How music embodies and contributes to historical and contemporary nationalismWhat does music in Portugal and Spain reveal about the relationship between national and regional …
This incomparable anthology collects articles, interviews, fiction, and poetry from the Original Chicago Blues Annual, one of music history's most significant periodical blues …
Older people negotiating dance routines, intimacy, and racialized differences provide a focal point for an ethnography of danzon in Veracruz, the Mexican city closely associated …
The perils of equating notions of freedom with artistic vitalityEloquently extolled by President John F. Kennedy, the idea that only artists in free societies can produce great art …
An essential high culture institution, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has both supported and molded American musical culture. Denise Von Glahn examines the …
Singers generating cultural identity from K-Pop to Beverly SillsAround the world and across time, singers and their songs stand at the crossroads of differing politics and …
Langston Collin Wilkins returns to the city where he grew up to illuminate the complex relationship between place, identity, and music in Houston's hip hop culture. Interviews with …
A combination of button accordion and bajo sexto, conjunto originated in the Texas-Mexico borderlands as a popular dance music and became a powerful form of regional identity. …
Black vaudevillians and entertainers joked that T.O.B.A. stood for "e;tough on black artists."e; But the Theater Owner's Booking Association (T.O.B.A.) played a …
Now available in paperback, William C. Banfield's acclaimed collection of interviews delves into the lives and work of forty-one Black composers. Each of the profiled artists …
