Roots music
By: edited by Mark F. DeWitt
Series: The library of essays on popular music; Library of essays on popular music
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey; Burlington, Vt
Language: eng
Number of pages: 502
ISBN-13: 9780754629627
Subjects: Folk music; History and criticism; Popular music
Description: The eight volumes in this series span the range of the world's popular music genres from rap, hip hop, soul and jazz, to roots, electronica, dance and club music. Each volume editor has contributed an introductory essay which constitutes a broad overview of the specific group of genres.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 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; title: 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; title: 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 jaitōn : ethnicity and class in Texas-Mexican music (two styles in the form of a pair) / Manuel Peña ; Encounter with "The others from within" : the case of gypsy musicians in the 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.