Improvising Sabor

Author : Sue Miller
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781496832191

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Improvising Sabor by Sue Miller Pdf

Improvising Sabor: Cuban Dance Music in New York begins in 1960s New York and examines in rich detail the playing styles and international influence of important figures in US Latin music. Such innovators as José Fajardo, Johnny Pacheco, George Castro, and Eddy Zervigón dazzled the Palladium ballroom and other Latin music venues in those crucible years. Author Sue Miller focuses on the Cuban flute style in light of its transformations in the US after the 1959 revolution and within the vibrant context of 1960s New York. While much about Latin jazz and salsa has been written, this book focuses on the relatively unexplored New York charangas that were performing during the chachachá and pachanga craze of the early sixties. Indeed, many accounts cut straight from the 1950s and the mambo to the bugalú’s development in the late 1960s with little mention of the chachachá and pachanga’s popularity in the mid-twentieth century. Improvising Sabor addresses not only this lost and ignored history, but contends with issues of race, class, and identity while evaluating differences in style between players from prerevolution Cuban charangas and those of 1960s New York. Through comprehensive explorations and transcriptions of numerous musical examples as well as interviews with and commentary from Latin musicians, Improvising Sabor highlights a specific sabor that is rooted in both Cuban dance music forms and the rich performance culture of Latin New York. The distinctive styles generated by these musicians sparked compelling points of departure and influence.

Author : Georgia Volioti,Daniel G Barolsky
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-09
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781040085936

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Recorded Music in Creative Practices by Georgia Volioti,Daniel G Barolsky Pdf

Recorded Music in Creative Practices: Mediation, Performance, Education brings new critical perspectives on recorded music research, artistic practice, and education into an active dialogue. Although scholars continue to engage keenly in the study of recordings and studio practices, less attention has been devoted to integrating these newer developments into music curricula. The fourteen chapters in this book bring fresh insight to the art and craft of recording music and offer readers ways to bridge research and pedagogy in diverse educational, academic, and music industry contexts. By exploring a wide range of genres, methods, and practices, this book aims to demonstrate how engaging with recordings, recording processes, material artefacts, studio spaces, and revised music history narratives means we can promote new understandings of the past, more creative performance in the present, and freer collaboration and experimentation inside and outside of the recording studio; enhance creative teaching and learning; inform and stimulate reform of the institutional processes and structures that frame musical training; and ultimately promote more diverse music curricula and communities of practice. This book will be of value to educators, researchers, practitioners (performers, composers, recordists), students in music and music-related fields, recording enthusiasts, and readers with a keen interest in the subject.

Author : Olivier Julien,Olivier Bourderionnet
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-11
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781501365683

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Serge Gainsbourg by Olivier Julien,Olivier Bourderionnet Pdf

Serge Gainsbourg is arguably the Francophone songwriter whose contribution to the international appeal of French popular music has been the most significant in the post-war era. Sampled by Beck, De La Soul, Massive Attack and Fatboy Slim, remixed by Howie B. and David Holmes, translated by Mick Harvey, and covered by Iggy Pop, Donna Summer, Portishead, Madeleine Peyroux, the Pet Shop Boys and Franz Ferdinand, his music has crossed borders in a way no other modern French-language singer-songwriter's has. The interdisciplinary approach of Serge Gainsbourg: An International Perspective engages in a dialogue between musicology, film and media studies, literature, cultural studies, gender studies, and more, revealing the broad scope of Gainsbourg's impact in and outside of France, from the late 1950s through today. Bringing together a large selection of scholars from across the world, this collection of 26 chapters emphasizes his unique position in French culture, covering issues such as his musical influences and collaborations, esthetics and form, his experimentations with disciplines other than music (mainly film and literature), not to mention the conversation at play between high art and mass culture in this artist's multifaceted body of work.

Author : Hettie Malcomson
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-23
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780252054273

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Danzón Days by Hettie Malcomson Pdf

Older people negotiating dance routines, intimacy, and racialized differences provide a focal point for an ethnography of danzón in Veracruz, the Mexican city closely associated with the music-dance genre. Hettie Malcomson draws upon on-site research with semi-professional musicians and amateur dancers to reveal how danzón connects, and does not connect, to blackness, joyousness, nostalgia, ageing, and romance. Challenging pervasive utopian views of danzón, Malcomson uses the idea of ambivalence to explore the frictions and opportunities created by seemingly contrary sentiments, ideas, sensations, and impulses. Interspersed with experimental ethnographic vignettes, her account takes readers into black and mestizo elements of local identity in Veracruz, nostalgic and newer styles of music and dance, and the friendships, romances, and rivalries at the heart of regular danzón performance and its complex social world. Fine-grained and evocative, Danzón Days journeys to one of the genre’s essential cities to provide new perspectives on aging and romance and new explorations of nostalgia and ambivalence.

Author : Sue Miller
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780810884427

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Cuban Flute Style by Sue Miller Pdf

Richard Egües and José Fajardo are universally regarded as the leading exponents of charanga flute playing, an improvisatory style that crystallized in 1950s Cuba with the rise of the mambo and the chachachá. Despite the commercial success of their recordings with Orquesta Aragón and Fajardo y sus Estrellas and their influence not only on Cuban flute players but also on other Latin dance musicians, no in-depth analytical study of their flute solos exists. In Cuban Flute Style: Interpretation and Improvisation, Sue Miller—music historian, charanga flute player, and former student of Richard Egües—examines the early-twentieth-century decorative style of flute playing in the Cuban danzón and its links with the later soloistic style of the 1950s as exemplified by Fajardo and Egües. Transcriptions and analyses of recorded performances demonstrate the characteristic elements of the style as well as the styles of individual players. A combination of musicological analysis and ethnomusicological fieldwork reveals the polyrhythmic and melodic aspects of the Cuban flute style, with commentary from flutists Richard Egües, Joaquín Oliveros, Polo Tamayo, Eddy Zervigón, and other renowned players. Miller also covers techniques for flutists seeking to learn the style—including altissimo fingerings for the Boehm flute and fingerings for the five-key charanga flute—as well as guidance on articulation, phrasing, repertoire, practicing improvisation, and working with recordings. Cuban Flute Style will appeal to those working in the fields of Cuban music, improvisation, music analysis, ethnomusicology, performance and performance practice, popular music, and cultural theory.

Author : Lisandro Pérez
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781479874804

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Sugar, Cigars, and Revolution by Lisandro Pérez Pdf

Honorable Mention, 2019 CASA Literary Prize for Studies on Latinos in the United States, given by La Casa de las Américas The dramatic story of the origins of the Cuban community in nineteenth-century New York. More than one hundred years before the Cuban Revolution of 1959 sparked an exodus that created today’s prominent Cuban American presence, Cubans were settling in New York City in what became largest community of Latin Americans in the nineteenth-century Northeast. This book brings this community to vivid life, tracing its formation and how it was shaped by both the sugar trade and the long struggle for independence from Spain. New York City’s refineries bought vast quantities of raw sugar from Cuba, ultimately creating an important center of commerce for Cuban émigrés as the island tumbled into the tumultuous decades that would close out the century and define Cuban nationhood and identity. New York became the primary destination for Cuban émigrés in search of an education, opportunity, wealth, to start a new life or forget an old one, to evade royal authority, plot a revolution, experience freedom, or to buy and sell goods. While many of their stories ended tragically, others were steeped in heroism and sacrifice, and still others in opportunism and mendacity. Lisandro Pérez beautifully weaves together all these stories, showing the rise of a vibrant and influential community. Historically rich and engrossing, Sugar, Cigars, and Revolution immerses the reader in the riveting drama of Cuban New York. Lisandro Pérez analyzes the major forces that shaped the community, but also tells the stories of individuals and families that made up the fabric of a little-known immigrant world that represents the origins of New York City's dynamic Latino presence.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1996-05-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781476863122

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Connecting Chords with Linear Harmony by Anonim Pdf

(Jazz Book). A study of three basic outlines used in jazz improv and composition, based on a study of hundreds of examples from great jazz artists.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Jazz
ISBN : UOM:39015057469721

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Jazz Improv by Anonim Pdf

Author : Tony Skinner,Amanda Cook
Publisher : Registry Publications Ltd
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2006-03
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781898466703

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Early Stages Classical Guitar by Tony Skinner,Amanda Cook Pdf

All the music is shown in both traditional notation and tablature. All pieces are performed on the accompanying CD at both practice and performance speeds - you just listen and learn. A performance guide is provided to help you master the technical challenges, and understand the background to, each piece.Learn More About RGT.

Author : Catharine Fishel,Stacey King Gordon
Publisher : Rockport Publishers
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2007-03-01
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781616736453

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Little Book of Big Packaging Ideas by Catharine Fishel,Stacey King Gordon Pdf

A volume "packed" with insight and ideas The packaging industry is more competitive every day so creating a new package that is innovative, adds value, and makes a connection with the consumer is a challenge often met with limited success. Dynamic and unusual package designs can really make a statement in overcrowded markets. What makes a package successful? How do designers find the inspiration and execute the designs that really work? This compendium of package design answers all that and more. The content covers inspiration, process, design research, working with clients, planning, and execution of some of the most effective packages on the market today. Insight from top packaging designers worldwide is provided on pages that are packed with images of great designs. Unlike most packaging books, this volume is stuffed with content in a compact, portable, and easy-to-use format

Author : Robert Rawlins,Nor Eddine Bahha
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2005-07-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781476840871

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Jazzology by Robert Rawlins,Nor Eddine Bahha Pdf

(Jazz Instruction). A one-of-a-kind book encompassing a wide scope of jazz topics, for beginners and pros of any instrument. A three-pronged approach was envisioned with the creation of this comprehensive resource: as an encyclopedia for ready reference, as a thorough methodology for the student, and as a workbook for the classroom, complete with ample exercises and conceptual discussion. Includes the basics of intervals, jazz harmony, scales and modes, ii-V-I cadences. For harmony, it covers: harmonic analysis, piano voicings and voice leading; modulations and modal interchange, and reharmonization. For performance, it takes players through: jazz piano comping, jazz tune forms, arranging techniques, improvisation, traditional jazz fundamentals, practice techniques, and much more!

Author : Raul A. Fernandez
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2006-05-23
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780520939448

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From Afro-Cuban Rhythms to Latin Jazz by Raul A. Fernandez Pdf

This book explores the complexity of Cuban dance music and the webs that connect it, musically and historically, to other Caribbean music, to salsa, and to Latin Jazz. Establishing a scholarly foundation for the study of this music, Raul A. Fernandez introduces a set of terms, definitions, and empirical information that allow for a broader, more informed discussion. He presents fascinating musical biographies of prominent performers Cachao López, Mongo Santamaría, Armando Peraza, Patato Valdés, Francisco Aguabella, Cándido Camero, Chocolate Armenteros, and Celia Cruz. Based on interviews that the author conducted over a nine-year period, these profiles provide in-depth assessments of the musicians’ substantial contributions to both Afro-Cuban music and Latin Jazz. In addition, Fernandez examines the links between Cuban music and other Caribbean musics; analyzes the musical and poetic foundations of the Cuban son form; addresses the salsa phenomenon; and develops the aesthetic construct of sabor, central to Cuban music. Copub: Center for Black Music Research

Author : Frank Mantooth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Improvisation (Music)
ISBN : OCLC:1131129667

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Voicings for Jazz Keyboard by Frank Mantooth Pdf

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BNC:1001933371

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The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare Pdf

Author : Robin D. Moore
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 734 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520247109

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Music and Revolution by Robin D. Moore Pdf

Annotation A history of Cuban music during the Castro regime (1950s to the present.