The blind mendicant in Ukrainian folk tradition is a little-known social order, but an important one. The singers of Ukrainian epics, these minstrels were organized into professional guilds that set standards for training and performance. Repressed during the Stalin era, this is…
Shedding new light on a region that maintains ties to the cultural identities of its earliest European and African inhabitants, Gerald Milnes shows how folk music in West Virginia borrowed rhythmic, melodic, and vocal forms from the Celtic, Anglo, Germanic, and African tradition…
This study edition of the Quran features a new English translation, a verse-by-verse commentary, and essays by fifteen international scholars.
Passionate and intense in one moment, ironic or brash in the next, Mahler's music speaks with a diversity of voices that often undermine its own ideals of unity, narrative struggle and transcendent affirmation. The composer plays constantly with musical genres and styles, moving…
"In Crossing Bar Lines: The Politics and Practices of Black Musical Space James Gordon Williams reframes the nature and purpose of jazz improvisation to illuminate the cultural work being done by five creative musicians between 2005 and 2019. The political thought of five Africa…
Kammu songs: the songs of Kam Raw
by Lundstrom, Hakan, Lundstrom, Hakan, Kam Raw
fromKammu worlds
This text builds on Lundström's dissertation, I will send my song-. It contains Kam Raw's repertoire of social adult songs in the Kammu language, with English translations, interpretations and commentary. It also documents this vocal repertoire and develops a practical and relev…
This book chronicles the career of Gaetano Guadagni, the most significant castrato of the second half of the eighteenth-century. Guadagni was on the forefront of the heroic opera reform, and many forward-thinking composers of the age created roles for him. The book illuminates t…
This is the first full-length biography of one of the most outstanding singers of the eighteenth century. Gaetano Guadagni is widely known for his creation of the role of Orpheus in Gluck's 'Orfeo ed Euridice'; he was also a leading singer in Handel's oratorios, and worked with …
