Author: Martha MierPublisher: Alfred Music
ISBN: 1457415976
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 4
Book Description
Expertly arranged piano solo for any early intermediate piano student.
Frontier Frolic
Author: Martha MierPublisher: Alfred Music
ISBN: 1457415976
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 4
Book Description
Expertly arranged piano solo for any early intermediate piano student.
Hoedowns, Reels, and Frolics
Author: Phil JamisonPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252097327
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
In Hoedowns, Reels, and Frolics, old-time musician and flatfoot dancer Philip Jamison journeys into the past and surveys the present to tell the story behind the square dances, step dances, reels, and other forms of dance practiced in southern Appalachia. These distinctive folk dances, Jamison argues, are not the unaltered jigs and reels brought by early British settlers, but hybrids that developed over time by adopting and incorporating elements from other popular forms. He traces the forms from their European, African American, and Native American roots to the modern day. On the way he explores the powerful influence of black culture, showing how practices such as calling dances as well as specific kinds of steps combined with white European forms to create distinctly "American" dances. From cakewalks to clogging, and from the Shoo-fly Swing to the Virginia Reel, Hoedowns, Reels, and Frolics reinterprets an essential aspect of Appalachian culture.
Merchant Vessels of the United States
Author: Paul Whiteman
Author: Don RaynoPublisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 0810883228
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 894
Book Description
In a career that spanned 60 years, Paul Whiteman changed the landscape of American music, beginning with his million-selling recordings in the early 1920s of “Whispering,” “Japanese Sandman,” and “Three O’Clock in the Morning.” Whiteman would then introduce “symphonic jazz,” a powerful blend of the classical and jazz idioms that represented a whole new approach to modern American music, influencing generations of bandleaders and composers. While some hold that at the close of the Roaring Twenties Whiteman’s musical hegemony quickly waned, Don Rayno illustrates in this second volume of Paul Whiteman: Pioneer in American Music how much of a dominant figure Whiteman remained. A major figure on the American music scene for decades to come, he would continue to lead critically-acclaimed orchestras, filling theaters and concert halls alike and diligently seeking out and nurturing musical talent on the largest scale of any orchestra leader in the 20th century. In this second volume of Rayno’s magisterial treatment of the life and music of this remarkable maestro, Whiteman’s career during the second half of his life is explored in the fullest detail, as Whiteman conquers the worlds of theater and vaudeville, the concert hall, radio, motion pictures, and television, winning accolades in all of them. Through hundreds of interviews, extensive documentation, and exhaustive research of over nearly three decades, a portrait emerges of one of American music’s most important musical figures during the last century. Rayno paints a stunning portrait of Whiteman’s considerable accomplishments and far-reaching influence.
Merchant Vessels of the United States
Author: United States. Coast GuardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Merchant marine
Languages : en
Pages : 1438
Book Description
Davy Crockett
Author: George Edward StanleyPublisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9781402754999
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
A biography of Davy Crockett, who grew to be a legend on America's colonial frontier.
Frontier Fun and Frolic in Nebraska from 1850-1899
Author: Russ LeonhardtPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
Abraham Lincoln
Author: William Eleroy CurtisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Presidents
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
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