinctive scores. Taking Rudyard Kipling’s 1890 ballad ‘Mandalay’ as a critical turning point, this book surveys all these works with emphasis on popular songs and show tunes, also looking at classical works, ballet scores, hymns, soldiers’ songs, sea shanties, and film soundtracks. It examines how they influenced Western perceptions of Burma, and in turn reflected those views back to Western audiences. The book sheds new light not only on the West’s historical relationship with Burma, and the colonial music scene, but also Burma’s place in the development of popular music and the rise of the global music industry. In doing so, it makes an original contribution to the fields of musicology and Asian Studies.

Kentucky Folkmusic

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Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813187990
Total Pages : 91 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Book Synopsis Kentucky Folkmusic by : Burt Feintuch

Download or read book Kentucky Folkmusic written by Burt Feintuch and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-11-21 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1899, a fundraising program for Berea College featured a group of students from the mountains of eastern Kentucky singing traditional songs from their homes. The audience was entranced. That small en-counter at the end of the last century lies near the beginning of an unparalleled national—and international—fascination with the indigenous music of a single state. Kentucky has long figured prominently in our national sense of traditional music. Over the years, a diverse group of people—reformers, enthusiasts, the musically literate and the musically illiterate, radicals, liberals, a British gentleman and his woman companion, amateurs, local residents, and academics—have been sufficiently captivated by that music to have devoted considerable energy to harvesting it from its fertile ground, studying its various manifestations, and considering its many performers. Kentucky Folkmusic: An Annotated Bibliography is a guide to the literature of this remarkable music. More than seven hundred entries, each with an evaluative annotation, comprise the largest bibliographic resource for the folkmusic of any state or region in North America. Divided into eight sections, the bibliography covers collections and anthologies; fieldworkers and scholars; singers, musicians, and other performers; text-centered studies; studies of history, context, and style; festivals; dance; and discographies, check-lists, and other reference tools. A subject index, an author index, and an index of periodicals provide access to the materials. From early hymnals and songsters to Kentucky performers of traditional music, the bibliography is a comprehensive guide to music which has for many years been one of the major emblems of American traditional music.

Journal of the Folk-Song Society

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis Journal of the Folk-Song Society by : Folk-Song Society (Great Britain)

Download or read book Journal of the Folk-Song Society written by Folk-Song Society (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains music.

Songs of the People

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Publisher : Longwood Publishing Group, Incorporated
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Book Synopsis Songs of the People by : John Moulden

Download or read book Songs of the People written by John Moulden and published by Longwood Publishing Group, Incorporated. This book was released on 1979 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A New English Music

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Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476624941
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Book Synopsis A New English Music by : Tim Rayborn

Download or read book A New English Music written by Tim Rayborn and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-04-27 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The turn of the 20th century was a time of great change in Britain. The empire saw its global influence waning and its traditional social structures challenged. There was a growing weariness of industrialism and a desire to rediscover tradition and the roots of English heritage. A new interest in English folk song and dance inspired art music, which many believed was seeing a renaissance after a period of stagnation since the 18th century. This book focuses on the lives of seven composers--Ralph Vaughan Williams, Gustav Holst, Ernest Moeran, George Butterworth, Philip Heseltine (Peter Warlock), Gerald Finzi and Percy Grainger--whose work was influenced by folk songs and early music. Each chapter provides an historical background and tells the fascinating story of a musical life.

The Democratic Muse

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
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Book Synopsis The Democratic Muse by : Ailie Munro

Download or read book The Democratic Muse written by Ailie Munro and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a broad survey of the folk music revival, as well as folk traditions in general from the 1950s in the USA to the present day in Scotland.

The Blues Come to Texas

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Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 162349639X
Total Pages : 1149 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (234 download)

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Download or read book The Blues Come to Texas written by and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-28 with total page 1149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From October 1959 until the mid-1970s, Paul Oliver and Mack McCormick collaborated on what they hoped to be a definitive history and analysis of the blues in Texas. Both were prominent scholars and researchers—Oliver had already established an impressive record of publications, and McCormick was building a sprawling collection of primary materials that included field recordings and interviews with blues musicians from all over Texas and the greater South. Despite being eagerly awaited by blues fans, folklorists, historians, and ethnomusicologists who knew about the Oliver-McCormick collaboration, the intended manuscript was never completed. In 1996, Alan Govenar, a respected writer, folklorist, photographer, and filmmaker, began a conversation with Oliver about the unfinished book on Texas blues. Subsequently, Oliver invited Govenar to assist him, and when Oliver became ill, Govenar enlisted folklorist and ethnomusicologist Kip Lornell to help him contextualize and document the existing manuscript for publication. The Blues Come to Texas: Paul Oliver and Mack McCormick’s Unfinished Book presents an unparalleled view into the minds and methods of two pioneering blues scholars.

Ethnomusicology

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Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401020469
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Ethnomusicology written by E.D Kunst and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This booklet hardly needs a preface; the contents, I think. speak for themselves.It contains a short and carefully brought up to date resume of all that I. as a private University Lecturer in Amsterdam. have tried to teach my pupils. It is intended as a general introduction to ethnomusicology, before going on to the study of the forms of separate music-cultures. I sincerely hope that those, who wish to teach themselves and to qualify in this branch of knowledge, will find a satisfactory basis for selftuition in the matter here brought together. Regarding the possibility of a new edition, any critical remarks or infor mation as to possible desiderata would be very gratefully received. J.K. PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION My request for critical remarks and desiderata has not been ignored. My sincere thanks to all who took the trouble to let me know what they missed in my booklet. Through their collaboration the contents have undergone a considerable improvement and enlargement as compared to the original edition issued in 1950 by the Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam. under the title 'Musicologica'. I have taken care to add many particulars from non-European sources. with the result that now the book is no longer so Europe-centric as it was. Furthermore, I have done my best to mention in a special bibliography all the more important ethnomusicological publications, with the exception of those issued in the Russian, Arabic. Chinese, Indonesian, Javanese.

Flatheads & Spooneys

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Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 9780813119274
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (192 download)

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Book Synopsis Flatheads & Spooneys by : Jens Lund

Download or read book Flatheads & Spooneys written by Jens Lund and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today's community of fisherfolk is small and economically marginal, but their activities sustain a complex of traditional skills and a body of verbal folklore associated with river life. In Flatheads and Spooneys, Jens Lund describes the activities, boats, gear, verbal lore, and sense of identity of the fisherfolk of the lower Ohio River Valley and provides historical and ethnobiological background for their way of life.