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Classic Countryby Charles K. Wolfe
Routledge 2001; US$ 32.95Provides insights into the history of country music which will fascinate not only fans and scholars of country music, but anyone interested in the roots of American popular music. more...
Alan Lomaxby Ronald Cohen
Routledge 2003; US$ 31.95This collection of writings, introduced by Lomax's daughter Anna, brings together articles by a legendary figure in American folk music, from the 1930s onwards. more...
African Diasporaby Ingrid Monson
Routledge 2003; US$ 45.95African Diaspora presents musical case studies, from various regions of the African diaspora, including Africa, North America, and Europe, that engage with broader interdisciplinary issues about race, gender, politics, nationalism and music. more...
Speak It Louderby Deborah Wong
Routledge 2004; US$ 44.95Speak It Louder: Asian Americans Making Music documents the variety of musics -from traditional Asian through jazz, classical, and pop - that have been created by Asian Americans. more...
Lift Every Voice and Singby Julian Bond; Sondra Kathryn Dr Wilson
Random House Publishing Group 2001; US$ 15.99"A group of young men in Jacksonville, Florida, arranged to celebrate Lincoln's birthday in 1900. My brother, J. Rosamond Johnson, and I decided to write a song to be sung at the exercise. I wrote the words and he wrote the music. Our New York publisher, Edward B. Marks, made mimeographed copies for us and the song was taught to and sung by a chorus of five hundred colored school children. "Shortly afterwards my brother and I moved from Jacksonville to New York, and the song passed out of our minds. But the school children of Jacksonville kept singing it, they went off to other schools and sang it, they became teachers and taught it to other children. Within twenty years it was being sung over the South and in some other parts of... more...
Performing Russiaby Laura Olson
RoutledgeCurzon 2004; US$ 39.95This book examines folk music and dance revival movements in Russia showing how folk 'tradition' in Russia is an artificial cultural construct, which is periodically reinvented. more...
Rara!by Elizabeth A. McAlister
University of California Press 2002; US$ 15.95Rara is a vibrant annual street festival in Haiti, when followers of the Afro-Creole religion called Vodou march loudly into public space to take an active role in politics. Working deftly with highly original ethnographic material, Elizabeth McAlister shows how Rara bands harness the power of Vodou spirits and the recently dead to broadcast coded points of view with historical, gendered, and transnational dimensions. more...
American Klezmerby Mark Slobin
University of California Press 2002; US$ 26.95Klezmer, 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 twentieth century, this lively music is now enjoying recognition among music fans of all stripes. Today, klezmer flourishes in the United States and abroad in the world music and accompany Jewish celebrations. The outstanding essays collected in this volume investigate American klezmer: its roots, its evolution, and its spirited revitalization. The contributors to American Klezmer include every kind of authority on the subject--from academics to leading... more...
World Musicby Philip V. Bohlman
Oxford University Press 2002; US$ 12.99In the course of this volume's eight chapters, the reader witnesses music's involvement in the modern world, but also the individual moments and particular histories that are crucial to an understanding of music's diversity. more...
Race Musicby Jr. Guthrie P. Ramsey
University of California Press 2003; US$ 24.95This powerful book covers the vast and various terrain of African American music, from bebop to hip-hop. Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr., begins with an absorbing account of his own musical experiences with family and friends on the South Side of Chicago, evoking Sunday-morning worship services, family gatherings with food and dancing, and jam sessions at local nightclubs. This lays the foundation for a brilliant discussion of how musical meaning emerges in the private and communal realms of lived experience and how African American music has shaped and reflected identities in the black community. Deeply informed by Ramsey's experience as an accomplished musician, a sophisticated cultural theorist, and an enthusiast brought up in the community he discusses,... more...