Spiral Way
The invention of the cylinder phonograph at the end of the nineteenth century opened up a new...
EAN: 9781578061747
Exploring American Folk Music
Reflects the fascinating diversity of regional and grassroots music in the United States. The...
EAN: 9781617032653
Saved by Song
Provides a sweeping overview of the history of gospel music. Powerful and incisive, the book...
EAN: 9781617036415
Berimbau
The Brazilian berimbau, a musical bow, is most commonly associated with the energetic martial...
EAN: 9781604734058
Music and History
This book begins with a simple question: Why haven't historians and musicologists been talking to...
EAN: 9781604735208
Cross the Water Blues
Examines the flow of African American music and musicians across the Atlantic to Europe from the...
EAN: 9781604735468
Richard Dyer-Bennet
In the 1940s and ’50s, Richard Dyer-Bennet (1913-1991) was among the best known and most...
EAN: 9781604733600
Waltz the Hall
The play party was a popular form of American folk entertainment that included songs, dances, and...
EAN: 9781604733815
That's Got 'Em!
Wilbur C. Sweatman (1882-1961) is one of the most important, yet unheralded, African American...
EAN: 9781604730999
Folk Music and Modern Sound
The essays in this collection range from the impact of technology on the British folksong revival...
EAN: 9781604731675
Prophet Singer
Examines the cultural and political significance of the words and music of Woodrow Wilson 'Woody'...
EAN: 9781604731026
Recentering Anglo/American Folksong
In this crusading book Roger deV. Renwick argues that the business of folksong scholars is to...
EAN: 9781604732542
Avant-Garde and American Postmodernity
Was there a sudden break in the world of art, literature, and music when modernism gave way to...
EAN: 9781604732528
Pearl Harbor Jazz
A study of a crucial period in the life of American jazz and popular music. Pearl Harbor Jazz...
EAN: 9781604732436
Swing, That Modern Sound
Examines the cultural and historical significance of swing and tells how and why it achieved its...
EAN: 9781578063833
Strike Songs of the Depression
In mills, mines, and factories workers organised and resisted during the Great Depression,...
EAN: 9781934110362
Nobody Knows Where the Blues Come from
Musicians and music scholars rightly focus on the sounds of the blues and the stories of blues...
EAN: 9781934110294
Jazz Diplomacy
Jazz as an instrument of global diplomacy transformed superpower relations in the Cold War era...
EAN: 9781617038372
Beyond the Keys
Beyond the Keys: Music and Stories of Inspiration includes 52 artworks by contemporary artists...
EAN: 9798886453621
