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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Chorus and community. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, ©2006 (OCoLC)639830475 |
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Material Type: | Music, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Sound Recording, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Karen Ahlquist |
ISBN: | 0252030370 0252072847 9780252030376 9780252072840 9780252030376 9780252072840 978025207X 840 9789780252076 840 9780252030 9789780252038 9780252037 |
OCLC Number: | 62281651 |
Description: | x, 323 pages : illustrations, music ; 23 cm + 1 audio disc (4 3/4 in.) |
Contents: | A communal art. "We are from different ethnic groups, but we live here as one family" : the musical performance of community in a Tanzanian kwaya / Gregory Barz ; "Putting Decatur on the map" : choral music and community in an Illinois city / Melinda Russell ; Singing on the steppes : Kornelius Neufeld and choral music among the Mennonites of Russia / Wesley Berg -- Grassroots aesthetics. Concord and discord : singing together in a Sardinian brotherhood / Bernard Lortat-Jacob, translated and edited by Marc Benamou ; Music and morality : John Curwen's tonic sol-fa, the Temperance Movement, and the oratorios of Edward Elgar / Charles Edward McGuire ; Accounting for taste : choral circles in early Soviet workers' clubs / Amy Nelson -- Minority identities. Spiritual singing brings in the money : the Fisk Jubilee Singers tour Holland in 1877 / Helen Metzelaar ; The "new Negro" choral legacy of Hall Johnson / Marva Griffin Carter ; From Communism to Yiddishism : the reinvention of the Jewish People's Philharmonic Chorus of New York City / Marion S. Jacobson -- The activist chorus. "We're singin' for the union" : the ILGWU Chorus in Pennsylvania coal country, 1947-2000 / Kenneth C. Wolensky ; The voice empowered : harmonic convergence of music and politics in the GLBT choral movement / Jill Strachan -- In the Western tradition. Men and women of the chorus : music, governance, and social models in nineteenth-century German-speaking Europe / Karen Ahlquist ; Symphonic choirs : understanding the borders of professionalism / Rosalynd Smith. |
Responsibility: | edited by Karen Ahlquist. |
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Abstract:
Deals with chorus and its effect on music and the world. This book discusses groups including an East African chorus; groups from nineteenth-century England, Germany, and America; early twentieth-century Russian Menonites; barbershops; Soviet workers' clubs; a Sardinian brotherhood; an Australian symphonic choir; and gay and lesbian choruses.
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"This book represents a timely and excellent contribution to choral music scholarship, and it is the first-ever collection of essays on the relationship of chorus and community. . . . Chorus and Community is a fascinating and enlightening volume. "--Journal of Folklore Research Read more...
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