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Outsider Art

From the Margins to the Marketplace

by David Maclagan
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2010

The term outsider art has been used to describe work produced exterior to the mainstream of modern art by certain self-taught visionaries, spiritualists, eccentrics, recluses, psychiatric patients, criminals, and others beyond the perceived margins of society. Yet the idea of such a raw, untaught...
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Dancing At the Crossroads

Memory and Mobility in Ireland

by Helena Wulff
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007

Dancing at the crossroads used to be young people's opportunity to meet and enjoy themselves on mild summer evenings in the countryside in Ireland until this practice was banned by law, the Public Dance Halls Act in 1935. Now a key metaphor in Irish cultural and political life, "dancing at the...
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by Achim von Arnim
Language: German
Release Date: July 21, 2012

Unter dem Titel Des Knaben Wunderhorn veröffentlichten Clemens Brentano und Achim von Arnim von 1805 bis 1808 eine Sammlung von Volksliedtexten in drei Bänden. Es enthält Liebes-, Soldaten-, Wander- und Kinderlieder vom Mittelalter bis ins 18. Jahrhundert. (aus wikipedia.de)
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A Florida Fiddler

The Life and Times of Richard Seaman

by Gregory Hansen
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2010

A musical life as glorious metaphor for Florida's cultural landscape. This biography of 97-year-old Richard Seaman, who grew up in Kissimmee Park, Florida, relies on oral history and folklore research to define the place of musicianship and storytelling in the state's history from one artist's...
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by Rosa Suen
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014

This is a Ukulele Christmas Song Book Two for parents and children to play together. After the success of putting out Ukulele Christmas Song Book One, I received a lot of requests to put together more Christmas and Holiday songs for Book Two. Here are another 20 all-time-favorite Christmas...
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Beyond The Waterfall

Extraordinary Tunes for Fiddle and Clawhammer Banjo

by Dan Levenson
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2017

You've played "Over the Waterfall," marched along to "Soldier's Joy" and perhaps even found your fortune while trotting along on that "Old Spotted Pony." Now it's time to take the next step; beyond the waterfall to the land of lesser-played tunes. Inside this volume...
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Embroidered Stories

Interpreting Women's Domestic Needlework from the Italian Diaspora

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Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014

For Italian immigrants and their descendants, needlework represents a marker of identity, a cultural touchstone as powerful as pasta and Neapolitan music. Out of the artifacts of their memory and imagination, Italian immigrants and their descendants used embroidering, sewing, knitting, and crocheting...
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by Chitra Balasubramaniam
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014

Scroll paintings were once considered visual aids which accompanied story telling by wandering mendicants or bards. Today, the story telling has come down considerably, what remains are the paintings. These are collector's pieces which grace many a wall or home or gallery. The paintings are beautiful,...
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by Soetsu Yanagi
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2019

The daily lives of ordinary people are replete with objects, common things used in commonplace settings. These objects are our constant companions in life. As such, writes Soetsu Yanagi, they should be made with care and built to last, treated with respect and even affection. They should be natural...
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by Tom Hanway
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2015

Cover of History of Music in Russia from Antiquity to 1800, Vol. 1
by Nikolai Findeizen
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2008

In its scope and command of primary sources and its generosity of scholarly inquiry, Nikolai Findeizen's monumental work, published in 1928 and 1929 in Soviet Russia, places the origins and development of music in Russia within the context of Russia's cultural and social history. Volume 2 of...
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Swamp Pop

Cajun and Creole Rhythm and Blues

by Shane K. Bernard
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1996

Cover of Klezmer!: Jewish Music from Old World to Our World
by Henry Sapoznik
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011

Klezmer! is the fascinating story of survival against the odds, of a musical legacy so potent it can still be heard dispite assimilation and near annihilation. The scratchy, distant sound of the early recordings discovered and studied by Henry Sapoznik have formed a soundtrack for an entirely new generation of performers.
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The High-Kilted Muse

Peter Buchan and His Secret Songs of Silence

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Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2010

In 1832 the Scottish ballad collector Peter Buchan of Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, presented an anthology of risqué‚ and convivial songs and ballads to a Highland laird. When Professor Francis James Child of Harvard was preparing his magisterial edition of The English and Scottish Popular Ballads,...
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