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Pages: 380
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Songprints, the first book-length exploration of the musical lives of Native American women, describes a century of cultural change and constancy among the Shos
Songs for the Spirits
Language: en
Pages: 283
Authors: Barley Norton
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-10-01 - Publisher: University of Illinois Press

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Songs for the Spirits examines the Vietnamese practice of communing with spirits through music and performance. During rituals dedicated to a pantheon of indige
Essential Song
Language: en
Pages: 192
Authors: Lynn Whidden
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-05-20 - Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

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Songs for Cabo Verde
Language: en
Pages: 342
Authors: Susan Hurley-Glowa
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Chronicles the work of Norberto Tavares, a Cabo Verdean musician and humanitarian who served as the conscience of his island nation during the transition from P
Never Without a Song
Language: en
Pages: 332
Authors: Katharine D. Newman
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Type: BOOK - Published: 1995 - Publisher: University of Illinois Press

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Never Without a Song focuses on the centrality of folksong in the life of Jennie Devlin, a woman who worked for fourteen years as a "bound-out girl" along the N