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Roots of the revival
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ISBN: 0252080122 0252096428 9780252096426 9780252038518 9780252080128 1322089892 9781322089898 0252038517 9780252038518 9780252080128 Year: 2014 Publisher: Urbana

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In 'Roots of the Revival', Ronald D. Cohen and Rachel Clare Donaldson present a transatlantic history of folk's mid-century resurgence that juxtaposes the related but distinct revivals that took place in the United States and Great Britain.

Rock it come over : the folk music of Jamaica
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ISBN: 9789766400286 9781435694804 1435694805 9766400288 Year: 2000 Publisher: Barbados : University of the West Indies Press,

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The musical traditions of Northern Ireland and its diaspora
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ISBN: 1351542087 1351542079 1315085763 1282243403 9786612243400 075469383X 9780754693833 0754662306 9780754662303 9780754662303 9781282243408 9781315085760 9781351542067 9781409419204 9781351542081 9781351542074 6612243406 Year: 2009 Publisher: Farnham, Surrey, England Burlington, VT Ashgate

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"For at least two centuries, and arguably much longer, Ireland has exerted an important influence on the development of the traditional, popular and art musics of other regions, and in particular those of Britain and the United States. During the past decade or so, the traditional musics of the so-called Celtic regions have become a focus of international interest. The phenomenal success of shows such as Riverdance (which appeared in 1995, spawned from a 1994 Eurovision Song Contest interval act) brought Irish music and dance to a global audience and played a part in the further commoditization of Irish culture, including traditional music. However, there has been until now, relatively little serious musicological study of the traditional music of Northern Ireland. Northern Ireland remains a divided community in which traditional culture, in all its manifestations, is widely understood as a marker of religious affiliation and ethnic identity. Since the outbreak of the most recent 'troubles' around 1968, the borders between the communities have often been marked by music. For example, many in the Catholic, nationalist community, regard the music of Orange flute bands and Lambeg drums as a source of intimidation. Equally, many in the Protestant community have distanced themselves from Irish music as coming from a different ethnic tradition, and some have rejected tunes, styles and even instruments because of their association with the Catholic community and the Irish Republic. Of course, during the same period many other Protestants and Catholics have continued to perform in an apolitical context and often together, what in earlier times would simply have been regarded as folk or country music. With the increasing espousal of a discrete Ulster Scots tradition since the signing of the Belfast (or 'Good Friday') Agreement in 1998, the characteristics of the traditional music performed in Northern Ireland, and the place of Protestant musicians within popular Irish cult"--Provided by publisher.


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Play of a fiddle
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ISBN: 0813147670 9780813147673 9780813120805 9780813193267 0813133564 9780813133560 Year: 2009 Publisher: Lexington, Kentucky

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Play of a Fiddle gives voice to people who steadfastly hold to and build on the folk traditions of their ancestors. While encountering the influences of an increasingly overwhelming popular culture, the men and women in this book follow age-old patterns of folklife and custom, making their own music and dance in celebration of them. Shedding new light on a region that maintains ties to the cultural identities of its earliest European and African inhabitants, Gerald Milnes shows how folk music in West Virginia borrowed rhythmic, melodic, and vocal forms from the Celtic, Anglo, Germanic, and Af

Performing Russia
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ISBN: 0203389891 1134341083 1280025190 0203317572 9780203317570 0415326141 9781134341078 1134341075 9780415406178 9781134341030 9781134341085 9780415326148 Year: 2004 Publisher: London New York RoutledgeCurzon

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This book examines folk music and dance revival movements in Russia, exploring why this folk culture has come to represent Russia, how it has been approached and produced, and why memory and tradition, in these particular forms, have taken on particular significance in different periods. Above all it shows how folk ""tradition"" in Russia is an artificial cultural construct, which is periodically reinvented, and it demonstrates in particular how the ""folk revival"" has played a key role in strengthening Russian national consciousness in the post-Soviet period.


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African American folksong and American cultural politics
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ISBN: 0810884895 9780810884892 129955394X 9781299553941 9780810884885 0810884887 Year: 2013 Publisher: Lanham, Md.

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In African American Folksong and American Cultural Politics: The Lawrence Gellert Story, scholar and musician Bruce Conforth tells the story of one of the most unusual collections of African American folk music ever amassed-and the remarkable story of the man who produced it: Lawrence Gellert.


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Contemporary musical expressions in Canada
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ISBN: 0228000149 9780228000143 9780228000150 9780773558809 0773558802 9780773558793 0773558799 0228000157 Year: 2019 Publisher: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press,

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"Music and dance in Canada today are diverse and expansive, reflecting histories of travel, exchange and interpretation, and challenging conceptions of expressive culture that are bounded and static. Reflecting current trends in ethnomusicology, Contemporary Musical Expressions in Canada examines cultural continuity, disjuncture, intersection, and interplay in music and dance across the country. Essays reconsider conceptual frameworks through which cultural forms are viewed, critique policies meant to encourage crosscultural sharing, and address ways in which traditional forms of expression have changed to reflect new contexts and audiences. From North Indian kathak dance, Chinese lion dance, early Toronto hip hop, and contemporary cantor practices within the Byzantine Ukrainian Church in Canada to folk music performances in twentieth-century Quebec, Gaelic milling songs in Cape Breton, and Mennonite songs in rural Manitoba, this collection offers detailed portraits of contemporary music practices and how they engage with diverse cultural expressions and identities. At a historical moment when identity politics, multiculturalism, diversity, immigration, and border crossings are debated around the world, Contemporary Musical Expressions in Canada demonstrates the many ways that music and dance practices in Canada engage with these broader global processes."--


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The legacy of indigenous music : Asian and European perspectives
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ISBN: 981164473X 9811644721 Year: 2021 Publisher: Singapore : Springer,

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Folk songs of the Catskills
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ISBN: 0585078270 9780585078274 0791498638 9780791498637 Year: 1982 Publisher: Albany State University of New York Press

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Reds, whites, and blues
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ISBN: 9780691162089 0691162085 9780691143637 0691143633 9786612692185 140083516X 1282692186 9781400835164 9781282692183 6612692189 Year: 2010 Publisher: Princeton Princeton University Press

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Music, and folk music in particular, is often embraced as a form of political expression, a vehicle for bridging or reinforcing social boundaries, and a valuable tool for movements reconfiguring the social landscape. Reds, Whites, and Blues examines the political force of folk music, not through the meaning of its lyrics, but through the concrete social activities that make up movements. Drawing from rich archival material, William Roy shows that the People's Songs movement of the 1930's and 40's, and the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950's and 60's implemented folk music's social relationships--specifically between those who sang and those who listened--in different ways, achieving different outcomes. Roy explores how the People's Songsters envisioned uniting people in song, but made little headway beyond leftist activists. In contrast, the Civil Rights Movement successfully integrated music into collective action, and used music on the picket lines, at sit-ins, on freedom rides, and in jails. Roy considers how the movement's Freedom Songs never gained commercial success, yet contributed to the wider achievements of the Civil Rights struggle. Roy also traces the history of folk music, revealing the complex debates surrounding who or what qualified as "folk" and how the music's status as racially inclusive was not always a given. Examining folk music's galvanizing and unifying power, Reds, Whites, and Blues casts new light on the relationship between cultural forms and social activity.

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