Bright Balkan Morning

2002-12-09 Music

Author : Charles Keil
Release : 2002-12-09
Genre : Music
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Book Rating : 885/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Bright Balkan Morning written by Charles Keil. This book was released on 2002-12-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CD contains: Market Day in Jumaya -- Afternoon at Mahala Café -- At home in Mahala -- At church, Sunday, December 31 -- Pre-New Year's parties in Serres -- Parties for the new year in Sohos -- Taverna party at Nikisiani -- The road home.

Bright Balkan Morning

2002 Romanies

Author : Angeliki V. Keil
Release : 2002
Genre : Romanies
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Book Rating : 894/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Bright Balkan Morning written by Angeliki V. Keil. This book was released on 2002. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunningly-illustrated interweaving of first person narratives, photographs, cultural commentary and soundscapes, Bright Balkan Morning provides an unprecedented view of settled Romani lives in the Balkans and the unique roles of "Gypsy" instrument players in the region. These Romani instrumentalists from Iraklia, an ancient Greek Macedonian crossroads and market town that is home to about 2,000 Roma, provide the sounds that facilitate parties and rites of passage, performing an essential and highly valued service for their multicultural neighbors. At the heart of the book are ten first-person Romani life stories. Charles and Angeliki Keil situate these personal accounts within the cultural, historical and economic setting of Greek Macedonia, and provide an overview of musical events in diverse localities. The 161 black and white photographs by Dick Blau include parades, parties, weddings and wrestling matches; portraits of the musicians and their families; studies of domestic life in the Romani neighborhood; reproductions from Romani family albums and other historic images. Steven Feld's soundscape CD features the voices and instruments of people whose stories are told in the book. Familiar sounds of markets, church, neighborhood and countryside set the context for exuberant performances at home and at parties, cafes and nightclubs. CONTRIBUTORS: Angeliki Vellow Keil, Charles Keil, Steven Feld, Ian Hancock.

Book Reports

2019-04-04 Music

Author : Robert Christgau
Release : 2019-04-04
Genre : Music
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 123/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Book Reports written by Robert Christgau. This book was released on 2019-04-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this generous collection of book reviews and literary essays, legendary Village Voice rock critic Robert Christgau showcases the passion that made him a critic—his love for the written word. Many selections address music, from blackface minstrelsy to punk and hip-hop, artists from Lead Belly to Patti Smith, and fellow critics from Ellen Willis and Lester Bangs to Nelson George and Jessica Hopper. But Book Reports also teases out the popular in the Bible and 1984 as well as pornography and science fiction, and analyzes at length the cultural theory of Raymond Williams, the detective novels of Walter Mosley, the history of bohemia, and the 2008 financial crisis. It establishes Christgau as not just the Dean of American Rock Critics, but one of America's most insightful cultural critics as well.

Living with His Camera

2003 Biography & Autobiography

Author : Jane Gallop
Release : 2003
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 025/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Living with His Camera written by Jane Gallop. This book was released on 2003. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting Blau's photos and Gallop's text, this is a portrait of a couple whse professional activity is part of their private lives and whose private life is view through their professional gazes. 27 photos.

Music and Cyberliberties

2010-03-30 Music

Author : Patrick Burkart
Release : 2010-03-30
Genre : Music
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Book Rating : 508/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Music and Cyberliberties written by Patrick Burkart. This book was released on 2010-03-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Musicians and music fans are at the forefront of cyberliberties activism, a movement that has tried to correct the imbalances that imperil the communal and ritualistic sharing and distribution of music. In Music and Cyberliberties, Patrick Burkart tracks the migration of music advocacy and anti-major label activism since the court defeat of Napster and the ascendancy of the so-called Celestial Jukebox model of music e-commerce, which sells licensed access to music. Music and Cyberliberties identifies the groups—alternative and radical media activists, culture jammers, hackers, netlabels, and critical legal scholars—who are pushing back against the “copyright grab” by major labels for the rights and privileges that were once enjoyed by artists and fans. Burkart reflects on the emergence of peer-to-peer networking as a cause célèbre that helped spark the movement, and also lays out the next stages of development for the Celestial Jukebox that would quash it. By placing the musical activist groups into the larger context of technology and new social movement theory, Music and Cyberliberties offers an exciting new way of understanding the technological and social changes we confront daily.

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