Roll With It
Roll With It

Author: Matt Sakakeeny

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2013-10-30

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 0822377209

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Roll With It is a firsthand account of the precarious lives of musicians in the Rebirth, Soul Rebels, and Hot 8 brass bands of New Orleans. These young men are celebrated as cultural icons for upholding the proud traditions of the jazz funeral and the second line parade, yet they remain subject to the perils of poverty, racial marginalization, and urban violence that characterize life for many black Americans. Some achieve a degree of social mobility while many more encounter aggressive policing, exploitative economies, and a political infrastructure that creates insecurities in healthcare, housing, education, and criminal justice. The gripping narrative moves with the band members from back street to backstage, before and after Hurricane Katrina, always in step with the tap of the snare drum, the thud of the bass drum, and the boom of the tuba.

Aurality
Aurality

Author: Ana María Ochoa Gautier

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2015-02-20

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 0822376261

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In this audacious book, Ana María Ochoa Gautier explores how listening has been central to the production of notions of language, music, voice, and sound that determine the politics of life. Drawing primarily from nineteenth-century Colombian sources, Ochoa Gautier locates sounds produced by different living entities at the juncture of the human and nonhuman. Her "acoustically tuned" analysis of a wide array of texts reveals multiple debates on the nature of the aural. These discussions were central to a politics of the voice harnessed in the service of the production of different notions of personhood and belonging. In Ochoa Gautier's groundbreaking work, Latin America and the Caribbean emerge as a historical site where the politics of life and the politics of expression inextricably entangle the musical and the linguistic, knowledge and the sensorial.

Tulane University
Tulane University

Author: Ann E. Smith Case

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 1467116440

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"Most of the information in this book is drawn from documentation contained within the Tulane University Archives"--Acknowledgments, page 6.

Music and Text
Music and Text

Author: Steven Paul Scher

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1992-02-28

Total Pages: 349

ISBN-13: 0521401585

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The semiotic elements of a multiplanar discourse : John Harbison's setting of Michael Fried's "depths" / Claudia Stanger -- Whose life? : the gendered self in Schumann's Frauenliebe songs / Ruth A. Solie -- Operatic madness : a challenge to convention / Ellen Rosand -- Commentary : form, reference, and ideology in musical discourse / Hayden White.

Theatre of the Oppressed
Theatre of the Oppressed

Author: Augusto Boal

Publisher: Get Political

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 9780745328386

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''... brilliantly original ... brings cultural and post-colonial theory to bear on a wide range of authors with great skill and sensitivity.' Terry Eagleton