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Folk Music

Roberts Vaughan S.

Roberts Vaughan S.

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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Religion and Popular Music

Bloomsbury Academic, 2017

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...The word ‘folk’ embraces a wide range of meaning. As Mark Slobin, Professor of Music at Wesleyan University, observes in his introduction to folk music: ‘Sometimes it just means “people” in general, while other early citations suggest...

Paganism and Popular Music

Weston Donna

Weston Donna

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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Religion and Popular Music

Bloomsbury Academic, 2017

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...Despite popular music being central to a wide range of cultural practices, very little academic literature examines its relationship to contemporary Paganism. And yet, as noted in Pop Pagans: Paganism and Popular Music, the first academic...

Bretagne (Brittany)

André J.M. Prévos

André J.M. Prévos

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Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Volume VII : Locations: Europe

The Continuum International, 2016

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...Population: 2,795,738 (1999) The French province of Bretagne (Brittany), as well as the so-called ‘administrative region’ of France bearing the same name, covers 10,505 sq miles (27,208 sq km). It includes four...

Field Recording and the Production of Place

Tom Western

Tom Western

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Critical Approaches to the Production of Music and Sound

Bloomsbury Academic, 2018

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...Introduction 1955. The advent of rock (Peterson 1990), but also a significant year in the histories of world music and of field recording. That same year, Columbia Records released The Columbia World Library of Folk and Primitive Music...

“The Anti-Slavery Act of 2002”: Private Prisons and Social Justice According to Si Kahn

Rachel Lee Rubin

Rachel Lee Rubin is Professor of American Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston, USA, and Director of the Center for the Study of Humanities, Culture, and Society. She has published and taught extensively on popular music, popular culture, and culture of the American left. Rubin is a regular media commentator on popular culture and public affairs. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Creative Activism : Conversations on Music, Film, Literature, and Other Radical Arts

Bloomsbury Academic, 2018

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...“Prisons have become the solution of choice to every single social issue that we have in this country,” musician and organizer Si Kahn told me. Born in 1944, Kahn has been, for the past forty years, a part-time folksinger and a full-time...

Dispositives of Sound: Folk Music Collections, Radio, and the National Imagination, 1890s–1960s

Johannes Müske

Johannes Müske

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Music Radio : Building Communities, Mediating Genres

Bloomsbury Academic, 2019

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...‘I did not know that Count Arco had such a beautiful voice!’ – the German empress was astounded when she and her husband witnessed one of the first successful music radio...

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

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...Considered the “brightest star in qawwali,” a genre of Sufi devotional music, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan continued his family’s multi-century tradition of singing. Born in Punjab, Pakistan in 1948, Khan had his first public performance at age...

Armenian Folk Music

Jonathan Mccollum

Jonathan Mccollum

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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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...This article deals with the Soviet impact on Armenian folk music during and after Soviet rule in Armenia. It should be noted that ‘folk’ music, in this context, was often performed by experts and distributed through commercial recordings...

The Carter Family

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...In the early era of country music recording, the Carter Family became stars and, by the time of the 1960s folk revival, stood as representations of a past musical culture. In 1927, A. P., Sara, and Maybelle Carter went from Virginia...

Hobart

Bruce Johnson

Bruce Johnson

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Phil Grinham

Phil Grinham

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Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Volume V : Locations: Asia and Oceania

Continuum, 2016

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...Population: 197,282 (2001) Hobart is at the mouth of the Derwent River, on the south coast of Australia’s largest offshore island, the state of Tasmania (formerly Van Diemen’s Land), south of Melbourne....