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The Results of Bandstand Dynamics
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Robert R. Faulkner and Howard S. Becker
Published: 15 September 2009
... that characterizes what we might call a playing region or musical community. bandstand dynamics of working repertoire Becker Howard S repertoire “bringing in” tunes Egremont Inn circa 2007 Faulkner Faulkner Robert R Fisher Claire Henderson Joe jazz players aspects of tunes they find interesting Messer Jay...
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Britten's Dream: For Sue-Ellen Case
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Philip Brett
Published: 17 November 2006
... a specific idea to a general one, so as to subvert the former. The chapter seeks to identify whose interest it is in to subvert/obscure such efforts, asserting that there exists an ingrained fear for certain ideas and knowledge among the musical community. Case Sue Ellen homosexual composers cultural...
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Bands Making Musical Communities
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Samuel K. Byrd
Published: 19 June 2015
...This chapter documents how bands and their audiences engage in a process of community formation around music. Musical community is defined here as existing at the intersection of local and mass consumption, often serving as a point of mediation between locally produced, “grassroots” expressions...
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Introduction
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David B. Pruett
Published: 12 April 2010
...This book focuses on the MuzikMafia, which can be defined as a distinct musical community that developed from a stylistically diverse Nashville scene into both a social collective and a commercial enterprise that promoted musical excellence and artistic diversity. The main argument...
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An Apprentice to Ghosts
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Richard Jones-Bamman
Published: 01 September 2017
..., a fact that strengthens the historical connections between these nearly forgotten instruments and their contemporary counterparts. Yet, as all of these builders have discovered, restoring these early banjos to the old-time musical community necessitates a re-examination of the sources of much...
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Published: 20 November 2023
... halls, and venues of the emerging new communities. These contexts offer insight into the meaning of Yiddish song for the sheyres-hapleyte , the surviving remnant, as the survivor community called itself. These contexts further expose the sheyres-hapleyte as a musical community that draws...
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Jewish Music Organizations in Interwar Galicia
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Sylwia Jakubczyk-ŚlĘczka
Published: 29 February 2020
... from the four south-eastern provinces of the Second Polish Republic: Lwów, Kraków, Stanisławów, and Tarnopol. The chapter looks into the goal of the Jewish Music Society in Lwów in order to unite the local Jewish musical community and represent the Jewish community in the city's musical life...
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The Banjo’s Evolving Story
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Richard Jones-Bamman
Published: 01 September 2017
... practice can no longer be avoided and the old-time musical community is gradually rising to the challenge. Were it not for the banjo builders involved in this same community it is doubtful this would have occurred. commercial folk singers Dylan Bob guitars Holt Fabian music Newport Folk Festival...
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Listening to China with Forkel and Marx
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Thomas Irvine
Published: 08 May 2020
... history inflect German writers’ construction of their own national musical community? For whose benefit are such imaginary communities established? Finally, this chapter seeks to understand how “Germanness”—which both Forkel and Marx imagined in opposition to “Chineseness”—might be articulated...
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CHAPTER FIVE CULTURAL KNOWLEDGE AND MUSICAL ONTOLOGY
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Lawrence M. Zbikowski
Published: 28 November 2002
... as an instance of a particular musical work are thus one of the ways members of a musical community construct and negotiate their identity. Two songs taken from the traditions of popular music and jazz are used as examples: “I Got Rhythm” and “Bye Bye Blackbird”. Beethoven Ludwig van Geertz Clifford cultural...
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Building New Banjos for an Old-Time World
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Richard Jones-Bamman
Published online: 24 May 2018
Published in print: 01 September 2017
...This book addresses the relationship between small-scale banjo makers and the musical community within which they function, specifically groups and individuals interested in the performance and promotion of old-time music, a style deeply invested with nostalgia and a romanticized view of rural...
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Introduction
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Jeffrey J. Noonan
Published: 13 December 2007
... within America’s wider musical community. Atkins Chet Basie Count blues Carter Maybelle Christian Charlie country music country and western Green Freddie Guthrie Woody Guy Buddy Hall Jim Hendrix Jimi histories of the guitar jazz Johnson Lonnie Johnson Robert Kessel Barney King B B Lang...
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Introduction
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Richard Jones-Bamman
Published: 01 September 2017
... collectors banjo historians banjo Smakula Bob Stern Lew websites banjo builder history of banjos Creed Kyle Fore Kevin Waksman Steve banjo antimodernism antimodern old-time music instrument builder musical community I cannot say with any certainty when I first encountered the banjo...
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New Alliances, New Media, New York
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James M. Doering
Published: 15 February 2013
... types that their investments were not being wasted, and he had a similar effect on artists he managed. By the end of the 1920s, Judson wielded immense power, yet did so with the trust of the musical community. City College New York Lewisohn Adolph New York Philharmonic Philadelphia Orchestra radio...
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The Psychology of Music Reading
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John Sloboda
Published: 02 December 2004
... of the musical community. The book shows that the psychological study of music reading is an important area of the psychology of music which nevertheless has bearing on central theoretical and practical issues in music. It offers one important route to a better understanding of the nature of musical cognition...