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The Choral Works Of Hamish Maccunn (1868–1916), Jennifer Oates
The Choral Works Of Hamish Maccunn (1868–1916), Jennifer Oates
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This article provides an overview of the partsongs of Hamish MacCunn and places them within the context of British choral music in the nineteenth century. A complete list of MacCunn's partsongs are included. To access the embedded sound files, access the article via the American Choral Review homepage.
Juan Luis Guerra And The Merengue: Toward A New Dominican National Identity, Raymond Torres-Santos, Cuny Dominican Studies Institute
Juan Luis Guerra And The Merengue: Toward A New Dominican National Identity, Raymond Torres-Santos, Cuny Dominican Studies Institute
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This research monograph offers a historical account about the development of merengue in the Dominican Republic from the late 1800’s to the present.
Music Student Shares Dream For Native Country, Aldemaro Romero Jr.
Music Student Shares Dream For Native Country, Aldemaro Romero Jr.
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No abstract provided.
Saxophone Elicits Passion Among Its Players, Aldemaro Romero Jr.
Saxophone Elicits Passion Among Its Players, Aldemaro Romero Jr.
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No abstract provided.
Retention And Invention In Bhojpuri Diasporic Music Culture: Perspectives From The Caribbean, India, And Fiji, Peter L. Manuel
Retention And Invention In Bhojpuri Diasporic Music Culture: Perspectives From The Caribbean, India, And Fiji, Peter L. Manuel
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Democratizing Indian Popular Music: From Cassette Culture To The Digital Era, Peter L. Manuel
Democratizing Indian Popular Music: From Cassette Culture To The Digital Era, Peter L. Manuel
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The history of Indian popular music constitutes in itself a significant development in modern culture, as this set of genres—especially but not only in their Bollywood forms—have been cherished by hundreds of millions of listeners not only in South Asia but internationally as well. At the same time, the trajectory of Indian popular music represents a dramatic case study of media culture as well, as its patterns of ownership, consumption, and even musical structures themselves have been conditioned by technological changes. Most striking is the way that a highly monopolized, streamlined, and homogeneous popular music culture dominated for several decades …
Music Cultures Of Mechanical Reproduction, Peter L. Manuel
Music Cultures Of Mechanical Reproduction, Peter L. Manuel
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Popular musics arc best understood as comprising those genres whose styles have evolved in an inextricable relation with their dissemination via the mass media and their marketing and sale on a mass-commodity basis. While much popular-music activity takes place independently of the mass media, other essential aspects of popular-music production and marketing arc inevitably inseparable from technologies of mechanical reproduction, which perforce condition aspects of music culture in general. Hence, just as one could speak of military cultures based around the stirrup, or later the firearm, or agrarian cultures based on the hoe, the ox, or the tractor, so do …
Popular Music Studies And The Problems Of Sound, Society And Method, Eliot Bates
Popular Music Studies And The Problems Of Sound, Society And Method, Eliot Bates
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Building on Philip Tagg’s timely intervention (2011), I investigate four things in relation to three dominant Anglophone popular music studies journals (Popular Music and Society, Popular Music, and the Journal of Popular Music Studies): 1) what interdisciplinarity or multidisciplinarity means within popular music studies, with a particular focus on the sites of research and the place of ethnographic and/or anthropological approaches; 2) the extent to which popular music studies has developed canonic scholarship, and the citation tendencies present within scholarship on both Western and non-Western popular musics; 3) the motivations for two scholarly groups, Dancecult and ASARP, to breakaway from …