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…
Young classical singers, particularly recent graduates of music programs, need not only considerable artistic ability but also intelligence and an acute business sense to navigate the world of professional singing. In this book, author Susan Mohini Kane has created a user-friend…
The castrato: reflections on natures and kinds
'The Castrato' is the first book to explore in depth why innumerable boys were castrated for singing between the mid-sixteenth and late-nineteenth centuries. It shows that although the practice formed the foundation of Western classical singing, it was birthed from an unlikely a…
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…
