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Language: en
Pages: 368
Pages: 368
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-04-13 - Publisher: Duke University Press
All societies have relied on music to transform the experience of work. Song accompanied the farmer's labors, calmed the herder's flock, and set in motion the s
Language: en
Pages: 289
Pages: 289
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-09-04 - Publisher: Princeton University Press
A career-spanning account of the artistry and politics of Bob Dylan’s songwriting Bob Dylan’s reception of the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature has elevated
Language: en
Pages: 176
Pages: 176
Type: BOOK - Published: 1899 - Publisher:
Language: en
Pages: 260
Pages: 260
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-04-13 - Publisher: Duke University Press
While the first healers were musicians who relied on rhythm and song to help cure the sick, over time Western thinkers and doctors lost touch with these traditi
Language: en
Pages: 170
Pages: 170
Type: BOOK - Published: 1996 - Publisher: Applewood Books
Originally published in 1867, this book is a collection of songs of African-American slaves. A few of the songs were written after the emancipation, but all wer