Tina Bucuvalas (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781496819703
- eISBN:
- 9781496819758
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781496819703.001.0001
- Subject:
- Music, Ethnomusicology, World Music
Greek Music in America: A Reader provides a foundation for understanding the scope, practice, and development of Greek music in America through essays by the principal scholars in the field. This is ...
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Greek Music in America: A Reader provides a foundation for understanding the scope, practice, and development of Greek music in America through essays by the principal scholars in the field. This is the first book to offer a comprehensive view of the subject; despite the richness, diversity, and longevity of Greek music in America, there has been relatively little available on the topic. The volume includes several previously published essays, as well as recent work by contemporary specialists on the Greek diaspora. The book opens with a sociohistorical overview of Greek music in America, followed by four major sections. The essays brought together in Musical Genre, Style, and Content cover topics ranging from changes in sacred music in the United States to Café Aman, rebetika, amanedes, Turkish influences, and verbal interjections in musical performances. In the Places section, authors interrogate the musical culture of specific Greek American communities. Delivering the Music: Recording Companies and Performance Venues examines the many ways that music was made available. Profiles provides biographical sketches of noteworthy individuals or entities that shaped the course of Greek music in America or contributed to its allure and perpetuation through their exceptional skills. An additional essay on publicly available Greek music collections completes the book.Less
Greek Music in America: A Reader provides a foundation for understanding the scope, practice, and development of Greek music in America through essays by the principal scholars in the field. This is the first book to offer a comprehensive view of the subject; despite the richness, diversity, and longevity of Greek music in America, there has been relatively little available on the topic. The volume includes several previously published essays, as well as recent work by contemporary specialists on the Greek diaspora. The book opens with a sociohistorical overview of Greek music in America, followed by four major sections. The essays brought together in Musical Genre, Style, and Content cover topics ranging from changes in sacred music in the United States to Café Aman, rebetika, amanedes, Turkish influences, and verbal interjections in musical performances. In the Places section, authors interrogate the musical culture of specific Greek American communities. Delivering the Music: Recording Companies and Performance Venues examines the many ways that music was made available. Profiles provides biographical sketches of noteworthy individuals or entities that shaped the course of Greek music in America or contributed to its allure and perpetuation through their exceptional skills. An additional essay on publicly available Greek music collections completes the book.
Bonnie C. Wade
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- May 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780226085210
- eISBN:
- 9780226085494
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226085494.003.0003
- Subject:
- Music, Ethnomusicology, World Music
Chapter 2 with Chapter 1 focuses on the environment within Japanese modernity that is comprised of infrastructures in four spheres of activity— education, government, industry, and commerce--and, in ...
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Chapter 2 with Chapter 1 focuses on the environment within Japanese modernity that is comprised of infrastructures in four spheres of activity— education, government, industry, and commerce--and, in the field of music, connectivities among them that afford composers opportunities. Chapter 2 investigates connectivities in all four spheres, including commercial music education offered by Yamaha, opportunities for composing and publishing new instructional material for domestically-produced instruments (especially pianos), and support for contemporary music through cultural facilities. Other support for composers includes includes the JASRAC copyrighting agency, recording companies (ALM Records, Fontec, Camerata), and private publishers (Zen-On, Ongaku no Tomosha).Less
Chapter 2 with Chapter 1 focuses on the environment within Japanese modernity that is comprised of infrastructures in four spheres of activity— education, government, industry, and commerce--and, in the field of music, connectivities among them that afford composers opportunities. Chapter 2 investigates connectivities in all four spheres, including commercial music education offered by Yamaha, opportunities for composing and publishing new instructional material for domestically-produced instruments (especially pianos), and support for contemporary music through cultural facilities. Other support for composers includes includes the JASRAC copyrighting agency, recording companies (ALM Records, Fontec, Camerata), and private publishers (Zen-On, Ongaku no Tomosha).
