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Through their search to achieve a sense of academic identity the authors in this volume have brought us new textures and ideas from their research to help us all in our creation and location of spaces we can claim as our own. Working within the traditions of academic scholarship, we are reformulating what we see and presenting it in a previously unexplored perspective of connections and possibilities. Through our presentation of this view, we are asserting a new location for the academic id...
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Prophet Singer: The Voice and Vision of Woody Guthrie examines the cultural and political significance of lyrics by beloved songwriter and activist Woodrow Wilson "Woody" Guthrie. The text traces how Guthrie documented the history of America's poor and disadvantaged through lyrics about topics as diverse as the Dust Bowl and the poll tax. Divided into chapters covering specific historical topics such as race relations and lynchings, famous outlaws, the Great Depression, and unions, the book takes an in-depth look at how Guthrie manipulated his lyrics to explore pressing issues and to bring greater political and economic awareness to the common people. Incorporating the best of both historical and literary perspectives, Mark Allan Jackson references primary sources including interviews, recordings, drawings, and writings. He includes a variety of materials from the Smithsonian Institution, the Library of Congress, and the Woody Guthrie Archives. Many of these have never before been widely available. The result provides new insights into one of America's most intriguing icons. Prophet Singer offers an analysis of the creative impulse behind and ideals expressed in Guthrie's song lyrics. Details from the artist's personal life as well as his interactions with political and artistic movements from the first half of the twentieth century afford readers the opportunity to understand how Guthrie's deepest beliefs influenced and found voice in the lyrics that are now known and loved by millions. Mark Allan Jackson is currently an assistant professor of English at DePauw University. His articles and reviews have been featured in Popular Music and Society and American Music.
Folk singers --- Folk music --- Social aspects --- Guthrie, Woody,
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Songs and Politics in Eastern Africa brings together important essays on songs and politics in the region and beyond. Through an analysis of the voices from the margins, the authors (contributors) enter into the debate on cultural productions and political change. The theme that cuts across the contributions is that songs are, in addition to their aesthetic appeal, vital tools for exploring how political and social events are shaped and understood by citizens. Urbanization, commercialization and globalization contributed to the vibrancy of East African popular music of the 1990's which was mark
Political ballads and songs --- Folk music --- Political aspects
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Folk music --- Folk songs, Ukrainian --- Symbolism in folklore --- History and criticism --- History and criticism
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El tema que recorre, desde distintos puntos de vista, el presente libro es la canción lírica a partir de su unidad fundamental que es la copla. El punto de partida de todas estas reflexiones es el Cancionero folklórico de México, obra de extraordinaria envergadura por la cantidad del material recopilado así como por su sistematización. En realidad estos estudios no hubieran sido posibles sin que existiera este trabajo que, si bien no agota las posibilidades de un corpus lírico, ni cubre todas las necesidades del investigador, el material que ofrece es de una riqueza extraordinaria y claramente representativo de lo que es la lírica tradicional en México y es la fuente básica para cualquier estudio.
Coplas --- Mexican poetry --- History and criticism. --- Spanish-American literature --- Mexico --- Folk songs, Spanish --- Poetry --- Spanish poetry --- Traditional & folk music
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Folk music --- Folklore musical --- Musique ethnique --- Musique folklorique --- Musique populaire --- Musique traditionnelle --- Volksmuziek --- Ethnomusicology --- Ethnomusicologie --- World music --- History and criticism --- Popular music --- Music --- Social aspects --- 78.31 --- 574
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We tend to take for granted the labels we put to different forms of music. This study considers the origins and implications of the way in which we categorize music. Whereas earlier ways of classifying music were based on its different functions, for the past two hundred years we have been obsessed with creativity and musical origins, and classify music along these lines. Matthew Gelbart argues that folk music and art music became meaningful concepts only in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and only in relation to each other. He examines how cultural nationalism served as the earliest impetus in classifying music by origins, and how the notions of folk music and art music followed - in conjunction with changing conceptions of nature, and changing ideas about human creativity. Through tracing the history of these musical categories, the book confronts our assumptions about different kinds of music.
Nationalism in music --- Folk music --- History and criticism --- Social aspects --- 78.21 --- Music --- Musicology --- History and criticism. --- Historiography. --- Methods --- Theory, etc.
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This book explores how, and why, the blues became a central component of English popular music in the 1960's. It is commonly known that many 'British invasion' rock bands were heavily influenced by Chicago and Delta blues styles. But how, exactly, did Britain get the blues? Roberta Schwartz analyses the transmission of blues records to England, from the first recordings to hit English shores to the end of the sixties.
Blues (Music) --- Blues (Songs, etc.) --- Jive (Music) --- African Americans --- Folk music --- Popular music --- Rhythm and blues music --- Washboard band music --- History and criticism. --- Influence.
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Folk music --- Folk music. --- Musique folklorique --- Canada. --- Ethnic music --- Traditional music --- Folklore --- Music --- Canada (Province) --- Canadae --- Ceanada --- Chanada --- Chanadey --- Dominio del Canad --- Dominion of Canada --- Jianada --- Kʻaenada --- Kanada --- Ḳanadah --- Kanadaja --- Kanadas --- Ḳanade --- Kanado --- Kanak --- Province of Canada --- Republica de Canad --- Yn Chanadey --- Dominio del Canadá --- Kaineḍā --- Kanakā --- Republica de Canadá
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