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Music for the People: Popular Music and Dance in Interwar Britain
Music for the People: Popular Music and Dance in Interwar Britain. By James J. Nott (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. xiv plus 274 pp.). James ......(Continue Reading) Making Tracks - mingling of cultures in popular music - Brief Article
The world does not exist. At least not the world that radio and record stores would have you believe exists, where American music resides in one aisle ......(Continue Reading)Another history of bluegrass: the segregation of popular music in the United States, 1820-1900 - 1
Categories in any case are never watertight, but flow ceaselessly into one another.... Musical interactions do not occur at random, but are indicators ......(Continue Reading)Just for fun? Language choice in German popular music
After World War II, West Germany, in its search for a post-Nazi identity, encountered the emerging hegemony of the United States, the political and military leader of the Western world whose cultur...(Continue Reading)National identity in Brazilian popular music
The samba of my homeland Makes you mellow When it's played you can't help but sway. When it's danced, everybody shakes Whoever doesn't like samba a good fellow can not be He's ei...(Continue Reading)
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