Author: Library of Congress. Music DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Orchestral music
Languages : en
Pages : 694
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List of Orchestral Scores in the Library of Congress
Author: Library of Congress. Music DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Orchestral music
Languages : en
Pages : 694
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The Music Division
Author: Library of CongressMusic for Silent Films 1894-1929
Author: Gillian B. AndersonPublisher: www.Militarybookshop.CompanyUK
ISBN: 9781780394503
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
This is a high quality reprint of a fascinating book first published by The Library of Congress in 1988. Illustrated throughout.
Orchestral Music Catalogue
Author: Library of Congress. Music DivisionPublisher: New York : Da Capo Press
ISBN:
Category : Orchestral music
Languages : en
Pages : 680
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Music by Black Women Composers
Author: Helen Walker-HillPublisher: Center for Black Music Rsrch
ISBN: 9780929911045
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 128
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Union Class-list of the Libraries of the Library and Library Assistants' Associations
Author: Library AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classification
Languages : en
Pages : 48
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The Library as an Agency of Culture
Author: Thomas AugstPublisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299183042
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
This is a special issue of the journal American Studies. Ten papers examine the role of libraries in the communities they serve and in the lives of readers. They specifically discuss the library's relationship to noise, elitism, democracy, health, and gender. Particular attention is given to the library's position in different parts of the United States and during different historical periods. Contributors include scholars of American studies, library science, English, history, and communication. There is no index. There's a small discrepancy in the title shown on the cover and the one on the title page, which reads: "The Library as an Agency of Culture." Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
The Beautiful Music All Around Us
Author: Stephen WadePublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 025209400X
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 505
Book Description
The Beautiful Music All Around Us presents the extraordinarily rich backstories of thirteen performances captured on Library of Congress field recordings between 1934 and 1942 in locations reaching from Southern Appalachia to the Mississippi Delta and the Great Plains. Including the children's play song "Shortenin' Bread," the fiddle tune "Bonaparte's Retreat," the blues "Another Man Done Gone," and the spiritual "Ain't No Grave Can Hold My Body Down," these performances were recorded in kitchens and churches, on porches and in prisons, in hotel rooms and school auditoriums. Documented during the golden age of the Library of Congress recordings, they capture not only the words and tunes of traditional songs but also the sounds of life in which the performances were embedded: children laugh, neighbors comment, trucks pass by. Musician and researcher Stephen Wade sought out the performers on these recordings, their families, fellow musicians, and others who remembered them. He reconstructs the sights and sounds of the recording sessions themselves and how the music worked in all their lives. Some of these performers developed musical reputations beyond these field recordings, but for many, these tracks represent their only appearances on record: prisoners at the Arkansas State Penitentiary jumping on "the Library's recording machine" in a rendering of "Rock Island Line"; Ora Dell Graham being called away from the schoolyard to sing the jump-rope rhyme "Pullin' the Skiff"; Luther Strong shaking off a hungover night in jail and borrowing a fiddle to rip into "Glory in the Meetinghouse." Alongside loving and expert profiles of these performers and their locales and communities, Wade also untangles the histories of these iconic songs and tunes, tracing them through slave songs and spirituals, British and homegrown ballads, fiddle contests, gospel quartets, and labor laments. By exploring how these singers and instrumentalists exerted their own creativity on inherited forms, "amplifying tradition's gifts," Wade shows how a single artist can make a difference within a democracy. Reflecting decades of research and detective work, the profiles and abundant photos in The Beautiful Music All Around Us bring to life largely unheralded individuals--domestics, farm laborers, state prisoners, schoolchildren, cowboys, housewives and mothers, loggers and miners--whose music has become part of the wider American musical soundscape. The hardcover edition also includes an accompanying CD that presents these thirteen performances, songs and sounds of America in the 1930s and '40s.
Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
Author: Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1740
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