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Tag Archives: music
Welcome to our 2020 American Folklore Society Virtual Exhibit. Step inside to see our featured titles, journals, music, and more. Browse our newest American Folklore Studies titles, and use Promo Code AFS20 to get 50% off all our American Folklore … Continue reading
Q&A with Lydia R. Hamessley, Author of Unlikely Angel
in american history, author commentary, authors, banjo, biography, feminist studies, interviews, music, new books, Q&A
Tagged banjo, country music, feminism, interviews, music, Q&A, songwriters, UIP authors, women in music, women singers
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Lydia R. Hamessley, author of Unlikely Angel: The Songs of Dolly Parton, answers questions about her inspirations, Appalachian music, songwriting, and, of course, music legend Dolly Parton. Q: Why did you decide to write this book? Laurie Matheson, the Director … Continue reading
IBMA Virtual Exhibit
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Tagged banjo, Bill Monroe, bluegrass, exhibit, Foggy Mountain Boys, music, Peggy Seeger
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Welcome to the Press’s 2020 IBMA Virtual Exhibit. Step inside, and browse our extensive collection of bluegrass titles, author publications, playlists, and more. Also, enjoy 50% off all bluegrass titles, as well as the chance to buy three titles to … Continue reading
Q&A with Elizabeth A. Clendinning, Author of American Gamelan and the Ethnomusicological Imagination
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Tagged ethnomusicology, interviews, music, Q&A, UIP authors
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Elizabeth A. Clendinning, author of American Gamelan and the Ethnomusicological Imagination, answers questions about the intricacies of global ensembles, gaps between classroom discussions and real-life applications, and the cohesion of tradition and modernity. Q: Why did you decide to write … Continue reading
Marian Wilson Kimber Awarded Sight and Sound Subvention Award
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Tagged American music, author awards, award winners, awards, dance, drama, Elocutionists, gender studies, music, open access, opera, poetry, women, women in music
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Marian Wilson Kimber’s book The Elocutionists reclaimed a forgotten performance genre. From the mid-1800s to the 1940s, elocutionists recited poetry or drama with music to entertain audiences, in particular women’s groups. Women, in fact, dominated the art, and their purveyance … Continue reading
Black Opera Awarded Irving Lowens Book Award
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We are pleased to announce Black Opera: History, Power, Engagement by Naomi André has won the Society for American Music‘s Irving Lowens Book Award. From the SAM Bulletin:“Focusing on opera, this monograph explores important questions of how race, class and … Continue reading
Banjo Roots and Branches Awarded American Musical Instrument Society’s Nicholas Bessaraboff Prize
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Tagged African American Studies, African studies, award winners, awards, bluegrass, Caribbean studies, country music, folk music, folklore, music
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We are pleased to announce Banjo Roots and Branches edited by Robert B. Winans has won the American Musical Instrument Society’s Nicholas Bessaraboff Prize. The Nicholas Bessaraboff Prize is awarded annually for the most distinguished book-length work in English which … Continue reading
Chinatown Opera Theater in North America wins AMS Music in American Culture Award
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We’re pleased to announce that Chinatown Opera Theater in North America by Nancy Yunhwa Rao has been awarded the AMS Music in American Culture Award. The Music in American Culture Award honors each year a book of exceptional merit that both … Continue reading
If you like Fats Domino’s rollicking style of Fifties rhythm and blues, you owe it to yourself to try out The Complete Imperial Singles. It is a six-disc collection filled with the dozens of pop and R&B hits the New Orleans-based … Continue reading