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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “mark slobin”
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  • Music at Wesleyan

    From Glee Club to Gamelan

    by Mark Slobin ...
    Series series Garnet
    This is the first account of the evolution of music at Wesleyan University, a campus known since the mid-nineteenth century for its musical life—first as the "Singing College of New England" and then, after 1960, as the home of a renowned undergraduate and graduate department that integrates world music studies with more traditional Western and experimental musical forms. Through excerpts from ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Retuning Culture

    Musical Changes in Central and Eastern Europe

    Edited by Mark Slobin ...
    As a measure of individual and collective identity, music offers both striking metaphors and tangible data for understanding societies in transition—and nowhere is this clearer than in the recent case of the Eastern Bloc. Retuning Culture presents an extraordinary picture of this phenomenon. This pioneering set of studies traces the tumultuous and momentous shifts in the music cultures of Central ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Motor City Music

    A Detroiter Looks Back

    by Mark Slobin ...
    This is the first-ever historical study across all musical genres in any American metropolis. Detroit in the 1940s-60s was not just "the capital of the twentieth century" for industry and the war effort, but also for the quantity and extremely high quality of its musicians, from jazz to classical to ethnic. The author, a Detroiter from 1943, begins with a reflection of his early life with his ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Folk Music

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Mark Slobin ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    This VSI offers readers something no other introduction to folk music does: a cross-cultural, comparative approach, a survey of the basic issues as they have unfolded over time, and specific examples from widely differing sites of how folk musicians themselves, as well as corporations, non-governmental organizations, and governments have made full use of the available resources, older and newer ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • The 1956 Hungarian Revolution

    Hungarian and Canadian Perspectives

    Edited by Christopher Adam, Tibor Egervari, Leslie Laczko, Judy Young ...
    Series series International Canadian Studies Series
    In October 1956, a spontaneous uprising took Hungarian Communist authorities by surprise, prompting Soviet authorities to invade the country. After a few days of violent fighting, the revolt was crushed. In the wake of the event, some 200,000 refugees left Hungary, 35,000 of whom made their way to Canada. This would be the first time Canada would accept so many refugees of a single origin, setting ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • The Mountain of the Women

    Memoirs of an Irish Troubadour

    by Liam Clancy ...
    In an irresistible tale of a life lived fully, if not always wisely, Liam Clancy, of the legendary Irish group the Clancy Brothers, describes his eventful journey from a small town in Ireland in the 1930s into the heart of the New York music scene in the 1950s and ’60s.Following in the grand tradition of such Irish memoirs as Angela’s Ashes and Are You Somebody?, Liam Clancy relates his life’s ... Read more

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  • The Great Sea

    A Human History of the Mediterranean

    by David Abulafia ...
    Connecting Europe, Asia, and Africa, the Mediterranean Sea has been for millennia the place where religions, economies, and political systems met, clashed, influenced and absorbed one another. In this brilliant and expansive book, David Abulafia offers a fresh perspective by focusing on the sea itself: its practical importance for transport and sustenance; its dynamic role in the rise and fall of ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • A Documentary History of Communism in Russia

    From Lenin to Gorbachev

    Edited by Robert V. Daniels ...
    An extensive revision of the valued but unobtainable 1960 edition. Nearly 300 key documents are now readily available in translation. ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Writing about music, drinking about art

    by Glen Herbert ...
    The popular quip, repeated by a number of people, is that "writing about music is like dancing about art"--it's a fun thing to say, but is it true? Is there really no value in writing about music? This collection of reviews begins with an essay describing why music writing is vital to our understanding of what music is and its place within our culture. ... Read more

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  • Polish Armies of the Partitions 1770–94

    by Vincent W. Rospond ...
    Series series Men-at-Arms
    The tragic national epic of Polish history began in these late 18th-century wars.Under Poland's Saxon monarchy, Russia and Prussia constantly meddled in the affairs of the Kingdom. In 1768 a civil war broke out between pro-Russian 'Commonwealth' Poles and 'Confederate' patriots who opposed foreign intervention; Russia intervened directly, and the First Partition followed in 1772. Guerrilla ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Reds, Whites, and Blues

    Social Movements, Folk Music, and Race in the United States

    by William G. Roy ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology
    Music, and folk music in particular, is often embraced as a form of political expression, a vehicle for bridging or reinforcing social boundaries, and a valuable tool for movements reconfiguring the social landscape. Reds, Whites, and Blues examines the political force of folk music, not through the meaning of its lyrics, but through the concrete social activities that make up movements. Drawing ... Read more

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  • First Time Ever

    A Memoir

    by Peggy Seeger ...
    A SUNDAY TIMES AND TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEARSHORTLISTED FOR THE PENDERYN MUSIC BOOK PRIZEPeggy Seeger is one of folk music's most influential artists and songwriters. Born in New York City in 1935, she enjoyed a childhood steeped in music and left-wing politics - they remain her lifeblood. After college, she travelled to Russia and China - against US advice - before arriving in London, where she ... Read more

    $12.99 USD