John Fahey is to the solo acoustic guitar what Jimi Hendrix was to the electric: the man whom all subsequent musicians had to listen to. Fahey made more than 40 albums between 1959 and his death in 2001, most of them featuring only his solo steel-string guitar. He fused elements of folk, blues, and experimental composition, taking familiar American sounds and recontextualizing them as something entirely new. Yet despite his stature as a groundbreaking

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Get the Summary of Jeff Tweedy's World Within a Song in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Jeff Tweedy's "World Within a Song" is a memoir that traces his musical influences and experiences, beginning with the first guitar riff he learned from Deep Purple's "Smoke on the Water." He shares anecdotes from his childhood, such as his father's influence on his musical taste and a humorous misunderstanding about his cousin...

Created for musicians and vocalists, Cancionero features arrangements for voice with piano or guitar accompaniments as well as selected concert versions for voice, oboe, harp, and piano.

Clawhammer ukulele instructional book by Aaron Keim. 18 songs in tablature format with several pages of instruction, tips and techniques (including traditional songs and original songs by Aaron). Included within some songs are links to YouTube videos for demonstration purposes! (Very helpful for those of you who need to see it and hear it in order to practice). Clawhammer is a banjo style that also works on the ukulele. It is from the Appalachian...

The only defenders of Serbian art and culture in these difficult centuries were the peasants who played the Gusle, a one-stringed instrument. As their punishment for playing a musical instrument many of these musicians were blinded by their oppressors resulting in thousands of such punishments. Being denied the right to music or dance, the Serbs invented a silent kolo (dance) in which the syncopation of the pounding feet became a sort of musical accompaniment...

"For my parents and grandparents, Jewish identity, in religion, culture and language, was a given. Not so for me. I'm not religious, not a Zionist, so in what consists my Jewishness? Is a love of chopped liver and a belief that chicken soup cures all ills enough? And, does it matter? This is the story of my search for answers. It is an argument with myself, with song lyrics to embellish the argument." Like so many of those others in Britain of Jewish...

En esta nueva edición de la Guía del flamenco se expone el origen, nacimiento y desarrollo del flamenco y se analizan los periodos fundamentales de su evolución, así como los enclaves geográficos más significativos. También se analizan las características básicas del cante, el baile y el toque. Se aporta a su vez, un glosario de términos específicos al tiempo que se incluye una relación, por orden alfabético, de casi 600 fichas de artistas...

Bob Dylan's New York is a guidebook and a history of New York's key role through Dylan's lengthy career. It places Dylan's early career in the storied history of Greenwich Village, a hotbed of new developments in the arts. A contemporary of Dylan's, author Dick Weissman walked the same streets, played music in the same venues, and witnessed the growth of the folk music revival from before Dylan became popular to after the height of his impact on the...

Sampling virtually all of the old-time styles within the musical traditions still extant in north Georgia, Folk Visions and Voices is a collection of eighty-two songs and instrumentals, enhanced by photographs, illustrations, biographical sketches of performers, and examples of their narratives, sermons, tales, and reminiscences.

La obra realiza un análisis diacrónico de los sustratos que contribuyeron a la formación del vallenato, para tratar de establecer cómo fue afectado por múltiples procesos de hibridación y mestizaje cultural a través del tiempo. Mediante la transcripción y el cotejo musicológico de fragmentos representativos seleccionados, se han determinado tipologías características que se observan en los patrones de sus aires de danza.