Traditional and folk music Books
The University of Chicago Press Dancing Prophets Musical Experience in Tumbuka
Book SynopsisFor the Tumbuka people of Malawi, traditional medical practices are filled with music. This ethnography explores a health care system populated by dancing prophets, singing patients and drummed spirits.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Note on Orthography Introduction: Ethnography as Possibility 1: To Dance and To Dream 2: God, Humans, and Spirits 3: Blood and Spirit: The Chilopa Sacrifice 4: The Musical Construction of Clinical Reality 5: In the Vimbuza Mode 6: Conclusion: An Ontology of Energy Epilogue Appendix A: Glossary of Vimbuza Spirits Appendix B: Vimbuza Rhythmic Mottos Appendix C: Vimbuza Song Texts Notes Bibliography Index
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press Remains of Ritual Northern Gods in a Southern
Book SynopsisA book on the critical role of music in African ritual which focuses on the Brekete/Gorovodu religion of the Ewe people. It analyzes their practices through a historical and ethnographic study of one of the dominant ritual sites on the southern coast of Ghana: a medicine shrine whose origins lie in the northern region of the country.
£80.00
The University of Chicago Press Fiddling for Norway Revival Identity Revival
Book SynopsisThis is a portrait of a fiddle-based folk revival in Norway, investigating the people and events in Norwegian folk fiddling, and tracing the history of Norwegian folk music and the growth and diversification of the folk music revival. It uses a wide anthology of carefully-transcribed folk tunes.Table of ContentsList of Figures Preface and Acknowledgments Pt. 1: Fiddlers 1: Introduction 2: Reviving Folkemusikk 3: Fiddlers and Fiddle Clubs in the Late Twentieth Century 4: Contests and Concerts 5: Reconfiguring the Norwegian Folk Music World: The Gammaldans Controversy Pt. 2: Fiddle Tunes 6: Fiddle Tunes in Folkemusikk Genres: Mode and Form 7: Local and Regional Style, Genre, and the Individual Fiddle Tune 8: Musical Change and Cultural Forces Late in the Twentieth Century Tune Anthology Performance Information Notes Bibliography Index
£114.07
The University of Chicago Press Tigers of a Different Stripe
Book SynopsisTigers of a Different Stripe takes readers inside the unique world of merengue tipico, a traditional music of the Dominican Republic. While in most genres of Caribbean music women usually participate as dancers or vocalists, in merengue tipico they are more often instrumentalists and even bandleaders something nearly unheard of in the macho Caribbean music scene. Examining this cultural phenomenon, Sydney Hutchinson offers an unexpected and fascinating account of gender in Dominican art and life. Drawing on over a decade of fieldwork in the Dominican Republic and New York among musicians, fans, and patrons of merengue tipico not to mention her own experiences as a female instrumentalist Hutchinson details a complex nexus of class, race, and artistic tradition that unsettles the typical binary between the masculine and feminine. She sketches the portrait of the classic male figure of the tiguere, a dandified but sexually aggressive and street-smart tiger, and she shows how female musicians have developed a feminine counterpart: the tiguera, an assertive, sensual, and respected female figure who looks like a woman but often plays and even sings like a man. Through these musical figures and studies of both straight and queer performers, she unveils rich ambiguities in gender construction in the Dominican Republic and the long history of a unique form of Caribbean feminism.
£113.47
The University of Chicago Press Everyday Creativity Singing Goddesses in the
Book SynopsisKirin Narayan's imagination was captured the very first time, as a girl visiting the region, that she heard Kangra women join their voices together in song. Returning as an anthropologist, she became fascinated by how they spoke of singing as a form of enrichment, bringing feelings of accomplishment, companionship, happiness, and even good health all benefits of the everyday creativity she explores in this book. Part ethnography, part musical discovery, part poetry, part memoir, and part unforgettable portraits of creative individuals, this unique work draws on an association across forty years, and brings the Himalayan foothill region of Kangra in North India alive in sight and sound while celebrating the incredible powers of music in our lives. With rare and captivating eloquence, Narayan portrays Kangra songs about difficulties on the lives of goddesses and female saints as a path to well-being. Like the intricate geometries of mandalu patterns drawn in courtyards or the subtle ba
£80.00
The University of Chicago Press Music Gender Perspectives from the
Book SynopsisThe contributors explore the intimate relationships between music & gender, across the wide range of cultures around the Mediterranean. Essays examine musical behaviour as representation, assertion, and transgression of gender identities.
£114.27
University of Chicago Press Ilmatars Inspirations Nationalism Globalization
Book SynopsisThrough extensive interviews and observations of performances, Ramnarine reveals how new folk musicians think and talk about past, and present folk music practices.
£80.00
University of Chicago Press Ilmatars Inspirations Nationalism Globalization
Book SynopsisThrough extensive interviews and observations of performances, Ramnarine reveals how new folk musicians think and talk about past and present folk music practices.
£37.09
The University of Chicago Press Let Jasmine Rain Down
Book SynopsisThis text tells the story of the pizmonim as they have continued to be composed, performed and transformed through the present day; it is thus an ethnography of an important Judeo-Arabic musical tradition that contributes to studies of the link between collective memory and popular culture.
£48.41
The University of Chicago Press Engendering Song Singing Subjectivity at Prespa
Book SynopsisFor Prespa Albanians, both at home in Macedonia and in the diaspora, the most significant events of any year are wedding ceremonies. This account of Prespa weddings combines photographs, song texts and recordings of the wedding music, demonstrating the importance of singing within Prespa society.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Musical Excerpts on Compact Disc Note on Textual and Musical Transcriptions Pronunciation Guide Acknowledgments 1: Approaching Prespa Singing 2: Singing as a Social Activity 3: Singing as a Gendered Activity 4: The "Order" of Weddings 5: The Prespa "System" 6: Singing and the Discourse of Honor 7: Singing as the Practice of Patriarchy 8: Emergent Subjectivities Glossary Notes Bibliography Discography Index
£94.05
The University of Chicago Press Nationalists Cosmopolitans Popular Music in
Book SynopsisThis work focuses on the development of a unique style of music - combining the electric guitar with indigenous Shona music - that emerged in Zimbabwe during the 1980s. Turino examines this emergence of cosmopolitan culture among the black middle classes, and how it influenced politics.
£80.00
The University of Chicago Press Music Race Nation Musica Tropical in Colobia
Book SynopsisThis volume explores the history of musica tropical, analyzing its rise in the context of the development of the broadcast media, rapid urbanization, and regional struggles for power.
£76.00
MO - University of Illinois Press Staging Tradition
Book SynopsisTraces the parallel careers of the creators of the Renfro Valley Barn Dance and the National Folk Festival. This book features John Lair and Sarah Gertrude Knott, two of the most notable producers and their discovery of new developments in theater and entertainment which led them to the producing careers.Trade Review"Williams draws on her meticulous research of primary source materials, including reams of personal correspondence, to trace the professional paths of two pivotal stagers of traditional culture. . . . This is an important work that should appeal to all U.S. folklorists, ethnomusicologists, and American Studies scholars."--Journal of Folklore Research "Staging Tradition adds valuable insights into the sometimes contentious relationship between folk music presenters, performers, and audiences."--Sing Out! "An intriguing account of how grassroots culture--especially Appalachian culture--has come to be viewed, presented, manipulated, and preserved through public performance."--GoldensealTable of ContentsCoverTitleCopyrightContentsPrefaceAcknowledgments1. Tradition, Ambition, and the Theater2. “Something Big”: The Birth of the National Folk FestivalIllustrations A3. John Lair, Student of the Origins of American Folk Music4. Tooting the Horn: The Heyday of the National Folk Festival and Renfro Valley Barn Dance5. The Changing SceneIllustrations B6. The Prima Donna of Folk7. Things Have Changed in Renfro Valley8. Staging TraditionNotesWorks CitedIndexBack cover
£25.21
MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Folksongs of Another America Field Recordings
Book SynopsisSince the 1970s, folklorist James P. Leary has worked steadily to bring the folk music of the Upper Midwest to a larger public. Folksongs of Another America presents 187 representative performances by more than 200 singers and musicians, carefully restored in digital form from deteriorating original formats.Trade ReviewThe astonishing range of music collected here reveals the deeply hued cultures of the Midwest before and after World War II, when these field recordings were made. Folksongs of Another America deftly combines dynamic mediaCDs, a DVD, and a richly annotated book to go with themto tell a multifaceted story. Though brimming with scholarship, the book's crisp, clear prose reveals the music and the people who made it."" - Henry Sapoznik, author of Klezmer! Jewish Music from Old World to Our World""Folksongs of Another America is a groundbreaking work, covering musical and cultural ground woefully overlooked by American music scholars."" - Kip Lornell, author of Exploring American Folk Music""Attains the highest standards of folklore studies. . . . A landmark presentation of traditional music of the Upper Midwest."" - Journal of Folklore Research""Grammy nod for the polka prof: Leary has spent the last ten years . . . on [this] enormous, Grammy worthy undertaking."" - Isthmus, Madison WI
£23.85
Hachette Books A Few Words in Defense of Our Country
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£22.26
Harper Homeplace A Southern Town a Country Legend and
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£21.60
Hal Leonard Corporation thefolksongsbook133songsfromaroundtheworld
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£14.24
Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation Celtic Dreams Arr Phillip Keveren the Phillip
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£13.95
Hal Leonard Corporation CELIUS DOUGHERTY FOLKSONGS AND CHANTIES HIGH VCE
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£19.54
Hal Leonard Corporation 15 EASY FOLKSONG ARRANGEMENTS FOR LOW VOICE BOOK
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£16.19
Music Sales Ltd The Joy of Christmas
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£13.29
Alfred Publishing Co Inc.,U.S. Lady Antebellum PianoVocalChords
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£16.10
Dover Publications Inc. Hit the Keys
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£17.99
Schiffer Publishing Ltd A People and Their Music
Book SynopsisTouching personal stories and 190 photographs showing the artists with their instruments, families, and audiences bring this musical heritage to life for modern listeners.
£25.19
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Nashville Steeler My Life in Country Music
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£17.09
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Birdland the Jazz Corner of the World
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£20.69
Warner Bros. Publications Inc.,U.S. Peter Paul Mary Around the Campfire Guitar Tab
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£16.10
Hal Leonard Corporation Get America SingingAgain Vol 1 Singers Edition
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£7.59
Hal Leonard Corporation The Best of George Strait Easy Guitar with Notes Tab
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£15.29
Hal Leonard Corporation The Songs of Donovan
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£21.24
Kensington Publishing Keith Urban
Book SynopsisIn the first and only definitive biography of country music star Keith Urban, insider Jeff Apter chronicles how a skinny, shy high school dropout with an outrageous mullet went from humble origins in Australia to conquering Nashville and global stardom—plus his struggles with addiction, marriage to Nicole Kidman, turns on American Idol, and more.Four Grammys. Twenty US Number Ones. A Hollywood marriage. Who wouldn’t want to be Keith Urban?Keith Urban came from humble origins. His father worked at the local landfill and Keith was a high school dropout. But Keith had a plan: conquer Nashville. “It’s my destiny,” he said. And Keith washell-bent on scaling that musical Everest. Whatever it took.It didn’t come easy. Keith served his apprenticeship in the beer barns of Australia, and his early trips to America were disastrous. But he never gave up, settling in Nashville in the 1990s and forming The Ra
£22.40
Beacon Press Woody Guthrie
Book SynopsisDismantles the Woody Guthrie we have been taught—the rough-and-ready rambling’ man—to reveal an artist who discovered how intimacy is crucial for political struggleWoody Guthrie is often mythologized as the classic American “rambling’ man,” a real-life Steinbeckian folk hero who fought for working-class interests and inspired Bob Dylan. Biographers and fans frame him as a foe of fascism and focus on his politically charged folk songs. What’s left unexamined is how the bulk of Guthrie’s work—most of which is unpublished or little known—delves into the importance of intimacy in his personal and political life. Featuring an insert with personal photos of Guthrie’s family and previously unknown paintings, Woody Guthrie: An Intimate Life is a fresh and contemporary analysis of the overlapping influences of sexuality, politics, and disability on the art and mind of an American folk icon.Part biogr
£15.29
The University Press of Kentucky I Wonder as I Wander The Life of John Jacob Niles
Book SynopsisThis iconic song has been performed by folk artists ever since and may even have inspired the opening line of Bob Dylan's "It Ain't Me Babe."In I Wonder as I Wander: The Life of John Jacob Niles, the first full-length biography of Niles, Ron Pen offers a rich portrait of the musician's character and career.
£39.15
AMSCO Music Bob Dylan Together Through Life Piano Vocal and
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£13.89
Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers Ltd Folk Roots for Piano
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£15.29
University of Illinois Press Inside the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
£21.21
University of Wisconsin Press Ach YaTraditional GermanAmerican Music From
Book SynopsisAvailable as a double CD, this title features Capella singers, yodelers, zither players, button accordionists, and 'Dutchman' bands from Watertown to Wausau, from Cedar Grove to Birnamwood. Selected in 1985 as an outstanding American folk music recording, it is a useful resource for teachers of German, especially in the Badger State.Trade ReviewA nice range of material from the domestic tradition to the public semiprofessional, many pieces clearly with Old World origins, others representing immigrant experiences in the New World. - Journal of American Folklore
£15.31
University of Wisconsin Press Down Home Dairyland Recordings
Book SynopsisThe book is a listener's guide to Upper Midwestern traditional and ethnic music, packed with photos, essays, and resources. The recordings provide samples from the Down Home Dairyland series on Wisconsin Public Radio and include interviews with traditional musicians and discussion of the patterns of musical styles in Wisconsin's musical heritage.Trade Review"This astounding compendium is the quickest way to get a comprehensive grasp of the roots music of a major American region." - Nick Spitzer, Smithsonian folklorist and producer of American Routes for Public Radio International"
£64.80
University of Wisconsin Press Swissconsin My Homeland Swiss Folk Music in
Book SynopsisVirtuoso yodeling, accordion melodies, choral singing groups, alpine dance bands - this CD brings together a sampling of the best of Wisconsin's rich Swiss musical heritage. Performers include the Monroe Swiss Singers, Bob and Scott Lorenz, Rudy Burkhalter, Betty Veterli, Martha Bernet, Louis Alder, and the Moser Brothers.
£14.36
Ossian Publications Ltd Traditional Irish Music for the Bagpipe Bagpipes
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£8.54
Ossian Publications Ltd Traditional Slow Airs of Ireland Penny Tin
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£17.09
University of Wisconsin Press The Falling of the Pine
Book SynopsisBemidji, Minnesota, native Brian Miller teams up with Randy Gosa of Wales, Wisconsin, to perform the Irish-influenced music once common in lumber camp bunkhouses throughout the Great Lakes region of the United States and Canada. A follow-up to Miller’s album Minnesota Lumberjack Songs, this CD includes songs and dance tunes from North Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Ontario.
£15.26
Hal Leonard Corporation Classical Folk Pf The Phillip Keveren Series
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£10.40
Hal Leonard Corporation Fiddle Traditions Songbook A Musical Sampler from
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£11.39
Hal Leonard Corporation Ray LaMontagne Till the Sun Turns Black Guitar
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£16.96
Hal Leonard Corporation The Greatest Waltzes 115 EZ Play Today
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£9.49
Hal Leonard Corporation Japanese Folk Songs Collection
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£11.39
Arcadia Publishing (SC) Traditional Country Western Music Images of
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£21.24
