Music-Ethnic

From the dance halls to the main stage, from small town Texas to the big cities, and from treasured local cultural traditions to the national display of Mexican Texas' finest talent, m俍ica tejana is rapidly becoming known as a rich and vibrant form of...

Here are 28 traditional Native American songs adapted for 10 and 17 key kalimbas. All songs are in easily readable diatonic arrangements with number notation. My aim is to make playing as simple as possible. Even if you don't have any musical background, you...

Indian classical music has long been fascinating to Western audiences, most prominently since the Beatles' sessions with Ravi Shankar in the 1960s. This fascination with the musical genre still prevails in the twenty-first century. Hindi Poetry in a Musical Genre examines Thumri Lyrics, a...

Music in Arabia extends and challenges existing narratives of the region's distinctive but understudied music to reveal diverse and dynamic music cultures rooted in centuries-old heritage.Contributors to Music in Arabia bring a critical eye and ear to the contemporary soundscape, musical life, and expressive...

This book was created by Grand Master Drummer Mamady Keita, from Guinea, West Africa for his international schools, the Tam Tam Mandingue Djembe Academy, International Schools of Percussion. Specifically, this is curriculum and instruction for traditional djembe and dunun (djembe orchestra) music. It also...

Author: Kongo ZabanaISBN-10: 9964702175ISBN-13: 9789964702175Publisher: African Books CollectiveLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/1997Pages: 48Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.22lbsSize: 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.10d

Author: Kongo ZabanaISBN-10: 9964702159ISBN-13: 9789964702151Publisher: African Books CollectiveLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/1997Pages: 108Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.44lbsSize: 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.22d

Hear the music that the D.J. spins that's how it all begins scratch cut and little chants it started at house parties that made you dance. Then came the lyrics that put you in a trance and when they were finished they had a...

Transcultural Jazz: Israeli Musicians and Multi-Local Music Making studies jazz performance and composition through the examination of the transcultural practices of Israeli jazz musicians and their impact globally. Author: Noam LemishISBN-10: 0367488787ISBN-13: 9780367488789Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/22/2023Pages: 240Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.76lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.54d

All too often an incident or accident, such as the eruption in Crown Heights with its legacy of bitterness and recrimination, thrusts Black-Jewish relations into the news. A volley of discussion follows, but little in the way of progress or enlightenment results--and this is...

Time in Indian Music is the first major study of rhythm, metre, and form in North Indian rag, or classical, music. Martin Clayton presents a theoretical model for the organization of time in this repertory, a model which is related explicitly to other spheres...

Author: Oliver N. GreeneISBN-10: 1516552237ISBN-13: 9781516552238Publisher: Cognella Academic PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/25/2017Pages: 454Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.51lbsSize: 10.00h x 8.00w x 1.00d

Song & Social Change in Latin America offers seven essays from a diverse group of scholars on the topic of music as a reflection of the many social-political upheavals throughout Latin America from the 20th century to the present. Topics covered include: the Tropic疝ia...

During the 1950s and early 1960s, the musical exotica produced by performers such as Les Baxter, Martin Denny, and Arthur Lyman enjoyed international success. Widening the Horizon is the first in-depth analysis of the music and its cultural context.Author: Philip HaywardISBN-10: 1864620471ISBN-13: 9781864620474Publisher: Indiana...

(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook). From sentimental favorites to happy-go-lucky singalongs, this songbook celebrates the Irish cultural heritage of music. 30 songs, including: Danny Boy (Londonderry Air) * The Girl I Left Behind Me * Killarney * My Wild Irish Rose * Too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ral, That's An Irish Lullabye...

A compendium of ten Georgian traditional dances arranged for the piano, plus five dances from Z. Phaliashvili operas "Daisi" and "Abesalom y Etery" and the Lecuri de Concert by Redjeb Jordania.Author: Joseph Jordania, Redjeb JordaniaISBN-10: 1499576579ISBN-13: 9781499576573Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/01/2014Pages: 98Format:...

When We Were Good traces the many and varied cultural influences on the folk revival of the sixties from early nineteenth-century blackface minstrelsy; the Jewish entertainment and political cultures of New York in the 1930s; the Almanac singers and the wartime crises of the...

This first ethnographic study of the American folk music revival that began in the late 1980s examines its people, economy, and politics. Covering the perspectives of fans, performers, marketers, and others, Thomas Gruning takes on some of the folk community's stickiest issues, many of...

"50 Armenian Folk Songs Anyone Can Sing" is an invaluable resource for anyone interested in exploring the rich tradition of Armenian folk music. The book features a collection of 50 easy-to-play melodies that are perfect for both singers and musicians. Whether you are an...

Divi Zheni identifies itself as a Bulgarian women's chorus and band, but it is located in Boston and none of its members come from Bulgaria. Zlatne Uste is one of the most popular purveyors of Balkan music in America, yet the name of the...

(Music Sales America). Discover the quintessential Irish tonalities and hamonies of the DADGAD tuning system, and how to apply the tuning to all your solo and session playing. This comprehensive book provides clear details of chords, scales and their use in the melodies of...

Examines the history, performance, and practice of Irish Rock Music from the 1960s to the present. Using theoretical perspectives drawn from Irish cultural criticism and Rock Music Studies the author shows how Irish rock music has engaged with issues of national identity at every...

(Easy Guitar). 30 Irish favorites, including: Be Thou My Vision * The Bluebells of Scotland * A Bunch of Thyme * Down by the Sally Gardens * Finnegan's Wake * The Galway Piper * Johnny, I Hardly Knew You * Kitty of Coleraine *...

"Advanced Theory of Tabla" is the second volume of the series "The Complete Reference for the Tabla". It deals with the various aspects of acoustics, physics, compositional theory, rhythmic theory, recording, stagecraft, and other topics of interest to the performing tabla player and the...

(Banjo). This book provides beginning banjo players with easy streamlined arrangements of 40 popular songs. Learn the basics of clawhammer style, strum and sing along, or pick the melody lines. Arrangements are a combo of tab, standard notation, chord grids and lyrics selected and...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

Originally published in the Spanish language in 2018, The J baro and the Gaucho United in Music and Song presents a precise and profound work that contains a plethora of credible documented resources concerning Puerto Rican and Argentine folk culture and music. Through detailed...

The final of the seven books published by one of Armenia's most renowned duduk players, inventors, and teachers, Georgy Minasyan (Minasov), studies his work as the artistic director of Dudukner Ensemble he founded. The book contains transpositions and arrangements of compositions written specifically for...

Music in South India is one of several case-study volumes that can be used along with Thinking Musically, the core book in the Global Music Series. Thinking Musically incorporates music from many diverse cultures and establishes the framework for exploring the practice of music...

A biography of the Malian musician Salif KeitaAuthor: Cheick M. Cherif KeitaISBN-10: 1461018455ISBN-13: 9781461018452Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/01/2011Pages: 174Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.39lbsSize: 7.99h x 5.00w x 0.37d

Dhrupad is believed to be the oldest style of classical vocal music performed today in North India. This detailed study of the genre considers the relationship between the oral tradition, its transmission from generation to generation, and its re-creation in performance. There is an...

From the red earth of the reservation to the glitter of the Grammys, (the heartfelt music of Native America is getting into the mainstream. This informative and entertaining book includes profiles of some of the major Native artists, activists, and performers such as Robbie...

"Rowden has wedded ethnomusicology and disability studies to offer a fresh approach to the study of African American popular music. The Songs of Blind Folk undermines many of the defining mythologies and tropes of blind musicians, including the perception that they are successful because...

Building on his 2006 book, Which Side Are You On?, Dick Weissman's A New History of American and Canadian Folk Music presents a provocative discussion of the history, evolution, and current status of folk music in the United States and Canada. North American folk...

Originally published in 1994, this stunning collection of Irish music is re-issued here in a new, entirely re-set edition, containing an additional 29 tunes, and new photographs. Sliabh Luachra, in the heart of Munster, is home to a unique style of traditional Irish music....

Author: Wolfgang Amadeus MozartISBN-10: 1617741019ISBN-13: 9781617741012Publisher: G. Schirmer, Inc.Language: EnglishPublished: 11/01/1986Pages: 24Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.20lbsSize: 11.40h x 8.70w x 0.10d

Jeff Schwartz is a writer, bassist, and librarian in Los Angeles, California.Author: Jeff SchwartzISBN-10: 1438490305ISBN-13: 9781438490304Publisher: State University of New York PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/02/2023Pages: 166Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.38dReview Citation(s): Choice 10/01/2023

winner of the 2021 Ellen Koskoff Edited Volume PrizeDecentering the Nation: Music, Mexicanidad, and Globalization considers how neoliberal capitalism has upset the symbolic economy of "Mexican" cultural discourse, and how this phenomenon touches on a broader crisis of representation affecting the nation-state in globalization....

Music in Central Java is one of several case-study volumes that can be used along with Thinking Musically, the core book in the Global Music Series. Thinking Musically incorporates music from many diverse cultures and establishes the framework for exploring the practice of music...

This unique anthology presents a wide variety of approaches to an ethnomusicology of Inuit and Native North American musical expression. Contributors include Native and non-Native scholars who provide erudite and illuminating perspectives on aboriginal culture, incorporating both traditional practices and contemporary musical influences. Gathering...

This work represents the first comparative study of the folk revival movement in Anglophone Canada and the United States and combines this with discussion of the way folk music intersected with, and was structured by, conceptions of national affinity and national identity. Based on...

REGGAE AND CARIBBEAN MUSIC: THIRD EARAuthor: Dave ThompsonISBN-10: 0879306556ISBN-13: 9780879306557Publisher: Backbeat BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/2002Pages: 546Format: PaperbackWeight: 2.30lbsSize: 9.23h x 7.37w x 1.29dReview Citation(s): American Reference Bks Annual 01/01/2003 pg. 522

The Mexican American orquesta is neither a Mexican nor an American music. Relying on both the Mexican orquesta and the American dance band for repertorial and stylistic cues, it forges a synthesis of the two. The ensemble emerges historically as a powerful artistic vehicle...

The history of India's first electronic music studio founded in 1969 at the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad by David Tudor. Subcontinental Synthesis explores the history of India's first electronic music studio, founded in 1969 at the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad...

Eudaimonia: Perspectives for Music Learning asserts the fertile applications of eudaimonia--an Aristotelian concept of human flourishing intended to explain the nature of a life well lived--for work in music learning and teaching in the 21st century. Drawing insights from within and beyond the field...

Mantras use the energy of sacred sound to bring benefit to the human body and psyche. Their main purpose is to harmonize the energy of our heart, mind, and body.This is done through vibration, content, and repetition. The creation of this balance of energy...

The power of the mantra lies in its ability to bring individuals to a state where they can reflect upon their inner selves. The use of repetitive sacred utterances allows one to access the divine.Mantras allow individuals to access their inner selves in a...

Gospel Indie artists if you've been wondering about your next steps or even your first steps this book will help guide you through the process of navigating the gospel industry. Find answers to questions and insider tips for pitching your music to radio. Who...

The aim of this book is to stimulate debate by offering a critique of discourse about African music. Who writes about African music, how, and why? What assumptions and prejudices influence the presentation of ethnographic data? Even the term "African music" suggests there is...

Another great book from Georgy Minasyan (Minasov) dedicated to 150th anniversary of Komitas vardapet. Over 50 favorite Komitas songs are specially arranged for duduk with piano accompaniment so that you can enrich your repertoire with these Armenian classics in no time. The book includes...