Download or read book Vodou Songs in Haitian Creole and English written by Benjamin Hebblethwaite and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vodou songs constitute the living memory of Haitian Vodou communities, and song texts are key elements to understanding Haitian culture. Vodou songs form a profound religious and cultural heritage that traverses the past and refreshes the present. Offering a one-of-a-kind research tool on Vodou and its cultural roots in Haiti and pre-Haitian regions, Vodou Songs in Haitian Creole and English provides a substantial selection of hard to find or unpublished sacred Vodou songs in a side-by-side bilingual format. Esteemed scholar Benjamin Hebblethwaite introduces the language, mythology, philosophy, origins, and culture of Vodou through several chapters of source songs plus separate analytical chapters. He guides readers through songs, chants, poems, magical formulae, invocations, prayers, historical texts and interviews, as well as Haitian Creole grammar and original sacred literature. An in-depth dictionary of key Vodou terms and concepts is also provided. This corpus of songs and the research about them provide a crucial understanding of the meaning of Vodou religion, language, and culture.

Download or read book Le Ker Creole written by Bruce "Sunpie" Barnes and published by University of New Orleans Press. This book was released on 2019-09-20 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For hundreds of years in Louisiana, lullabies were hummed, prayers were called, opera was performed, la-las were danced, and work and carnival songs were sung in Creole. A francophone language with connections to West Africa, Louisiana Creole is now one of the most endangered languages in the world. In this musical ethnography, you will find fifteen original and traditional Creole songs that cross time and musical genres such as blues, zydeco, and traditional jazz. African spirits, maroon villages, Congo Square, southwest Louisiana dance halls, and the Northside Skull and Bone Gang all make appearances. Beginning with an introduction to the history and grammar of the language, the accompanying essays include in-depth interviews with Creole speakers and their descendants, as well as photography, original artwork, archival documents, and altars. The book concludes with the Creole lyrics for each song, along with their English translations. Avek ye, vou ve 'koute, lir, chante, epi pale an Creole. (With them, you will listen, read, sing, and speak in Creole.) Includes audio CD of Creole compositions from Louisiana.

Download or read book In the Creole Twilight written by Joshua Clegg Caffery and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2015-09-07 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Caffery borrows from the syllabic structures, rhyme schemes, narratives, and settings that characterize Louisiana songs and tales to create new verse"--Dust jacket flap.

Download or read book Americanization Songs written by Anne Shaw Faulkner and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Accordion Dreams written by Blair Kilpatrick and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2009 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By age thirty-nine, Blair Kilpatrick had settled into life as a practicing psychologist, wife, and mother. Then a chance encounter in New Orleans turned her world upside down. She returned home to Chicago with unlikely new passions for Cajun music and its defining instrument, the accordion. Captivated by recurring dreams of playing the Cajun accordion, she set out to master it. Yet she was not a musician, was too self-conscious to dance, and didn't even sing in the shower. Kilpatrick's obsession took her from Chicago's Cajun dance scene to a folk music camp in West Virginia, back and forth to south Louisiana, and even to a Cajun festival in France. An unexpected family move brought her to the San Francisco Bay Area, home to the largest Cajun-zydeco music scene outside the Gulf Coast. There she became a prot--and--eacute;g--and--eacute; of renowned accordionist Danny Poullard, a Louisiana-born Creole and the guiding spirit of the local Louisiana French music community. Engaging, uplifting, and illuminating a unique patch of the American cultural landscape, Accordion Dreams is Kilpatrick's account of the possibility of passion, risk-taking, and change--at any age. Blair Kilpatrick has an independent practice in psychotherapy in the San Francisco Bay Area. She also performs and records with Sauce Piquante, a traditional Cajun-Creole band she founded in the late 1990s. Learn more at www.blairkilpatrick.com

Download or read book Song Index written by Phyllis Crawford and published by New York : H.W. Wilson Company. This book was released on 1926 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Song Index written by Minnie Earl Sears and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Folk Music in the Western Hemisphere written by New York. Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Creole Slave Songs written by George Washington Cable and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Folk Music of the Western Hemisphere written by New York Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Swamp Pop written by Shane K. Bernard and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 1996-09 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A search for the sources and sounds of an often overlooked sister genre of Cajun and zydeco music

Download or read book What We Hear in Music written by Anne Faulkner Oberndorfer and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book On the Trail of Negro Folk songs written by Dorothy Scarborough and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1925 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces Negro folksongs back to their American beginnings. Dance songs, ballads, lullabies, work songs, and others are discussed.

Download or read book My Aunt Came Back from Louisiane written by Downing, Johnette and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this variation on the traditional song, the narrator's aunt makes repeated trips to Louisiana, returning with a bag of red beans from New Orleans, gumbo from Thibodaux, peaches from Ruston, and so on. Includes sheet music plus facts about the places mentioned in the song.

Download or read book The Art of Music written by Daniel Gregory Mason and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Music Practices Across Borders written by Glaucia Peres da Silva and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2019-06-30 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Connecting migration studies and the theory of valuation, this collection offers an interdisciplinary approach to the study of transnational music practices. Conceiving music as a practice not confined to audibility, the contributions reveal how music emerges in concrete situations through people, objects, techniques, meanings, and emotions in different parts of the world and during different historic periods. Values are thereby created and shared, and creative processes are evaluated in terms of diversity, space and exchange. This book presents cases of contemporary, popular and traditional music, festivals and trade fairs, albums and band projects, shedding light on the tensions between the transfer, reconstruction and creation of music in different contexts.