Music : History & Criticism

Music in the postwar era is rich with a variety of sounds, from the WWII big bands, to composers such as Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra, through country, jazz, musicals, and gospel, all the way to Chubby Checker and Elvis! more...

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Section 1: Children's Musical Play and Creativity: Adult Views. 1. Conceptions of Children's Musical Play. 2. Children's Musical Creativity and Oral Transmission. Section 2: Into the Field. 3. Investigating Musical Play: Ethics and Pragmatics. 4. The Playing Fields. Section 3: Transmission Processes in the Playground. 5. The Influence of Social Grouping. 6. Teaching and Learning in the Playground. 7. Changing the Tradition. Section 4: Composition in Performance. 8. Composition in the Playground. 9. Variations on a theme: Sar Macka Dora. 10. Style and Cultural Idiosyncracy. Section 5: Conclusions and Pedagogical Implications. 11. Conclusions and Pedagogical Implications. Appendix 1: Index of Playground Singing Game Genres from International Field Sites 1990-2004. Appendix 2: Transcription Methods and Notation and Documentation Conventions. Appendix 3: Text Variants of the Sar Macka Dora Game Genre. Appendix 4: Selected Musical Transcriptions of Games. Appendix 5: Transcriptions of Selected Norwegian Games. Appendix 6: Transcriptions of Selected UK Games. Appendix 7: Transcriptions of Selected USA Games. Appendix 8: Transcriptions of Selected Korean Games. Appendix 9: Transcriptions of Selected Australian Games. Appendix 10: Additional Transcriptions. Appendix 11: Video Examples of Illustrative Game Performances from International Field Sites. Notes. Bibliography. Index more...

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This book paints a broad picture of musical life in Britain over the last three centuries, charting the rise of the celebrity composer, the opening of public halls and growth of music festivals, the rapid influx of composers, and new musical forms. more...

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Nicolas Slonimsky (1894-1995) was an influential and celebrated writer on music. This new collection brings together the cream of his writing in four volumes. more...

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This work represents the first comparative study of the folk revival movement in Anglophone Canada and the United States and combines this with discussion of the way folk music intersected with, and was structured by, conceptions of national affinity and national identity. Students will find the book useful as an introduction, not only to key themes in the folk revival, but also to concepts in the study of national identity and to topics in American and Canadian cultural history. Academic specialists will encounter an alternative perspective from the more general, broad approach offered by earlier histories of the folk revival movement. more...

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