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Megaship Economies and Transnational Maritime Performance
(Cambridge Journals, 2014-09)
Maritime performance inherently links to economies of commerce. It’s history and practices reorient theatre within broad frames of transnationalism. While airplanes crisscross skies transporting modern passengers across ...
The Cimbál (Cimbalom) and Folk Music in Moravian Slovakia and Valachia
(A-R Editions, 2010)
This article presents an English-language introduction to the cimbalom, known in Czech as cimbál, as it is played in the Czech Republic. The article presents a holistic perspective on the cimbalom in Moravia, beginning ...
Performing Českost (Czechness): Polka Music and Musical Ethnicity at Wisconsin Czech-American Festivals
(Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences (SVU), 2006)
The article reports on the significance of polka music at Czech-American festivals in Wisconsin. Data is presented from observations at Czech-American community festivals in Wisconsin during the summer of 2003.
Mambo and The Maya
(University of Illinois Press, 2003)
The article describes an incidence of Mambo dancing in Antigua, Guatemala that was not Mambo, not Mayan and not social. In celebration of Corpus Christi, male performers dressed in Disney-style costume characters and ...
"Neroztavili se": cimbál a asimilace české minority v texasu
(National Institute of Folk Culture, Czech Republic, 2011-03)
Ethnomusicologists have often viewed music as a marker of cultural identity. Music also has a more active role, however, in the hands of musicians, listeners, and dancers, to recreate, redefine, and fashion elements of new ...
Maritime Migrations: Stewards of the African Grove
(Cambridge University Press, 2019)
This essay discusses how maritime migrations contribute to movements of ideas across transnational ethnic communities. It focuses on actors from the African Grove, a New York City-based African American theatre company. ...
Annotated Bibliography of African American Carillon Music
(The Guild of Carillonneurs in North America, 2018-11-26)
This comprehensive annotated bibliography lists carillon scores by African American composers and/or based on African American music. While most of the items are published, a few are unpublished but in informal circulation, ...