Author: Cardiff Free Libraries
Publisher:
Published: 1898
Total Pages: 568
ISBN-13:
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Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2019-11-15
Total Pages: 291
ISBN-13: 1476676763
DOWNLOAD EBOOK → The minstrel show occupies a complex and controversial space in the history of American popular culture. Today considered a shameful relic of America's racist past, it nonetheless offered many black performers of the 19th and early 20th centuries their only opportunity to succeed in a white-dominated entertainment world, where white performers in blackface had by the 1830s established minstrelsy as an enduringly popular national art form. This book traces the often overlooked history of the "modern" minstrel show through the advent of 20th century mass media--when stars like Al Jolson, Bing Crosby and Mickey Rooney continued a long tradition of affecting black music, dance and theatrical styles for mainly white audiences--to its abrupt end in the 1950s. A companion two-CD reissue of recordings discussed in the book is available from Archeophone Records at www.archeophone.com.
Author: Phyllis Kinney
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Published: 2016-06-15
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 1783168587
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Phyllis Kinney's Welsh Traditional Music covers the traditional music of Wales from its beginnings through to the present day, providing musical analysis and placing its material firmly into a social and historical context. Among the many different forms of Welsh traditional music discussed are seasonal music (including wassail songs, Christmas and May carols and Plygain carols), folk drama, ballad-singing, the relevance of the eisteddfod and the musical journals of the nineteenth century. Additionally, the book includes a history of song collecting from the eighteenth century to the establishment and ongoing activities of the Welsh Folk-Song Society in the twentieth; both the instrumental and the vocal traditions are examined, as well as the uniquely Welsh tradition of ‘cerdd dant’. This is a work of pioneering scholarship that accounts for Welsh traditional music within the context of a greater Welsh musical tradition.
Author: Carmarthenshire Antiquarian Society and Field Club
Publisher:
Published: 1906
Total Pages: 870
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Publisher:
Published: 1908
Total Pages: 254
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: J. L. Thomas
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2022-02-24
Total Pages: 206
ISBN-13: 3752571853
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Reprint of the original, first published in 1867.
Author: William John ROBERTS (called Gwilym Cowlyd.)
Publisher:
Published: 1864
Total Pages: 20
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