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Book Dancing to the Barrel Organ

    Book Details:
  • Author : Peter Mayall
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2017-07-20
  • ISBN : 9781973794301
  • Pages : 24 pages

Download or read book Dancing to the Barrel Organ written by Peter Mayall and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-20 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: joy

Book Barrel Organ

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  • Author : Arthur W. J. G. Ord-Hume
  • Publisher : South Brunswick, N.J. : A. S. Barnes
  • Release : 1978
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 642 pages

Download or read book Barrel Organ written by Arthur W. J. G. Ord-Hume and published by South Brunswick, N.J. : A. S. Barnes. This book was released on 1978 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The English Illustrated Magazine

Download or read book The English Illustrated Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Gawkers

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  • Author : Bridget Alsdorf
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2022-03-22
  • ISBN : 0691166382
  • Pages : 296 pages

Download or read book Gawkers written by Bridget Alsdorf and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-03-22 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the urban spectator became the archetypal modern viewer and a central subject in late nineteenth-century French art Gawkers explores how artists and writers in late nineteenth-century Paris represented the seductions, horrors, and banalities of street life through the eyes of curious viewers known as badauds. In contrast to the singular and aloof bourgeois flâneur, badauds were passive, collective, instinctive, and highly impressionable. Above all, they were visual, captivated by the sights of everyday life. Beautifully illustrated and drawing on a wealth of new research, Gawkers excavates badauds as a subject of deep significance in late nineteenth-century French culture, as a motif in works of art, and as a conflicted model of the modern viewer. Bridget Alsdorf examines the work of painters, printmakers, and filmmakers who made badauds their artistic subject, including Félix Vallotton, Pierre Bonnard, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Honoré Daumier, Edgar Degas, Jean-Léon Gérôme, Eugène Carrière, Charles Angrand, and Auguste and Louise Lumière. From morally and intellectually empty to sensitive, empathetic, and humane, the gawkers these artists portrayed cut across social categories. They invite the viewer’s identification, even as they appear to threaten social responsibility and the integrity of art. Delving into the ubiquity of a figure that has largely eluded attention, idling on the margins of culture and current events, Gawkers traces the emergence of social and aesthetic problems that are still with us today.

Book The Gramophone

Download or read book The Gramophone written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 1100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Dance

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  • Author : Various
  • Publisher : Good Press
  • Release : 2023-11-14
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 201 pages

Download or read book The Dance written by Various and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-11-14 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Dance" by Various. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Book Play Me Something Quick and Devilish

Download or read book Play Me Something Quick and Devilish written by Howard Wight Marshall and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Play Me Something Quick and Devilish explores the heritage of traditional fiddle music in Missouri. Howard Wight Marshall considers the place of homemade music in people’s lives across social and ethnic communities from the late 1700s to the World War I years and into the early 1920s. This exceptionally important and complex period provided the foundations in history and settlement for the evolution of today’s old-time fiddling. Beginning with the French villages on the Mississippi River, Marshall leads us chronologically through the settlement of the state and how these communities established our cultural heritage. Other core populations include the “Old Stock Americans” (primarily Scotch-Irish from Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, and Virginia), African Americans, German-speaking immigrants, people with American Indian ancestry (focusing on Cherokee families dating from the Trail of Tears in the 1830s), and Irish railroad workers in the post–Civil War period. These are the primary communities whose fiddle and dance traditions came together on the Missouri frontier to cultivate the bounty of old-time fiddling enjoyed today. Marshall also investigates themes in the continuing evolution of fiddle traditions. These themes include the use of the violin in Westward migration, in the Civil War years, and in the railroad boom that changed history. Of course, musical tastes shift over time, and the rise of music literacy in the late Victorian period, as evidenced by the brass band movement and immigrant music teachers in small towns, affected fiddling. The contributions of music publishing as well as the surprising importance of ragtime and early jazz also had profound effects. Much of the old-time fiddlers’ repertory arises not from the inherited reels, jigs, and hornpipes from the British Isles, nor from the waltzes, schottisches, and polkas from the Continent, but from the prolific pens of Tin Pan Alley. Marshall also examines regional styles in Missouri fiddling and comments on the future of this time-honored, and changing, tradition. Documentary in nature, this social history draws on various academic disciplines and oral histories recorded in Marshall’s forty-some years of research and field experience. Historians, music aficionados, and lay people interested in Missouri folk heritage—as well as fiddlers, of course—will find Play Me Something Quick and Devilish an entertaining and enlightening read. With 39 tunes, the enclosed Voyager Records companion CD includes a historic sampler of Missouri fiddlers and styles from 1955 to 2012. A media kit is available here: press.umsystem.edu/pages/PlayMeSomethingQuickandDevilish.aspx

Book Modern Dancing and Dancers

Download or read book Modern Dancing and Dancers written by John Ernest Crawford Flitch and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book London

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  • Author : Peter Ackroyd
  • Publisher : Anchor
  • Release : 2009-12-23
  • ISBN : 1400075513
  • Pages : 848 pages

Download or read book London written by Peter Ackroyd and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2009-12-23 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK Here are two thousand years of London’s history and folklore, its chroniclers and criminals and plain citizens, its food and drink and countless pleasures. Blackfriar’s and Charing Cross, Paddington and Bedlam. Westminster Abbey and St. Martin in the Fields. Cockneys and vagrants. Immigrants, peasants, and punks. The Plague, the Great Fire, the Blitz. London at all times of day and night, and in all kinds of weather. In well-chosen anecdotes, keen observations, and the words of hundreds of its citizens and visitors, Ackroyd reveals the ingenuity and grit and vitality of London. Through a unique thematic tour of the physical city and its inimitable soul, the city comes alive.

Book Dancing Lives

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  • Author : Karen Eliot
  • Publisher : University of Illinois Press
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN : 0252032500
  • Pages : 216 pages

Download or read book Dancing Lives written by Karen Eliot and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The private and performance lives of five female dancers in Western dance history

Book Church and Chamber Barrel organs  Their Origin  Makers  Music and Location

Download or read book Church and Chamber Barrel organs Their Origin Makers Music and Location written by Lyndesay Graham Langwill and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Dance of Assassins

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  • Author : Allen F. Roberts
  • Publisher : Indiana University Press
  • Release : 2013
  • ISBN : 0253007437
  • Pages : 327 pages

Download or read book A Dance of Assassins written by Allen F. Roberts and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Dance of Assassins presents the competing histories of how Congolese Chief Lusinga and Belgian Lieutenant Storms engaged in a deadly clash while striving to establish hegemony along the southwestern shores of Lake Tanganyika in the 1880s. While Lusinga participated in the east African slave trade, Storms' secret mandate was to meet Henry Stanley's eastward march and trace "a white line across the Dark Continent" to legitimize King Leopold's audacious claim to the Congo. Confrontation was inevitable, and Lusinga lost his head. His skull became the subject of a sinister evolutionary treatise, while his ancestral figure is now considered a treasure of the Royal Museum for Central Africa. Allen F. Roberts reveals the theatricality of early colonial encounter and how it continues to influence Congolese and Belgian understandings of history today.

Book Charles Dickens and Music

Download or read book Charles Dickens and Music written by James T. Lightwood and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-08-22 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Charles Dickens and Music" by James T. Lightwood. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Book School of Music  Theatre   Dance  University of Michigan  Publications

Download or read book School of Music Theatre Dance University of Michigan Publications written by University of Michigan. School of Music, Theatre & Dance and published by UM Libraries. This book was released on 1880 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes miscellaneous newsletters (Music at Michigan, Michigan Muse), bulletins, catalogs, programs, brochures, articles, calendars, histories, and posters.

Book Music in Nineteenth Century Britain

Download or read book Music in Nineteenth Century Britain written by Rosemary Golding and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-08-15 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of primary source material examines music and society in Britian during the ninteenth century. Sources explore religion, politics, class, and gender. The collection of materials are accompanied by an introduction by Rosemary Golding, as well as headnotes contextualising the pieces. This collection will be of great value to students and scholars.

Book Treasures of Mechanical Music

Download or read book Treasures of Mechanical Music written by Arthur A. Reblitz and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-08-15 with total page 639 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains over four hundred fifty tuning scales, tracker scales and key frame layouts for player and reproducing pianos, coin pianos and orchestrions, music boxes, table-top organettes, reed, pipe, and electronic organs, barrel organs and various other miscellaneous mechanical musical instruments. In addition to the six hundred fifty pictures and illustrations, there are capsule histories of many of the companies which produced these instruments on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. There are numerous informative articles on such subjects as arranging piano rolls, how to decode an unknown scale, how "nickelodeon" rolls were originally made, selecting the type of roll to be used for a new orchestrion, arranging music for barrel organs, tuning antique instruments, how rolls are perforated and detailed pictorial tours of both the QRS and Play-Rite Music Roll factories as they manufactured rolls in the early 1980s. There's a good bit of information on player pipe organs, and for the carousel buffs, a fascinating collection of pictures of Charles Looff, the carousel builder, and many of the fine machines he made—all of which were fitted with beautiful mechanical organs.

Book Tango Dance and Music

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kendra Stepputat
  • Publisher : Taylor & Francis
  • Release : 2024-01-30
  • ISBN : 1003825974
  • Pages : 274 pages

Download or read book Tango Dance and Music written by Kendra Stepputat and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-01-30 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first to explore tango argentino as translocal practice, with a focus on the European context. Beyond that, the book crosses borders in the use of both qualitative and quantitative methods, ranging from participant observation to statistical data evaluation, including optical motion capture for movement analysis. Most of all, it is an important contribution to the emerging field of choreomusicology, focusing on movement and sound structures, dancers and musicians, and the complex relations between all of these factors that all have their share in shaping tango argentino practice.