Author: Marcus Samuel Cam RickardsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Musical Echoes
Author: Marcus Samuel Cam RickardsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Musical Echoes
Author: Carol Ann MullerPublisher: Duke University Press Books
ISBN: 9780822348917
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Musical Echoes tells the life story of the South African jazz vocalist Sathima Bea Benjamin. Born in Cape Town in the 1930s, Benjamin came to know American jazz and popular music through the radio, movies, records, and live stage and dance band performances. She was especially moved by the voice of Billie Holiday. In 1962 she and Dollar Brand (Abdullah Ibrahim) left South Africa together for Europe, where they met and recorded with Duke Ellington. Benjamin and Ibrahim spent their lives on the move between Europe, the United States, and South Africa until 1977, when they left Africa for New York City and declared their support for the African National Congress. In New York, Benjamin established her own record company and recorded her music independently from Ibrahim. Musical Echoes reflects twenty years of archival research and conversation between this extraordinary jazz singer and the South African musicologist Carol Ann Muller. The narrative of Benjamin’s life and times is interspersed with Muller’s reflections on the vocalist’s story and its implications for jazz history.
Echoes
Author: Echoes of the Holocaust on the American Musical Stage
Author: Jessica HillmanPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786466022
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
With chapters on The Sound of Music, Milk and Honey, Fiddler on the Roof, Cabaret, The Rothschilds, Rags, Ragtime and The Producers, this book examines both direct and indirect references to, or resonances of, the Holocaust, tracing changing American attitudes through the chronological progression of these musical productions and their subsequent revivals. Despite the abundance of writing on both musical theatre history and on the difficulties of Holocaust representation, history and theatre scholars alike have thus far ignored the intersections of these areas. The academy thereby risks excluding precisely those works that shed the most light on our culture's evolving response to the Shoah, an event that still helps to define American identity. This book redresses this lapse by focusing on the theatrical form seen by the greatest amount of people--musicals--which either trigger or reflect changing American mores.
The Musical Record
Author: The Revolution’s Echoes
Author: Nomi DavePublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022665463X
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Music has long been an avenue for protest, seen as a way to promote freedom and equality, instill hope, and fight for change. Popular music, in particular, is considered to be an effective form of subversion and resistance under oppressive circumstances. But, as Nomi Dave shows us in The Revolution’s Echoes, the opposite is also true: music can often support, rather than challenge, the powers that be. Dave introduces readers to the music supporting the authoritarian regime of former Guinean president Sékou Touré, and the musicians who, even long after his death, have continued to praise dictators and avoid dissent. Dave shows that this isn’t just the result of state manipulation; even in the absence of coercion, musicians and their audiences take real pleasure in musical praise of leaders. Time and again, whether in traditional music or in newer genres such as rap, Guinean musicians have celebrated state power and authority. With The Revolution’s Echoes, Dave insists that we must grapple with the uncomfortable truth that some forms of music choose to support authoritarianism, generating new pleasures and new politics in the process.
Worch's Musical Monthly
Author: Brainard's Musical World
Author: Science
Author: John MichelsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 960
Book Description
Vols. for 1911-13 contain the Proceedings of the Helminothological Society of Washington, ISSN 0018-0120, 1st-15th meeting.
Eternal Echoes
Author: SADHGURU.Publisher: Penguin/Anand
ISBN: 9780670096466
Category : Indic poetry (English)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description