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The emergence of Russian classical music in the nineteenth century in the wake of Mikhail Glinka comprises one of the most remarkable and fascinating stories in all musical history. The five men who came together in the Russian capital of St. Petersburg in the 1860s, all compose…
"The extraordinary group of Russian composers who came together in St Petersburg in the 1860s - long known as 'The Mighty Handful', but, as the moguchaya kuchka, better translated as 'the great little heap' - gave rise to one of the most fascinating and colourful stories in all …
Musseques and urban culture -- In the days of bota fogo : culture and the early nationalist struggle, 1947/61 -- Dueling bands and good girls : gender and music in Luanda's musseques, 1961/75 -- "Ngongo jami" (my suffering) : lyrics, daily life, and social space, 1956/74 -- Radi…
Intonations tells the story of how Angola's urban residents in the late colonial period (roughly 1945-74) used music to talk back to their colonial oppressors and, more importantly, to define what it meant to be Angolan and what they hoped to gain from independence. A compilatio…