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17 produkter
Eck Robertson at the Crossroads of American Fiddling
Häftad, 2025
319 kr
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The Texas Panhandle’s frontier days were fresh in memory when fiddler Eck Robertson (1887-1975) arrived. Cowboys still worked on ranches in the 1910s but barbed-wire fences abounded too. Robertson pursued a continually evolving strategy to profit from the feverish transformation of living history …
Good Medicine and Good Music
A Biography of Mrs. Joe Person, Patent Remedy Entrepreneur and Musician, Including the Complete Text of Her 1903 Autobiography
Av David Hursh, Chris Goertzen
Häftad, 2009
506 kr
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Alice Morgan Person (1840-1913) was a colorful North Carolinian. Born wealthy and married well, she fell into hardship after the Civil War but remarkably overcame it by marketing her own patent medicine and playing and sharing her arrangements of folk tunes. Presented here is her previously …
Fiddling for Norway
Revival and Identity
Häftad, 1997
361 kr
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This is a portrait of a fiddle-based folk revival in Norway, one that in many ways parallels contemporary folk institutions and festivals throughout the world, including American fiddling. It is a detailed case study in the politics of culture, the causes and purposes of folk revivals, and the …
Fiddling for Norway
Revival and Identity
E-bok, 2007
781 kr
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Fiddling for Norway is an engrossing portrait of a fiddle-based folk revival in Norway, one that in many ways parallels contemporary folk institutions and festivals throughout the world, including American fiddling. It is a detailed case study in the politics of culture, the causes and purposes of …
Garland Encyclopedia of World Music
Europe
Av Chris Goertzen, James Porter m. fl.
E-bok, 2017
9183 kr
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Here in one volume is a comprehensive look at the folk and traditional musics of the European continen - from Ireland to the new republics of Georgia and Belarus. In over seventy articles by sixty-one contributors from around the world, this encyclopedia explores musical life from historical and …
Garland Encyclopedia of World Music
Europe
Av Chris Goertzen, James Porter m. fl.
E-bok, 2017
8984 kr
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Here in one volume is a comprehensive look at the folk and traditional musics of the European continen - from Ireland to the new republics of Georgia and Belarus. In over seventy articles by sixty-one contributors from around the world, this encyclopedia explores musical life from historical and …
George P. Knauff's Virginia Reels and the History of American Fiddling
Inbunden, 2017
1284 kr
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George P. Knauff’s Virginia Reels (1839) was the first collection of southern fiddle tunes and the only substantial one published in the nineteenth century. Knauff’s activity could not anticipate our modern contest-driven fiddle subcultures. But the fate of the Virginia Reels pointed in that …
American Antebellum Fiddling
Inbunden, 2020
1284 kr
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This unique volume is the only book solely about antebellum American fiddling. It includes more than 250 easy-to-read and clearly notated fiddle tunes alongside biographies of fiddlers and careful analysis of their personal tune collections. The reader learns what the tunes of the day were, what …
American Antebellum Fiddling
Häftad, 2020
399 kr
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This unique volume is the only book solely about antebellum American fiddling. It includes more than 250 easy-to-read and clearly notated fiddle tunes alongside biographies of fiddlers and careful analysis of their personal tune collections. The reader learns what the tunes of the day were, what …
George P. Knauff's Virginia Reels and the History of American Fiddling
Häftad, 2020
399 kr
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George P. Knauff's Virginia Reels (1839) was the first collection of southern fiddle tunes and the only substantial one published in the nineteenth century. Knauff's activity could not anticipate our modern contest-driven fiddle subcultures. But the fate of the Virginia Reels pointed in that …
Rugs, Guitars, and Fiddling
Intensification and the Rich Modern Lives of Traditional Arts
Inbunden, 2022
1284 kr
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What do exotic area rugs, handcrafted steel-string guitars, and fiddling have in common today? Many contemporary tradition bearers embrace complexity in form and content. They construct objects and performances that draw on the past and evoke nostalgia effectively but also reward close attention. …
Rugs, Guitars, and Fiddling
Intensification and the Rich Modern Lives of Traditional Arts
Häftad, 2022
399 kr
Lägg i varukorg
What do exotic area rugs, handcrafted steel-string guitars, and fiddling have in common today? Many contemporary tradition bearers embrace complexity in form and content. They construct objects and performances that draw on the past and evoke nostalgia effectively but also reward close attention. …
Eck Robertson at the Crossroads of American Fiddling
Inbunden, 2025
1188 kr
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The Texas Panhandle’s frontier days were fresh in memory when fiddler Eck Robertson (1887-1975) arrived. Cowboys still worked on ranches in the 1910s but barbed-wire fences abounded too. Robertson pursued a continually evolving strategy to profit from the feverish transformation of living history …
Southern Fiddlers and Fiddle Contests
Häftad, 2011
399 kr
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Southern Fiddlers and Fiddle Contests explores the phenomenon of American fiddle contests, which now have replaced dances as the main public event where American fiddlers get together. Chris Goertzen studies this change and what it means for audiences, musicians, traditions, and the future of …
Made in Mexico
Tradition, Tourism, and Political Fermant in Oaxaca
Häftad, 2013
399 kr
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Made in Mexico examines the aesthetic, political, and sociopolitical aspects of tourism in southern Mexico, particularly in the state of Oaxaca. Tourists seeking ""authenticity"" buy crafts and festival tickets and spend even more on travel expenses. What does a craft object or a festival moment …
Fiddling for Norway
Revival and Identity
Inbunden, 1997
1008 kr
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This is a portrait of a fiddle-based folk revival in Norway, one that in many ways parallels contemporary folk institutions and festivals throughout the world, including American fiddling. It is a detailed case study in the politics of culture, the causes and purposes of folk revivals, and the …
Made in Mexico
Tradition, Tourism, and Political Ferment in Oaxaca
Inbunden, 2010
582 kr
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Made in Mexico examines the aesthetic, political, and sociopolitical aspects of tourism in southern Mexico, particularly in the state of Oaxaca. Tourists seeking ""authenticity"" buy crafts and festival tickets and spend even more on travel expenses. What does a craft object or a festival moment …
