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Title:

Roots music / edited by Mark F. DeWitt.

Publisher:

Ashgate,

Copyright Date:

c2011

Description:

xxxiv, 502 p. : ill., music ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Folk music--United States--History and criticism.
Popular music--United States--History and criticism.
Ethnicity in music.
Music and race.
Ethnomusicology.

Other Authors:

DeWitt, Mark F.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Roots, deconstructed. The popular marketing of "old ballads" : the ballad revival and eighteenth-century antiquarianism reconsidered / Dianne Dugaw ; Another history of bluegrass : the segregation of popular music in the United States, 1820-1900 / Allen Farmelo ; Analogies and differences in African-American musical cultures across the hemisphere : interpretive models and research strategies / Gerhard Kubik ; Love and theft : the racial unconscious of blackface minstrelsy / Eric Lott ; That wild mercury sound : Bob Dylan and the illusion of American culture / Barry Shank --
Roots, experienced. Zydeco/zarico : beans, blues and beyond / Barry Jean Ancelet ; Sounding out the city : music and the sensuous production of place / Sara Cohen ; Techniques of blues composition among black folksingers / David Evans ; Changing contexts for traditional dance music in Ireland : the rise of group performance practice / Hazel Fairbairn ; A special kind of courtesy : action at a bluegrass festival jam session / Michelle Kisliuk ; Composition, authorship, and ownership in flamenco, past and present / Peter Manuel ; Funky drummer : New Orleans, James Brown and the rhythmic transformation of American popular music / Alex Stewart ; Afro-American gospel music : a crystallization of the black aesthetic / Pearl Williams-Jones ; The significance of the relationship between Afro-American music and West African music / Olly Wilson --
Offshoots. Metaphors of power, metaphors of truth : the politics of music professionalism in Bulgarian folk orchestras / Donna A. Buchanan ; Native American contemporary music : the women / Beverley Diamond ; The jukebox of history : narratives of loss and desire in the discourse of country music / Aaron A. Fox ; Searching for rockordion : the changing image of the accordion in America / Marion S. Jacobson ; From ranchero to jait¿‍n : ethnicity and class in Texas-Mexican music (two styles in the form of a pair) / Manuel Pe©ła ; Encounter with "The others from within" : the case of gypsy musicians in former Yugoslavia / Svanibor Pettan ; The whole and the sum of the parts, or, How Cookie and the Cupcakes told the story of Apache history in San Carlos / David Samuels.

Series:

The library of essays on popular music

ISBN:

0754629627 (hbk.)
9780754629627 (hbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)740629867

LCCN:

2011932119

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)