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View article: Improvisation in Latin dance music: History and style
Improvisation in Latin dance music: History and style Open
This article surveys improvisation in Latin dance music, exploring aspects of history and style, with special emphasis on salsa piano solos, as well as improvisation by salsa ensembles, jibaro music and other genres.
View article: Syncretism and Adaptation in Rasiya, a Braj Folksong Genre,
Syncretism and Adaptation in Rasiya, a Braj Folksong Genre, Open
Under the the impact of the mass media, capitalist socio-economic relations and other aspects of modernity, many lndian folk music genres have declined visibly and even disappeared, and it maybe tempting to conclude that folk music as a wh…
View article: Modernity and Musical Structure: Neo-Marxist Perspectives on Song Form and its Successors
Modernity and Musical Structure: Neo-Marxist Perspectives on Song Form and its Successors Open
This article explores neo-Marxist perspectives on song form and its Successors, relating them to broader changes in social structure, the emergence of bourgeois individualism, and accompanying new aesthetics of art works as original, coher…
View article: Indo-Caribbean 'Local-Classical Music': A Unique Variant of Hindustani Music
Indo-Caribbean 'Local-Classical Music': A Unique Variant of Hindustani Music Open
As cosmopolitan South Asians are well aware, several Indian performing arts, from Bharatanatyam to Bhangra, have come to flourish outside of India, especially as cultivated by non-residentIndians and Pakistanis.Most of these art forms, lik…
View article: Retention and Invention in Bhojpuri diasporic Music Culture: Perspectives from the Caribbean, India, and Fiji
Retention and Invention in Bhojpuri diasporic Music Culture: Perspectives from the Caribbean, India, and Fiji Open
In this paper I wish to focus on the traditional and neo-traditional stratum of Bhojpuri diasporic music culture in the Caribbean, with passing reference to Indo-Fijian music culture. Looking briefly at birha, chowtal, and the dantāl, I wi…
View article: Chocolate Surrealism: Music, Movement, Memory, and History in the Circum-Caribbean, by Njoroge M. Njoroge
Chocolate Surrealism: Music, Movement, Memory, and History in the Circum-Caribbean, by Njoroge M. Njoroge Open
View article: Flamenco Jazz: An Analytical Study
Flamenco Jazz: An Analytical Study Open
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View article: La méthode du riddim : esthétique, pratique et propriété dans le dancehall jamaïcain
La méthode du riddim : esthétique, pratique et propriété dans le dancehall jamaïcain Open
La scène et l'industrie du disque jamaïcaines, des années 1950 jusqu'à nos jours, ont une manière bien particulière d'aborder les notions de composition, d'œuvre originale et de propriété. Prolongeant une tradition où la performance live i…
View article: World Music and Activism Since the End of History [sic]
World Music and Activism Since the End of History [sic] Open
A thousand militant voices will sing a freedom song The people united will never be defeated…" So proclaimed these verses of "El pueblo unido jamás será vencido," which, together with a host of nueva canción anthems, sustained the spirits …
View article: La rondeña y la guitarra flamenca temprana de El Murciano: nuevos descubrimientos y perspectivas
La rondeña y la guitarra flamenca temprana de El Murciano: nuevos descubrimientos y perspectivas Open
La Rondeña del guitarrista granadino Francisco Rodríguez Murciano (El Murciano, 1795 1848) tal y como se documenta en una transcripción realizada por su hijoha sido objeto de interés reciente entre investigadores y flamencólogos espec…
View article: El Murciano's "Rondeña" and Early Flamenco Guitar Music: New Findings and Perspectives
El Murciano's "Rondeña" and Early Flamenco Guitar Music: New Findings and Perspectives Open
Resumen: La Rondeña del guitarrista granadino Francisco Rodríguez Murciano (El Murciano, 1795 1848) tal y como se documenta en una transcripción realizada por su hijoha sido objeto de interés reciente entre investigadores y flamencól…
View article: Then Fandango Complex in the Spanish Atlantic: a Panoramic View
Then Fandango Complex in the Spanish Atlantic: a Panoramic View Open
Resumen: Así como las formas andaluzas más conocidas del fandango muestran ciertos rasgos musicales distintivos, que pueden servir para vincular estos subgéneros, histórica y estructuralmente, a grupos mucho más amplios de las familias mus…
View article: The Intermediate Sphere in North Indian Music Culture: Between and Beyond “Folk” and “Classical”
The Intermediate Sphere in North Indian Music Culture: Between and Beyond “Folk” and “Classical” Open
Abstract. If in discourse about traditional music in North India, the notions of “folk” and “classical” continue to be widely used, in this essay I posit the existence of an “intermediate sphere,” comprising a heterogeneous set of traditio…