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Displaying records 161 through 170 of 816 |
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Price: $32.95
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Sale: $22.20
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Manufacturer: Routledge
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Philip Brett
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Publisher: Routledge
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 780.8664
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Publication Date: 1994-01-27
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Reading Level: 368
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Description: The first collection of gay and lesbian work in musicology. Contributors cover a wide range of subjects from analysis of the work of gay composers to queer readings of Schubert's `Unfinished Symphony.'
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Price: $27.95
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Sale: $12.49
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Manufacturer: Schirmer Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Henry Sapoznik
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Publisher: Schirmer Books
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Edition: 2nd
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Dewey Decimal Number: 781.62924
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Publication Date: 2005-11-01
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Reading Level: 352
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Description: In his quest to trace the roots of klezmer, the traditional instrumental music of Yiddish-speaking Jews, author Henry Sapoznik tells a fascinating story of survival against all odds, of a musical legacy so potent it can still be heard. This expanded second edition also includes a CD of klezmer music from Dave Tarras, Andy Statman, Naftule Brandwein, The Klezmatics, and others.
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Price: $19.95
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Sale: $36.68
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Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Sheila Dhar
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Dewey Decimal Number: 782.42169092
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Publication Date: 1996-05-23
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Reading Level: 260
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Description: In this fascinating memoir, Sheila Dhar gives an insider's view of the world of Indian musicians and the now all but vanished life style of the Mathur Kayasthas of Delhi in the forties and fifties. With her insight and unique narrative talent, she has created an unforgettable human document
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Price: $50.00
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Sale: $32.71
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Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: James P. Leary
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Dewey Decimal Number: 781.62130775
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Publication Date: 2006-08-10
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Reading Level: 272
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Description: A freewheeling blend of continental European folk music and the songs, tunes, and dances of Anglo and Celtic immigrants, polkabilly has enthralled American musicians and dancers since the mid-19th century. From West Virginia coal camps and east Texas farms to the Canadian prairies and America's Upper Midwest, scores of groups have wed squeezeboxes with string bands, hoe downs with hambos, and sentimental Southern balladry with comic "up north" broken-English comedy, to create a new and uniquely American sound.
The Goose Island Ramblers played as a house band for a local tavern in Madison, Wisconsin from the early 1960s through the mid-1970s. The group epitomized the polkabilly sound with their wild mixture of Norwegian fiddle tunes, Irish jigs, Slovenian polkas, Swiss yodels, old time hillbilly songs, "Scandihoovian" and "Dutchman" dialect ditties, frost-bitten Hawaiian marches, and novelty numbers on the electric toilet plunger. In this original study, James P. Leary illustrates how the Ramblers' multiethnic music combined both local and popular traditions, and how their eclectic repertoire challenges prevailing definitions of American folk music. He thus offers the first comprehensive examination of the Upper Midwest's folk musical traditions within the larger context of American life and culture.
Impeccably researched, richly detailed and illustrated, and accompanied by a compact disc of interviews and performances, James P. Leary's Polkabilly: How the Goose Island Ramblers Redefined American Folk Music creates an unforgettable portrait of a polkabilly band and its world.
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Price: $100.00
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Sale: $83.22
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Manufacturer: Routledge
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Saadi A. Simawe
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Publisher: Routledge
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 813.509357
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Publication Date: 2000-05-12
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Reading Level: 275
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Description: In twentieth-century African American fiction, music has been elevated to the level of religion primarily because of its Orphic, magical power to unsettle oppressive realities, to liberate the soul and to create, at least temporarily, a medium of freedom. This collection explores literary invocations of music from the Harlem Renaissance to Toni Morrison.
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Price: $26.95
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Sale: $26.95
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Manufacturer: Wesleyan
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Peter Fryer
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Publisher: Wesleyan
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Edition: 1st
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Dewey Decimal Number: 780
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Publication Date: 2000-03-01
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Reading Level: 281
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Description: African rhythms are at the heart of contemporary black Brazilian music. Surveying a musical legacy that encompasses over 400 years, Peter Fryer traces the development of this rich cultural heritage. He describes how slaves, mariners, and merchants brought African music from Angola and the ports of east Africa to Latin America. In particular, they brought it to Brazil -- today the country with the largest black population of any outside Africa.
Fryer examines how the rhythms and beats of Africa were combined with European popular music to create a unique sound and dance tradition. He focuses on the political nature of this musical crossover and the role of African heritage in the cultural identity of black Brazilians today. The result is an absorbing account of a theme in global music that is rich in fascinating historical detail.
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Price: $23.95
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Sale: $22.57
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Manufacturer: Duke University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Paul Anderson
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Publisher: Duke University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 780.899607307471
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Publication Date: 2001
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Reading Level: 352
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Description: “The American Negro,” Arthur Schomburg wrote in 1925, “must remake his past in order to make his future.” Many Harlem Renaissance figures agreed that reframing the black folk inheritance could play a major role in imagining a new future of racial equality and artistic freedom. In Deep River Paul Allen Anderson focuses on the role of African American folk music in the Renaissance aesthetic and in political debates about racial performance, social memory, and national identity.
Deep River elucidates how spirituals, African American concert music, the blues, and jazz became symbolic sites of social memory and anticipation during the Harlem Renaissance. Anderson traces the roots of this period’s debates about music to the American and European tours of the Fisk Jubilee Singers in the 1870s and to W. E. B. Du Bois’s influential writings at the turn of the century about folk culture and its bearing on racial progress and national identity. He details how musical idioms spoke to contrasting visions of New Negro art, folk authenticity, and modernist cosmopolitanism in the works of Du Bois, Alain Locke, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, Jean Toomer, Sterling Brown, Roland Hayes, Paul Robeson, Carl Van Vechten, and others. In addition to revisiting the place of music in the culture wars of the 1920s, Deep River provides fresh perspectives on the aesthetics of race and the politics of music in Popular Front and Swing Era music criticism, African American critical theory, and contemporary musicology.
Deep River offers a sophisticated historical account of American racial ideologies and their function in music criticism and modernist thought. It will interest general readers as well as students of African American studies, American studies, intellectual history, musicology, and literature.
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Price: $29.95
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Sale: $19.53
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Manufacturer: Baylor University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Roberta King::Jean Ngoya Kidula::James R. Krabill::Thomas A. Oduro
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Publisher: Baylor University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 264.2096
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Publication Date: 2008-03-15
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Reading Level: 165
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Description: During the twentieth century, the number of Christians in Africa grew from an estimated 4 million to more than 300 million. One of the forces that has propelled the church's remarkable growth is its liturgical music, which has been heavily influenced by indigenous musical traditions. This rewarding book takes readers inside the music for the first time. By examining the central role of indigenous music in promoting Christianity and in giving voice to local theologies, the authors seek to energize conversations between music, culture, and the church. Furthermore, they extract useful lessons for fostering faith communities around the globe.
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Price: $47.50
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Sale: $28.99
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Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Helen Myers
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Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 781.62914072983
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Publication Date: 1999-01-15
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Reading Level: 542
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Description: Like many other small towns in Trinidad, Felicity is populated almost entirely by East Indians. In their Caribbean exile, the residents of Felicity have created and recreated the music of their Hindu ancestors. Music of Hindu Trinidad is a fascinating account of the history and cultural significance of Hindu music that explores its symbolic, aesthetic, and psychological aspects while asking the larger question of how this music has contributed to the formation of identity in the midst of their great diaspora.
Myers details the musical repertory of Felicity, which is based largely on north Indian genres including the traditional Bhojpuri folk songs and drumming styles brought by the first indentured laborers in 1845. In her engaging exploration of the fate of Indian classical music and new popular styles such as Hindi calypso, soca, and chutney, she even finds herself at the ancestral home of Trinidadian V. S. Naipaul in India. Copiously illustrated and accompanied by a compact disk, Music of Hindu Trinidad is a model ethnographic study.
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Price: $24.95
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Sale: $19.34
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Manufacturer: Temple University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Banning Eyre
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Publisher: Temple University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 780.96623
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Publication Date: 2000-04-24
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Reading Level: 256
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Description: Djelimady Tounkara is only one of the memorable people you will meet in this dramatic narrative of life among the griot musicians of Mali. Born into families where music and the tradition of griot story-telling is a heritage and a privilege, Djelimady and his fellow griots -- both men and women -- live their lives at the intersection of ancient traditions and the modern entertainment industry. During the seven months he spent living and studying with Djelimady, Banning Eyre immersed himself in a world that will fascinate you as it did him. Eyre creates a range of unforgettable portraits. Some of the people who stride through his pages are internationally known, musicians like Salif Keita, Oumou Sangare, and Grammy winner Ali Farka Toure. But the lesser-known characters are equally fascinating: Adama Kouyate, Djelimady's dynamic wife; Moussa Kouyate, the Tounkara family's own griot; Yayi Kanoute, the flamboyant jelimuso (female griot) who failed to take America by storm; Foutanga Babani Sissoko, the mysterious millionaire who rebuilt an entire town and whose patronage is much sought after by the griots of Bamako. But the picture Eyre draws is not just a series of portraits. Out of their interactions comes a perceptive panorama of life in Mali in the late twentieth century. The narrative gives us a street-level view of the transformation of musical taste and social customs, the impact of technology and the pressures of poverty, at a crucial time in Mali's history. In individual after individual, family after family, we see the subtle conflicts of heritage and change. Even the complications of democracy -- with democracy, mango vendors think they can charge anything they want,Djelimady points out -- are woven into an unforgettable saga of one man, his family, his profession, and the world of Malian music.
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