Traditional and folk music

John Denver said, "e;I have a producer who looks like an accountant, and an accountant who looks like a producer.

Much has been written about the songs gathered in North America in the first half of the 20th century.

Originally published in 1966, this was the first book on this subject to be published for over a hundred years.

Ethnomusicological fieldwork has significantly changed since the end of the the 20th century.

Ethnomusicological fieldwork has significantly changed since the end of the the 20th century.

Drawn from Oxford''s acclaimed International Encyclopedia of Communications, published jointly with the Annenberg School of Communications at the University of Pennsylvania, Folklore, Cultural Performances, and Popular Entertainments offers all the articles on folklore and drama as well as related articles on verbal and non-verbal communication, music, and history.

NOMINATED FOR THE JAZZ JOURNALISTS ASSOCIATION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021 WINNER OF THE PRESTO JAZZ BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020An articulate, scrupulously researched account based on first-hand information, this book presents Brubeck's contribution to music with the critical insight that it deserves - ***** BBC Music Magazine This is the writing about jazz that we've been waiting for - Mike WestbrookThe sheer descriptive verve, page after page, made me want to listen to every single musical example cited.

Maurice Ravel, der Meister der Klangfarben, hat die Musik des 20.

An in-depth study of the nineteenth-century London ballad-singer, a central figure in British cultural, social and political life.

In African American Folksong and American Cultural Politics: The Lawrence Gellert Story, scholar and musician Bruce Conforth tells the story of one of the most unusual collections of African American folk music ever amassed-and the remarkable story of the man who produced it: Lawrence Gellert.

*The Sunday Times Bestseller**Featuring an exclusive new chapter*On 23 September, 2005, at the Joiners Arms in Southampton, Frank Turner played his last gig with his hardcore band, Million Dead.

The Great Festival presents and analyzes two historical festivals - the ancient Dionysus Festival and the present Roskilde Festival.

Sound Relations delves into histories of Inuit musical life in Alaska to register the significance of sound as integral to self-determination and sovereignty.

The Ballad as Song is a collection of essays tracing the authors decades-long exploration of the intersection between traditional ballads and their accompanying tunes.

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 "e;Jole Blon"e; reached number four on the national Billboard charts.

This is the first book to detail the musical and cultural significance of the songster.

Rachel Allen, the face of real Irish cooking, shares the authentic Irish recipes that bring her family and friends racing to the table.

Originally published in 1987.

by David Atkinson, Vic Gammon, Rikky Rooksby, Mark Brend, John Morrish, Martin Carthy, and Nigel Williamson.

Jan Ladislas Dussek, einer der herausragendsten Pianisten und Komponisten des 18.

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.

Now that the political and economic plight of European Roma and the popularity of their music are objects of international attention, Romani Routes provides a timely and insightful view into Romani communities both in their home countries and in the diaspora.

This book explores queer potentialities in the tribal folktales of India.

A study tracing the origins and implications of the categories ''folk music'' and ''art music''.

Who are the folk in folk music?

Buck 'Em!

Few published collections of Gaelic song place the songs or their singers and communities in context.

Just as our society delights in citations, quotations, and allusions in myriad contexts, not least in popular song, late medieval poets and composers knew well that such references could greatly enrich their own works.

From Washington Square Park and the Gaslight Caf to WNYC Radio and Folkways Records, New York City's cultural, artistic, and commercial assets helped to shape a distinctively urban breeding ground for the folk music revival of the 1950s and 60s.

What if you had the chance to tell your hero just how much they meant to you?

The last century has seen radical social changes in Ireland, which have impacted all aspects of local life but none more so than traditional Irish music, an increasingly important identity marker both in Ireland and abroad.

Musical Minorities is the first English-language monograph on the performing arts of an ethnic minority in Vietnam.

Detailed information on almost all ethnic and vernacular recordings from many countries on 78rpm is provided in this seminal work.

Drawn from Oxford''s acclaimed International Encyclopedia of Communications, published jointly with the Annenberg School of Communications at the University of Pennsylvania, Folklore, Cultural Performances, and Popular Entertainments offers all the articles on folklore and drama as well as related articles on verbal and non-verbal communication, music, and history.

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.

"e;Pygmy music"e; has captivated students and scholars of anthropology and music for decades if not centuries, but until now this aspect of their culture has never been described in a work that is at once vividly engaging, intellectually rigorous, and self-consciously aware of the ironies of representation.

Musical Solidarities: Political Action and Music in Late Twentieth-Century Poland is a music history of Solidarity, the social movement opposing state socialism in 1980s Poland.

Who are the folk in folk music?

This book introduces readers to the historical, performative, and cultural context of pansori, a traditional Korean oral story-singing art.

The American singer and guitarist Ramblin' Jack Elliott (1931- ) is a seminal figure in the folk music revivals of the United States and Great Britain.

This book explores the growing phenomenon of music tourism - instances of people visiting places because of a connection with music.

Applied studies scholarship has triggered a not-so-quiet revolution in the discipline of ethnomusicology.

AIready a legendary performer in the music industry, Jewel has been writing poetry, short stories, and prose since she was young.

Sigismund Thalberg, ein Name, der in der Welt der klassischen Musik unauslöschliche Spuren hinterlassen hat.

Explicitly or not, the historical musicology of post-Revolutionary France has focused on Paris as a proxy for the rest of the country.

Disaster Songs as Intangible Memorials in Atlantic Canada draws on a collection of over 600 songs relating to Atlantic Canadian disasters from 1891 up until the present and describes the characteristics that define them as intangible memorials.