Posts Tagged ‘America’
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…)
The White List of the Society of St. Gregory of America
The White List of the Society of St. Gregory of America With a selection of Papal Documents and other information pertaining to Catholic Church Music Edited by The Music Committee of The Society — Third and Augmented Edition — 1939 — Society of St. Gregory of America — Papal Documents on Sacred Music From The 14th To The 20th Century and The New Apostolic Constitution
Native American Music in Eastern North America: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture Includes CD (Global Music Series) (Paperback)
Native American Music in Eastern North America is one of many 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 around the world. It sets the stage for an array of case-study volumes, each of which focuses on a single area of the world. Each case study uses the contemporary musical situation as a point of departure, covering historical information and traditions as they relate to the present. Visit www.oup.com/us/globalmusic for a list of case studies in the Global Music Series. The website also includes instructional materials to accompany each study. Native American Music in Eastern North America is one of the first books to explore the contemporary musical landscape of indigenous North Americans in the north and east. It shows how performance traditions of Native North American (more…)