Heritage Music Press

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Description'Remembering Popular Music's Past' capitalises on the growing interest, globally, in the preservation of popular music's material past a...

Reducere. Music in Arabia extends and challenges existing narratives of the region's distinctive but understudied music to reveal diverse and dynamic music c...

Reducere. Whether discussing the transformative power of art or music, the lasting trauma of residential schools, growing up poor, or achieving success, the ...

The purpose of The Original African Heritage Study Bible is to interpret the Bible as it relates specifically to persons of African descent and the...

Reducere. Music is a powerful means for educating citizens in a multicultural society and meeting many challenges shared by teachers across all subjects and ...

Folk music is universal, found in every country in the world and popularised here by performers such as Joan Baez and Steeleye Span. English folk s...

Reducere. Krasna Amerika (Beautiful America) will make Texans of Czech descent proud of their heritage. Various aspects of Czech Texan life are presented in ...

A self-described "song-hunter, " the folklorist Alan Lomax traveled the Mississippi Delta in the 1930's and '40s, armed with primitive recording eq...

Jazz has always been a genre built on the blending of disparate musical cultures. Latin jazz illustrates this perhaps better than any other style i...

Reducere. A history of the distinctive, capital sound that fuses hip-hop, funk, and soul The Beat was the first book to explore the musical, social, and cult...

Peking opera is one of the most distinctive traditions in Chinese culture - a tradition that can seem mysterious and complex to foreign eyes. In th...

Reducere. Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901-1953), distinguished musician, noted music educator and authority on folk music has assembled a collection of songs from...

Making the Scene in the Garden State explores New Jersey's rich musical heritage through stories about the musicians, listeners and fans who came t...

Southampton is undergoing something of a regeneration. A vibrant, dynamic and cultural heart to the city is emerging in its cultural quarter, with ...

Reducere. No one has had a better seat in the house than George Wein. The legendary impresario has known the most celebrated figures of music in general and ...

Sonic ethnography reveals how sound plays a central role in the performance of local identities in the southern Italian region of Basilicata. By ex...

Reducere. Come nose around in the creepier corners of the Grand Rapids of yesteryear. Discover why Hell's Bridge persists as such an oft-told urban legend an...

Reducere. Preservation Hall, located in the French Quarter just three blocks from the Mississippi River, remains an icon of New Orleans and an essential stop...

Reducere. Minnesota is often associated with its Scandinavian heritage, but in fact Germans are the largest single immigrant group in Minnesota history and w...

Reducere. DescriptionDetroit's auto heritage is known worldwide, but this fascinating city's history runs much deeper. Step inside the tiny recording studio ...

Reducere. It would be no exaggeration to call Charles Mingus the greatest bass player in the history of jazz; indeed, some might even regard it as understate...

Reducere. Haitian Vodou breaks away from European and American heuristic models for understanding a religio-philosophical system such as Vodou in order to fo...

Reducere. Written by accomplished historian James Hoobler, senior curator of art and architecture at the Tennessee State Museum and former executive director...

Reducere. Beginning in the 1870s, thousands of Bohemians flocked to Cedar Rapids in search of a better life. Czech immigrants courageously overcame the diffi...

Reducere. Widely known for its musical influence, Beale Street was also once a hub for Hoodoo culture. Many blues icons, such as Big Memphis Ma Rainey and So...

DescriptionArt, music, literature, and science in Vienna at the turn of the last century presented a series of wrenching dualities: reality and ill...

Reducere. Two previously unpublished collections by an important Chinese American poet depict daily life inside New York's Chinatown and across the Chinese d...

Reducere. Although a number of important studies of American slavery have explored the formation of slave cultures in the English colonies, no book until now...

Reducere. DescriptionBy the early 1970s, an active bohemian colony had developed in Santa Fe and it became a cultural boom town. The number of art galleries ...

Reducere. Growing up as a biracial child, Maggy Williams had three options: she could identify as black, white, or mixed. She chose to embrace her multiracia...

Reducere. Grafton Tyler Brown--whose heritage was likely one-eighth African American--finessed his way through San Francisco society by passing for white. Wo...

Building on numerous original close readings of works by Homer, Hesiod, and other ancient Greek poets, Richard P. Martin articulates a broad and pr...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: B. Christine ArceWinner of the 2016 Victoria Urbano Critical Monograph Book Prize presented by the International Associatio...

The Gullah people are one of our most distinctive cultural groups. Isolated off the South Carolina-Georgia coast for nearly three centuries, the na...

Reducere. Growing up as a biracial child, Maggy Williams had three options: she could identify as black, white, or mixed. She chose to embrace her multiracia...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Bess Lomax HawesAuthor: Bessie JonesGrowing up in the rural South, Bessie Jones sang her way through long hours of field wo...