Folk Music University Of Chicago
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Shaping Society through Dance: Mestizo Ritual Performance in the Peruvian Andes [VHS] $60.00 During the patron saint fiesta in the Andean town of San Jerónimo, Peru, crowds gather at sunset in the town square, eagerly awaiting the entrance of the colorful dance troupes, or comparsas. With their masks, music, and surprising interpretations of contemporary events, the comparsas of the Cusco region are the focus of this multifaceted work. At the crossroads of folklore and ritual, mass media… |
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In Praise of Krishna: Songs from the Bengali $12.75 Arising out of a devotional and enthusiastic religious movement that swept across most of northern and eastern India in the period from the fourteenth through the seventeenth centuries, the powerful and moving lyrics collected and elegantly translated here depict the love of Radha for the god Krishna—a love whose intensity and range of emotions trace the course of all true love between man and w… |
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Juju: A Social History and Ethnography of an African Popular Music (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology) $22.99 Now known internationally through the recordings of King Sunny Ade and others, juju music originated more than fifty years ago among the Yoruba of Nigeria. This history and ethnography of juju is the first detailed account of the evolution and social significance of a West African popular music. Enhanced with maps, color photographs of musicians and dance parties, musical transcriptions, interview… |
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The Soul of Mbira: Music and Traditions of the Shona People of Zimbabwe $12.80 This sensitive, scholarly portrayal of Shona musicians and the African Musical tradition is highly engaging and comprehensive in its range of data. Paul Berliner provides the complete cultural context for the music and an intimate, precise account of the meaning of the instrument and its music.”Paul Berliner’s The Soul of Mbira is probably the best ethnography ever written about an African musical… |
The University of Chicago Folk Festival – 50th Anniversary
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Shaping Society through Dance: Mestizo Ritual Performance in the Peruvian Andes [VHS] $60.00 During the patron saint fiesta in the Andean town of San Jerónimo, Peru, crowds gather at sunset in the town square, eagerly awaiting the entrance of the colorful dance troupes, or comparsas. With their masks, music, and surprising interpretations of contemporary events, the comparsas of the Cusco region are the focus of this multifaceted work. At the crossroads of folklore and ritual, mass media… |
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In Praise of Krishna: Songs from the Bengali $12.75 Arising out of a devotional and enthusiastic religious movement that swept across most of northern and eastern India in the period from the fourteenth through the seventeenth centuries, the powerful and moving lyrics collected and elegantly translated here depict the love of Radha for the god Krishna—a love whose intensity and range of emotions trace the course of all true love between man and w… |
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Juju: A Social History and Ethnography of an African Popular Music (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology) $22.99 Now known internationally through the recordings of King Sunny Ade and others, juju music originated more than fifty years ago among the Yoruba of Nigeria. This history and ethnography of juju is the first detailed account of the evolution and social significance of a West African popular music. Enhanced with maps, color photographs of musicians and dance parties, musical transcriptions, interview… |
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The Soul of Mbira: Music and Traditions of the Shona People of Zimbabwe $12.80 This sensitive, scholarly portrayal of Shona musicians and the African Musical tradition is highly engaging and comprehensive in its range of data. Paul Berliner provides the complete cultural context for the music and an intimate, precise account of the meaning of the instrument and its music.”Paul Berliner’s The Soul of Mbira is probably the best ethnography ever written about an African musical… |