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Acoustic Blues Guitar Styles

Acoustic Blues Guitar Styles

Acoustic Blues Guitar Styles is an introduction to fingerstyle acoustic blues guitar the style made popular by Robert Johnson Bill Broonzy and Mance Lipscomb. Following the success of the popular Acoustic Guitar Styles Larry Sandberg’s Acoustic Blues Guitar Styles is an instructional book geared towards the intermediate guitar player not only to teach fingerstyle blues technique but also to approach the music creatively and with feeling and rhythm. Part One teaches you the preliminaries such as reading a chord chart and working out a 12-bar blues in different keys. Part Two teaches you touch timing and basic fingerpicking technique. Part Three teaches you how to play stylistically with lessons on how to incorporate bends vibrato alternating bassnotes and rhythmic variations into your playing. All musical exercises are presented in both standard notation and tablature and are supported by audio tracks. Customers purchasing the eBook version of this title will be able to download the supporting audio tracks. Instructions on downloading the files can be found on the contents page.

GBP 105.00
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How Britain Got the Blues: The Transmission and Reception of American Blues Style in the United Kingdom

How Britain Got the Blues: The Transmission and Reception of American Blues Style in the United Kingdom

This book explores how and why the blues became a central component of English popular music in the 1960s. 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? Blues records by African American artists were released in the United States in substantial numbers between 1920 and the late 1930s but were sold primarily to black consumers in large urban centres and the rural south. How then in an era before globalization when multinational record releases were rare did English teenagers in the early 1960s encounter the music of Robert Johnson Blind Boy Fuller Memphis Minnie and Barbecue Bob? Roberta Schwartz analyses the transmission of blues records to England from the first recordings to hit English shores to the end of the sixties. How did the blues largely banned from the BBC until the mid 1960s become popular enough to create a demand for re-released material by American artists? When did the British blues subculture begin and how did it develop? Most significantly how did the music become a part of the popular consciousness and how did it change music and expectations? The way that the blues and various blues styles were received by critics is a central concern of the book as their writings greatly affected which artists and recordings were distributed and reified particularly in the early years of the revival. 'Hot' cultural issues such as authenticity assimilation appropriation and cultural transgression were also part of the revival; these topics and more were interrogated in music periodicals by critics and fans alike even as English musicians began incorporating elements of the blues into their common musical language. The vinyl record itself under-represented in previous studies plays a major part in the story of the blues in Britain. Not only did recordings shape perceptions and listening habits but which artists were available at any given time also had an enormous impact on the British blues. Schwartz maps the influences on British blues and blues-rock performers and thereby illuminates the stylistic evolution of many genres of British popular music. | How Britain Got the Blues: The Transmission and Reception of American Blues Style in the United Kingdom

GBP 48.99
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A Blues Bibliography Second Edition: Volume 2

A Blues Bibliography Second Edition: Volume 2

This book provides a sequel to Robert Ford's comprehensive reference work A Blues Bibliography the second edition of which was published in 2007. Bringing Ford's bibliography of resources up to date this volume covers works published since 2005 complementing the first volume by extending coverage through twelve years of new publications. As in the previous volume this work includes entries on the history and background of the blues instruments record labels reference sources regional variations and lyric transcriptions and musical analysis. With extensive listings of print and online articles in scholarly and trade journals books and recordings this bibliography offers the most thorough resource for all researchers studying the blues. | A Blues Bibliography Second Edition: Volume 2

GBP 38.99
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English Rhythm and Blues Where Language and Music Come Together

English Rhythm and Blues Where Language and Music Come Together

Patrice Larroque hypothesizes that early blues singers may have been influenced by the trochaic rhythm of English. English is stressed and timed which means that there is a regular beat to the language just like there is a beat in a blues song. This regular beat falls on important words in the sentence and unimportant ones do not get stressed. They are “squeezed” between the salient words to keep the rhythm. The apparent contradiction between the fundamentally trochaic rhythm of spoken English and the syncopated ternary rhythm of blues may be resolved as the stressed syllables of the trochee (a stressed-unstressed sequence) is naturally lengthened and assumes the role of one strongly and one weakly stressed syllable in a ternary rhythm. The book suggests investigating the rhythm of English and the rhythm of blues in order to show how the linguistic rhythm of a culture can be reflected in the rhythm of its music. | English Rhythm and Blues Where Language and Music Come Together

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Persian Blues Psychoanalysis and Mourning

Persian Blues Psychoanalysis and Mourning

In Persian Blues Psychoanalysis and Mourning Gohar Homayounpour plays a theme and variations on loss love and family against the backdrop of Iran’s chaotic recent past. Homayounpour is simultaneously Shahrzad the fearless storyteller and Shahrzad’s analyst: subjecting fairy tales to fierce new insights while weaving an indigo thread through her own devastation on the death of her father and the wonders and horrors of motherhood. A blue thread or melody runs though the separations and emigrations of her family and patients driven or broken apart by war and likewise through the fraught world inhabited by Persian women. This book breaks new psychoanalytic ground offering a radical rejection of traditional clichés about Iran and Iranian women but its unsparing elegance transcends any political agenda bridging the ocean of a shared and tragic humanity. Persian Blues Psychoanalysis and Mourning will be of great interest to psychoanalysts and psychoanalytically informed readers as well as those interested in grief Iran and women’s experiences.

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The Periodical Press Revolution E. S. Dallas and the Nineteenth-Century British Media System

The Periodical Press Revolution E. S. Dallas and the Nineteenth-Century British Media System

This book explores a key aspect of journalism history from a sociological perspective: the rise of the periodical press. With a focus not on the economic and technological causes of this revolution but on the social and political consequences the book takes a global look at this key development in the British press. Taking as a point of departure the theory of E. S. Dallas who defined the periodical as 'the great event in modern history' the book explores these premises and conclusions regarding authorship publishing and readership considering the nineteenth century as a whole. After an introductory section discussing questions of theory and method the analysis first offers an overview of the quantitative growth of the periodical market whether measured in terms of publications readership or authorship before turning to a more detailed consideration of its qualitative determinants and effects again distinguishing the same three aspects. Offering new insight into this key turning point in journalism history this book will be of interest to all students and scholars of journalism and journalism history media history media and communication studies British history and modern history. | The Periodical Press Revolution E. S. Dallas and the Nineteenth-Century British Media System

GBP 130.00
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Music and Irish Identity Celtic Tiger Blues

Music and Irish Identity Celtic Tiger Blues

Music and Irish Identity represents the latest stage in a life-long project for Gerry Smyth focusing here on the ways in which music engages with particular aspects of Irish identity. The nature of popular music and the Irish identity it supposedly articulates have both undergone profound change in recent years: the first as a result of technological and wider industrial changes in the organisation and dissemination of music as seen for example with digital platforms such as YouTube Spotify and iTunes. A second factor has been Ireland’s spectacular fall from economic grace after the demise of the Celtic Tiger and the ensuing crisis of national identity. Smyth argues that if as the stereotypical association would have it the Irish have always been a musical race then that association needs re-examination in the light of developments in relation to both cultural practice and political identity. This book contributes to that process through a series of related case studies that are both scholarly and accessible. Some of the principal ideas broached in the text include the (re-)establishment of music as a key object of Irish cultural studies; the theoretical limitations of traditional musicology; the development of new methodologies specifically designed to address the demands of Irish music in all its aspects; and the impact of economic austerity on musical negotiations of Irish identity. The book will be of seminal importance to all those interested in popular music cultural studies and the wider fate of Ireland in the twenty-first century. | Music and Irish Identity Celtic Tiger Blues

GBP 39.99
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To Be Gifted and Learning Disabled Strength-Based Strategies for Helping Twice-Exceptional Students With LD ADHD ASD and More

To Be Gifted and Learning Disabled Strength-Based Strategies for Helping Twice-Exceptional Students With LD ADHD ASD and More

To Be Gifted and Learning Disabled is one of the most popular resources available on identifying and meeting the needs of twice-exceptional students. This updated third edition provides a comprehensive look at the complex world of students with remarkable gifts talents and interests who simultaneously face learning attention or social challenges from LD ADHD ASD and other disorders. Through case studies and years of research the authors present a rationale for using a strength-based talent-focused approach to meeting the needs of this special population. From a thorough description of twice-exceptionality and the unique learning patterns of these students to strategies for identification comprehensive programming talent development and instructional strategies this book explores the distinguishing strengths (yellows) and complex challenges (blues) that these students face. In painting green is a mix of yellows and blues. Because of their individual characteristics twice-exceptional students come in a remarkable range of greens. 2018 NAGC Book of the Year Award Winner | To Be Gifted and Learning Disabled Strength-Based Strategies for Helping Twice-Exceptional Students With LD ADHD ASD and More

GBP 26.99
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August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone

August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone

Herald Loomis you shining! You shining like new money! - Bynum Walker August Wilson considered Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (1984) to be his favourite play of the ten in his award-winning Pittsburgh Cycle. It is a drama that truly examines the roots crossroads and intersections of African American and African American culture. Its characters and choral griots interweave the intricate tropes of migration from the south to the north the effects of slavery black feminism and masculinity and Wilson's theme of finding one's song or identity. This book gives readers an overview of the work from its inception on through its revisions and stagings in regional theatres and on Broadway exploring its use of African American vernacular genres—blues music folk songs folk tales and dance—and nineteenth-century southern post-Reconstruction history. Ladrica Menson-Furr presents Joe Turner's Come and Gone as a historical drama a blues drama an American drama a Great Migration drama and the finest example of Wilson's gift for relocating the African American experience in urban southern cities at the beginning and not the end of the African American experience. | August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone

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Beggars Banquet and the Rolling Stones' Rock and Roll Revolution ‘They Call My Name Disturbance'

Beggars Banquet and the Rolling Stones' Rock and Roll Revolution ‘They Call My Name Disturbance'

The Rolling Stones’ Beggars Banquet is one of the seminal albums in rock history. Arguably it not only marks the advent of the ‘mature’ sound of the Rolling Stones but lays out a new blueprint for an approach to blues-based rock music that would endure for several decades. From its title to the dark themes that pervade some of its songs Beggars Banquet reflected and helped define a moment marked by violence decay and upheaval. It marked a move away from the artistic sonic flourishes of psychedelic rock towards an embrace of foundational streams of American music – blues country – that had always underpinned the music of the Stones but assumed new primacy in their music after 1968. This move coincided with and anticipated the ‘roots’ moves that many leading popular music artists made as the 1960s turned toward a new decade; but unlike many of their peers whose music grew more ‘soft’ and subdued as they embraced traditional styles the music and attitude of the Stones only grew harder and more menacing and their status as representatives of the dark underside of the 60s rock counterculture assumed new solidity. For the Rolling Stones the 1960s ended and the 1970s began with the release of this album in 1968. | Beggars Banquet and the Rolling Stones' Rock and Roll Revolution ‘They Call My Name Disturbance'

GBP 38.99
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Disability and Accessibility in the Music Classroom A Teacher's Guide

Disability and Accessibility in the Music Classroom A Teacher's Guide

Disability and Accessibility in the Music Classroom provides college music history instructors with a concise guide on how to create an accessible and inclusive classroom environment. In addition to providing a concise overview of disability studies highlighting definitions theories and national and international policies related to disability this book offers practical applications for implementing accessibility measures in the music history classroom. The latter half of this text provides case studies of well-known disabled composers and musicians from the Western Art Music canon from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century as well as popular music genres such as the blues jazz R&B pop country and hip hop. These examples provide opportunities to integrate discussions of disability into a standard music history curriculum. | Disability and Accessibility in the Music Classroom A Teacher's Guide

GBP 48.99
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Rock: The Primary Text Developing a Musicology of Rock

Rock: The Primary Text Developing a Musicology of Rock

This thoroughly revised third edition of Allan F. Moore's ground-breaking book now co-authored with Remy Martin incorporates new material on rock music theory style change and the hermeneutic method developed in Moore’s Song Means (2012). An even larger array of musicians is discussed bringing the book right into the 21st century. Rock's 'primary text' – its sounds – is the focus of attention here. The authors argue for the development of a musicology particular to rock within the context of the background to the genres the beat and rhythm and blues styles of the early 1960s 'progressive' rock punk rock metal and subsequent styles. They also explore the fundamental issue of rock as a medium for self-expression and the relationship of this to changing musical styles. Rock: The Primary Text remains innovative in its exploration of an aesthetics of rock. | Rock: The Primary Text Developing a Musicology of Rock

GBP 36.99
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Roots Music

Roots Music

When we talk about roots music what do we mean and what is at stake? Ethnomusicologist Mark F. DeWitt delves into these questions in an introductory bibliographic essay and selects twenty-one articles published between 1974 and 2010 that have advanced our knowledge and insight about this topic. The collection focuses on the nexus between popular musics in North America and Europe and the traditional musics that have been their foundation on both the real and imagined connections between the present and past: Olly Wilson and Gerhard Kubik on African American music Aaron Fox on country music Eric Lott on blackface minstrelsy Barry Shank on the elusive Bob Dylan. Works by Sara Cohen Beverley Diamond Peter Manuel Svanibor Pettan and others range on subjects from the accordion balladry and blues to Bulgarian folk orchestras flamenco gospel Irish sessions Native American women musicians the Roma Tex-Mex music and zydeco.

GBP 42.99
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Hip-Hop Authenticity and the London Scene Living Out Authenticity in Popular Music

Hip-Hop Authenticity and the London Scene Living Out Authenticity in Popular Music

This book explores the highly-valued and often highly-charged ideal of authenticity in hip-hop — what it is why it is important and how it affects the day-to-day life of rap artists. By analyzing the practices identities and struggles that shape the lives of rappers in the London scene the study exposes the strategies and tactics that hip-hop practitioners engage in to negotiate authenticity on an everyday basis. In-depth interviews and fieldwork provide insight into the nature of authenticity in global hip-hop and the dynamics of cultural appropriation globalization marketization and digitization through a combined set of ethnographic theoretical and cultural analysis. Despite growing attention to authenticity in popular music this book is the first to offer a comprehensive theoretical model explaining the reflexive approaches hip-hop artists adopt to ‘live out’ authenticity in everyday life. This model will act as a blueprint for new studies in global hip-hop and be generative in other authenticity research and for other music genres such as punk rock and roll country and blues that share similar issues surrounding contested artist authenticity. | Hip-Hop Authenticity and the London Scene Living Out Authenticity in Popular Music

GBP 42.99
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Art Into Pop

Art Into Pop

This book first published in 1987 tells the intriguing and culturally complex story of the art school influence on postwar British popular music. Following Romantic attitudes from life class to recording studio it focuses on two key moments – the early 1960s when art students like John Lennon and Eric Clapton begin to play their own versions of American rock and blues and inflected youth music with Bohemian dreams and the late 1970s when punk musicians emerged from design courses and fashion departments to disrupt what were by then art-rock routines. Sixties rock Bohemians and seventies pop Situationists were in their different ways trying to solve the art students’ perennial problem – how to make a living from their art. Art Into Pop shows how this problem has been shaped by the history of British art education from its nineteenth-century origins to current arguments about ‘pure’ and ‘applied’ training. In their simultaneous pursuit of authenticity and artifice art school musicians exemplify the postmodern condition the collapse of any distinction between ‘high’ and ‘low’ culture the confusions of personal and commercial creativity. And so high pop theorists rub shoulders here with low pop practitioners experimental musicians debate avant-garde ideas with corporate packagers and artistic integrity becomes a matter of making oneself up.

GBP 35.99
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The Disappearance of Moral Knowledge

The Disappearance of Moral Knowledge

Based on an unfinished manuscript by the late philosopher Dallas Willard this book makes the case that the 20th century saw a massive shift in Western beliefs and attitudes concerning the possibility of moral knowledge such that knowledge of the moral life and of its conduct is no longer routinely available from the social institutions long thought to be responsible for it. In this sense moral knowledge—as a publicly available resource for living—has disappeared. Via a detailed survey of main developments in ethical theory from the late 19th through the late 20th centuries Willard explains philosophy’s role in this shift. In pointing out the shortcomings of these developments he shows that the shift was not the result of rational argument or discovery but largely of arational social forces—in other words there was no good reason for moral knowledge to have disappeared. The Disappearance of Moral Knowledge is a unique contribution to the literature on the history of ethics and social morality. Its review of historical work on moral knowledge covers a wide range of thinkers including T. H Green G. E Moore Charles L. Stevenson John Rawls and Alasdair MacIntyre. But most importantly it concludes with a novel proposal for how we might reclaim moral knowledge that is inspired by the phenomenological approach of Knud Logstrup and Emmanuel Levinas. Edited and eventually completed by three of Willard’s former graduate students this book marks the culmination of Willard’s project to find a secure basis in knowledge for the moral life.

GBP 39.99
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Technology and the Stylistic Evolution of the Jazz Bass

Technology and the Stylistic Evolution of the Jazz Bass

Technology and the Stylistic Evolution of the Jazz Bass traces the stylistic evolution of jazz from the bass player’s perspective. Historical works to date have tended to pursue a ‘top down’ reading one that emphasizes the influence of the treble instruments on the melodic and harmonic trajectory of jazz. This book augments that reading by examining the music’s development from the bottom up. It re-contextualizes the bass and its role in the evolution of jazz (and by extension popular music in general) by situating it alongside emerging music technologies. The bass and its technological mediation are shown to have driven changes in jazz language and musical style and even transformed creative hierarchies in ways that have been largely overlooked. The book’s narrative is also informed by investigations into more commercial musical styles such as blues and rock in order to assess how and the degree to which technological advances first deployed in these areas gradually became incorporated into general jazz praxis. Technology and the Jazz Bass reconciles technology more thoroughly into jazz historiography by detailing and evaluating those that are intrinsic to the instrument (including its eventual electrification) and those extrinsic to it (most notably evolving recording and digital technologies). The author illustrates how the implementation of these technologies has transformed the role of the bass in jazz and with that jazz music as an art form.

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Independent Female Filmmakers A Chronicle through Interviews Profiles and Manifestos

Independent Female Filmmakers A Chronicle through Interviews Profiles and Manifestos

Independent Female Filmmakers collects original and previously published essays interviews and manifestos from some of the most defining and groundbreaking independent female filmmakers of the last 40 years. Featuring material from the seminal magazine The Independent Film and Video Monthly—a leading publication for independent filmmakers for several decades—as well as new interviews conducted with the filmmakers this book edited by Michele Meek presents a unique perspective into the ethnically and culturally diverse voices of women filmmakers whose films span narrative documentary and experimental genres and whose work remains integral to independent film history from the 1970s to the present. Independent Female Filmmakers also includes a biographical profile of each filmmaker as well as an online resource with links to additonal interviews and a sample course syllabus. The filmmakers in this book include: • Lisa Cholodenko (High Art The Kids Are All Right) • Martha Coolidge (Valley Girl Real Genius Introducing Dorothy Dandridge) • Cheryl Dunye (The Watermelon Woman Stranger Inside) • Miranda July (The Future Me And You And Everyone We Know) • Barbara Kopple (Harlan County USA Wild Man Blues) • Maria Maggenti (The Incredibly True Adventures of Two Girls in Love) • Deepa Mehta (Fire Earth Water) • Trinh T. Minh-ha (Surname Viet Given Name Nam Night Passage) . and more! | Independent Female Filmmakers A Chronicle through Interviews Profiles and Manifestos

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Law Culture and Africana Studies

Law Culture and Africana Studies

Ever since the first contacts between Europe and Africa African people have been confined to the fringes of Eurocentric experience in the Western mind. Much of what we have studied in African history and culture or literature and linguistics or politics and economics has been orchestrated from the standpoint of Europe's interests. Whether it is a matter of economics history politics geographical concepts or art Africans have been seen as peripheral. This volume reviews the past in order to evaluate the present and move ahead with appropriate policies for the future. The authors focus on issues of affirmative action legal culture theories of black culture and methodologies of scholarly work in Africana studies. Contents include: Cecil Blake The Culture Nexus Construct in Africana Studies Ronald Turner On Palatable Palliative and Paralytic Affirmative Action Grutter-Style Winston A. Van Horne Three Concepts of Legitimacy Robert E. Weems Jr. Africana Studies and the Quest for Black Economic Empowerment: What Can be Done Ula Y. Taylor Elijah Muhammad's Nation of Islam: Separatism Regendering and a Secular Approach to Black Power after Malcolm X Lewis R. Gordon Must Revolutionaries Sing the Blues? Thinking through Fanon and the Leitmotif of the Black Arts Movement Delores P. Aldridge Race Gender and Africana Theorizing and James L. Conyers Biography and Africology: Method and Interpretation. The volume concludes with reviews of significant recent scholarship on black history and culture. Law Culture and Africana Studies will have particular interest for scholars in the fields of American and European studies cultural studies history sociology and specialists in African-American studies.

GBP 130.00
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The Impact of Immigration on African Americans

The Impact of Immigration on African Americans

Immigration has significant consequences for all Americans but especially for African Americans. áThe sheer magnitude of immigration-it is the primary factor driving population growth-is so large that it directly or indirectly affects the economic political social and environmental circumstances of most Americans. áBut the geographic concentration of immigrants in urban areas and the economic concentration of immigrants in the low-wage sector of the labor market have special consequences for African Americans since they are especially likely to live in urban areas and to be low-wage workers. These effects can be both negative and positive. Immigration has sharply increased the supply of labor into the low-wage sector of the labor market which tends to reduce wages and employment opportunities for low-wage native workers. Employers may prefer hiring immigrants who are perceived to be hard working and uncomplaining to hiring African Americans. Immigrants can also increase the competition for scarce public services (especially education) on which African Americans depend. Yet immigration can also stimulate economic growth and urban revitalization which can increase job opportunities and spread an ideology of multiculturalism. Immigration can dilute the political power of African Americans but it can also strengthen the civil rights coalition. Immigration can benefit some groups while hurting others. This volume presents research and analysis that reflects and advances the debates about the economic and political consequences of immigration for African Americans. The contributors include Gerald Jaynes (Yale University) Vernon Briggs (Cornell University) Frank Bean and Jennifer Lee (University of California Irvine) Robert Cherry (Brooklyn College) Manuel Pastor (University of California Santa Cruz) and Enrique Marcelli (University of Massachusetts Boston) Steven Camarota (Center for Immigration Studies) Frank Morris (University of Texas Dallas) Steven Shulman (Colorado State University) and Hannes Johannsson (Office of the Comptroller of the Currency) and Lisa Catanzarite (University of California Los Angeles). | The Impact of Immigration on African Americans

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Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music America Changed Through Music

Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music America Changed Through Music

Released in 1952 the Anthology of American Folk Music was the singular vision of the enigmatic artist musicologist and collector Harry Smith (1923–1991). A collection of eighty-four commercial recordings of American vernacular and folk music originally issued between 1927 and 1932 the Anthology featured an eclectic and idiosyncratic mixture of blues and hillbilly songs ballads old and new dance music gospel and numerous other performances less easy to classify. Where previous collections of folk music both printed and recorded had privileged field recordings and oral transmission Smith purposefully shaped his collection from previously released commercial records pointedly blurring established racial boundaries in his selection and organisation of performances. Indeed more than just a ground-breaking collection of old recordings the Anthology was itself a kind of performance on the part of its creator. Over the six decades of its existence however it has continued to exert considerable influence on generations of musicians artists and writers. It has been credited with inspiring the North American folk revival—The Anthology was our bible asserted Dave Van Ronk in 1991 We all knew every word of every song on it—and with profoundly influencing Bob Dylan. After its 1997 release on CD by Smithsonian Folkways it came to be closely associated with the so-called Americana and Alt-Country movements of the late 1990s and early 2000s. Following its sixtieth birthday and now available as a digital download and rereleased on vinyl it is once again a prominent icon in numerous musical currents and popular culture more generally. This is the first book devoted to such a vital piece of the large and complex story of American music and its enduring value in American life. Reflecting the intrinsic interdisciplinarity of Smith’s original project this collection contains a variety of new perspectives on all aspects of the Anthology. | Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music America Changed Through Music

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Theory for Today's Musician Workbook

Theory for Today's Musician Workbook

Theory for Today’s Musician Third Edition recasts the scope of the traditional music theory course to meet the demands of the professional music world in a style that speaks directly and engagingly to today’s music student. It uses classical folk popular and jazz repertoires with clear explanations that link music theory to musical applications. The authors help prepare students by not only exploring how music theory works in art music but how it functions within modern music and why this knowledge will help them become better composers music teachers performers and recording engineers. This broadly comprehensive text merges traditional topics such as part writing and harmony (diatonic chromatic neo-tonal and atonal) with less traditional topics such as counterpoint and musical process and includes the non-traditional topics of popular music songwriting jazz harmony and the blues. The accompanying companion website provides interactive exercises that allow students to practice foundational theory skills. Written by experienced authors both active classroom teachers for many years Theory for Today’s Musician is the complete and ideal theory text to enable today’s student to accomplish their musical goals tomorrow. Updated and corrected throughout the Third Edition includes: Expanded coverage of atonality and serialism now separated into two chapters. Broadened treatment of cadences including examples from popular music. Substantially rewritten chapter on songwriting. Interactive features of the text simplified to two types Concept Checks and Review and Reinforcement for greater ease of use. New and updated musical examples added throughout. Charts illustrations and musical examples revised for increased clarity. Audio of musical examples now provided through the companion website. The accompanying Workbook offers exercises and assignments to accompany each chapter in the book. A companion website houses online tutorials with drills of basic concepts as well as audio. The paperback WORKBOOK is also paired with the corresponding hardback TEXTBOOK in a discounted PACKAGE (9780815371731). | Theory for Today's Musician Workbook

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Supergrow Essays and Reports on Imagination in America

Supergrow Essays and Reports on Imagination in America

Supergrow is a collection of fifteen essays that appeared between 1966 and 1969 in publications such as the American Scholar the New York Times Antioch Review Esquire and the Saturday Review. Author Benjamin DeMott discusses everything under the sun-music improving one's sex life violence in Mississippi theater student revolts-but a single theme unifies the material: people ought to use their imaginations more. The book starts from the assumption that our troubles stem from failures of the imagination. Overcome by mass media we are often too oblivious to fresh and original ideas. As DeMott states àthe right use of the constructive imagination increases the effectiveness of our energies enables people to anticipate moves and countermoves prevents them from becoming frozen into postures of intransigence or martyrdom which though possessing a æterrible beauty ' have as their main consequence the stiffening of resistance and the slowing of change. Supergrow is a sociological and political critique of various aspects of everyday life in America one informed by a powerful moral sensibility and an Emersonian sense of self-reliance. DeMott takes pop culture seriously but exhibits a refreshing unwillingness to go with the flow and get caught up in fashionable intellectual fads. Graced with a new introduction by the author Supergrow is an insightful work that is not afraid to tackle difficult subject matter. Whether discussing homosexuality racism popular music or child rearing Supergrow is well-reasoned perceptive and entertaining. As DeMott would hope it will stimulate the imagination. Devastating sustained profoundly witty resounding. New York Times Book Review I didn't think it possible for a long time to come for any writer to say anything about black-and-white relations or lack of them that had freshness and pertinence. I was wrong. Nat Hentoff Village Voice Benjamin DeMott is an essayist novelist and journalist. He was professor of English at Amherst College and a consultant and writer for National Educational Television. He is the author of The Body's Cage Killer Blues: Why Americans Can't Think Straight about Gender and Power and You Don't Say available from Transaction. | Supergrow Essays and Reports on Imagination in America

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The Materiality of Color The Production Circulation and Application of Dyes and Pigments 1400–1800

The Materiality of Color The Production Circulation and Application of Dyes and Pigments 1400–1800

Although much has been written on the aesthetic value of color there are other values that adhere to it with economic and social values among them. Through case studies of particular colors and colored objects this volume demonstrates just how complex the history of color is by focusing on the diverse social and cultural meanings of color; the trouble pain and suffering behind the production and application of these colors; the difficult technical processes for making and applying color; and the intricacy of commercial exchanges and knowledge transfers as commodities and techniques moved from one region to another. By emphasizing color's materiality the way in which it was produced exchanged and used by artisans artists and craftspersons contributors draw attention to the disjuncture between the beauty of color and the blood sweat and tears that went into its production circulation and application as well as to the complicated and varied social meanings attached to color within specific historical and social contexts. This book captures color's global history with chapters on indigo plantations in India and the American South cochineal production in colonial Oaxaca the taste for brightly colored Chinese objects in Europe and the thriving trade in vermilion between Europeans and Native Americans. To underscore the complexity of the technical knowledge behind color production there are chapters on the 'discovery' of Prussian blue Brazilian feather techné and wallpaper production. To sound the depths of color's capacity for social and cultural meaning-making there are chapters that explore the significance of black ink in Shakespeare's sonnets red threads in women's needlework samplers blues in Mayan sacred statuary and greens and yellows in colored glass bracelets that were traded across the Arabian desert in the late Middle Ages. The purpose of this book is to recover color's complex-and sometimes morally troubling-past and in doing so to restore a sense of wonder and appreciation for our colorful world. With its nuanced and complex depiction of how color operated within local contexts and moved across the globe this book will appeal to art historians social and cultural historians museum curators literary scholars rhetoric scholars and historians of science and technology. | The Materiality of Color The Production Circulation and Application of Dyes and Pigments 1400–1800

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