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An expert explains and analyzes the beloved art form An iconic
symbol of Spain, flamenco has become a global phenomenon. Peter
Manuel offers English-language readers a rare portrait of the
music’s history, styles, and cultural impact. Beginning with
flamenco’s Moorish and Roma influences, Manuel follows the
music’s evolution through its consolidation in the mid-1800s and
on to the vibrant contemporary scene. An investigation of
flamenco’s major song-types looks at rhythm and compás, guitar
technique, and many other aspects of the music while Manuel’s
description and analysis of the repertoire range from soleares and
bulerías to tangos. His overview of contemporary flamenco culture
provides insight into issues that surround the music, including
globalization, gender dynamics, notions of ownership, and the
ongoing debates on purity versus innovation and the relative roles
played by Gitanos and non-Gitanos. Multifaceted and entertaining,
Flamenco Music is an in-depth study of the indelible art form that
inspires enthusiasts and practitioners around the world.
First published in 1995, Caribbean Currents has become the
definitive guide to the distinctive musics of this region of the
world. This third edition of the award-winning book is
substantially updated and expanded, featuring thorough coverage of
new developments, such as the global spread of reggaeton and
bachata, the advent of music videos, the restructuring of the music
industry, and the emergence of new dance styles. It also includes
many new illustrations and links to accompanying video footage. The
authors succinctly and perceptively situate the musical styles and
developments in the context of themes of gender and racial
dynamics, sociopolitical background, and diasporic dimensions.
Caribbean Currents showcases the rich and diverse musics of Cuba,
Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Trinidad, the French
Caribbean, the lesser Antilles, and their transnational communities
in the United States and elsewhere to provide an engaging panorama
of this most dynamic aspect of Caribbean culture.
This is an exploration of the region's music - its forms and
innovations, musicians, festivals, and dance halls, its fans - and
traces its African, Asian and European roots.
An expert explains and analyzes the beloved art form An iconic
symbol of Spain, flamenco has become a global phenomenon. Peter
Manuel offers English-language readers a rare portrait of the
music’s history, styles, and cultural impact. Beginning with
flamenco’s Moorish and Roma influences, Manuel follows the
music’s evolution through its consolidation in the mid-1800s and
on to the vibrant contemporary scene. An investigation of
flamenco’s major song-types looks at rhythm and compás, guitar
technique, and many other aspects of the music while Manuel’s
description and analysis of the repertoire range from soleares and
bulerías to tangos. His overview of contemporary flamenco culture
provides insight into issues that surround the music, including
globalization, gender dynamics, notions of ownership, and the
ongoing debates on purity versus innovation and the relative roles
played by Gitanos and non-Gitanos. Multifaceted and entertaining,
Flamenco Music is an in-depth study of the indelible art form that
inspires enthusiasts and practitioners around the world.
Life is an adventure to embark upon. Having traveled around the
world, my life has been full of separations, and new beginnings.
Time flows incessantly, no matter what happens around us. The last
six years of my life describe a unique journey from high school in
Sudan to a university in Canada. The experience enabled me to learn
the importance of family, friends, and love- along with the need to
live life without regrets. My story begins with my struggles as an
eleventh grader at Khartoum American School in Sudan, revealing the
raw emotions of my first infatuation with a girl, her rejection,
and my subsequent efforts to move on without her. Nothing could
have prepared me then for the sequence of events that were to
unfold in my life that summer, and the few years that followed. It
all began when I found a friend in Tina. Our Last Summer offers a
poignant glimpse into a young man's coming-of-age journey through
laughter, tears, betrayal, infatuation, and love as he cherishes
the memories of his past, learns to live in the present, and
happily anticipates his future.
Life is an adventure to embark upon. Having traveled around the
world, my life has been full of separations, and new beginnings.
Time flows incessantly, no matter what happens around us. The last
six years of my life describe a unique journey from high school in
Sudan to a university in Canada. The experience enabled me to learn
the importance of family, friends, and love- along with the need to
live life without regrets. My story begins with my struggles as an
eleventh grader at Khartoum American School in Sudan, revealing the
raw emotions of my first infatuation with a girl, her rejection,
and my subsequent efforts to move on without her. Nothing could
have prepared me then for the sequence of events that were to
unfold in my life that summer, and the few years that followed. It
all began when I found a friend in Tina. Our Last Summer offers a
poignant glimpse into a young man's coming-of-age journey through
laughter, tears, betrayal, infatuation, and love as he cherishes
the memories of his past, learns to live in the present, and
happily anticipates his future.
First published in 1995, Caribbean Currents has become the
definitive guide to the distinctive musics of this region of the
world. This third edition of the award-winning book is
substantially updated and expanded, featuring thorough coverage of
new developments, such as the global spread of reggaeton and
bachata, the advent of music videos, the restructuring of the music
industry, and the emergence of new dance styles. It also includes
many new illustrations and links to accompanying video footage. The
authors succinctly and perceptively situate the musical styles and
developments in the context of themes of gender and racial
dynamics, sociopolitical background, and diasporic dimensions.
Caribbean Currents showcases the rich and diverse musics of Cuba,
Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Trinidad, the French
Caribbean, the lesser Antilles, and their transnational communities
in the United States and elsewhere to provide an engaging panorama
of this most dynamic aspect of Caribbean culture.
Reflecting the growing interest in popular music from the
developing world, this unique book is the first to examine all
major non-Western urban music styles, from increasingly familiar
genres like reggae and salsa, to the lesser-known regional styles
of Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, the Middle East,
non-Western Europe (Greece, Yugoslavia, Portugal), Asia, and the
Near East. Manuel establishes parameters that distinguish popular
music from both folk and classical music, defining popular music as
music created with the mass media in mind and reproduced on a large
scale basis as a salable commodity for wide public consumption.
While emphasizing stylistic analysis and historical development, he
also treats the diverse popular musics as sites for the negotiation
and mediation of the dialectics of nationalism and acculturation,
tradition and modernity, urban and rural aesthetics, and grassroots
spontaneity and corporate or bureaucratic manipulation. With its
encyclopedic syntheses of earlier studies and extensive original
research, Manuel's book will be an invaluable source for general
readers and students of ethnology, popular music, and contemporary
culture.
In "Cassette Culture," Peter Manuel tells how a new mass
medium--the portable cassette player--caused a major upheaval in
popular culture in the world's second-largest country. The advent
of cassette technology in the 1980s transformed India's popular
music industry from the virtual monopoly of a single multinational
LP manufacturer to a free-for-all among hundreds of local cassette
producers. The result was a revolution in the quantity, quality,
and variety of Indian popular music and its patterns of
dissemination and consumption.
Manuel shows that the cassette revolution, however, has brought new
contradictions and problems to Indian culture. While inexpensive
cassettes revitalized local subcultures and community values
throughout the subcontinent, they were also a vehicle for regional
and political factionalism, new forms of commercial vulgarity, and,
disturbingly, the most provocative sorts of hate-mongering and
religious chauvinism.
"Cassette Culture" is the first scholarly account of Indian popular
music and the first case study of a technological revolution now
occurring throughout the world. It will be an essential resource
for anyone interested in modern India, communications theory, world
popular music, or contemporary global culture.
The first book-length study on Cuban music in the English language.
This volume consists of thirteen articles written by nine authors,
including four Cuban scholars and five North American
ethnomusicologists. The articles by Cuban scholars, translated from
largely out-of-print publications, constitute a selection of some
of the best Cuban research on their island's music, and present a
set of perspectives which complement those of the North American
authors. The articles cover such areas as descriptions of the
Afro-Haitian derived tumba francesa, the traditional Afro-Cuban
rumba, and the rural punto, as cultivated by peasants of Hispanic
descent; aspects of the music bureaucracy in contemporary Cuba; the
American music industry's dissemination of Cuban-derived salsa in
New York City; Afro-Cuban cult music; the history and current
status of charanga dance bands; and more.
Kunst und Propaganda wurden unter der gleichen Perspektive gesehen:
Menschen zu formen. Es blieb jedoch eine entscheidende Differenz:
Das Politische nutzte die Propaganda als Funktion bzw. Mittel, die
Kunst aber war u. a. ihr Ziel. Propaganda und Kunst gerieten in
Wechselverhaltnisse: Kunst konnte Mittel der Propaganda werden, die
selbst eine Kunst sein sollte. Die hohe Kunst blieb jedoch
Leitbild, selbst wenn dadurch eine Modernisierung des Films nach
internationalen Massstaben verhindert wurde. Was dabei jedoch
entstand, war ein sehr eigener, eben als spezifisch kunsthaft
deutsch verstandener Stil der Dramatisierung von Historie und
Zeitgenoessischem. Die Kunst der Propaganda erschien so als modern
und ruckwartsgewandt zugleich; sie entwickelte raffinierte Muster
und verfiel plattester Rhetorik; sie kalkulierte Freiraume der
Affekte ein, die sie doch zugleich kontrollieren wollte. Dieser
Kunst der Propaganda, mit ihren Eindeutigkeiten, Widerspruchen und
Ambivalenzen sind die Aufsatze dieses Bandes auf der Spur. Die
Beitrage, die sich aus einem gemeinsamen Seminar zum "Film im
Dritten Reich" an der Humboldt-Universitat entwickelt haben,
zentrieren sich um Themen wie: Filmkunst als Gesetz, Inversion der
Feindbilder, Kunstler als Genies, Flieger und Trummerlandschaften,
Bilder der Grossstadt, das Melodram, den Jugendfilm oder die
Imaginationen von Fremde und Heimat.
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