The lively oral history of J.D. Nicholson, a sought-after club and session piano player who influenced the L.A. blues scene from 1950-80.

The transplantation of African musical cultures to the Americas was a multi-track and multi-time process. In the past many historical studies of African diaspora music, dance and other aspects of expressive culture concentrated on events in the Americas. What happened before the American trauma and simultaneously in Africa was often looked at unhistorically. In this book, world-renowned ethnomusicologist Gerhard Kubik considers African music and dance forms as the products of people living in various African cultures which have changed continuously in history, absorbing and processing elements from inside and outside the continent, creating new styles and fashions all the time. African diaspora music then appears as a consequent and creative extension overseas of African musical cultures that have existed in the period between the sixteenth and the twentieth century. From this perspective African diaspora music cannot be described adequately in terms of "retentions" and "survivals," as if African cultures in the Americas were doomed from the outset and perhaps only by some act of mercy permitted to "retain" certain elements. Using field research and documentary sources, Kubik tracks down some aspects of the Angolan dimension in the panorama of African music and dance cultures in Brazil, and also addresses methodology applicable in the wider context of African diaspora cultural studies.

This is a new release of the original 1942 edition.

This is a new release of the original 1942 edition.

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1918 Edition.

Music is a revealing and significant area of exploration when examining the relationship between the western world and China. Australia, unequivocally a western nation situated in the Asia Pacific, has grappled to define and redefine its connection with the "Middle Kingdom" since the earliest times of Chinese migration. The saga of musical encounters between Australia and China continues to this very day. Addressing the themes of: music and history; tradition versus innovation; cultural diversity/intercultural creativity; and music and the related arts; this book focuses on encounters between China and Australia from the earliest imaginings and representations to the latest cultural exchanges. Here, the reader will find of stories of forbidden love, prejudice and deceit, of gestures of harmony and the fulfilment of dreams and wishes. Ethnomusicologists, composers, performers, historians and cultural theorists alike explore the past, present, and future of a long, complex and culturally rich interaction. Their writings, so varied and diverse, celebrate a multiplicity of identities, and present a challenging array of research avenues and perspectives through which to view the Australian-Chinese connection.

"Tony Allen" is the autobiography of legendary Nigerian drummer Tony Allen, the rhythmic engine of Fela Kuti's Afrobeat. Conversational, inviting, and packed with telling anecdotes, Allen's memoir is based on hundreds of hours of interviews with the musician and scholar Michael E. Veal. It spans Allen's early years and career playing highlife music in Lagos; his fifteen years with Fela, from 1964 until 1979; his struggles to form his own bands in Nigeria; and his emigration to France.

Allen embraced the drum set, rather than African handheld drums, early in his career, when drum kits were relatively rare in Africa. His story conveys a love of his craft along with the specifics of his practice. It also provides invaluable firsthand accounts of the explosive creativity in postcolonial African music, and the personal and artistic dynamics in Fela's Koola Lobitos and Africa 70, two of the greatest bands to ever play African music.

The Native American flute tutorial, "Celebrate the Native American Flute," is a comprehensive system for learning to play this instrument, regardless of previous music knowledge or experience. This book has been a steady best seller in ebook form. Now the book is in print. If you have ever had the desire to play the Native American flute, this book is exactly what you are looking for. Dick Claassen, master music teacher of various popular folk instruments, will teach you how to play the Native American flute from scratch, even if you have no music background. Dick introduces you to the Pentatonic scale, the most basic of all scales. He starts you with easy tunes hidden in this scale, and before you know it, you will sound like a true pro on this noblest of folk instruments. The book features an easy to learn "tablature," a tried and true method for reading notes that has been around for hundreds of years. You will learn traditional tunes of the Native American, meditative tunes, campfire tunes, sacred tunes, a special section on how to play the blues, as well as the booklet, "The Native American Flute: DECODED." Also included are recordings of some of the more challenging tunes in the book as well as an instructional video that shows you tips and tricks to give you that Native American flute sound. The book also covers two major scales that give you even more power over the flute. Whether you are a seasoned musician or someone who has always wanted to play a musical instrument but just didn't have the time to devote, "Celebrate the Native American Flute" will more than meet your needs. And you will have a tremendous amount of fun in the process. NOTE: The MP3 (audio) files and video tutorial are instantly downloadable from a site revealed in the book. These files can be exported to and played on any computer and any mobile device, including smart phones, MP3 players, and tablets.

Ever wonder how someone can go to sleep in public housing and wake up in a mansion seemingly overnight? Having worked 25 years in the Hip-Hop music industry and witnessed firsthand the inner workings of the fame machine up close; I personally KNOW entertainers that are now or were employed by the Illuminati who promised them fame, money and power if they "sold out." This book reveals those who sold out and those who didn't.

Literary Nonfiction. Northeast Asia Studies. Music has played and continues to play a vital role in Korean society, providing a rich vein of material as a dynamic part of the nation's culture. Korean music's history reflects active engagement with surrounding cultures, as well as indigenous creativity and innovation. Korea is heir to one of the world's oldest repertoires of notated music. Over the past several hundred years, virtuosic instrumental genres based upon the music of shamanist rituals and agricultural ceremonies developed into highly sophisticated art forms. This book examines the development of Korean traditional music, looking at what makes it unique, surveying its wide variety of genres, and reviewing its dramatic history as an art form.

As contemporary Tambu music and dance evolved on the Caribbean island of Curacao, it intertwined sacred and secular, private and public cultural practices, and many traditions from Africa and the New World. As she explores the formal contours of Tambu, Nanette de Jong discovers its variegated history and uncovers its multiple and even contradictory origins. De Jong recounts the personal stories and experiences of Afro-Curacaoans as they perform Tambu some who complain of its violence and low-class attraction and others who champion Tambu as a powerful tool of collective memory as well as a way to imagine the future."

1925. An introductory study into Indian music. Contents: Works on Indian Music; Practical Experts; History of Indian Music; Sur Adhaya, Law of Tones; Tala Adhaya, Law of Rhythm or Time; Ast Adhaya (Law of Musical Instruments); Raga Adhaya, Law of Tunes; and Tales of Indian Music.

What does it mean to play "someone else's music"? Intimate Distance delves into this question through a focus on Bolivian musicians who tour Japan playing Andean music and Japanese audiences, who often go beyond fandom to take up these musical forms as hobbyists and even as professional musicians. Michelle Bigenho conducted part of her ethnographic research while performing with Bolivian musicians as they toured Japan. Drawing on interviews with Bolivian musicians as well as Japanese fans and performers of these traditions, Bigenho explores how transcultural intimacy is produced at the site of Andean music and its performances.Bolivians and Japanese involved in these musical practices often express narratives of intimacy and racial belonging that reference shared but unspecified indigenous ancestors. Along with revealing the story of Bolivian music's route to Japan and interpreting the transnational staging of indigenous worlds, Bigenho examines these stories of closeness, thereby unsettling the East-West binary that often structures many discussions of cultural difference and exotic fantasy.

Brazilian popular music is widely celebrated for its inventive amalgams of styles and sounds. "Cariocas," native residents of Rio de Janeiro, think of their city as particularly conducive to musical mixture, given its history as a hub of Brazilian media and culture. In "Contemporary Carioca," the ethnomusicologist Frederick Moehn introduces a generation of Rio-based musicians who collaboratively have reinvigorated Brazilian genres, such as samba and "maracatu," through juxtaposition with international influences, including rock, techno, and funk. Moehn highlights the creativity of individual artists, including Marcos Suzano, Lenine, Pedro Luis, Fernanda Abreu, and Paulinho Moska. He describes how these artists manage their careers, having reclaimed some control from record labels. Examining the specific meanings that their fusions have in the Carioca scene, he explains that musical mixture is not only intertwined with nationalist discourses of miscegenation, but also with the experience of being middle-class in a country confronting neoliberal models of globalization. At the same time, he illuminates the inseparability of race, gender, class, place, national identity, technology, and expressive practice in Carioca music and its making. Moehn offers vivid depictions of Rio musicians as they creatively combine and reconcile local realities with global trends and exigencies.

Two Hundred And Fifty Tunes And Texts With An Introduction And Notes.

A biography of the Malian musician Salif Keita

Originally published in 1867, this book is a collection of songs of African-American slaves. A few of the songs were written after the emancipation, but all were inspired by slavery. The wild, sad strains tell as the sufferers themselves could, of crushed hopes, keen sorrow and a dull daily misery, which covered them as hopelessly as the fog from the rice swamps. On the other hand the words breathe a trusting faith in the life after to which their eyes seem constantly turned.

1925. An introductory study into Indian music. Contents: Works on Indian Music; Practical Experts; History of Indian Music; Sur Adhaya, Law of Tones; Tala Adhaya, Law of Rhythm or Time; Ast Adhaya (Law of Musical Instruments); Raga Adhaya, Law of Tunes; and Tales of Indian Music.

Native American Musicians From Choctaw, Winnebago, Sioux, And Seminole Heritage. Portraits Include Panther Josie Billie, Robert Henry, Charlie Billie, Mrs. John Tiger, Billie Stewart, Sidney Wesley, Mary Hickman, Henry Thunder, And Siya Ka.