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Displaying records 81 through 90 of 816 |
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Price: $36.95
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Sale: $29.29
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Manufacturer: Jason Aronson
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Matityahu Glazerson
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Publisher: Jason Aronson
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Dewey Decimal Number: 780.0296
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Publication Date: 1996-12-28
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Reading Level: 128
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Description: Music is an intrinsic part of Jewish expression, reaching back to the biblical Song of the Sea, which appears in Exodus, and the Psalms composed by King David. Employing the tools of Jewish mysticism, Music and Kabbalah examines the spiritual connection between God and music. The holy aspects of the musical scale, musical terminology, and instruments named in the Psalms are deciphered by using the gematria (interpretive numeric value) of their Hebrew names. Rabbi Glazerson employs music as a vehicle with which to teach that Judaism and the Hebrew language, the holy tongue, are vast and deep, embracing incomprehensible knowledge of every aspect and sphere of life. J100; J114; J118; REL040000; REL040060; REL040070
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Price: $34.95
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Sale: $19.70
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Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Elizabeth Alvilda Petroff
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Dewey Decimal Number: 248.22082
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Publication Date: 1994-04-14
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Reading Level: 256
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Description: This companion volume to Petroff's anthology "Medieval Women's Visionary Literature" collects texts written by and for medieval women, and applies a variety of literary approaches to their interpretation.
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Price: $20.00
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Sale: $13.59
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Manufacturer: The University of North Carolina Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: César Miguel Rondón
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Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 781.64
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Publication Date: 2008-03-10
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Reading Level: 352
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Description: Salsa is one of the most popular types of music listened to and danced to in the United States. Until now, the single comprehensive history of the music—and the industry that grew up around it, including musicians, performances, styles, movements, and production--was available only in Spanish. This lively translation provides for English-reading and music-loving fans the chance to enjoy C©sar Miguel Rond³n's celebrated El libro de la salsa. Rond³n tells the engaging story of salsa's roots in Puerto Rico, Cuba, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, and Venezuela, and of its emergence and development in the 1960s as a distinct musical movement in New York. Rond³n presents salsa as a truly pan-Caribbean phenomenon, emerging in the migrations and interactions, the celebrations and conflicts that marked the region. Although salsa is rooted in urban culture, Rond³n explains, it is also a commercial product produced and shaped by professional musicians, record producers, and the music industry. For this first English-language edition, Rond³n has added a new chapter to bring the story of salsa up to the present.
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Price: $39.95
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Sale: $29.95
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Manufacturer: Alokli West African Dance
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Plastic Comb
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Author: Dan Gorlin
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Publisher: Alokli West African Dance
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Dewey Decimal Number: 782.4216296066
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Publication Date: 2000-01-01
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Reading Level: 156
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Description: Here's an exciting new resource for anyone interested in African music and culture. Songs of West Africa by Dan Gorlin contains over 80 traditional African folk songs and chants in 6 languages along with extensive translations, annotations and performance notes. It may be the most complete collection of African songs ever published. The book highlights traditional songs from the Anlo-Ewe, Lobi, Ga-Adangbe, Egu, Foh, and related ethnic groups from Ghana, Togo, Benin, and Nigeria. There are sacred songs from Afa, Agzogbo, Gadzo, and Yewe traditions. Also major secular and historical music including Agbekor, Kinka, Atsia, Gahu, Takada, and more. Many of the songs are simple to learn, and can be easily taught to grade school students or adapted to other styles of music. But the scope of this book goes far beyond children's songs. Each song is explained in terms of cultural context, and translated in a way that helps you form your own interpretation of its meaning. You'll discover that singing the songs of Africa is a superb way to learn about her people, culture, and history -- and it's fun! The text includes music fundamentals, a pronunciation guide, and useful introductions to West African society, sensibility, and spirituality. Using the companion audio CD (included) you learn by singing along like young Africans do - or just listen and enjoy. The CD was studio-recorded especially for this book, so vocals and harmonies are easily heard over the supporting drums. With insightful perspectives and a wealth of information, this book is a must-have for students, teachers, and libraries.
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Price: $25.00
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Sale: $20.92
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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: Jocelyne Guilbault
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Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 781.64
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Publication Date: 2007-09-15
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Reading Level: 352
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Description: Calypso music is an integral part of Trinidad’s national identity. When, for instance, Franklin D. Roosevelt asked the great Trinidadian musician Roaring Lion where he was from, Lion famously replied “the land of calypso.” But in a nation as diverse as Trinidad, why is it that calypso has emerged as the emblematic music?
In Governing Sound, Jocelyne Guilbault examines the conditions that have enabled calypso to be valorized, contested, and targeted as a field of cultural politics in Trinidad. The prominence of calypso, Guilbault argues, is uniquely enmeshed in projects of governing and in competing imaginations of nation, race, and diaspora. During the colonial regime, the period of national independence, and recent decades of neoliberal transformation, calypso and its musical offshoots have enabled new cultural formations while simultaneously excluding specific social expressions, political articulations, and artistic traditions. Drawing on over a decade of ethnographic work, Guilbault maps the musical journeys of Trinidad’s most prominent musicians and arrangers and explains the distinct ways their musical sensibilities became audibly entangled with modes of governing, audience demands, and market incentives.
Generously illustrated and complete with an accompanying CD, Governing Sound constitutes the most comprehensive study to date of Trinidad’s carnival musics. |
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Price: $15.00
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Sale: $6.24
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Manufacturer: Da Capo Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Samuel Charters
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Publisher: Da Capo Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 781.64309
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Publication Date: 1991-08-21
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Reading Level: 168
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Description: I went to Africa to find the roots of the blues. So Samuel Charters begins the extraordinary story of his research. But what began as a study of how the blues was handed down from African slaves to musicians of today via the slave ships, became something much more complex. For in Africa Samuel Charters discovered a music which was not just a part of the past but a very vital living part of African culture. The Roots of the Blues not only reveals Charters's remarkable talent in discussing African folk music and its relationship with American blues; it demonstrates his power as a descriptive and narrative writer. Using extensive quotations of song lyrics and some remarkable photographs of the musicians, Charters has created a unique contribution to our understanding of both African and American cultures and their music.
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Price: $50.00
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Sale: $31.50
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Manufacturer: University of Illinois Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Nolan Porterfield
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Publisher: University of Illinois Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 781
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Publication Date: 2001-02-13
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Reading Level: 608
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Description: Winner of the Carr P. Collins Award and the Miss Ima Hogg Historical Achievement Award, "Last Cavalier" is the never-before-told story of the remarkable life and career of John A. Lomax, pioneering American folklorist, canny businessman, influential educator, and patriarch of an extended family of artists, performers, and scholars.
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Price: $25.95
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Sale: $23.35
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Manufacturer: University of Pittsburgh Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 781
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Publication Date: 2004-05-23
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Reading Level: 432
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Description: Every nation in the Americas—from indigenous Peru to revolutionary Cuba—has been touched by the cultural and musical impact of rock. Rockin’ Las Américas is the first book to explore the production, dissemination, and consumption of rock music throughout the Caribbean, Mexico, Central America, Brazil, the Andes, and the Southern Cone as well as among Latinos in the United States.
The contributors include experts in music, history, literature, culture, sociology, and anthropology, as well as practicing rockeros and rockeras. The multidisciplinary, transnational, and comparative perspectives they bring to the topic serve to address a broad range of fundamental questions about rock in Latin and Latino America, including: Why did rock become such a controversial cultural force in the region? In what ways has rock served as a medium for expressing national identities? How are unique questions of race, class, and gender inscribed in Latin American rock? What makes Latin American rock Latin American? Rockin’ Las Américas is an essential book for anyone who hopes to understand the complexities of Latin American culture today.
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Price: $17.95
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Sale: $10.97
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Manufacturer: Chicago Review Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: David Wondrich
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Publisher: Chicago Review Press
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 781.640973
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Publication Date: 2003-08-01
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Reading Level: 256
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Description: The early decades of American popular music are, for most listeners, the dark ages. It wasn't until the mid-1920s that the full spectrum of this music -- black and white, urban and rural, sophisticated and crude -- made it onto records for all to hear. This book brings a forgotten music, hot music, to life by describing how it became the dominant American music -- how it outlasted sentimental waltzes and parlour ballads, symphonic marches and Tin Pan Alley novelty numbers -- and how it became rock 'n' roll. It reveals that the young men and women of that bygone era had the same musical instincts as their descendants Louis Armstrong, Elvis Presley, James Brown, Jimi Hendrix, and even Ozzy Osbourne. In minstrelsy, ragtime, brass bands, early jazz and blues, fiddle music, and many other forms, there was as much stomping and swerving as can be found in the most exciting performances of hot jazz, funk, and rock. Along the way, it explains how the strange combination of African with Scotch and Irish influences made music in the United States vastly different from other African and Caribbean music; shares terrific stories about minstrel shows, 'coon' songs, whorehouses, knife fights, and other low-life phenomena; and showcases a motley collection of performers heretofore unknown to all but the most avid musicologists and collectors.<
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Price: $56.95
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Sale: $39.90
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Manufacturer: Schirmer
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: John Storm Roberts
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Publisher: Schirmer
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Edition: 2
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Dewey Decimal Number: 780.8996
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Publication Date: 1998-09-01
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Reading Level: 368
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Description: BLACK MUSIC OF TWO WORLDS defines the scope of world music studies, by exploring the impact that both African and European cultures had on music of the Americas.
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Displaying records 81 through 90 of 816
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