Music and Culture in America, 1861-1918
Music and Culture in America, 1861-1918

Author: Michael Saffle

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-04-08

Total Pages: 398

ISBN-13: 1135598010

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This collection of new essays focuses on the crucial period at the end of the 19th and early 20th century when American music developed its own unique social and cultural institutions.

Playing Music, Performing Resistance
Playing Music, Performing Resistance

Author: Natalia Lozano

Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 3643901887

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Could it be that playing marimba music is an act of resistance? Could it be a peace practice? Are musicians from the South Colombian Pacific coast region performing peace by playing their vernacular music? This book is concerned with these questions, as well as with the reflections about the concept of peace that they trigger. Through ethnographical research, the book examines peace as an active practice of self-assertion exercised in the daily life of the musicians from a traditionally alienated region in Colombia. (Series: Masters of Peace - Vol. 5)

World Music: Latin and North America, Caribbean, India, Asia and Pacific
World Music: Latin and North America, Caribbean, India, Asia and Pacific

Author: Simon Broughton

Publisher: Rough Guides

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 708

ISBN-13: 9781858286365

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The Rough Guide to World Musicwas published for the first time in 1994 and became the definitive reference. Six years on, the subject has become too big for one book- hence this new two-volume edition. World Music 2- Latin and North America, Caribbean, India, Asia and Pacifichas full coverage of everything from salsa and merengue to qawwali and gamelan, and biographies of artists from Juan Luis Guerra to The Klezmatics to Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. Features include more than 80 articles from expert contributors, focusing on the popular and roots music to be seen and heard, both live and on disc, and extensive discographies for each country, with biography-notes on nearly 2000 musicians and reviews of their best available CDs. It includes photos and album cover illustrations which have been gathered from contemporary and archive sources, many of them unique to this book, and directories of World Music labels, specialist stores around the world and on the internet.