Non-Western Music: Traditional & Classical

A collection of songs by the late Aboriginal singer Dougie Young, who began writing and performing around Wilcannia and western New South Wales in the 1950s and '60s. It tells the life of Aboriginal people in Wilcannia - and also explores Aboriginality in a way that was quite ori...ginal for the time, touching on oppression, racism and land rights.
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At the dawn of the twenty-first century, the Nor-tec phenomenon emerged from the border city of Tijuana, and through modern Internet technology quickly conquered a global audience. Marketed as a kind of ethnic electronic dance music, Nor-tec samples sounds of traditional music fr...om the north of Mexico, transforming these sounds through computer technology used in European and American techno music and electronica. In Nor-tec Rifa!, Alejandro L. Madrid crafts a fascinating account of this music and the city that fostered its birth. With an impressive hybrid of musicology, ethnomusicology, cultural and performance studies, urbanism, and border studies, Nor-tec Rifa! offers compelling insights into the cultural production of Nor-tec as it stems from ortena, banda, and grupera traditions.
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Sound disc consists of digitally remastered musical selections originally recorded by the authors.

Analysing the nature of the texts in the repertoire, this volume traces the history of p'ansori from its roots in shamanism and folktales through its 19th-century heyday under highly acclaimed masters, and discusses its evolution in the 20th century.