Balkan Fascination: Creating an Alternative Music Culture in America Includes CD/DVD (American Musicspheres)

In Balkan Fascination, ethnomusicologist Mirjana Lausevic, 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 o...

By Mirjana Lausevic
Series: American Musicspheres
Hardcover: 310 pages
Publisher: Oxford University Press; Har/DVD edition (January 4, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 019517867X
ISBN-13: 978-0195178678
Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 1.4 x 6.4 inches
Amazon Rank: 2550138
Format: PDF Text TXT ebook

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I have been a fan of Balkan musical traditions for decades. I not only listen to the intricate rhythms and melodies, but also sing and dance and occasionally drum along with them. This book explores the history of Balkan music in America from arrival

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