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Greeted With Smiles
Bukharian Jewish Music and Musicians in New York
Av Evan Rapport
Inbunden, 2014
1985 kr
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As the Soviet Union stood on the brink of collapse, thousands of Bukharian Jews left their homes from across the predominantly Muslim cities of Central Asia, to reestablish their lives in the United States, Israel and Europe. Today, about thirty thousand Bukharian Jews reside in New York City, …
Balkan Fascination
Creating an Alternative Music Culture in America
Häftad, 2015
808 kr
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Divi Zheni identifies itself as a Bulgarian women's chorus and band, but it is located in Boston and none of its members come from Bulgaria. Zlatne Uste is one of the most popular purveyors of Balkan music in America, yet the name of the band is grammatically incorrect. The members of Sviraci hail …
Voices from the Canefields
Folksongs from Japanese Immigrant Workers in Hawai'i
Av Franklin Odo
Häftad, 2016
884 kr
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Folk songs are short stories from the souls of common people. Some, like Mexican corridos or Scottish ballads reworked in the Appalachias, are stories of tragic or heroic episodes. Others, like the African American blues, reach from a difficult present back into slavery and forward into a troubled …
Louisiana Hayride
Radio and Roots Music along the Red River
Häftad, 2016
714 kr
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On a Saturday night in 1948, Hank Williams stepped onto the stage of the Louisiana Hayride and sang "Lovesick Blues." Up to that point, Williams's yodeling style had been pigeon-holed as hillbilly music, cutting him off from the mainstream of popular music. Taking a chance on this untried artist, …
Bright Star of the West
Joe Heaney, Irish Song Man
Av Sean Williams, Lillis S Laoire
Häftad, 2016
714 kr
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Bright Star of the West traces the life, repertoire, and influence of Joe Heaney, Ireland's greatest sean-nós ("old style") singer. Born in 1919, Joe Heaney grew up in a politically volatile time, as his native Ireland became a democracy. He found work and relative fame as a singer in London before …
Singing God's Words
The Performance of Biblical Chant in Contemporary Judaism
Häftad, 2016
581 kr
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Singing God's Words is the first in-depth study of the experience and meaning of chanting or "reading" Torah among contemporary American Jews. This experience has been transformed dramatically in recent years by the impact of digital technology, feminism, the empowerment of lay people and a search …
Cajun Breakdown
The Emergence of an American-Made Music
Häftad, 2016
827 kr
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In 1946, Harry Choates, a Cajun fiddle virtuoso, changed the course of American musical history when his recording of the so-called Cajun national anthem "Jole Blon" reached number four on the national Billboard charts. Cajun music became part of the American consciousness for the first time thanks …
Jump Up!
Caribbean Carnival Music in New York
Av Ray Allen
Inbunden, 2019
2045 kr
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Jump Up! Caribbean Carnival Music in New York City is the first comprehensive history of Trinidadian calypso and steelband music in the diaspora. Carnival, transplanted from Trinidad to Harlem in the 1930s and to Brooklyn in the late 1960s, provides the cultural context for the study. Blending oral …
Jump Up!
Caribbean Carnival Music in New York
Av Ray Allen
Häftad, 2019
559 kr
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Jump Up! Caribbean Carnival Music in New York City is the first comprehensive history of Trinidadian calypso and steelband music in the diaspora. Carnival, transplanted from Trinidad to Harlem in the 1930s and to Brooklyn in the late 1960s, provides the cultural context for the study. Blending oral …
Sound Relations
Native Ways of Doing Music History in Alaska
Inbunden, 2021
2092 kr
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Sound Relations delves into histories of Inuit musical life in Alaska to register the significance of sound as integral to self-determination and sovereignty. Offering radical and relational ways of listening to Inuit performances across a range of genres--from hip hop to Christian hymnody and …
Sound Relations
Native Ways of Doing Music History in Alaska
Häftad, 2021
731 kr
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Sound Relations delves into histories of Inuit musical life in Alaska to register the significance of sound as integral to self-determination and sovereignty. Offering radical and relational ways of listening to Inuit performances across a range of genres--from hip hop to Christian hymnody and …
Four Parts, No Waiting
A Social History of American Barbershop Harmony
Av Gage Averill
Inbunden, 2003
1733 kr
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Four Parts, No Waiting investigates the role that vernacular, barbershop-style close harmony has played in American musical history, in American life, and in the American imagination. Starting with a discussion of the first craze for Austrian four-part close harmony in the 1830s, Averill traces the …
Claiming Diaspora
Music, Transnationalism, and Cultural Politics in Asian/Chinese America
Av Su Zheng
Inbunden, 2010
1865 kr
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Claiming Diaspora explores the thriving contemporary musical culture of Asian/Chinese America. Ranging from traditional operas to modern instrumental music, from ethnic media networks to popular music, from Asian American jazz to the work of recent avant-garde composers, author Su Zheng reveals the …
Polkabilly
How the Goose Island Ramblers Redefined American Folk Music
Inbunden, 2006
991 kr
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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 …
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 …
The Lord's Song in a Strange Land
Music and Identity in Contemporary Jewish Worship
Av Summit
Häftad, 2003
585 kr
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Across the United States, Jews come together every week to sing and pray in a wide variety of worship communities. Through this music, made by and for ordinary folk, these Jews define and re-define their relationship to the continuity of Jewish tradition and the realities of American life. …
Louisiana Hayride
Radio and Roots of Music along the Red River
Inbunden, 2005
977 kr
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On a Saturday night in 1948, Hank Williams stepped onto the stage of the Louisiana Hayride and sang "Lovesick Blues." Up to that point, Williams's yodeling style had been pigeon-holed as hillbilly music, cutting him off from the mainstream of popular music. Taking a chance on this untried artist, …
Romani Routes
Cultural Politics and Balkan Music in Diaspora
Inbunden, 2012
1950 kr
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Over the past two decades, a steady stream of recordings, videos, feature films, festivals, and concerts has presented the music of Balkan Gypsies, or Roma, to Western audiences, who have greeted them with exceptional enthusiasm. Yet, as author Carol Silverman notes, "Roma are revered as musicians …
Lydia Mendoza's Life in Music
La Historia de Lydia Mendoza: Norteño Tejano Legacies
Häftad, 2006
846 kr
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Lydia Mendoza began her legendary musical career as a child in the 1920s, singing for pennies and nickels on the streets of downtown San Antonio. She lived most of her adult life in Houston, Texas, where she was born. The life story of this Chicana icon encompasses a 60-year singing career that …
Bright Star of the West
Joe Heaney, Irish Song Man
Av Sean Williams, Lillis Ó Laoire
Inbunden, 2011
1091 kr
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Bright Star of the West traces the life, repertoire, and influence of Joe Heaney, Ireland's greatest sean-nós ("old style") singer. Born in 1919, Joe Heaney grew up in a politically volatile time, as his native Ireland became a democracy. He found work and relative fame as a singer in London before …
Four Parts, No Waiting
A Social History of American Barbershop Quartet
Av Gage Averill
Häftad, 2010
754 kr
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Four Parts, No Waiting investigates the role that vernacular, barbershop-style close harmony has played in American musical history, in American life, and in the American imagination. Starting with a discussion of the first craze for Austrian four-part close harmony in the 1830s, Averill traces the …
Cajun Breakdown
The Emergence of an American Made Music
Inbunden, 2009
978 kr
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In 1946, Harry Choates, a Cajun fiddle virtuoso, changed the course of American musical history when his recording of the so-called Cajun national anthem "Jole Blon" reached number four on the national Billboard charts. Cajun music became part of the American consciousness for the first time thanks …
Jazz Migrations
Movement as Place Among New York Musicians
Av Ofer Gazit
Inbunden, 2024
984 kr
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Since the 1990s, migrant musicians have become increasingly prominent in New York City's jazz scene. Challenging norms about who can be a jazz musician and what immigrant music should sound like, these musicians create mobile and diverse notions of jazz while inadvertently contributing to processes …
Jazz Migrations
Movement as Place Among New York Musicians
Av Ofer Gazit
Häftad, 2024
360 kr
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Since the 1990s, migrant musicians have become increasingly prominent in New York City's jazz scene. Challenging norms about who can be a jazz musician and what immigrant music should sound like, these musicians create mobile and diverse notions of jazz while inadvertently contributing to processes …
Capital Bluegrass
Av Kip Lornell
Häftad, 2024
347 kr
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With its rich but underappreciated musical heritage, Washington, D.C. is often overlooked as a cradle for punk, the birthplace of go go, and as the urban center for bluegrass in the Untied States. Capital Bluegrass: Hillbilly Music Meets Washington, D.C. richly documents the history and development …
Romani Routes
Cultural Politics and Balkan Music in Diaspora
Häftad, 2014
921 kr
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Over the past two decades, a steady stream of recordings, videos, feature films, and concerts has presented the music of European Gypsies, or Roma, to Western audiences, who have greeted them with exceptional enthusiasm. Yet, as author Carol Silverman notes, "Roma are revered as musicians and …
Resounding Afro Asia
Interracial Music and the Politics of Collaboration
Inbunden, 2016
2658 kr
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Though cultural hybridity is celebrated as a hallmark of U.S. American music and identity, hybrid music is all too often marked and marketed under a single racial label.Tamara Roberts' book Resounding Afro Asia examines music projects that foreground racial mixture in players, audiences, and sound …
Resounding Afro Asia
Interracial Music and the Politics of Collaboration
Häftad, 2016
525 kr
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Though cultural hybridity is celebrated as a hallmark of U.S. American music and identity, hybrid music is all too often marked and marketed under a single racial label.Tamara Roberts' book Resounding Afro Asia examines music projects that foreground racial mixture in players, audiences, and sound …
Greeted With Smiles
Bukharian Jewish Music and Musicians in New York
Av Evan Rapport
Häftad, 2014
510 kr
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As the Soviet Union stood on the brink of collapse, thousands of Bukharian Jews left their homes from across the predominantly Muslim cities of Central Asia, to reestablish their lives in the United States, Israel and Europe. Today, about thirty thousand Bukharian Jews reside in New York City, …
Polkabilly
How the Goose Island Ramblers Redefined American Folk Music
Av James Leary
Häftad, 2010
569 kr
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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 …
