Traditional and folk music Books
Peter Lang AG Post-Tonal Affinities in Piano Works of Bartók,
Book SynopsisThe book explores cellular pivots as a new means of progression, functional tonality having disappeared in much of contemporary music. Béla Bartók can be seen as a kind of father figure to the other two composers, Chen Yi and George Crumb, in terms of their stylistic, technical, and even philosophical connections. The musical affinities of all three composers reflect a larger body of post-tonal music. Cell constructions and their pivotal motions span the gamut from traditional/asymmetrical to more abstract/symmetrical formations. This study provides insight into universal principles of the post-tonal era and reveals a broader evolution of the musical language as represented by the three composers.Table of ContentsContents: Late romanticism to post-tonal era – Cellular pivots – Modality and polymodality – Folk tunes and transformations – Cellular transformations – Pentatony – Octatonicism – Hungarian, Chinese, and American musical idioms – East-West musical synthesis – Jazz inspiration.
£46.48
Peter Lang AG The Kolbergs of Eastern Europe
Book SynopsisThis book draws attention to the reception of Oskar Kolberg’s folklorist’s work outside of Poland. It also presents the work of other scholars active in Eastern Europe from the nineteenth century to the present day, many of them poorly known, despite their lofty achievements. The contributions by authors from Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine, Russia, Slovakia and Poland reflect on how Kolberg’s work is being continued by scholars today and how the musical repertoire that he recorded is functioning. This book unites the results of the international conference «The Kolbergs of Eastern Europe», organised by the College of Eastern Europe and the Institute of Musicology of the University of Wrocław.Table of ContentsRimantas Astrauskas – Rimantas Sliužinskas – Ihor Macijewski – Galina Tavlai – Victoria Macijewska-Schmidt – Olha Kolomyyets – Iryna Klymenko – Hana Urbancova – Witosława Frankowska – Arleta Nawrocka-Wysocka – Magdalena Szyndler – Joanna Gul – Agata Mierzejewska – Zbigniew Jerzy Przerembski – Łukasz Smoluch – Bożena Muszkalska
£43.47
Peter Lang AG Time in Music and Culture
Book SynopsisFrom Aristotle to Heidegger, philosophers distinguished two orders of time, before, after and past, present, future, presenting them in a wide range of interpretations. It was only around the turn of the 1970s that two theories of time which deliberately went beyond that tradition, enhancing our notional apparatus, were produced independently of one another. The nature philosopher Julius T. Fraser, founder of the interdisciplinary International Society for the Study of Time, distinguished temporal levels in the evolution of the Cosmos and the structure of the human mind: atemporality, prototemporality, eotemporality, biotemporality and nootemporality. The author of the book distinguishes two ‘dimensions’ in time: the dimension of the sequence of time (syntagmatic) and the dimension of the sizes of duration or frequency (systemic). On the systemic scale, the author distinguishes, in human ways of existing and acting, a visual zone, zone of the psychological present, zone of works and performances, zone of the natural and cultural environment, zone of individual and social life and zone of history, myth and tradition. In this book, the author provides a synthesis of these theories.Table of ContentsTime – Music – Culture – Time zones – Zonality – Temporality – Space – Historical time – Folk music – Traditional music – The zonality of time – The zone of note pitches – The zone of the psychological present – The zone of works and performances – The zone of ecological time – The zone of individual and social life
£50.04
Peter Lang AG Alan Lomax, the South, and the American Folk
Book SynopsisAlan Lomax (1915-2002) is arguably the most popular and influential American folk song collector of the 20th century. Pursuing a mission of both preserving and popularizing folk music, Lomax moved between political activism, the scholarly world, and the world of popular culture. Based largely on primary material, the book shows how Lomax’s diverse activities made him an authority in the field of folk music and how he used this power to advocate the cultures of perceived marginalized Americans – whom he located primarily in the American South. In this approach, however, folk music became an abstract idea onto which notions oscillating between hope and disillusionment, fear and perspective were projected. The author argues that Lomax’s role as a cultural mediator, with a politically motivated approach, helped him to decisively shape the perception and reception of what came to be known as American folk music, from the mid 1930s to the late 1960s. Table of ContentsIntroduction — Primary Sources — Outline — State of Research — American Folklore: Applied versus Pure Research — The Expert From Below — Radio and Film — Gender, Race and the Folklorist — A Mississippi of Song": Lomax and the Construction of Delta Blues — Lomax and the 1960s "Folk Boom"— Conclusion.
£59.31
Austrian Academy of Sciences Press Epic Folk Songs from Bosnia and Herzegovina: The
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£32.30
Austrian Academy of Sciences Press Recordings from Prisoner-Of-War Camps, World War
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£27.55
Austrian Academy of Sciences Press Recordings from Prisoner-Of-War Camps, World War
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£27.55
Austrian Academy of Sciences Press Recordings from PrisonerOfWar Camps World War I
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£27.90
Austrian Academy of Sciences Press Recordings from PrisonerOfWar Camps World War I
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£27.90
Austrian Academy of Sciences Press Recordings from Prisoner-Of-War Camps, World War
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£27.55
Austrian Academy of Sciences Press International Forum on Audio-Visual Research -
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£41.80
Austrian Academy of Sciences Press Recordings from Prisoner-Of-War Camps, World War
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£27.55
Austrian Academy of Sciences Press International Forum on Audio-Visual Research:
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£41.80
Dr Ludwig Reichert Ukrayins'ki Pisni: Traditionelle Ukrainische
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£24.70
Gebruder Mann Verlag Los Archivos de Las (Etno)Musicologicas:
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£86.45
Schott Music Ltd Irish Folk Tunes for Flute: Volume 2: 2
Book SynopsisAfter the success of the first volume, Irish folk music expert Patrick Steinbach presents a further 70 traditional Irish melodies of well-known folk songs and compositions by Turlough OCarolan. The pieces, including polkas, marches, jigs, and reels, are suitable for flute, recorder and tin whistle. The volume includes explanations on style and traditional ornamentation as well as notes on each melody. Each piece has been recorded. The audio files can be downloaded with a voucher code (in the book).Instrumentation:flute (recorder, Tin Whistle)
£15.15
Schwabe Verlagsgruppe AG Schwabe Verlag Nachklange. Instrumente Der Griechischen Klassik
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£49.30
Transcript Verlag Music in Motion: Diversity and Dialogue in
Book SynopsisDiverse musical cultures of migrant and minority communities have existed in Europe for centuries and shaped its countries significantly. As part of an EU-funded project this volume deals with the musical activities of minorities and their impact on musical traditions in Europe. It also raises questions such as: How are musical traditions of minorities integrated in education and the public music life? Can music facilitate transcultural dialogue? And to what extent do musical practice and performance reassert the own cultural tradition in a foreign environment? Answers to those and similar questions as well as a review on what can be observed in the 21st century Europe are gathered in various thematic approaches. The book also provides model projects with a practical insight into the life and work with music of migrant and minority cultures across Europe.
£33.14
Shaker Verlag GmbH, Germany Is there such a Thing as Singaporean Performance?
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£37.23
Alfred Music Vahid Matejkos Klezmer PlayAlongs for Violin Book
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£14.85
Alfred Music Sea Shanty PlayAlongs for Flute
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£13.46
Alfred Music Sea Shanty PlayAlongs for Clarinet in BB
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£13.46
Alfred Music Sea Shanty PlayAlongs for Trumpet Opt. Baritone
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£11.21
Alfred Music Sea Shanty PlayAlongs for Trombone Opt. Baritone
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£9.45
Ergon Tradierte Musikpraxis in Franken: Beitrage Zur
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£22.50
Aiora Press Rebetika: Songs from the Old Greek Underworld
Book SynopsisThe songs in this book are a sampling of the urban folk songs of Greece during the first half of the 20th century. They are the creative expression of an urban subculture whose members the Greeks commonly called rebetes. These rebetes were people living a marginal and often underworld existence on the fringes of established society, disoriented and struggling to maintain themselves in the developing industrial ports, despised and persecuted by the rest of society. And it is the hardships and suffering of these people, their fruitless dreams, their current loves and their lost loves that these songs are about, and underlying them all, their jaunty, tough will to survive.The appeal of these songs, often compared to the American blues, is that the conflicts they express are not exclusively Greek conflicts, they are everybody's; and they are still unresolved in urban Greece as in urban Anywhere.Trade Review... [A] world of hash dens, junkies, brothels and songs wherein historical figures like Socrates and Xerxes occasionally make bizarre appear-ances among the trams and hookahs, and death is still called Charos, a corruption of Charon in ancient mythology. -- The AthenianTable of ContentsPreface to the second edition; Foreword; Rebetika; The Music of the Rebetes; The Dances of the Rebetes;Rebetika and Blues; Collection of Song Lyrics; Musical Examples; Glossary of Transliterated Words; Song Index; Contributors
£12.34
Almuzara Nueva Historia del Flamenco
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£29.12
MA NON TROPPO FOLK ROCK
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£23.60
Alianza Editorial El toque flamenco
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£41.02
Editorial Almuzara El flamenco en Mlaga historia y actualidad de
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£31.97
Ma Non Troppo Country Rock: Historia, Cultura, Artistas Y
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£21.83
Libros del Kultrum Cash: La Autobiografía
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£14.19
Editorial Almuzara De Jerez y sus cantes
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£26.86
Museum Tusculanum Press Traditional Inuit Songs from the Thule Area
Book Synopsis2 books & a CD. This study provides a comprehensive description of the rich song culture of the people in the Thule area in Greenland, the Inughuit. In 1937 the archaeologist and folklorist Erik Holtved recorded 134 traditional songs in Thule. Transcriptions and scientific processing of this collection constitute the nucleus of the work. Another collection of Inughuit songs was recorded in 1962 for The Danish Folklore Archives by Bent Jensen and the author. The songs from both collections are presented and notated in full length and also with analyses of a representative stanza from each song. Descriptions are given of performing habits, singing methods, drum construction and handling, as well as historical and recent data. Searching for resemblances among other Inuit groups produced transcriptions and analyses of many traditional Inuit Songs from different localities in Canada. It was discovered that characteristic traits of the form and melody types of the Inughuit are linked to Canadian Inuit groups in southern Baffin Island and among the Copper Inuit in northern Canada, documenting particular areas of origin, and also giving information about migration routes. Many of the songs are presented on the enclosed CDTrade Review"This superb work is the product of several lifetimes of research, distilled for future students and for the descendants of the Inuit singers." -- Reference & Research Book News, May 2010"These volumes are marvellously researched, and Hauser's passion and excitement for the Inughuit people, their culture, and their music are evident with every word. He speaks in the first person and shares stories and experiences of his relationship with the musicians behind his recordings. ... In many cases, he includes a photograph of the musician along with a biography -- a case in point of Hauser's genuine devotion to his subject. This book is an excellent reference for anyone studying ethnomusicology particularly of Canadian Inuit communities. It is an intense look at the musical form of Inughuit music and in that respect is primarily targeted toward ethnomusicologists. However, it also has a lot of relevant information for linguists and anthropologists in terms of the historical, scientific, and cultural data. Hauser's inside perspective on Inuit culture, the photographic images he includes, and the CD of his and Holtved's recordings make these volumes a fascinating study for both the average Arctic enthusiast and the serious scholar of Arctic culture." -- Kate Schutz, ARCTIC, September 2010Table of ContentsCookbooks as Historical Source Material; Menus; How Cookbooks Change; Cookbook Introductions; The Development of a Bourgeois Consciousness; Bread; The Growth of Domesticity; Maps of Denmark; The Development of Nationalism; Dannebrog; Potatoes and Danish National Identity; Christiane Rosen, Cookbook Author; How Recipes Change; Afterword; Notes; Index.
£146.71
NIAS Press I Will Send My Song: Kammu Vocal Genres in the
Book SynopsisToday, the Kammu are an upland people mainly found in Laos, Yunnan, Thailand, Burma and Vietnam. This people - who have retained their orally based culture through to the present day - provide an example of complex sung poetry that has seldom been studied in detail. What this volume offers is an ethnomusicological presentation of one person's vocal performance of rather highly varied sets of words in different manners of performance, and the use of these competences in communication with other singers. This orally transmitted form of singing is unique to the Kammu but is related to a much larger complex in Southeast Asia. It will thus be of interest to a wide group of musicologists.Table of ContentsFigures v ii Preface ix Kammu Pronunciation x Symbols and Abbreviations xi Prologue: A Departure 1 1. Introduction 3 2. Kam Raw - His Cultural and Musical Background 27 3. Vocal Genres Other Than For Feasts 47 4. Teem Performances 71 5. Elaborate Teem Performances 89 6. Nature Imagery and Meaning 121 7. Teem Dialogues 139 8. Concluding Discussion 163 Epilogue: A Return 177 Appendices: 1. Glossary of Kammu Terms and Names 181 2. Index of Kam Raw's Repertoire 185 3. Recordings and Samples 195 4. Song Transcriptions 201 5. Music Transcriptions 203 6. Contents of Compact Disc 219 Sources 223 References 223 Index 235
£29.70
Amsterdam University Press Politics of Feeling in Songs of the Dutch
Book SynopsisPolitics of Feeling in Songs of the Dutch Revolutionary Period sheds new light on the intertwined history of music and politics by exploring Dutch political songs. In the emotionally charged climate of the Dutch revolutionary period at the close of the eighteenth century, songs became a powerful medium, speaking directly to people's bodies to engage them in political action. Emphasizing the performative nature of the songs and the interplay between imagination and embodied expression in singing practices, this book shows how beyond merely creating communities, the songs were also instrumental in mobilizing, imagining, and affirming these collectives. It uncovers the diverse roles of these songs, showing how they were used both to polarize and to unite, to mourn and to celebrate. They were employed to imagine and to embody togetherness throughout the Dutch revolutionary period, thereby creating a fixed repertoire of feelings on which various political regimes of that time r
£107.35
Planeta Publishing Cumbiana: Relatos de Un Mundo Perdido
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£17.09
Denise Harvey (Publisher) Road to Rembetika: Music of a Greek Sub-Culture - Songs of Love, Sorrow and Hashish
£11.30
Ian Randle Publishers,Jamaica A Reader in African-Jamaican Music, Dance and Religion
Book SynopsisJamaica’s rich culture is known the world over; and every aspect of this culture has been influenced by Jamaica’s African heritage. From speech to dress, and spirituality to dance, from food to folklore and from music to art and religion, African retentions from the time of slavery have become more than preserved aspects of Jamaica’s past; African traditions have become part and parcel of Jamaican culture.In this Reader, Coester and Bender have compiled some of the most important ethnographic work by noted researchers which, although previously published, have been exceptionally difficult to access by the growing community of scholars of African-Caribbean and Jamaican studies. Several seminal articles on aspects of African-Jamaican culture are included in this rich and valuable collection that describes and analyses the elements that make up a distinctive African-Jamaican ethos.
£49.95
Ian Randle Publishers,Jamaica Music, Memory, Resistance: Calypso and the Caribbean Literary Imagination
Book SynopsisCalypsonians have long been the `voice of the people’, delivering the complaints, criticisms and even the solutions to political leaders. In its earliest manifestations, calypso music emerged in response to a cultural climate that demanded creative modes of expression that could both resist and record political and historical changes taking place in Trinidad and Tobago. Since the 1920s and 1930s, calypsonians typically have composed songs that chronicle their observations and opinions on current events focusing on specific occurrences, from local scandals to current affairs while also examining broader trends. Not only has calypso served as an unofficial record of historical events, it emerged as a cultural weapon that yielded tremendous sway within the general audiences of the Caribbean region. This collection includes contributions from calypsonians, critics, novelists and poets alike, all engaged in representing Caribbean culture in its myriad forms. It represents an array of convergences across critical perspectives, political and social agendas, generations and national boundaries. The work of numerous calypsonians and other singers are explored, including Sparrow; Kitchener; Chalkdust; Denise Belfon; and writers such as Samuel Selvon, V.S. Naipaul, Jean Rhys, Errol John, Paul Marshall, Earl Lovelace and Lashkmi Persaud. The comparative analyses provide an interdisciplinary approach to Cultural Studies making the volume essential reading for students, scholars and calypso enthusiasts.
£19.95
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Historical Research Of Chinese Folk Songs, A
Book SynopsisThis book advances the study of Chinese folk songs through theoretical innovation in literature-based folk songs and methodological innovation in multidisciplinary cross-interaction. It describes the historical development of folk songs, makes an in-depth study of the intersection and integration of folk songs with other literature and art, as well as the relationship with merchants, folk customs and regional culture, and analyses the literature of folk songs in previous dynasties. It is not only significant for the preservation of cultural heritage, but also to the promotion of folk song research and related fields. This book is applicable to scholars and researchers who have in-depth research on Chinese folk songs.
£139.50
MCCM Creations Uncle Ng Comes to America
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£15.30
Mkuki na Nyota Publishers Mashindano: Competitive Music Performance in East Africa
£63.74
Independently Published Mandolin Songbook - 33 Songs from Ireland and Great Britain: + Sounds online
£13.02
State University of New York Press Songs and Sounds of the AntiRent Movement in
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£90.16
State University of New York Press Anthems
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£76.28
State University of New York Press Anthems
£24.22
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers The Musical Life of Melanie
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£23.75
