Ballads And Blues
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Ballads And Blues
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Author : W. S. Rendra
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1974
Ballads And Blues written by W. S. Rendra and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974 with Indonesian poetry categories.
Ballads Blues And Beyond
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-09-30
Ballads Blues And Beyond written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-30 with categories.
Sheet music book of original songs.
Fragments And Meaning In Traditional Song
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Author : Mary-Ann Constantine
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2003-08-07
Fragments And Meaning In Traditional Song written by Mary-Ann Constantine and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-08-07 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This book takes a radical approach to the study of traditional songs. Folk song scholarship was originally obsessed with notions of completeness and narrative coherence; even now long narratives hold a privileged place in most folk song canons. Yet field notebooks and recordings (and, increasingly, publications) overwhelmingly suggest that apparently 'broken' and drastically shortened versions are not perceived as incomplete by those who sing them. Dealing with a wide range of traditions and languages, this study turns the focus on these 'dog-ends' of oral tradition, and looks closely at how very short texts convey meaning in performance by working the audience's knowledge of a highly allusive idiom. What emerges is the tenacity of meaning in the connotative and metaphorical language of traditional song, and the extraordinary adaptability of songs in different cultural contexts. Such pieces have a strong metonymic force: they should not be seen as residual 'last leaves' of a once-complete tradition, but as dynamic elements in the process of oral transmission. Not all song fragments remain in their natural environment, and this book also explores relocations and dislocations as songs are adapted to new contexts: a ballad of love and death is used to count pins in lace-making, song-snippets trail subversive meanings in the novels of Charles Dickens. Because they are variable and elusive to dating, songs have had little attention from the literary establishment: the authors show both how certain critical approaches can be fruitfully applied to song texts, and how concepts from studies in oral traditions prefigure aspects of contemporary critical theory. Like the songs themselves, this book crosses and recrosses the perceived divide between the literary and the oral. Coverage includes English, Welsh, Breton, American, and Finnish songs.
The Leadbelly Songbook
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Author : Leadbelly
language : en
Publisher: Music Sales
Release Date : 1962
The Leadbelly Songbook written by Leadbelly and has been published by Music Sales this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1962 with Music categories.
More than 70 songs by Huddie Ledbetter, with chord names and musical transcriptions by Jerry Silverman and biographical notes by Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Fred Ramsey, and Charles Smith. Includes: Midnite Special * Backwater Blues * John Henry * House of the Rising Sun * and more.
Ballads Blues Swan Songs
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Author : William Wiser
language : en
Publisher: Atheneum Books
Release Date : 1982
Ballads Blues Swan Songs written by William Wiser and has been published by Atheneum Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with African Americans categories.
Blues And Ballads
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Author : Robert Allen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1974
Blues And Ballads written by Robert Allen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974 with Poetry categories.
Roosevelt S Blues Africanamerican Blues And Gospel Songs On Fdr
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Author : Guido van Rijn
language : en
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 1997
Roosevelt S Blues Africanamerican Blues And Gospel Songs On Fdr written by Guido van Rijn and has been published by Univ. Press of Mississippi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with African Americans categories.
Nobody Knows Where The Blues Come From
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Author : Robert Springer
language : en
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 2009-09-23
Nobody Knows Where The Blues Come From written by Robert Springer and has been published by Univ. Press of Mississippi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-09-23 with Music categories.
Musicians and music scholars rightly focus on the sounds of the blues and the colorful life stories of blues performers. Equally important and, until now, inadequately studied are the lyrics. The international contributors to Nobody Knows Where the Blues Come From explore this aspect of the blues and establish the significance of African American popular song as a neglected form of oral history. “High Water Everywhere: Blues and Gospel Commentary on the 1927 Mississippi River Flood,” by David Evans, is the definitive study of songs about one of the greatest natural disasters in the history of the United States. In “Death by Fire: African American Popular Music on the Natchez Rhythm Club Fire,” Luigi Monge analyzes a continuum of songs about exclusively African American tragedy. “Lookin’ for the Bully: An Enquiry into a Song and Its Story,” by Paul Oliver traces the origins and the many avatars of the Bully song. In “That Dry Creek Eaton Clan: A North Mississippi Murder Ballad of the 1930s,” Tom Freeland and Chris Smith study a ballad recorded in 1939 by a black convict at Parchman prison farm. “Coolidge’s Blues: African American Blues from the Roaring Twenties” is Guido van Rijn’s survey of blues of that decade. Robert Springer's “On the Electronic Trail of Blues Formulas” presents a number of conclusions about the spread of patterns in blues narratives. In “West Indies Blues: An Historical Overview 1920s-1950s,” John Cowley turns his attention to West Indian songs produced on the American mainland. Finally, in “Ethel Waters: ‘Long, Lean, Lanky Mama,’” Randall Cherry reappraises the early career of this blues and vaudeville singer
The Original Blues
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Author : Lynn Abbott
language : en
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 2017-02-27
The Original Blues written by Lynn Abbott and has been published by Univ. Press of Mississippi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-27 with Music categories.
With this volume, Lynn Abbott and Doug Seroff complete their groundbreaking trilogy on the development of African American popular music. Fortified by decades of research, the authors bring to life the performers, entrepreneurs, critics, venues, and institutions that were most crucial to the emergence of the blues in black southern vaudeville theaters; the shadowy prehistory and early development of the blues is illuminated, detailed, and given substance. At the end of the nineteenth century, vaudeville began to replace minstrelsy as America's favorite form of stage entertainment. Segregation necessitated the creation of discrete African American vaudeville theaters. When these venues first gained popularity ragtime coon songs were the standard fare. Insular black southern theaters provided a safe haven, where coon songs underwent rehabilitation and blues songs suitable for the professional stage were formulated. The process was energized by dynamic interaction between the performers and their racially-exclusive audience. The first blues star of black vaudeville was Butler "String Beans" May, a blackface comedian from Montgomery, Alabama. Before his bizarre, senseless death in 1917, String Beans was recognized as the "blues master piano player of the world." His musical legacy, elusive and previously unacknowledged, is preserved in the repertoire of country blues singer-guitarists and pianists of the race recording era. While male blues singers remained tethered to the role of blackface comedian, female "coon shouters" acquired a more dignified aura in the emergent persona of the "blues queen." Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, and most of their contemporaries came through this portal; while others, such as forgotten blues heroine Ora Criswell and her protégé Trixie Smith, ingeniously reconfigured the blackface mask for their own subversive purposes. In 1921 black vaudeville activity was effectively nationalized by the Theater Owners Booking Association (T.O.B.A.). In collaboration with the emergent race record industry, T.O.B.A. theaters featured touring companies headed by blues queens with records to sell. By this time the blues had moved beyond the confines of entertainment for an exclusively black audience. Small-time black vaudeville became something it had never been before--a gateway to big-time white vaudeville circuits, burlesque wheels, and fancy metropolitan cabarets. While the 1920s was the most glamorous and remunerative period of vaudeville blues, the prior decade was arguably even more creative, having witnessed the emergence, popularization, and early development of the original blues on the African American vaudeville stage.
Body And Soul
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Author : Peter Stanfield
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 2005
Body And Soul written by Peter Stanfield and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Blues (Music) in motion pictures categories.
Alongside extensive, thought provoking, and lively analysis of some of the most popular jazz and blues songs of the 20th century, this text contains new work on blackface minstrelsy in early sound movies, racial representation and censorship, torch singers and torch songs, the Hollywood Left, and hot jazz.