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The Music of the Netherlands Antilles : Why Eleven Antilleans Knelt Before Chopin's Heart.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Caribbean Studies SeriesPublisher: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (221 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781626740914
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Music of the Netherlands AntillesDDC classification:
  • 780.972986
LOC classification:
  • ML207.N48B7613 2015
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Translator's Note -- 1. A Polish Prelude -- 2. You Can Tell Just by Listening, Can't You? -- 3. The Faintest Idea -- 4. Geniuses of the Right Hand -- 5. A Port of Transit -- 6. As Melancholic as a Sunset -- 7. Which One of the Three? -- 8. Oh My Sweet Darling, Spare Me -- 9. The Virtuoso Nomad -- 10. An Island of Defaulters -- 11. The Passion for a Great-Great-Grandfather -- 12. A Wrong Modulation -- 13. The Palms -- 14. Your Tempi! -- 15. Every Child Brings Its Own Bread -- 16. Celebratory and Elegiac Waltzes -- 17. Shon May and Shon Max -- 18. Sensuous Movement -- 19. Max and the Shark -- 20. The Rebels -- 21. The New Woman -- 22. Curfew -- 23. My Sister the Negress -- 24. Spy -- 25. Fifteen Hundred Out-of-tune Pianos -- 26. Music Everywhere -- 27. Chick Corea -- 28. Dirty Jim/Mighty Bomber -- 29. Mazurka Erotika -- 30. The Tumba Queen -- 31. End of an Era -- 32. Bal Colonial -- 33. The Pilgrimage -- 34. The Trade Wind in My Ears -- 35. The Bastard Son -- Glossary -- Sources and Bibliography -- Discography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Summary: An exploration of an overlooked Caribbean musical tradition and the European, African and New World influences that created it.
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Cover -- Contents -- Translator's Note -- 1. A Polish Prelude -- 2. You Can Tell Just by Listening, Can't You? -- 3. The Faintest Idea -- 4. Geniuses of the Right Hand -- 5. A Port of Transit -- 6. As Melancholic as a Sunset -- 7. Which One of the Three? -- 8. Oh My Sweet Darling, Spare Me -- 9. The Virtuoso Nomad -- 10. An Island of Defaulters -- 11. The Passion for a Great-Great-Grandfather -- 12. A Wrong Modulation -- 13. The Palms -- 14. Your Tempi! -- 15. Every Child Brings Its Own Bread -- 16. Celebratory and Elegiac Waltzes -- 17. Shon May and Shon Max -- 18. Sensuous Movement -- 19. Max and the Shark -- 20. The Rebels -- 21. The New Woman -- 22. Curfew -- 23. My Sister the Negress -- 24. Spy -- 25. Fifteen Hundred Out-of-tune Pianos -- 26. Music Everywhere -- 27. Chick Corea -- 28. Dirty Jim/Mighty Bomber -- 29. Mazurka Erotika -- 30. The Tumba Queen -- 31. End of an Era -- 32. Bal Colonial -- 33. The Pilgrimage -- 34. The Trade Wind in My Ears -- 35. The Bastard Son -- Glossary -- Sources and Bibliography -- Discography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

An exploration of an overlooked Caribbean musical tradition and the European, African and New World influences that created it.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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