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  • Yodeling and Meaning in American Music

    by Timothy E. Wise ...
    Series series American Made Music Series
    Timothy E. Wise presents the first book to focus specifically on the musical content of yodeling in our culture. He shows that yodeling serves an aesthetic function in musical texts. A series of chronological chapters analyzes this musical tradition from its earliest appearances in Europe to its incorporation into a range of American genres and beyond. Wise posits the reasons for yodeling’s ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

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  • Bayou Underground

    Tracing the Mythical Roots of American Popular Music

    by Dave Thompson ...
    A veteran music journalist explores rock-n-roll's bayou roots in "a jolting 18-track joy ride [that] unlocks secrets and back-stories worth savoring" ( The Wall Street Journal).The bayou of the American south—stretching from Houston, Texas, to Mobile, Alabama—is a world all its own, with a rich cultural heritage that has had an outsized influence on musicians across the globe. In this unique study ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Cape Breton Fiddle Companion

    by Liz Doherty, PhD ...
    Celtic music scholar and musician Liz Doherty is no stranger to Cape Breton music – in fact, she has made a study of it. Doherty’s exposure to, and research of, the island’s music traditions was the germination for this compendium on the Cape Breton fiddle: its history, its people, the tunes, the recordings. The fiddle music of Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, has its own sound, artistic standards ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Agustin Lara

    A Cultural Biography

    by Andrew Grant Wood ...
    Series series Currents in Latin American and Iberian Music
    Few Mexican musicians in the twentieth century achieved as much notoriety or had such an international impact as the popular singer and songwriter Agustín Lara (1897-1970). Widely known as "el flaco de oro" ("the Golden Skinny"), this remarkably thin fellow was prolific across the genres of bolero, ballad, and folk. His most beloved "Granada", a song so enduring that it has been covered by the ... Read more

    $62.09 USD

  • They Bear Acquaintance

    African American Spirituals and the Camp Meetings

    by Nancy L. Graham ...
    Series Book 4 - Music and Spirituality
    Identifying the roots of African American spirituals and other religious folk music has intrigued academics, hymnologists and song leaders since this genre came to the public eye in 1867. The conversation on origins has waned and waxed for over eighty years, sometimes polemical, sometimes compromising. They Bear Acquaintance looks at this discussion through the output of various well-regarded ... Read more

    $76.09 USD

  • George P. Knauff's Virginia Reels and the History of American Fiddling

    by Chris Goertzen ...
    Series series American Made Music Series
    George P. Knauff's Virginia Reels (1839) was the first collection of southern fiddle tunes and the only substantial one published in the nineteenth century. Knauff's activity could not anticipate our modern contest-driven fiddle subcultures. But the fate of the Virginia Reels pointed in that direction, suggesting that southern fiddling, after his time, would happen outside of commercial popular ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Transformation of Black Music

    The rhythms, the songs, and the ships of the African Diaspora

    by Sam Floyd, Melanie Zeck, Guthrie Ramsey ...
    Powerful and embracive, The Transformation of Black Music explores the full spectrum of black musics over the past thousand years as Africans and their descendants have traveled around the globe making celebrated music both in their homelands and throughout the Diaspora. Authors Samuel A. Floyd, Melanie Zeck, and Guthrie Ramsey brilliantly discuss how the music has blossomed, permeated present ... Read more

    $42.29 USD

  • Hip Hop DJs and the Evolution of Technology

    Cultural Exchange, Innovation, and Democratization

    by André Sirois ...
    Series Book 27 - Popular Culture and Everyday Life
    Using interviews with world-renowned and innovative hip-hop DJs, as well as technology manufacturers that cater to the market/culture, this book reveals stories behind some of the iconic DJ technologies that have helped shape the history and culture of DJing. More importantly, it explores how DJs have impacted the evolution of technology. By looking at the networks of innovation behind DJ ... Read more

    $43.09 USD

  • Musical Romania and the Neighbouring Cultures

    Traditions – Influences – Identities- Proceedings of the International Musicological Conference- July 4–7 2013, Iaşi (Romania)

    Edited by Laura Vasiliu, Florin Luchian, Loredana Iatesen ...
    Series Book 2 - Eastern European Studies in Musicology
    This book represents the volume of the International Musicological Conference «Musical Romania and Neighbouring Cultures. Traditions, Influences, Identities», which took place in Iaşi (Romania) and was organised by the George Enescu University of Arts Iaşi in collaboration with the International Musicological Society. The volume includes 35 papers of 38 authors who represent academic centres in ... Read more

    $93.59 USD

  • Paradosiaká: Music, Meaning and Identity in Modern Greece

    by Eleni Kallimopoulou ...
    Series series SOAS Studies in Music
    Since the 1980s, musicians and audiences in Athens have been rediscovering musical traditions associated with the Ottoman period of Greek history. The result of this revivalist movement has been the urban musical style of 'paradosiaká' ('traditional'). Drawing from a varied repertoire that includes Turkish art music and folk and popular musics of Greece and Turkey, and identified by the use of ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Fiddling Way Out Yonder

    The Life and Music of Melvin Wine

    by Drew Beisswenger ...
    From a small mountain town in West Virginia, elder fiddler Melvin Wine has inspired musicians and music enthusiasts far beyond his homeplace.Music, community, and tradition influence all aspects of life in this rural region. Fiddling Way Out Yonder: The Life and Music of Melvin Wine shows how in Wine's playing and teaching all three have created a vital and enduring legacy.Wine has been honored ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Bright Star of the West

    Joe Heaney, Irish Song Man

    by Sean Williams, Lillis Ó Laoire ...
    Series series American Musicspheres
    Bright Star of the West examines the life, repertoire, and influence of Ireland's greatest sean-nos (old-style) singer, Joe Heaney (1919-1984). Best known for popularing this form of Gaelic a cappella folk song in the United States, authors Sean Williams and Lillis Ó Laoire reveal the ways in which Heaney's life story demonstrates the intertwining of music with political memory and cultural ... Read more

    $32.39 USD