echoing African and Caribbean influence on the improvisation at the heartofjazzmusic; and the Golden Harp Steel Orchestra, whose colourful styleofsteel pan music eloquently illustrated the cultural resilienceofformer slaves in Trinidad and Tobago in the 1880s, who resorted to making musicwitholdmetal...
A formidable influence in his musical career were his experiences during the Cultural Revolution, when he became a member of a Literary and Arts Troupe (Wenyidui). His entire… … Encyclopedia of Contemporary Chinese Culture music in Taiwan— Taiwan’s musical scene is a lively mix of ...
Minzoku gein is a general term, describing not one specific form of performing arts, but the whole range of abundant forms of folk culture spread all over Japan: Magico-rcligious dances (both Shintoist and Buddhist); rituals; parades; festivals connectcd with agricultural or historical events,...
The influence of these newly appreciated old-timers on up-and-coming folk and blues musicians was immense, and showed up on a whole new crop of young “country blues” musicians who began recording in the early 60s: John Hammond, Jr. (son of the renown producer for Columbia Records), “...
Southeast Asian arts - Folk, Rituals, Crafts: The arts of many regions in Southeast Asia remained either untouched or only slightly influenced by the Indianized arts of other regions. Such influence is found especially in regions where the gold trade flo
journalViltis(Lithuanian for “hope”), which covered all aspects of folk dance for the hobbyist. He continued to edit the journal until his death in 1994. Although he was not a scholar or traveling collector, he was a major influence on the International Folk Dance movement in the United ...
stylized speech—and combined these with Western theatrical forms in vogue at that time.Parsicompanies adapted the popular folk techniques for their extravaganzas and were a major influence until the 1930s.Rabindranath Tagore, rejecting the heavy sets and realistic decor of the commercial companies, ...
South Asian arts: Folk, classical, and popular music A very significant way in which folk music is preserved is through its association withfolk dance. Throughout European history, dancing by rural folk and village dances in urban and court society provided a majorvenuefor folk music; although ...
Tales and origin legends have been collected in great numbers from various parts ofOceania, where there is a common mythological background extending over enormous distances. Except for probable early contact by way of Indonesia, these folktales seem to show little Eurasian influence. In many parts...
and central Europe, an indication of the influence of nearby art music; others are found in eastern Europe,Scandinavia, andEngland(as well as in English-derived music around the world). Scales with a predominance of small intervals close to semitones are found in areas, such as the Balkans,...