Performing Folk Songs

Author : Elizabeth Bennett
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-14
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781501390197

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Performing Folk Songs by Elizabeth Bennett Pdf

Performing Folk Songs is the first full-length volume to explore English folk singing from the perspective of performance studies. Using archival sources, family repertoire and recorded performances of interviewees, this book argues that archives and repertoires are produced in sensory environments and through embodied encounters. Autoethnography, sensory ethnography, life-writing and landscape writing are used to explore the affective and emotional aspects of learning songs 'by heart'. Drawing on her experience as a folk singer, Bennett contributes to discourse on English folk traditions in the 21st century and brings performance scholarship to the contemporary folk song resurgence. In analyzing the performance of English folk songs in the affective context of the archive and the landscape, the book engages with and contributes original insights to scholarship on folk music, performance studies, affect theory, cultural geography and intangible cultural heritage studies.

Author : Philip V. Bohlman
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1988-06-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0253112605

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The Study of Folk Music in the Modern World by Philip V. Bohlman Pdf

"[This book] is a contribution of considerable substance because it takes a holistic view of the field of folk music and the scholarship that has dealt with it." -- Bruno Nettl "... a praiseworthy combination of solid scholarship, penetrating discussion, and global relevance." -- Asian Folklore Studies "... successfully ties the history and development of folk music scholarship with contemporary concepts, issues, and shifts, and which treats varied folk musics of the world cultures within the rubric of folklore and ethnomusicology with subtle generalizations making sense to serious minds... " -- Folklore Forum "... [this book] challenges many carefully-nurtured sacred cows. Bohlman has executed an intellectual challenge of major significance by successfully organizing a welter of unruly data and ideas into a single, appropriately complex but coherent, system." -- Folk Music Journal Bohlman examines folk music as a genre of folklore from a broadly cross-cultural perspective and espouses a more expansive view of folk music, stressing its vitality in non-Western cultures as well as Western, in the present as well as the past.

Author : Elizabeth Bennett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Autobiography
ISBN : 150139021X

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Performing Folk Songs by Elizabeth Bennett Pdf

"The first book to explore folk singing from the perspective of performance studies, enabling original insights into the performance of folk songs, affect theory, archival research, autoethnography, intangible cultural heritage, and landscapes in performance"--

Author : George W. Senoga-Zake
Publisher : Uzima Publishing House
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Folk dance music
ISBN : 9966855025

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Folk Music of Kenya by George W. Senoga-Zake Pdf

Author : Jay Althouse
Publisher : Alfred Music
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2005-05-03
Category : Music
ISBN : 1457411873

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Ready to Sing . . . Folk Songs by Jay Althouse Pdf

A collection of 10 folk songs arranged for voice and piano in a simple style appropriate for beginning soloists, unison classroom singing, and elementary choral groups. Included are reproducible melody-line song sheets for each song. Easy piano accompaniments strongly support the melody, and vocal tessituras are moderate; most have an octave range. Titles: * Li'l Liza Jane * Siyahamba * Scarborough Fair * De Colores * and Many More!

Author : B. Paret
Publisher : Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1987-03
Category : Music
ISBN : 079355523X

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First Harp Book by B. Paret Pdf

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Author : Norman Cazden,Herbert Haufrecht,Norman Studer
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 694 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1982-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 0873955803

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Folk Songs of the Catskills by Norman Cazden,Herbert Haufrecht,Norman Studer Pdf

Traditional songs from the Catskill area of New York State are accompanied by detailed discusssions of their roots, development, musical structure, and subject matter

Author : Steve Roud
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780571309733

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Folk Song in England by Steve Roud Pdf

In Victorian times, England was famously dubbed the land without music - but one of the great musical discoveries of the early twentieth century was that England had a vital heritage of folk song and music which was easily good enough to stand comparison with those of other parts of Britain and overseas. Cecil Sharp, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Percy Grainger, and a number of other enthusiasts gathered a huge harvest of songs and tunes which we can study and enjoy at our leisure. But after over a century of collection and discussion, publication and performance, there are still many things we don't know about traditional song - Where did the songs come from? Who sang them, where, when and why? What part did singing play in the lives of the communities in which the songs thrived? More importantly, have the pioneer collectors' restricted definitions and narrow focus hindered or helped our understanding? This is the first book for many years to investigate the wider social history of traditional song in England, and draws on a wide range of sources to answer these questions and many more.

Author : Peter Harrop,Steve Roud
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 814 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-12
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000401592

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The Routledge Companion to English Folk Performance by Peter Harrop,Steve Roud Pdf

This broad-based collection of essays is an introduction both to the concerns of contemporary folklore scholarship and to the variety of forms that folk performance has taken throughout English history. Combining case studies of specific folk practices with discussion of the various different lenses through which they have been viewed since becoming the subject of concerted study in Victorian times, this book builds on the latest work in an ever-growing body of contemporary folklore scholarship. Many of the contributing scholars are also practicing performers and bring experience and understanding of performance to their analyses and critiques. Chapters range across the spectrum of folk song, music, drama and dance, but maintain a focus on the key defining characteristics of folk performance – custom and tradition – in a full range of performances, from carol singing and sword dancing to playground rhymes and mummers' plays. As well as being an essential reference for folklorists and scholars of traditional performance and local history, this is a valuable resource for readers in all disciplines of dance, drama, song and music whose work coincides with English folk traditions.

Author : Richard J. Watts,Franz Andres Morrissey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107112711

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Language, the Singer and the Song by Richard J. Watts,Franz Andres Morrissey Pdf

The relationship between language and music has much in common - rhythm, structure, sound, metaphor. Exploring the phenomena of song and performance, this book presents a sociolinguistic model for analysing them. Based on ethnomusicologist John Blacking's contention that any song performed communally is a 'folk song' regardless of its generic origins, it argues that folk song to a far greater extent than other song genres displays 'communal' or 'inclusive' types of performance. The defining feature of folk song as a multi-modal instantiation of music and language is its participatory nature, making it ideal for sociolinguistic analysis. In this sense, a folk song is the product of specific types of developing social interaction whose major purpose is the construction of a temporally and locally based community. Through repeated instantiations, this can lead to disparate communities of practice, which, over time, develop sociocultural registers and a communal stance towards aspects of meaningful events in everyday lives that become typical of a discourse community.

Author : Sayyid Hamid Hurriez
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136849145

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Folklore and Folklife in the United Arab Emirates by Sayyid Hamid Hurriez Pdf

A unique description and analysis of the domains and genres of UAE folklore, including folk customs and beliefs, traditional arts and crafts, folk dances, folk narratives and proverbs. Challenging the established meaning of folklife, this volume also deals with folklore in public life, in the mass media, in education and in politics.

Author : David W. Hughes
Publisher : Global Oriental
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2008-01-31
Category : Music
ISBN : 9789004217874

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Traditional Folk Song in Modern Japan by David W. Hughes Pdf

The Japanese say that ‘folk song is the heart’s home town’. Traditional folk songs (min’yo) from the countryside are strongly linked to their places of origin and continue to play a role there. Today, however, they are also taught as a quasi-art music, arranged for stage and television, quoted in Westernized popular songs and so forth.

Author : Richard A. Reuss,JoAnne C. Reuss
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 081083684X

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American Folk Music and Left-wing Politics, 1927-1957 by Richard A. Reuss,JoAnne C. Reuss Pdf

The 1930s and 1940s represented an era in United States history when large groups of citizens took political action in response to their social and economic circumstances. The vision, attitudes, beliefs and purposes of participants before, during, and after this time period played an important part of American cultural history. Richard and JoAnne Reuss expertly capture the personality of this era and the fascinating chronology of events in American Folk Music and Left-Wing Politics, 1927-1957, a historical analysis of singers, writers, union members and organizers and their connection to left-wing politics and folk music during this revolutionary time period. While scholarship on folk music, history, and politics is not unique in and of itself, Reuss' approach is noteworthy for its folklorist perspective and its long, encompassing assessment of a broad cross-section of participants and their interactions. An innovative and informative look into one of the most evocative and challenging eras in American history, American Folk Music and Left-Wing Politics, 1927-1957 stands as a historic milestone in this period's scholarship and evolution.

Author : Ralph Vaughan Williams
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2009-04-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780141932880

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English Folk Songs by Ralph Vaughan Williams Pdf

This collection is filled with songs that tell of the pleasures and pains of love, the patterns of the countryside and the lives of ordinary people. Here are unfaithful soldiers, ghostly lovers, whalers on stormy seas, cuckolds and tricksters. By turns funny, plain-speaking and melancholic, these songs evoke a lost world and, with their melodies provided, record a vital musical tradition. Generations of inhabitants have helped shape the English countryside - but it has profoundly shaped us too.It has provoked a huge variety of responses from artists, writers, musicians and people who live and work on the land - as well as those who are travelling through it.English Journeys celebrates this long tradition with a series of twenty books on all aspects of the countryside, from stargazey pie and country churches, to man's relationship with nature and songs celebrating the patterns of the countryside (as well as ghosts and love-struck soldiers).

Author : David Dicaire
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2010-03-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780786457373

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The Early Years of Folk Music by David Dicaire Pdf

This history of folk music looks at musicians, collectors and other figures from around the world. The book presents an overview of international folk roots and shows the contributions of the artists and the evolution of folk music as a force for political and social change. Profiles of Pete Seeger, Burl Ives, Woody Guthrie and others show how the stage was set for the American folk revival of the 1960s.