Balkan Fascination: Creating an Alternative Music Culture in America Includes CD/DVD (American Musicspheres) |  | Author: Mirjana Lausevic
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 864750
Media: Hardcover
Edition: Har/DVD
Pages: 310
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 9.4 x 6.2 x 1.2
ISBN: 019517867X
Dewey Decimal Number: 781.62918073
EAN: 9780195178678
ASIN: 019517867X
Publication Date: January 4, 2007
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In Balkan Fascination, ethnomusicologist Mirjana Lau%sevic, a native of the Balkans, investigates why so many Americans actively participate in specific Balkan cultural practices to which they have no family or ethnic connection. Going beyond traditional interpretations, she challenges the notion that participation in Balkan culture in North America is merely a specialized offshoot of the 1960s American folk music scene. Instead, her exploration of the relationship between the stark sounds and lively dances of the Balkan region and the Americans who love them reveals that Balkan dance and music has much deeper roots in America's ideas about itself, its place in the world, and the place of the world's cultures in the melting pot.
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Balkan Fascination isn't for the masses, but it IS fascinating for many! December 28, 2007
Yvonne D. Wingard (Yellow Springs, OH)
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Many folks have found their niche in the Balkan Music craze...dancing, singing, and playing the instruments of the Balkan countries even though they may have no connection to these ethnicities at all! This book explores the reasons and the history behind this exploration and its development here in the US. A enclosed CD/DVD helps the reader to become a Balkan fan also! HIGHLY recommended!
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