This study of the music and career of Florentín Giménez discusses the various ways in which he expressed his Paraguayan cultural identity and musical nationalism through his symphonies....Loe edasi...
This is a pioneering work on the study of popular music in 19th-Century Spanish piano music, providing an exploration of specific folk-inspired works with an inquiry into the historical cross-pollination between popular and classical musical idioms....Loe edasi...
Rhythm, Ancestrality and Spirit in Maracatu de Nação and Candomblé examines how the highly percussive carnival practice of Maracatu de nação has evolved in relation to the cosmology of Candomblé Nagô in the urban centres of Recife and Olinda, Brazil...Loe edasi...
This collection focuses on Bob Dylans setlists from the 1960s to the 2020s. These multidisciplinary essays examine how the concert setlist can be used as a source to explore many aspects of Dylans public life. Unique in its approach and wide-ranging...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Oct-2023, Kirjastus: Routledge India, ISBN-13: 9781003026648)
This book explores the folk performance genre of Kobigaan, a dialogic song-theatre form in which performers verse-duel, in contemporary West Bengal in India and Bangladesh....Loe edasi...
Disaster Songs as Intangible Memorials in Atlantic Canada draws on a collection of over 500 Atlantic Canadian songs relating to disasters from 1891 up until the present, and describes the characteristics that define them as intangible memorials....Loe edasi...
What can we learn about Van Morrisons life and work as a songwriter through his songs? This book looks closely at the lyrics and music from a selection of his songs, offering insights into some of the most important ideas that the songwriter has exp...Loe edasi...
Almost twenty years ago Mike Brocken created from his doctoral research what became both a seminal and also a contested volume concerning the social mores surrounding the British Folk Revival up to that point in time: The British Folk Revival 1944 -...Loe edasi...
Establishing an intersection between the fields of traditional music studies, English folk music history and the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, this book responds to the problematic emphasis on cultural identity in the way traditio...Loe edasi...
Singing the English explores the period from the Franco-Prussian War in 1870 to the Entente Cordiale in 1904 through the lenses of the cultural history of music and Franco-British cultural history....Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1966, this was the first book on this subject to be published for over a hundred years. It covers all facets including little-known types of Gaelic song, the bagpipes and their music, including the esoteric subject of pibroch...Loe edasi...
This book provides a practical introduction to researching and performing early Anglo-American secular music and dance with attention to their place in society....Loe edasi...
This book examines the diverse facets of popular music in Malta, paying special attention to gana (Maltas folk song), the wind band tradition, and modern popular music....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Dec-2020, Kirjastus: Routledge India, ISBN-13: 9781003093497)
This book explores queer potentialities in the tribal folktales of India. It elucidates the queer elements in the oral narratives of four indigenous communities from East and Northeast India, which are found to be significant repositories of gender...Loe edasi...
This book contributes significantly to the debate surrounding the importance of Ewan MacColl to the English folk revival. MacColl gave two extended interviews with co-editor Giovanni Vacca in 1987 and 1988 and these provide the impetus for a re-exam...Loe edasi...
Jacques Brel, Georges Brassens and Léo Ferré are three emblematic figures of post-war French popular music who have been constantly associated with each other by the public and the media. They have been described as the epitome of chanson, and of F...Loe edasi...
The similarities between the chanson française and the canzone dautore have been often noted but never fully explored. Taking a multidisciplinary approach, encompassing textual analysis of song lyrics, cultural history and popular music studies, R...Loe edasi...
Barbadian tuk music, a type of fife and drum music, has been transformed in the post-independence period from a working class music associated with plantations and rum shops to a signifier of national culture, played at official functions and showca...Loe edasi...
Alison McQueen Tokita presents a series of case studies that demonstrate the persistence of Japanese sung narratives in a multiplicity of genres over ten centuries together with factors contributing to change in narrative performance. Narratives tha...Loe edasi...
This study examines the ways in which audiences in present-day Greece and Turkey perceive and use the Greek popular song genre rebetiko to cultivate cultural habits and identities. Rebetiko has been associated chiefly with the lower strata of Greek...Loe edasi...
