The World of South African Music : a Reader by Lucia, Christine

Table of Contents: “…PART 2 APARTHEID AND MUSICOLOGYA NEW ERA FOR MUSIC AND MUSICIANS; THE STATE OF FOLK MUSIC IN BANTU AFRICA; COLUMBIA DANCE HALL, MARABASTAD; OCARINA MUSIC OF THE VENDA; KING KONG; AFRICA, MUSIC, AND SHOW BUSINESS; TONAL ORGANISATION IN VENDA INITIATION MUSIC; REMINISCENCES OF HEALDTOWN; PRINCESS CONSTANCE MAGOGO; EVIDENCE OF STYLISTIC CONTINUITY IN ZULU 'TOWN' MUSIC; ASPECTS OF AFRIKAANS MUSIC; WAIT A MINIM AND KING KONG; THE CORRELATION OF FOLK AND ART MUSIC AMONG AFRICAN COMPOSERS; THE FAK AND AFRIKAANS MUSIC; THE MUSIC OF NTSIKANA; HIGHBREAKS; CHRISTIAN SCHUBART AND THE CAPE.…”
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Balkan popular culture and the Ottoman ecumene : music, image, and regional political discourse

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Music and protest in 1968

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Irish ethnologies

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When we were birds : poems by Wilkins, Joe

Table of Contents: “…Series Editor's Preface -- Acknowledgments -- My Son Asks for the Story about When We Were Birds -- I -- Eat Stone and Go On -- Note to My Unborn Son concerning Quickening -- Ragged Point Road -- An Ode for Leaving the Place You Call Home -- Leviathan -- The Day We Finish Painting the Bedroom, My Wife's Father E-mails Us His Suicide Note -- Note to My Son concerning Our First Birthing Class -- Complaint with the Turning of the Season & Shined Shoes -- Drought -- The Gospel according to Kelly, Night Shift Manager, Forest City Fuel & Foods -- II -- Note to My Unborn Son concerning Manufacturing Economics and Courage -- J & W Redemption, Highway 9, North Iowa -- With the Kisses of Many -- Today, the Neighbor Girl Wore a Blue Dress, and Her Doll Was Naughty at Tea -- Note to My Unborn Son concerning the Fundamental Project of Democracy -- Fishcutter -- Me & Mississippi -- Littlelight -- Prairie Race Relations, Lodge Grass, One Sunday Afternoon -- Like Bread the Light -- III -- Note to My Unborn Son concerning Winter, Grief, & Spring -- Poem thinning out into prayer -- Anyone who has eyes for seeing should see -- The Can Picker, 1st & Cowls -- Note to My Unborn Son concerning the Peculiarities of Faith -- Caddo River Elegy -- Encomium, Driving Highway 49 South -- Note to My Unborn Son concerning the Second Law of Thermodynamics -- Absence -- Note to My Unborn Son concerning Time, Fear, and Impending Fatherhood -- The Garage Sale Daze Meditations -- Note to My Unborn Son concerning Canadian Folk Music -- IV -- Six Days' Lament -- Each Word Holds the World -- Complaint with Exhaustion & Amateur Theology -- Colic -- Missouri River -- A Story We Might Follow -- Complaint with Parking Lot Vegetable Stand & Child's Cry -- Complaint with Drought and Economic Downturn -- Arguing with James Baldwin the Day after the Reelection of Barack Obama.…”
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Kodály today : a cognitive approach to elementary music education by Houlahan, Mícheál, Tacka, Philip

Table of Contents: “…The Kodály Concept and the Common Core StandardsLesson Planning; Key Components of Lesson Plan Designs; Discussion Questions; Ongoing Assignment; Connections to Grade Handbooks; Bibliography; 2 Developing a Music Repertoire of Songs for the Elementary Music Classroom; Folk Music in the Classroom; Selecting Music for Classroom Use; Creating an Alphabetized Song Repertoire List for Each Grade; Analyzing Song Repertoire; Performance and Notation of Folk Songs; Lesson Planning; Connections to Grade Handbooks; Discussion Questions; Ongoing Assignment; Bibliography.…”
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The man in song : a discographic biography of Johnny Cash by Alexander, John M., 1956-

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Music in the Balkans by Samson, Jim

Table of Contents: “…. -- In Extremis: The Singular Case of Albania -- Administered Music: Performing Communism -- Composers on Message -- Chapter Seventeen Diverging Paths -- Traffic with Moscow -- The Acolyte: Bulgarian Bridges -- The Zealot: Albanian Austerities -- The Maverick: Romanian Renewals -- Chapter Eighteen Another Try -- Politics versus Culture: The Second Yugoslavia -- The Dark Decade: Mainly Serbia -- In from the Cold: Mainly Croatia, a Little Slovenia, and Back to Serbia -- Catching Up: Other Republics -- Chapter Nineteen Birthright of the People -- Orchestras: Classicising Traditional Music -- Newly Composed Folk Music -- Simulacra: Wedding Music and More -- Chapter Twenty One Got Away -- Popular Art Music: Theodorakis at Large -- Art Music: Modernism is Official -- Popular Music: Rebetika and Beyond -- Part Five Global Balkans -- Chapter Twenty-One All Change -- Brave New World -- Another Balkans: The Diasporic Imagination -- Composers in Exile -- Chapter Twenty-Two Conservation -- Who Needs Classical Music? …”
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Pacific citizens : Larry and Guyo Tajiri and Japanese American journalism in the World War II era by Tajiri, Larry, 1914-1965

Table of Contents: “…Vagaries: U.S. Nisei Lack Own Folk Music, Pacific Citizen, June 4, 1942 -- 5. Nisei USA, Pacific Citizen, June 25, 1942 -- 6. …”
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The pop, rock, and soul reader : histories and debates by Brackett, David

Table of Contents: “…The 1950s: Country music as folk music, country music as novelty -- Country music approaches the mainstream -- Hank Williams on songwriting -- Rhythm and blues in the early 1950s : B.B. …”
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The WPA guide to Kentucky

Table of Contents: “…Kentucky: The General Background; KENTUCKIANS; NATURAL SETTING; Animal Life; Plant Life; Geology and Paleontology; ARCHEOLOGY AND INDIANS; HISTORY; AGRICULTURE; TRANSPORTATION; MANUFACTURING AND MINING; LABOR; THE NEGRO; RELIGION; EDUCATION; FOLKLORE AND FOLK MUSIC; KENTUCKY THOROUGHBREDS; PRESS AND RADIO; Radio; THE ARTS; The Theater; Painting and Sculpture; Literature; Architecture; Part II. …”
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The new encyclopedia of Southern culture. Volume 12, Music

Table of Contents: “…Black music -- Bluegrass -- Blues -- Cajun music -- Classical music and opera -- Country music -- Black dance -- Development of dance -- Folk music festivals -- Black gospel music -- White gospel music -- Hip-hop and rap -- Honky-tonk music -- Jazz -- Minstrelsy -- Música Tejana -- Music industry -- Protest music -- R & B -- Radio -- Ragtime -- Rockabilly -- Rock and roll -- Sacred harp -- Soul music -- Southern rock -- Spirituals -- Square dancing and clogging -- Western swing -- Zydeco -- Accordion -- Roy Acuff -- Alvin Ailey -- All-day singing -- Mose Allison -- Allman Brothers Band -- Louis Armstrong -- Arrested Development -- Austin City Limits -- Gene Autry -- DeFord Bailey -- Etta Baker -- Dewey Balfa -- Banjo -- Beach music -- Beale Street -- Sidney Bechet -- Blackwood Brothers -- Bobby "Blue" Bland -- Blues-singing women -- Buddy Golden -- Garth Brooks -- James Brown -- Albert Brumley -- Jimmy Buffet -- Chester Arthur (Howlin' Wolf) Burnett -- R.L. …”
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The country music reader by Stimeling, Travis D.

Table of Contents: “…Green -- "Coast country biz booms" (1957) -- "Bluegrass background : folk music with overdrive" (1959) / Alan Lomax -- The storyteller's Nashville, on song writing and song plugging (1979) / Tom T. …”
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Encyclopedia of Jewish folklore and traditions

Table of Contents: “…Cahan ; Cain and Abel ; Jews of Canada ; Cemetery ; Books of charms ; The wise of Chelm ; Circumcision and birth ceremony for girls ; Costume ; Jews of Czechoslovakia ; King David ; Death ; Demon ; Demonology ; Jewish-American dialect stories ; Dreams ; Alter Druyanow ; Alan Dundes ; Dybbuk ; Edot : a quarterly for folklore and ethnology ; Egg ; Elijah the prophet ; Elisha Ben-Avuyah ; Ellis Island ; Esther ; Esther scroll ; Estherke ; Jews of Ethiopia ; Eve ; Exemplum ; Fable ; Folk art ; Folk belief ; Jewish and Israeli folk dance ; Folk medicine ; Folk music and song ; Folk narratives in Israel ; Rolk narratives in Rabbinic literature ; Folk narratives in the Bible ; Folk narratives in the Middle Ages ; Immigration and absorption folk narratives ; Sephardi folk narratives ; Judeo-Spanish (Ladino) folk songs and poetry ; North African folk songs and poetry ; Israeli folk songs ; Food and foodways ; Gizela Frenkel ; Moses Gaster ; Theodor H. …”
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Rockin' out : popular music in the USA by Garofalo, Reebee

Table of Contents: “…In the Name of Love" -- Folk Music: the voice of civil rights -- "The Times They Are A-Changin'" -- The British invasion occupies the pop charts -- Breaking the sounds of silence: new voices in the music -- Folk rock: adding substance to form -- Black (music) is beautiful -- "(I Got You) I Feel Good" -- Latino rock 'n' roll: from the Southwest to the Spanish Caribbean -- "Oye Como Va" -- Rock and revolution: the counterculture -- Blues on acid: Psychedelic rock -- Commercializing the counterculture: Sgt. …”

The migration of musical film : from ethnic margins to American mainstream by Garcia, Desirée J., 1977-

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