A celebration of cheerful determination in the face of appalling adversity, Soldiers' Songs and Slang of the Great War reveals the bawdy and satiric sense of humour of the Tommy in the trenches.
An indispensable study of the music of Altai-Sayan peoples Based on more than twenty years of collaborative research, Carole Pegg's long-awaited participatory ethnography explores how Indigenous nomadic peoples of Russia's southern Siberian republics (Altai, Khakassia, Tyva) sound multiphonies of place in a post-Soviet global world.
Based on extensive archival research and oral history, Staging Tradition traces the parallel careers of the creators of the Renfro Valley Barn Dance and the National Folk Festival.
'Liner Notes is, unsurprisingly, as good as its author's songs, with moments of sharp humor alternating with real-life pain, and vivid reflections on love, death, and the whole damn thing.
Este álbum se propone ofrecer al principiante trozos de música que desde el comienzo de la enseñanza despierten el interés por la música y animen las horas de estudio.
Starting in the late 1930s, writer Anne and her husband and musician Frank Warner traveled along the Eastern Seaboard, from the Adirondacks to the Outer Banks of North Carolina, collecting folk songs they would perform, document, research, and lecture on.
Durante su vasta carrera artistica, ya sea como solista o junto al trio Nueva Colombia, German Dario Perez Salazar ha interpretado, reinterpretado y difundido la musica colombiaba dentro y fuera del pais.
El presente trabajo comprende, en dos volúmenes, la voz actual de investigadores que abordan, desde variadas perspectivas, disciplinas, metodologías y marcos teóricos, el estudio y análisis de diversas músicas y prácticas sonoras en el Caribe colombiano.
Teaching Bob Dylan offers educators practical, adaptable strategies for designing or updating courses (or units within courses) on the life, music, career, and critical reception of Bob Dylan.
El presente trabajo comprende, en dos volúmenes, la voz actual de investigadores que abordan, desde variadas perspectivas, disciplinas, metodologías y marcos teóricos, el estudio y análisis de diversas músicas y prácticas sonoras en el Caribe colombiano.
As market reforms and migration transformed Albania in the early 1990s, Ardit Gjebrea began mixing traditional folk music with world music and Italian pop.
As market reforms and migration transformed Albania in the early 1990s, Ardit Gjebrea began mixing traditional folk music with world music and Italian pop.
A combination dictionary and annotated discography, videography and bibliography, this sourcebook brings together listings of materials on the Rastafarian movement and reggae music.
Buck Owens was the top-selling country act of the 1960s, with 21 number-one hits and 35 consecutive top-ten hits, a total surpassed only by the Beatles.
The second of two volumes, this companion to every song that Bob Dylan ever wrote is not just opinionated commentary or literary interpretation: it consists of facts first and foremost.
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Alice Randall, award-winning professor, songwriter, and author presents “a celebration of all things country music” (Ken Burns) as she reflects on her search for the first family of Black country music.
As Years Go By is a richly detailed portrait of Marianne Faithfull, the woman who has lived an incredible life, one that far transcends her best known role as courtesan to the chief rolling stone.
La antropología de la música o etnomusicología estudia las expresiones musicales de las sociedades tradicionales o de las culturas que hasta hace no mucho tiempo se consideraban "exóticas", "primitivas" o "diferentes".
The latest volume in Hans-Gunter Heumann's successful Best of Piano Classics series offers an attractive colourful mix of very easy to easy original piano pieces from the Baroque, Classical, Romantic and Modern periods.
Although the choral arrangements of the African-American spirituals constitute the largest group of folk song arrangements in western literature, they have received little scholarly attention.
In a book of Porsche photography and engaging conversation, Lance Cole journeys through a personal passion for Porsche -one that many supercar enthusiasts share.
