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Author : David King Dunaway
Release : 2010-04-14
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 342/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Singing Out by : David King Dunaway
Download or read book Singing Out written by David King Dunaway. This book was released on 2010-04-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An oral history of North American folk music revivals that draws on more than 150 interviews to explore the musical, political, and social aspects of the folk revival movement.
Author : Walter Kerr
Release : 1949
Genre : Drama
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Book Synopsis Sing Out, Sweet Land by : Walter Kerr
Download or read book Sing Out, Sweet Land written by Walter Kerr. This book was released on 1949. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The story begins in Puritan New England, with its many repressions. Through its scenes wanders a fellow out of legend, one Barnaby Goodchild, who is imprisoned in the stocks in the first scene, and condemned by Parson Killjoy to go singing and dancing through the ages. Barnaby moves blithely with American music through history, bringing his singing ways to a Civil War campfire, to Texas of railroading days, to the Gay Nineties and the Roaring Twenties, and into the world of today. Only three performers appear throughout the show; the rest of the parts may be cast as desired" -- Publisher's description.
Author : Heather MacLachlan
Release : 2020-12-01
Genre : Music
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Book Rating : 180/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Singing Out by : Heather MacLachlan
Download or read book Singing Out written by Heather MacLachlan. This book was released on 2020-12-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can you change the world through song? This appealing idea has long been the professed aim of singers who are part of choruses affiliated with the Gay and Lesbian Association of Choruses (GALA). Theses choruses first emerged in the 1970s, and grew out of a very American tradition of (often gender-segregated) choral singing that explicitly presents itself as a community-based activity. By taking a close look at these choruses and their mission, Heather MacLachlan unpacks the fascinating historical and cultural dynamics behind groups that seek to change society for the better by encouraging acceptance of LGBT-identified people and promoting diversity more generally. She characterizes their mission as “integrationist rather than liberationist” and zeroes in on the inherent tension between GALA’s progressive social goals and the fact that the music most often performed by GALA groups is deeply rooted in a fairly narrowly conceived tradition of art music that identifies as white, Euro-centric, and middle class--and that much of the membership identifies as white and middle class as well. Pundits often wax eloquent about the power of music, asserting that it can, in some positive way, change the world. Such statements often rest on an unexamined claim that music can and does foster social justice. Singing Out: GALA Choruses and Social Change tackles the premise underlying such claims, analyzing groups of amateur singers who are explicitly committed to an agenda of social justice.
Author : Ray Vincent
Release : 2017-12-08
Genre : Religion
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Book Rating : 275/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Sing Out for Justice by : Ray Vincent
Download or read book Sing Out for Justice written by Ray Vincent. This book was released on 2017-12-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Old Testament prophets were not just predictors of things that would happen long after their time. Nor were they purveyors of religious platitudes. They were people with an urgent message for their own generation and a passion to declare it whatever the risk. They were singers, poets, demonstrators and protesters, radical critics of their own society and dreamers of a world that could be different.
