53 p., Since 1996, Congress has appropriated 205 million dollars to the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Department of State (State) to support democracy assistance for Cuba. Because of Cuban government restrictions, conditions in Cuba pose security risks to the implementing partners -- primarily nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) -- and subpartners that provide US assistance. GAO (1) identified current assistance, implementing partners, subpartners, and beneficiaries; (2) reviewed USAID's and State's efforts to implement the program in accordance with US laws and regulations and to address program risks; and (3) examined USAID's and State's monitoring of the use of program funds. Tables, Figures, Appendixes.
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Surveys the origins of rock 'n' roll from the minstrel era to the emergence of Bill Haley and Elvis Presley. Dispelling common misconceptions, this book examines rock's origins in hokum songs and big-band boogies as well as Delta blues, detailing the embrace by white artists of African-American styles long before rock 'n' roll appeared. This study ranges far and wide, highlighting not only the contributions of obscure but key precursors like Hardrock Gunter and Sam Theard but also the influence of celebrity performers like Gene Autry and Ella Fitzgerald. Too often, rock historians treat the genesis of rock 'n' roll as a bolt from the blue, an overnight revolution provoked by the bland pop music that immediately preceded it and created through the white appropriation of music until then played only by and for black audiences. Here, Birnbaum argues a more complicated history of rock's evolution from a heady mix of ragtime, boogie-woogie, swing, country music, mainstream pop, and R&B—a melange of genres that influenced one another along the way, from the absorption of blues and boogies into jazz and pop to the integration of country and Caribbean music into R&B.
Campbell,Patricia Shehan, (Ed.And Intro.) and Wiggins,Trevor, (Ed.And Intro.)
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Book, Whole
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01/01; 2013
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Oxford: Oxford University Press
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The following contributions are cited separately in RILM: Carlos R. ABRIL, Perspectives on the school band from hardcore American band kids (RILM ref]2013-00778/ref]); Mayumi ADACHI, The nature of music nurturing in Japanese preschools (RILM ref]2013-00779/ref]); Sarah J. BARTOLOME, Education and evangelism in a Sierra Leonean village (RILM ref]2013-00763/ref]); Marisol BERRÍOS-MIRANDA, Musical childhoods across three generations, from Puerto Rico to the U.S.A. (RILM ref]2013-00768/ref]); Tyler BICKFORD, Tinkering and tethering in the material culture of children's MP3 players (RILM ref]2013-00788/ref]); Sally BODKIN-ALLEN, Interweaving threads of music in the Whariki of early childhood cultures in Aotearoa/New Zealand (RILM ref]2013-00775/ref]); Gregory D. BOOTH, Economics, class, and musical apprenticeship in South Asia's brass band communities (RILM ref]2013-00789/ref]); Lily CHEN-HAFTECK, Balancing change and tradition in the musical lives of children in Hong Kong (RILM ref]2013-00776/ref]); Judah M. COHEN, Reform Jewish songleading and the flexible practices of Jewish-American youth (RILM ref]2013-00751/ref]); Eugene DAIRIANATHAN, Chee-Hoo LUM, Reflexive and reflective perspectives of musical childhoods in Singapore (RILM ref]2013-00770/ref]); Sonja Lynn DOWNING, Girls experiencing gamelan education and cultural politics in Bali (RILM ref]2013-00749/ref]); Andrea EMBERLY, Venda children's musical culture in Limpopo, South Africa (RILM ref]2013-00752/ref]); Anna HOEFNAGELS, Kristin Harris WALSH, Constructions and negotiations of identity in children's music in Canada (RILM ref]2013-00791/ref]); Beatriz ILARI, Musical cultures of girls in the Brazilian Amazon (RILM ref]2013-00756/ref]); Alan M. KENT, Celticity, community, and continuity in the children's musical cultures of Cornwall (RILM ref]2013-00760/ref]); Alexandra KERTZ-WELZEL, Children's and adolescents' musical needs and music education in Germany (RILM ref]2013-00774/ref]); Young-youn KIM, Tradition and change in the musical culture of South Korean children (RILM ref]2013-00777/ref]); Magali Oliveira KLEBER, Jusamara Vieira SOUZA, The musical socialization of children and adolescents in Brazil in their everyday lives (RILM ref]2013-00757/ref]); Lisa Huisman KOOPS, Enjoyment and socialization in Gambian children's music making (RILM ref]2013-00766/ref]); Elizabeth MACKINLAY, The musical worlds of Aboriginal children at Burrulula and Darwin in the Northern Territory of Australia (RILM ref]2013-00769/ref]); Noriko MANABE, Songs of Japanese schoolchildren during World War II (RILM ref]2013-00753/ref]); Kedmon MAPANA, Enculturational discontinuities in the musical experience of the Wagogo children of central Tanzania (RILM ref]2013-00783/ref]); Kathryn MARSH, Music in the lives of refugee and newly arrived immigrant children in Sydney, Australia (RILM ref]2013-00782/ref]); Sara Stone MILLER, Terry E. MILLER, The role of context and experience among the children of the Church of God and Saints of Christ, Cleveland, Ohio (RILM ref]2013-00781/ref]); Amanda MINKS, Miskitu children's singing games on the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua as intercultural play and performance (RILM ref]2013-00761/ref]); Marvelene C. MOORE, The musical culture of African American children in Tennessee (RILM ref]2013-00771/ref]); Sylvia NANNYONGA-TAMUSUZA, Girlhood songs, musical tales, and musical games as strategies for socialization into womanhood among the Baganda of Uganda (RILM ref]2013-00754/ref]); Robert PITZER, Youth music at the Yakama Nation Tribal School (RILM ref]2013-00750/ref]); Christopher ROBERTS, A historical look at three recordings of children's musicking in New York City (RILM ref]2013-00792/ref]); Natalie SARRAZIN, Children's urban and rural musical worlds in North India (RILM ref]2013-00764/ref]); Hope Munro SMITH, Children's musical engagement with Trinidad's Carnival music (RILM ref]2013-00767/ref]); Janet L. STURMAN, Integration in Mexican children's musical worlds (RILM ref]2013-00759/ref]); Polo VALLEJO, Georgian (Caucasus) children's polyphonic conception of music (RILM ref]2013-00758/ref]); Peter WHITEMAN, The complex ecologies of early childhood musical cultures (RILM ref]2013-00780/ref]); Trevor WIGGINS, Whose songs in their heads? (RILM ref]2013-00793/ref]).
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This annotated discography covers the first 50 years of audio recordings by black artists in chronological order, music made in the 'acoustic era' of recording technology. The book has cross-referenced bibliographical information on recording sessions, including audio sources for extant material, and appendices on field recordings; Caribbean, Mexican and South American recordings; piano rolls performed by black artists; and a filmography detailing the visual record of black performing artists from the period. Indexes contain all featured artists, titles recorded and labels.
Madrid,Alejandro L., (Author) and Moore,Robin Dale, (Author)
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Book, Whole
Publication Date:
01/01; 2013
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New York: Oxford University Press
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Initially branching out of the European contradance tradition, the danzón first emerged as a distinct form of music and dance among black performers in 19th-c. Cuba. By the early 20th-c., it had exploded in popularity throughout the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean basin. A fundamentally hybrid music and dance complex, it reflects the fusion of European and African elements and had a strong influence on the development of later Latin dance traditions as well as early jazz in New Orleans. This book studies the emergence, hemisphere-wide influence, and historical and contemporary significance of this music and dance phenomenon. The authors take an ethnomusicological, historical, and critical approach to the processes of appropriation of the danzón in new contexts, its changing meanings over time, and its relationship to other musical forms. Delving into its long history of controversial popularization, stylistic development, glorification, decay, and rebirth in a continuous transnational dialogue between Cuba and Mexico as well as New Orleans, the authors explore the production, consumption, and transformation of this Afro-diasporic performance complex in relation to global and local ideological discourses. By focusing on interactions across this entire region as well as specific local scenes, the authors underscore the extent of cultural movement and exchange within the Americas during the late 19th and early 20th-c., and are thereby able to analyze the danzón, the dance scenes it has generated, and the various discourses of identification surrounding it as elements in broader regional processes.
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171 p, This title considers the African Diaspora through the underexplored Afro-Latino experience in the Caribbean and South America. Utilizing both established and emerging approaches such as feminism and Atlantic studies, the authors explore the production of historical and contemporary identities and cultural practices within and beyond the boundaries of the nation-state. The collection illustrates how far the fields of Afro-Latino and African Diaspora studies have advanced beyond the Herskovits and Frazier debates of the 1940s.
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254 p, Explores the forms of personhood that developed out of New World plantations, from Georgia and Florida through Jamaica to Haiti and extending into colonial metropoles such as Philadelphia. Allewaert's examination of the writings of naturalists, novelists, and poets; the oral stories of Africans in the diaspora; and Afro-American fetish artifacts shows that persons in American plantation spaces were pulled into a web of environmental stresses, ranging from humidity to the demand for sugar.
Kingston, Jamaica: University Of West Indies Press
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292 p, Presentation of empirical historical data on Britain’s transatlantic slave economy and society supports the legal claim that chattel slavery as established by the British state and sustained by citizens and governments was understood then as a crime, but political and moral outrage were silenced by the argument that the enslavement of black people was in Britain’s national interest. Slavery was invested in by the royal family, the government, the established church, most elite families, and large public institutions in the private and public sector. Citing the legal principles of unjust and criminal enrichment, the author presents a compelling argument for Britain’s payment of its black debt, a debt that it continues to deny .
Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago: Republic Bank Limited
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344 p, “Republic Bank has been such an integral part of Trinidad and Tobago’s society that if you browse through our book, you will see we have also captured some of this country’s history; such as how the 1990 attempted coup affected our operations.” David Dulal-Whiteway, Managing Director, Republic Bank (Trinidad and Tobago News Day, November 23 2013)
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194 p, Chronicles how the unprecedented demand for sugar radically transformed Western civilization at every level of society. The book details how technologies of human control developed in the African slave trade combined with missionary Christian theology to lay the foundations for the language, literature and cultural dictates of race we know today.
