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Ṣabāḥ Fakhrī

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...Sabah Fakhri is a Syrian singer, famous in the Arab world for modernizing and popularizing traditional Arab music, and one of the few artists to have gained global popularity by singing in the Arab language. Because Fakhri’s career...

Ukulele (Ukelele)

Karl Neuenfeldt

Karl Neuenfeldt

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Mike Brocken

Mike Brocken

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Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Volume II : Performance and Production

Continuum, 2003

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...As a multi-stringed, fretted instrument, the ukulele is capable of playing complex melodies, rhythms and chords. Due to its relatively small size, it is sonically a ‘soft’ instrument. Its timbre and tone vary depending on the kind of wood...

Stephen Foster

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...Few songwriters can claim as important a space in the Great American Songbook as Stephen Foster. His career, which lasted from 1848 until his death in 1864, produced over 200 songs, many of which have been continually recorded since. Born...

Qudūd Ḥalabiyya

Jonathan Shannon

Jonathan Shannon

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Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Volume X : Genres: Middle East and North Africa

Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

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...The qudūd ḥalabiyya (sing. qadd ḥalabī, or Aleppine qadd) are a genre of popular song performed widely in Syria and elsewhere in the Arab East. Like the muwashshaḥ, the qudūd ḥalabiyya are sung in both standard...

Fugazi's In on the Kill Taker

Joe Gross

Joe Gross has written for Spin, Rolling Stone, the Village Voice, the Washington City Paper, Radio On, and more. He covers culture, popular and un-, for the Austin American-Statesman, among other places, and lives with his family in Austin, TX, USA. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Bloomsbury Academic, 2018

33 1/3 Books

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...By June 1993, when Washington, D.C.’s Fugazi released their third full-length album In on the Kill Taker, the quartet was reaching a thunderous peak in popularity and influence. With two EPs (combined into the classic CD 13 songs) and two...

Bubblegum

Lizabé Lambrechts

Lizabé Lambrechts

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Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Volume XII : Genres: Sub-Saharan Africa

Bloomsbury Academic, 2019

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...Bubblegum, or township pop as it is also called, is a musical style that developed in South Africa during the 1980s. Largely popular among urban black youth, bubblegum shares certain similarities with disco pop or bubblegum elsewhere...

Cymbal

Rick Mattingly

Rick Mattingly

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Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Volume II : Performance and Production

Continuum, 2003

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...Introduction One of the most ancient of instruments, dating back some 5,000 years, the cymbal is a round ‘plate’ made of bronze that can be used in pairs, which are crashed together, or mounted individually on a stand and struck...

Mawwāl

Sami Asmar

Sami Asmar

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Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Volume X : Genres: Middle East and North Africa

Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

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...Mawwāl is a traditional Arab improvisatory free-rhythm vocal genre performed by a soloist, typically using colloquial poetic text on love themes. It is likely named after the mawalī performers...

Oklahoma City, OK

George O. Carney

George O. Carney

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Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Volume IV : Locations: North America

Continuum, 2016

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...Population: city – 469,850 (1996); metropolitan area – 1,000,000 (1996) Oklahoma City is the capital of Oklahoma and the state’s largest city. Located in the central part of the state at the crossroads of two major...

Aretha Franklin

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...The sound of R & B/soul music in the late 1960s would have been completely different if not for the career of Aretha Franklin. Aretha was born in Memphis, Tennessee. Her father was C. L. Franklin (a civil rights activist and preacher...