Tag: Performers

Free Download Gerald Groemer, "Street Performers and Society in Urban Japan, 1600-1900: The Beggar’s Gift "
English | ISBN: 1138924024 | 2016 | 434 pages | PDF | 111 MB
This book presents a thoroughly researched and meticulously documented study of the emergence, development, and demise of music, theatre, recitation, and dance witnessed by the populace on thoroughfares, plazas, and makeshift outdoor performance spaces in Edo/Tokyo. For some three hundred years this city was the centre of such arts, both sacred and secular. This study outlines the nature of the performances, explores the social relations which lay behind them, and reveals vast complexity: an obligation of gift-giving on the part of observers; performers who were often economic migrants fallen on hard times; relations of performance to social class; a class system much more finely gradated than the official four caste system; and institutions of professional organization and registration, enforced by government, with penalties for unregistered performers. The book discusses how performing, witnessing, and rewarding performance were closely bound up with economy, society and government, how the interaction between various groups related to socio-economic advancement, how the system of street performance reinforced social control, and how the balance between different groups shifted over time.

Free Download Richard Miller, "Singing Schumann: An Interpretive Guide for Performers"
English | ISBN: 0195181972 | 2005 | 260 pages | PDF | 14 MB
To restrict performance of the Schumann Lieder to the "familiar forty" is to deprive the singer and pianist of a major reservoir of superior song. Thus Singing Schumann not only takes an in-depth look at the widely performed middle and late Lieder, it also fully reconsiders the early songs. Offering the same readability and informed insights in this volume that distinguished his acclaimed On the Art of Singing (OUP 1996), Miller presents a practical manual to help singers and pianists bring Robert Schumann’s Lieder to life in performance. He also provides cogent suggestions for interpretation of all of Schumann’s solo and duet songs, useful pointers that are grounded in a thorough understanding of Schumann’s compositional style and its full historical background.

Free Download Inside Early Music: Conversations with Performers (2nd Edition) by Bernard D. Sherman
English | 1997 | ISBN: 0195097084 | 432 Pages | PDF | 23.0 MB
The attempt to play music with the styles and instruments of its era-commonly referred to as the early music movement-has become immensely popular in recent years.

Free Download Nana Abena Amoah-Ramey, "Female Highlife Performers in Ghana: Expression, Resistance, and Advocacy"
English | ISBN: 1498564666 | 2018 | 192 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
This book offers a detailed analysis of the history of female musicians in the Highlife music tradition of the Republic of Ghana, particularly the challenges and constraints these women faced and overcame. Highlife – a form of West African music infusing Ghana’s traditional Akan dance rhythms and melodies with European instruments and harmonies – grew in popularity throughout the 20th century and hit its peak in the 1970s and 1980s. Although women played significant roles in the evolution and survival of the genre, few of their contributions have been thoroughly explored or documented. Despite being disregarded and ignored in many spheres, female Highlife musicians thrived and became trailblazers in the Ghanaian music industry, making particularly vibrant contributions to Highlife music in the 1970s. This book presents the voices of female Highlife artists and documents the ideological transformations expressed through their musical works, exploring the challenges they confronted throughout their musical careers and their contributions to music and culture in Ghana.