LIBROS DEL AUTOR: chris goertzen

8 resultados para LIBROS DEL AUTOR: chris goertzen

  • Rugs, Guitars, and Fiddling
    Chris Goertzen
    What do exotic area rugs, handcrafted steel-string guitars, and fiddling have in common today? Many contemporary tradition bearers embrace complexity in form and content. They construct objects and performances that draw on the past and evoke nostalgia effectively but also reward close attention. In Rugs, Guitars, and Fiddling: Intensification and the Rich Modern Lives of Tradi...
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    51,47 €

  • Rugs, Guitars, and Fiddling
    Chris Goertzen
    What do exotic area rugs, handcrafted steel-string guitars, and fiddling have in common today? Many contemporary tradition bearers embrace complexity in form and content. They construct objects and performances that draw on the past and evoke nostalgia effectively but also reward close attention. In Rugs, Guitars, and Fiddling: Intensification and the Rich Modern Lives of Tradi...
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    152,76 €

  • American Antebellum Fiddling
    Chris Goertzen
    This unique volume is the only book solely about antebellum American fiddling. It includes more than 250 easy-to-read and clearly notated fiddle tunes alongside biographies of fiddlers and careful analysis of their personal tune collections. The reader learns what the tunes of the day were, what the fiddlers' lives were like, and as much as can be discovered about how fiddl...
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    163,09 €

  • American Antebellum Fiddling
    Chris Goertzen
    This unique volume is the only book solely about antebellum American fiddling. It includes more than 250 easy-to-read and clearly notated fiddle tunes alongside biographies of fiddlers and careful analysis of their personal tune collections. The reader learns what the tunes of the day were, what the fiddlers' lives were like, and as much as can be discovered about how fiddl...
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    53,05 €

  • George P. Knauff’s Virginia Reels and the History of American Fiddling
    Chris Goertzen
    George P. Knauff's Virginia Reels (1839) was the first collection of southern fiddle tunes and the only substantial one published in the nineteenth century. Knauff's activity could not anticipate our modern contest-driven fiddle subcultures. But the fate of the Virginia Reels pointed in that direction, suggesting that southern fiddling, after his time, would happen outs...
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    50,18 €

  • George P. Knauff’s Virginia Reels and the History of American Fiddling
    Chris Goertzen
    George P. Knauff�s Virginia Reels (1839) was the first collection of southern fiddle tunes and the only substantial one published in the nineteenth century. Knauff�s activity could not anticipate our modern contest-driven fiddle subcultures. But the fate of the Virginia Reels pointed in that direction, suggesting that southern fiddling, after his time, would happen outside of c...
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    158,35 €

  • Southern Fiddlers and Fiddle Contests
    Chris Goertzen
    A journey to the main public venue for the most vigorous American folk music traditionSouthern Fiddlers and Fiddle Contests explores the phenomenon of American fiddle contests, which now have replaced dances as the main public event where American fiddlers get together. Chris Goertzen studies this change and what it means for audiences, musicians, traditions, and the future of ...
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    50,45 €

  • Good Medicine and Good Music
    Chris Goertzen / David Hursh
    Alice Morgan Person (1840-1913) was a colorful North Carolinian. Born wealthy and married well, she fell into hardship after the Civil War but remarkably overcame it by marketing her own patent medicine and playing and sharing her arrangements of folk tunes. Presented here is her previously unpublished autobiography as well as a detailed account of her life based on new researc...
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    57,48 €