Adopted as a child from the Masonic Home for Children at Oxford, Tommy Malboeuf grew up in Troutman, North Carolina before enlisting in the Navy in the early 1950s.
Carol Cash Large, longtime friend of Blake Shelton, helped move the award-winning musician to Nashville just two weeks after he graduated high school at the tender age of seventeen and has been with him every step of the way since.
Phil Ochs is known primarily as a songwriter; however, his oeuvre extends far beyond that-to short stories, poetry, criticism, journalism, and satire, all of which are included in I'm Gonna Say It Now: The Writings of Phil Ochs, which represents the majority of what Ochs wrote outside of his large circle of songs.
The 1971 collaboration of legendary Nashville bluegrass musicians and the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, a Southern California country-rock-jug group, was the genesis of Will the Circle Be Unbroken, which Rolling Stone magazine would declare "e;the most important album to come out of Nashville.
Illustrated wisdom from country stars past and present Country Music Association estimates 42% of American adults (98 million-plus) are country music fans From country legends and stars of todaymany interviewed by the author Country-inspired, colorful design with full illustrations and spot-art throughoutBuilt on a mix of homespun hand-me-downs and first-hand experience, the gorgeous, illustrated Little Book of Country Music Wisdom offers the wise, unvarnished words of country stars past and present on a variety of topics like love, family, fun, work, health, heartache and even death to offer the full, big-picture view of country wisdom.
Examining the ways in which the BBC constructed and disseminated British national identity during the second quarter of the twentieth century, this book is the first study that focuses in a comprehensive way on how the BBC, through its radio programs, tried to represent what it meant to be British.
Examining the ways in which the BBC constructed and disseminated British national identity during the second quarter of the twentieth century, this book is the first study that focuses in a comprehensive way on how the BBC, through its radio programs, tried to represent what it meant to be British.
The Child Ballads are a series of over 300 traditional ballads from England and Scotland that, along with their American variants, were anthologized by folklorist Francis James Child in the nineteenth century.
The Child Ballads are a series of over 300 traditional ballads from England and Scotland that, along with their American variants, were anthologized by folklorist Francis James Child in the nineteenth century.
Descubre "Canten señores cantores: 150 melodías del Cancioner tradicional (Tomo I) infantes y niños", una recopilación única de canciones tradicionales infantiles.
Time Must-Read Books of 2024Independent Best Non-Fiction Books 2024Mojo Books of the Year 2024"e;A vibrant, multifaceted portrait of a music enigma"e; Guardian"e;A powerful portrait"e; Irish Independent"e;Displays a bracing rigour and an exhilarating curiosity about its subject, coming closer than most to catching up with Mitchell on her lonely road"e; TimesCelebrated music critic Ann Powers explores the life and career of the legendary Joni MitchellWhat you are about to read is not a standard account of the life and work of Joni Mitchell.
"(Lorica, 1920 - Bogotá, 2004) Manuel ha sido uno de los más importantes reivindicadores de los aportes de las comunidades afrodescendientes a la cultura colombiana y latinoamericana.
Volumes 3 and 4 of the The Encyclopedia of More Great Popular Song Recordings provides the stories behind approximately 1,700 more of the greatest song recordings in the history of the music industry, from 1890 to today.
Pete Seeger is one of the most recorded artists in American history, and his recording catalog tells us not just the story of his career but the story of our culture and its political and social history.
The writer of such influential songs as ';Pancho and Lefty,' ';To Live's to Fly,' ';If I Needed You,' and ';For the Sake of the Song,' Townes Van Zandt exerted an influence on at least two generations of Texas musicians that belies his relatively brief, deeply troubled life.
From the moment Joni Mitchell's career began with coffee-house bookings, serendipitous encounters with established stars, and a recording contract that gave her full creative control over her music the woman from the Canadian wheat fields has eluded industry cliches.
In 2003, the Korean singing tradition of p'ansori joined the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, a distinctive honor bestowed by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization.
Arlo Guthrie, the son of America's legendary dust bowl troubadour Woody Guthrie and Martha Graham dancer Marjorie Mazia Guthrie, was reared in the rarefied atmosphere of New York City's remnant Old Left culture, a period that brought together art, political action, and folk music.
Como es tradición en la literatura pianística, los estudios ofrecen retos técnicos y expresivos de varios tipos y se concentran sobre aspectos específicos y problemáticos de la ejecución musical del instrumento.
Este libro consagrado a las relaciones entre el tango, la subjetividad y la sociedad aborda particularmente el análisis entre la singularidad artística del género como síntesis sociocultural prefiguradora de relaciones sociales y políticas.
Este manual brinda herramientas básicas para el uso del piano como instrumento complementario; se encuentra estructurado pensando en estudiantes que no poseen conocimientos de teclado, o que apenas tienen bases incipientes o poco desarrolladas.
Arrullos y Currulaos es una investigación sobre la música tradicional del Pacífico sur colombiano que consta de un texto y unos archivos de audio y video.
La obra realiza un análisis diacrónico de los sustratos que contribuyeron a la formación del vallenato, para tratar de establecer cómo fue afectado por múltiples procesos de hibridación y mestizaje cultural a través del tiempo.
Este es un excelente trabajo sobre movimientos sociales y acción colectiva caracterizado por una gran sofisticación teórica y un impresionante vuelo conceptual.
Este esfuerzo de un equipo de profesores por rescatar la memoria de nuestro proceso, además de contar la historia de La Provincia como grupo musical y mi aporte personal al nuevo sonido, deja ver un plano más abierto de una historia y una geografía musical que han resultado ser más diversas y complejas de lo que alguna vez llegamos a pensar.
Más que un elemento accesorio que cambia con la moda, la música popular durante el siglo XX fue un aspecto esencial a través del cual América Latina construyó narraciones de sí misma y de lo que significa ser "colombiano", "paisa", o cualquier otra adscripción que es a la vez geográfica y afectiva.
En el volumen final de una larga historia de la música popular chilena del siglo XX, Juan Pablo González termina como solista un proyecto iniciado como dúo y luego como trío.
Ser músico tradicional en México es un oficio que tiene muchos matices: está vinculado a la naturaleza y la vida y el trabajo en el campo, a creencias y costumbres muy antiguas, al uso de la música en vivo —con su inigualable sabor— para celebrar, curar, orar, complacer, acompañar, alegrar; pero también significa viajar: viajar a otros pueblos y rancherías, a otras ciudades, y en estos tiempos incluso a hacer giras internacionales.
An heiligen Wassern Jakob Christoph Heer - Im Dorf Sankt Peter im Schweizer Hochgebirge leben die Bewohner des regenarmen Glottertales mit der ständigen Gefahr von Gletscherabbrüchen, die ihre Lebensader, eine abenteuerlich konstruierte Wasserleitung, zerstören könnten.
Die Argonauten Franz Grillparzer - Wie bereits im ersten Teil der Trilogie "Das goldene Vlies", wird auch hier der Leser in die sagenumwobene Welt der griechischen Mythologie gezogen und möchte sie am liebsten gar nicht mehr verlassen.
