Balkan Fascination: Creating an Alternative Music Culture in America Includes CD/DVD (Kindle Edition)
Review
“Mirjana Lausevic’s lively account of Balkan music’s transplantation to the United States and its development as a quirky musical subculture deftly links the Balkan music scene to broader currents in American social history. Lausevic’s insightful analysis comprises a first-rate contribution to current scholarship on the role of transnational culture and affinity communities in America today.”–Theodore Levin, Dartmouth College”This thorough examination of the facets of Balkan music in America gives it a very human side, and although it’s hard to reach truly definitive conclusions about anything in this area, Lausevi marshals her facts and ideas well, and presents them cogently and readably. The result is a fascinating window opened on an American subculture that looks beyond its own borders.”–Sing Out!”After decades of American researchers studying the music practices of ‘other’ cultures, it’s about time someone studied us. This book deals with many important an (more…)
Relax & Unwind-music for Mind, Healing & Body (3 Music CD’s and bonus DVD Yoga Zone 20 minute workout) (Flexibound)
Folder including 3 music CD’s and a bonus DVD Yoga Zone 20 minute workout. Folder includes workbook with pictures of the workout. Folder is bigger, this is just the center
Mountain Meditations…relax to the Peace of Nature & the Power of Music – DVD & CD set
From the Actor
Filmed in the beauty of six United States National Parks, this SereneVision DVD features peaceful valleys, snow-capped peaks, and mountain streams, along with the natural ambient sounds of birds, wind and water. Experience the clarity of a spring rain, the panoramic breadth of a glacier mist, the gentleness and pastel colors of a bubbling spring at Yellowstone, rugosa roses on the cliffs of the Maine coast, and winter changing to spring high in the mountains as the snow melts and spring wildflowers emerge. Original instrumental music has been specially-composed to blend with the rhythm and flow of the natural environment – water, wind and light – and features the harmony of a French horn, oboe, bassoon, flutes, guitars and piano. DVD menu options offer continuous play and a choice of listening to the natural sounds only, creating a more quiet place for the viewer. The instrumental music CD of James T. McGee allows the listener an additional audio expe (more…)