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19 produkter
Folk Music
A Very Short Introduction
Av Mark Slobin
Häftad, 2011
114 kr
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This stimulating Very Short Introduction throws open the doors on a remarkably diverse musical genre, with a world-wide reach that goes far beyond America's shores to discuss folk music of every possible kind and in every corner of the globe. Written by award-winning ethnomusicologist Mark Slobin …
Motor City Music
A Detroiter Looks Back
Av Mark Slobin
Inbunden, 2018
569 kr
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This is the first-ever historical study across all musical genres in any American metropolis. Detroit in the 1940s-60s was not just "the capital of the twentieth century" for industry and the war effort, but also for the quantity and extremely high quality of its musicians, from jazz to classical …
Motor City Music
A Detroiter Looks Back
Av Mark Slobin
E-bok, 2018
353 kr
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This is the first-ever historical study across all musical genres in any American metropolis. Detroit in the 1940s-60s was not just "the capital of the twentieth century" for industry and the war effort, but also for the quantity and extremely high quality of its musicians, from jazz to classical …
Motor City Music
A Detroiter Looks Back
Av Mark Slobin
E-bok, 2018
353 kr
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This is the first-ever historical study across all musical genres in any American metropolis. Detroit in the 1940s-60s was not just "the capital of the twentieth century" for industry and the war effort, but also for the quantity and extremely high quality of its musicians, from jazz to classical …
Fiddler on the Move
Exploring the Klezmer World
Av Mark Slobin
Häftad, 2003
569 kr
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"Klezmer" is a Yiddish word for professional folk instrumentalist-the flutist, fiddler, and bass player that made brides weep and guests dance at weddings throughout Jewish eastern Europe before the culture was destroyed in the Holocaust, silenced under Stalin, and lost out to assimilation in …
Folk Music
A Very Short Introduction
Av Mark Slobin
E-bok, 2011
95 kr
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This VSI offers readers something no other introduction to folk music does: a cross-cultural, comparative approach, a survey of the basic issues as they have unfolded over time, and specific examples from widely differing sites of how folk musicians themselves, as well as corporations, …
Folk Music
A Very Short Introduction
Av Mark Slobin
E-bok, 2011
95 kr
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This VSI offers readers something no other introduction to folk music does: a cross-cultural, comparative approach, a survey of the basic issues as they have unfolded over time, and specific examples from widely differing sites of how folk musicians themselves, as well as corporations, …
Tenement Songs
The Popular Music of the Jewish Immigrants
Av Mark Slobin
Häftad, 1996
382 kr
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Yiddish-speaking Jewish immigrants brought a rich heritage of musical expression to the United States. On Manhattan's Lower East Side, a thriving Yiddish theater scene developed, and a new, distinctly Jewish American songcraft began to emerge. Mark Slobin's ethnographic study of the music and …
Chosen Voices
The Story of the American Cantorate
Av Mark Slobin
Häftad, 2002
339 kr
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Week after week, year after year, Jews turn to sacred singers for spiritual and emotional support. At the same time, the job of the hazzan, or cantor, is deeply embedded in the cultural, social, and religious symbolism negotiated between a congregation and its sacred singers. Chosen Voices is a …
Music of Central Asia
Av Mark Slobin, Theodore Levin m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
468 kr
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This beautiful and informative book offers a detailed introduction to the musical heritage of Central Asia for readers and listeners worldwide. Music of Central Asia balances "insider" and "outsider" perspectives with contributions by 27 authors from 14 countries. A companion website …
American Klezmer
Its Roots and Offshoots
Av Mark Slobin
Häftad, 2002
412 kr
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Klezmer, the Yiddish word for a folk instrumental musician, has come to mean a person, a style, and a scene. This musical subculture came to the United States with the late-nineteenth-century Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe. Although it had declined in popularity by the middle of the …
American Klezmer
Its Roots and Offshoots
Av Mark Slobin
E-bok, 2002
468 kr
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Klezmer, the Yiddish word for a folk instrumental musician, has come to mean a person, a style, and a scene. This musical subculture came to the United States with the late-nineteenth-century Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe. Although it had declined in popularity by the middle of the …
Old Jewish Folk Music
The Collections and Writings of Moshe Beregovski
Av Mark Slobin
Inbunden, 1982
938 kr
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The original publications of the 1930s are scarcely to be found. The posthumous 1962 volume in the Soviet Union was limited to a tiny edition. Yet the work of the man who has been called "the foremost authority on Jewish folk music before the Holocaust," Moshe Beregovski, survives and is now …
Old Jewish Folk Music
The Collections and Writings of Moshe Beregovski
Häftad, 2000
342 kr
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This volume presents a cultural record of the Jewish folk music of Eastern Europe, through the eyes of ethnomusicologist, Moshe Beregovski. It includes contextual responses to Jewish folk music, essays on musical influences, and notes and lyrics of nearly 300 folk songs.
Retuning Culture
Musical Changes in Central and Eastern Europe
Av Mark Slobin
Häftad, 1996
579 kr
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As a measure of individual and collective identity, music offers both striking metaphors and tangible data for understanding societies in transition-and nowhere is this clearer than in the recent case of the Eastern Bloc. Retuning Culture presents an extraordinary picture of this phenomenon. This …
Retuning Culture
Musical Changes in Central and Eastern Europe
Av Mark Slobin
E-bok, 1996
587 kr
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As a measure of individual and collective identity, music offers both striking metaphors and tangible data for understanding societies in transition—and nowhere is this clearer than in the recent case of the Eastern Bloc. Retuning Culture presents an extraordinary picture of this phenomenon. This …
Old Jewish Folk Music
The Collections and Writings of Moshe Beregovski
Av Mark Slobin
E-bok, 2016
1993 kr
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The original publications of the 1930s are scarcely to be found. The posthumous 1962 volume in the Soviet Union was limited to a tiny edition. Yet the work of the man who has been called "the foremost authority on Jewish folk music before the Holocaust," Moshe Beregovski, survives and is now …
Russians Abroad
Literary and Cultural Politics of Diaspora (1919-1939)
Av Greta Slobin, Nancy Condee m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
1302 kr
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This book presents an array of perspectives on the vivid cultural and literary politics that marked the period immediately after the October Revolution of 1917, when Russian writers had to relocate to Berlin and Paris under harsh conditions. Divided amongst themselves and uncertain about the …
Russians Abroad
Literary and Cultural Politics of Diaspora (1919-1939)
Av Greta Slobin, Nancy Condee m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
552 kr
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This book presents an array of perspectives on the vivid cultural and literary politics that marked the period immediately after the October Revolution of 1917, when Russian writers had to relocate to Berlin and Paris under harsh conditions. Divided amongst themselves and uncertain about the …