"The Blues and the Veil": The Cultural Work of Musical Form in Blues and '60s Rock

Modernization of Traditional Musical Culture of the Kazakhs in the Era of Globalization

“…Thus, along with the works of the scientists that have considered the national art and the historical and ethnographical direction of music as a solid phenomenon, for example, B. Asafyev [9], I. Zemtsovsky [10], I. Matsievsky [11], V. Medushevsky [12], etc., the scientific findings of V. Konen [13], T. Adorno [14], T. Cherednichenko [15], V. Feiertag [16], who have explored such contemporary music as jazz and rock, E. Kuznetsov [17], A. Bogdanova [18], Y. Dmitriev [19], who have considered entertainer music, and E. Kampus [20], T. Kudinova [21], who have explored synthetic genres in musical art, will be used. The publications of the scientists of far abroad -I. Behrendt [22], D. Hebdige [23], L. Grossman [24], N. Bromell [25], J. Zimmer [26], etc. -may become a sort of guidebook for understanding the essence of contemporary genres, forming of historical and theoretical justifications of new phenomena.…”

“They Laid Planks ‘Crost the Coffins”: The African Origin of Grave Vaulting in the United States

“…Examples can be found in architecture (e.g., the shotgun house and front porch ;Johnson 2003;Vlach 1975), music (Bromell 2000;Joyner 1993, pp.18-21;Whitesell 2001) and musical instruments (e.g., the banjo; see Deetz 1996), arts and crafts (Landsmark 1998), and cuisine and foodways (Bower 2007). While it can be ably demonstrated that the barrier between white and black worlds during the period encompassing the Slave Trade was porous and allowed for a free exchange of ideas and practices in both directions, the recognition of this exchange within the dominant white culture (both past and present) is often downplayed or denied.…”