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Format: Paperback
Pages: 300
ISBN: 9781068664502
Pub Date: 19 Dec 2024
Imprint: Liffey Press
Description:
For more than six decades John Faulkner has been at the heart of British and Irish music-making, as a singer, songwriter, composer, musician, producer and film-maker. Storm in My Heart is John’s highly personal account of his life in music, from his childhood in wartime London, through his years in the English folk explosion and on to life in Ireland as a significant player in the traditional music scene. In a lifetime’s journey John falls under the influence of Ewan McColl and Peggy Seeger, marries tempestuous singer Dolores Keane, and moves to County Galway where he brings his words and music to the world.

An Obstacle Confusion

The Wonderful World of Barney McKenna
Format: Hardback
Pages: 200
ISBN: 9781912589432
Pub Date: 12 Dec 2024
Imprint: Liberties Press
Description:
Barney McKenna – “Banjo Barney from Donnycarney” – was one of the founder-members of the Dubliners, the world-famous Irish folk musicians and singers who in 2002 celebrated forty years on the road as a band. For Dubliners fans, Barney’s name immediately conjures up the image of the burly, bearded banjo genius whodazzled the audience with his virtuosity while charming them with his folksy, no-nonsense personality. However, Barney was also well known for another reason: he was capable of bringing any conversation to a sudden stop by uttering something so completely unexpected, and at the same time so incomprehensible, as to reduceeveryone present to a bemused silence.
Brassroots Democracy Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 424
ISBN: 9780819501127
Pub Date: 17 Oct 2024
Series: Music/Culture
Illustrations: 25 b&w photos
Description:
**A new understanding of the birth of jazz through a fine-grained social history of early African American musicians **Brassroots Democracy recasts the birth of jazz, unearthing vibrant narratives of New Orleans musicians to reveal how early jazz was inextricably tied to the mass mobilization of freedpeople during Reconstruction and the decades that followed. Benjamin Barson presents a "music history from below," following the musicians as they built communes, performed at Civil Rights rallies, and participated in general strikes. Perhaps most importantly, Barson locates the first emancipatory revolution in the Americas—Haiti—as a nexus for cultural and political change in nineteenth-century Louisiana.

The In-Between in Javanese Performing Arts

History and Myth, Interculturalism and Interreligiosity
Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
ISBN: 9780819501264
Pub Date: 01 Oct 2024
Series: Music/Culture
Illustrations: 14 b&w photos, 5 b&w line drawings, 4 b&w tables
Description:
The role of performing art in one of the world's most diverse and complex societies/>/>This book is the first comprehensive overview of Javanese performing arts from their origins to their dynamic present. Renowned scholar and musician Sumarsam draws from a lifetime of immersion in both wayang and gamelan to guide readers through the concept of the "in-between," revealing how the interplay of dualisms—myth and history, sacred and secular, personal and cultural—forms the bedrock of Javanese performance. Rigorously researched historical case studies reveal the intricate relationship between histories and mythologies in Java.
The Life of Music in South India Cover The Life of Music in South India Cover
Format: 
Pages: 244
ISBN: 9780819500731
Pub Date: 05 Feb 2024
Series: Music/Culture
Pages: 244
ISBN: 9780819500748
Pub Date: 01 Feb 2024
Series: Music/Culture
Description:
An insider's eight-decade overview of South India's 20th century classical music culture. This book offers an account of Carnatic music culture drawing on the knowledge of T. Sankaran, a musician raised in an illustrious non-Brahmin devadasi family, and his long affiliation with cultural institutions including All India Radio (AIR) and the Tamil Isai Sangam (Tamil Music Academy).
Dissonant Landscapes Cover Dissonant Landscapes Cover
Format: 
Pages: 216
ISBN: 9780819500489
Pub Date: 02 Feb 2024
Series: Music/Culture
Illustrations: 15 color photos, 1 b&w table, 1 printed music item
Pages: 216
ISBN: 9780819500496
Pub Date: 29 Feb 2024
Series: Music/Culture
Illustrations: 15 color photos, 1 b&w table, 1 printed music item
Description:
Listening to the dissonances of nature and nationhood in modern Iceland. During the past three decades, Iceland has attained a strong presence in the world through its musical culture, with images of the nation being packaged and shipped out in melodies, harmonies, and rhythms. What 'Iceland' means for people, both at home and abroad, is conditioned by music and its ability to animate notions of nature and nationality.
Queer Arrangements Cover Queer Arrangements Cover
Format: 
Pages: 288
ISBN: 9780819500632
Pub Date: 02 Feb 2024
Series: Music/Culture
Pages: 288
ISBN: 9780819500649
Pub Date: 01 Feb 2024
Series: Music/Culture
Illustrations: 22 b&w photos, 15 figures
Description:
Queer Arrangements is a new study of Billy Strayhorn that examines his music and career at the intersection of jazz and Black queer history.The legacy of Black queer composer, arranger and pianist Billy Strayhorn (1915–1967) hovers at the edge of canonical jazz narratives. Queer Arrangements explores the ways in which Strayhorn's identity as an openly gay Black jazz musician shaped his career, including the creative roles he could assume and the dynamics between himself and his collaborators, most famously Duke Ellington, but also iconic singers such as Lena Horne and Ella Fitzgerald.
The Land Is Sung Cover The Land Is Sung Cover
Format: 
Pages: 288
ISBN: 9780819500571
Pub Date: 31 Jan 2024
Series: Music/Culture
Pages: 288
ISBN: 9780819500588
Pub Date: 01 Feb 2024
Series: Music/Culture
Description:
Ethnography on the politics of land and belonging in post apartheid Zulu performances What does it mean to belong? In The Land is Sung, musicologist Thomas Pooley shows how performances of song, dance, and praise poetry connect Zulu communities to their ancestral homes and genealogies. For those without land tenure in the province of KwaZulu-Nata, performances articulate a sense of place.
Australasian Music, at Home and Abroad Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 292
ISBN: 9781922952233
Pub Date: 02 Mar 2023
Imprint: Australian Scholarly Publishing
Description:
Combining approaches from Western art music, First Nations music, pop music, studies of contemporary community practice, and anthropological and ethnomusicological field work, 'Australasian Music, At Home and Abroad' presents peer-reviewed chapters that critically reflect on Australasian music-making in the last 125 years. As the first interdisciplinary consideration of music in the Australasian region in 15 years, this book advances Australasian music as a dynamic area of interdisciplinary research in the 21st century. Its themes range from institutional histories of music, composer biography, music and migration, in diaspora, and cultural exchange and collaboration.
Katherine Jackson French Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 274
ISBN: 9780813196701
Pub Date: 07 Feb 2023
Illustrations: 35 b&w halftones, 1 map, 6 tables
Description:
The second woman to earn a PhD from Columbia University – and the first from south of the Mason-Dixon Line to do so – Kentucky native Katherine Jackson French broke boundaries. Her research kick-started a resurgence of Appalachian music that continues to this day, but French's collection of traditional Kentucky ballads, which should have been her crowning scholarly achievement, never saw print. Academic rivalries, gender prejudice, and broken promises set against a thirty-year feud known as the Ballad Wars denied French her place in history and left the field to northerner Olive Dame Campbell and English folklorist Cecil Sharp, setting Appalachian studies on a foundation marred by stereotypes and misconceptions.
Critical Brass Cover Critical Brass Cover
Format: 
Pages: 320
ISBN: 9780819500182
Pub Date: 08 Nov 2022
Series: Music/Culture
Illustrations: 40 b&w photos
Pages: 320
ISBN: 9780819500199
Pub Date: 08 Nov 2022
Series: Music/Culture
Illustrations: 40 b&w photos
Description:
Critical Brass tells the story of neofanfarrismo, an explosive carnival brass band community turned activist musical movement in Rio de Janeiro, as Brazil shifted from a country on the rise in the 2000s to one beset by various crises in the 2010s. Though predominantly middle-class, neofanfarristas have creatively adapted the critical theories of carnival to militate for a more democratic city. Illuminating the tangible obstacles to musical movement building, Andrew Snyder argues that festive activism with privileged origins can promote real alternatives to the neoliberal city, but meets many limits and contradictions in a society marked by diverse inequalities.
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Love and Rage

Autonomy in Mexico City's Punk Scene
Format: 
Pages: 232
ISBN: 9780819580931
Pub Date: 08 Nov 2022
Series: Music/Culture
Illustrations: 33 b&w photos
Pages: 232
ISBN: 9780819580948
Pub Date: 08 Nov 2022
Series: Music/Culture
Illustrations: 33 b&w photos
Description:
Love and Rage is a deeply ethnographic account of punk in Mexico City as it is lived and practiced, connecting the sounds of punk music to different styles of political action. Through compelling first-person accounts, ethnographer Kelley Tatro shows that punk is more than music. It is a lifestyle choice that commits scene participants to experimentation with anarchist politics.
Musical Resilience Cover Musical Resilience Cover
Format: 
Pages: 256
ISBN: 9780819500090
Pub Date: 08 Nov 2022
Series: Music/Culture
Illustrations: 24 b&w halftones, 1 map
Pages: 256
ISBN: 9780819500106
Pub Date: 08 Nov 2022
Series: Music/Culture
Illustrations: 24 b&w halftones, 1 map
Description:
In Musical Resilience, Shalini Ayyagari shows how professional low-caste musicians from the Thar Desert borderland of Rajasthan, India have skillfully reinvented their cultural and economic value in postcolonial India. Before India's independence in 1947, the Manganiyar community of hereditary musicians were tied to traditional patrons over centuries and through hereditary ties. In postcolonial India, traditional patronage relations faded due to new political conditions, technological shifts, and cultural change.
An Academic Biography of Liu Ching-chih Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 428
ISBN: 9781626430839
Pub Date: 28 Sep 2022
Illustrations: 64
Description:
This book is an academic biography of Liu Ching-chih, a renowned musicologist and translation scholar, and a prolific music critic in Hong Kong. Three Library Collections named after him are housed in the University of Hong Kong Libraries, the Hong Kong Central Library, and the Library of the Institute of Chinese Studies of the University of Heidelberg. This volume of life writing is distinguished from average biographies by its reliance on systematic analyses of an extensive array of texts and interview data.
Mellencamp, updated edition Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 302
ISBN: 9780813195568
Pub Date: 31 May 2022
Description:
Despite his numerous hits and Grammy nominations - and his induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame - John Mellencamp remains one of America’s most underrated songwriters. In Mellencamp, David Masciotra explores the life and career of this important talent, persuasively arguing that he deserves to be celebrated alongside artists like Bruce Springsteen, Neil Young, and Bob Dylan. Starting with his modest beginnings in Seymour, Indiana, Masciotra details Mellencamp’s road to fame, examining his struggles with the music industry and his persistent dedication to his midwestern roots as he found success by remaining true to where he came from.
Sound Fragments Cover Sound Fragments Cover
Format: 
Pages: 348
ISBN: 9780819580764
Pub Date: 10 May 2022
Series: Music/Culture
Illustrations: 35 b&w photos
Pages: 348
ISBN: 9780819580771
Pub Date: 10 May 2022
Series: Music/Culture
Illustrations: 35 b&w photos
Description:
This book is an ethnographic study of sound archives and the processes of creative decolonization that form alternative modes of archiving and curating in the 21st century. It explores the histories and afterlives of sound collections and practices at the International Library of African Music. Sound Fragments follows what happens when a colonial sound archive is repurposed and reimagined by local artists in post-apartheid South Africa.