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North Florida's proud folk music heritage reaches back more than half a century. The region claims many talented artists and song writers, including Frank Thomas, Bob Patterson and Charlie Robertson, while hundreds of solo, duo and group performers regularly inspire audiences at local venues. The Stephen Foster State Park in White Springs is the home of the Florida Folk Festival, the longest continuous state-sponsored folk festival in the country,...
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Este esfuerzo de un equipo de profesores por rescatar la memoria de nuestro proceso, además de contar la historia de La Provincia como grupo musical y mi aporte personal al nuevo sonido, deja ver un plano más abierto de una historia y una geografía musical que han resultado ser más diversas y complejas de lo que alguna vez llegamos a pensar. Leer veinte años después lo que recuerdan y piensan mis compañeros de aventura sobre nuestro trabajo...
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In its scope and command of primary sources and its generosity of scholarly inquiry, Nikolai Findeizen's monumental work, published in 1928 and 1929 in Soviet Russia, places the origins and development of music in Russia within the context of Russia's cultural and social history.
Volume 2 of Findeizen's landmark study surveys music in court life during the reigns of Elizabeth I and Catherine II, music in Russian domestic and public life in the second...
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In its scope and command of primary sources and its generosity of scholarly inquiry, Nikolai Findeizen's monumental work, published in 1928 and 1929 in Soviet Russia, places the origins and development of music in Russia within the context of Russia's cultural and social history.
Volume 2 of Findeizen's landmark study surveys music in court life during the reigns of Elizabeth I and Catherine II, music in Russian domestic and public life in the second...
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One of the music world's pre-eminent critics takes a fresh and much-needed look at the day Dylan "went electric" at the Newport Folk Festival, timed to coincide with the event's fiftieth anniversary. On the evening of July 25, 1965, Bob Dylan took the stage at Newport Folk Festival, backed by an electric band, and roared into his new rock hit, Like a Rolling Stone. The audience of committed folk purists and political activists who had hailed him as...
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Celtic music scholar and musician Liz Doherty is no stranger to Cape Breton music - in fact, she has made a study of it. Doherty's exposure to, and research of, the island's music traditions was the germination for this compendium on the Cape Breton fiddle: its history, its people, the tunes, the recordings. The fiddle music of Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, has its own sound, artistic standards, performance practices and etiquette. The Cape Breton...
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Unlock the Secrets of China's Beloved Instrument Guzheng with this Comprehensive Guide!This ebook will take you on a journey through the history and fundamentals of the Guzheng, a traditional Chinese instrument with a rich cultural legacy. Discover how the Guzheng evolved over time and became a treasured symbol of Chinese music, from its origins in ancient China to its modern applications. You'll also learn about the instrument's structure, how its...
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Partez à la découverte des musiques d'inspiration chinoise avec ce Grand Article Universalis!
Du point de vue géographique, l'Extrême-Orient, pris dans son sens restrictif, désigne l'ensemble des pays d'Asie orientale (Chine, Japon, Corée, Mongolie). En général, ce terme couvre toutes les régions précitées et le Sud-Est asiatique : Birmanie, Thaïlande, Laos, Cambodge, Vietnam, Malaisie, ...
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Partez à la découverte des musiques de l'Asie du Sud-Est avec ce Grand Article Universalis!
L'influence de la Chine, relativement faible dans l'Asie du Sud-Est — c'est-à-dire les pays situés au sud de la Chine et à l'est de l'Inde : Birmanie, Thaïlande, Laos, Cambodge, Vietnam, Malaisie, Indonésie et Philippines —, se fait sentir surtout au Vietnam, placé sous la domination chinoise pe...
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Tom Mayhas been a folksinger/guitarist/songwriter/performer for nearly fifty years. He has recorded fourteen albums of original material, and produced various CDs for other artists. His touring has taken him to every state in the US-as well as to most Canadian provinces and to Europe. He has headlined concerts with symphony orchestras, been featured at music festivals across North America, and opened shows for Gordon Lightfoot, Willie Nelson, Alabama,...
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A tour de force of storytelling years in the making: a dual biography of two of the greatest songwriters, Bob Dylan and Woody Guthrie, that is also a murder mystery and a history of labor relations and socialism, big business and greed in twentieth-century America-woven together in one epic saga that holds meaning for all working Americans today.
When thirteen-year-old Daniel Wolff first heard Bob Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone," it ignited a life-long...
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Along Comes The Association is the story of how Russ Giguere and his fellow band members in the legendary and influential pop group The Association came together to create unparalleled music, with such chart toppers as "Cherish," "Windy," "Never My Love," and "Along Comes Mary," unique to the time and place, and never again to be repeated. Yes, there were drugs, and there were women, such as the lovely Linda Ronstadt and Helen Mirren, but it was the...
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Partez à la découverte des musiques de l'Islam avec ce Grand Article Universalis !
Les musiques d'une vaste région géographique allant de l'Asie centrale à l'Atlantique constituent les branches d'une même famille musicale ayant pris racine dans les foyers culturels du Proche-Orient et du Moyen-Orient. En dépit de leurs multiples apparences, ces musiques, qui appartiennent tout...
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A history of the Mariposa Folk Festival, from its humble roots in Orillia in 1961 to international acclaim and legendary status as a premier folk music gathering. Mariposa began in the heyday of the early 60s 'folk boom.' In its more than fifty-five years, it has seen many of the world's greatest performers grace its stages: Pete Seeger, Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, Gordon Lightfoot, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Jann Arden, and Serena Ryder. The festival...
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By far the most comprehensive book on Dylan's words ever written, including a number of songs that no one has ever heard, this first volume will fundamentally change how these lyrics are interpreted and understood. Arranged in a surprising chronology of when they were actually written rather than when they appeared on albums the middle verse of Blowin' in the Wind was written much later than the first and third verses, and the songs on John Wesley...
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From the Dust Jacket: The second of two volumes, this companion to every song that Bob Dylan ever wrote is the most comprehensive book on the words of America's greatest songwriter. Here you'll find not just opinionated commentary or literary interpretation, but facts, first and foremost. Clinton Heylin is the world's leading Dylan biographer and expert, and he has arranged the songs-including a number that have never been performed-in a continually...
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There's a musical kingdom in the American South that's not marked on any map. Stretching from the prairies of Louisiana to the oil towns of East Texas, it is ruled over accordion-squeezing, washboard-wielding musicians such as Buckwheat Zydeco, Nathan Williams, Keith Frank, Terrance Simien, Rosie Ledet, and C. J. Chenier. Theirs is the kingdom of zydeco. With its African-Caribbean rhythms, Creole-French-English lyrics, and lively dance styles, zydeco...
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From the very first book publication in October 1920 to the film release of Death on the Nile in October 2020, this investigation into Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot celebrates a century of probably the world's favourite fictional detective. This book tells his story decade-by- decade, exploring his appearances not only in the original novels, short stories and plays but also across stage, screen and...
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