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  • - Radio and Roots of Music along the Red River
    af Tracey E. W. (Assistant Professor Laird
    767,95 kr.

    This book is an examination of northwest Louisiana's unique musical milieu, home to the Louisiana Hayride, a groundbreaking radio barn dance between 1948 and 1960. The region's history, geography, race relations, media, and other forces set the stage for the Hayride's critical role in both country music and rock-and-roll.

  • - Caribbean Carnival Music in New York
    af Professor of Music, CUNY Graduate Center) Allen & Ray (Professor of Music
    400,95 - 1.249,95 kr.

    Jump Up! Caribbean Carnival Music in New York City presents the first thorough history of calypso and steelband music outside the Caribbean, that emerged first in Harlem and later, Brooklyn.

  • - The Performance of Biblical Chant in Contemporary Judaism
    af Jeffrey A. Summit
    334,95 - 1.751,95 kr.

  • - Interracial Music and the Politics of Collaboration
    af University Of California, Assistant Professor, Berkeley) Roberts, mfl.
    319,95 - 1.648,95 kr.

    Resounding Afro Asia examines black-Asian musical collaborations as part of a genealogy of cross-racial culture and politics in the U.S. Roberts argues these projects offer a glimpse into how artists live multiracial lives that inhabit yet exceed multicultural frameworks built on racial essentialism and segregation.

  • - Bukharian Jewish Music and Musicians in New York
    af Assistant Professor, Ethnomusicology, The New School for Liberal Arts) Rapport, mfl.
    436,95 - 1.786,95 kr.

  • - Cultural Politics and Balkan Music in Diaspora
    af University of Oregon) Silverman, Carol (Professor of Cultural Anthropology and Folklore and Head of the Department of Anthropology & Professor of Cultural Anthropology and Folklore and Head of the Department of Anthropology
    547,95 - 1.015,95 kr.

    In this book, Silverman introduces readers to the people and cultures who produce this music, offering a sensitive and incisive analysis of how Romani musicians function successfully within oppressive circumstances.

  • - Joe Heaney, Irish Song Man
    af Sean Williams & Lillis O Laoire
    431,95 - 650,95 kr.

  • - Folksongs from Japanese Immigrant Workers in Hawai'i
    af Franklin (Retired Director of Smithsonian Institution Asian Pacific American Program and Acting Chief of Library of Congress) Odo
    519,95 - 1.015,95 kr.

    Holehole bushi, folk songs of Japanese workers in Hawaii's plantations, describe the experiences of this particular group caught in the global movements of capital, empire, and labor during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In this book author Franklin Odo situates over two hundred of these songs, in translation, in a hitherto largely unexplored historical context.

  • - How the Goose Island Ramblers Redefined American Folk Music
    af University of Wisconsin, Professor, Madison) Leary, mfl.
    363,95 - 822,95 kr.

  • - Music, Transnationalism, and Cultural Politics in Asian/Chinese America
    af Wesleyan University) Zheng, Su (Associate Professor of Music and East Asian Studies & Associate Professor of Music and East Asian Studies
    485,95 - 1.139,95 kr.

    This book addresses the increasingly plural nature of American cultural identity thrugh a study of the thriving contemporary music culture of Chinese America, ranging from traditional opera to Cantonese pop and from storytelling songs about the immigrant experience to the work of academically trained composers.

  • - Hillbilly Music Meets Washington, DC
    af Kip (Professor of Music and Ethnomusicology Lornell
    510,95 kr.

    Documenting the history and development of bluegrass in and around the nation's capital since it emerged in the 1950s, Capital Bluegrass: Hillbilly Music Meets Washington, D.C. is central to our understanding of bluegrass in the United States and its place in our nation's capital.

  • - Creating an Alternative Music Culture in America
    af Mirjana (Professor of Ethnomusicology Lausevic
    519,95 kr.

    In Balkan Fascination, ethnomusicologist Mirjana Lausevic, a native of the Balkans, investigates this remarkable phenomenon to explore why so many Americans actively participate in specific Balkan cultural practices to which they have no familial or ethnic connection.

  • - La Historia de Lydia Mendoza: Norteno Tejano Legacies
    af Yolanda (Professor of Mexican American Studies Broyles-Gonzalez
    522,95 kr.

  • - The Emergence of an American-Made Music
    af Ryan Andre (Lecturer in American Studies Brasseaux
    505,95 kr.

    Cajun Breakdown examines the social and cultural roots of Cajun music's development through 1950. The idiom's synthetic nature suggests an extensive and intensive dialogue with popular culture that extinguishes the myth that Cajuns were an insular folk group astray in the American South.

  • - Radio and Roots Music along the Red River
    af Tracey E.W. (Professor of Music Laird
    429,95 kr.

    By tracing the dynamic history of the radio show Louisiana Hayride and its sponsoring station, ethnomusicologist Tracey Laird reveals the critical role that this part of northwestern Louisiana played in the development of both country music and rock and roll.

  • - A Social History of American Barbershop Quartet
    af Gage (Professor of History and Culture Averill
    442,95 kr.

  • - A Social History of American Barbershop Harmony
    af Gage (Professor of Ethnomusicology and Chair of Music Department Averill
    1.139,95 kr.

    '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.

  • - Music and Identity in Contemporary Jewish Worship
    af Jeffrey A. (Rabbi and Director of the Hillel Foundation Summit
    375,95 kr.

    Music and the choice of musical settings function as one of the most basic forms of affiliation and identity in American Jewish congregations. This book examines how choice of melody helps Jews present and maintain their cultural identity. An audio CD packaged with the book includes field recordings of the most important tunes discussed.

  • - The Emergence of an American Made Music
    af Ryan Andre ( Brasseaux
    588,95 kr.

    Cajun Breakdown examines the social and cultural roots of Cajun music's development through 1950. The idiom's synthetic nature suggests an extensive and intensive dialogue with popular culture that extinguishes the myth that Cajuns were an insular folk group astray in the American South

  • - Exploring the Klezmer World
    af Mark (Professor of Music and Chair of the Department of Music Slobin
    357,95 kr.

    Contemporary klezmer music is a rapidly expanding revival of repertories and styles used by old-time professional musical entertainers in Jewish Eastern Europe. Fiddler on the Move, a volume (with CD) in the American Musicspheres series, is an attempt to position klezmer within American music studies, cultural studies, and ethnomusicology.

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