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    Let's make some noise axé and the African roots of Brazilian popular music / by Henry, Clarence Bernard

    Published 2008
    Table of Contents: “…Sacred/secular influences: the reinvention of West African àsé in Brazil -- From the sacred to the secular: popularizing candomblé rhythms -- Axé embodiment in Brazilian popular music: sacred themes, imagery, and symbols -- The sacred/secular popularity of drums and drummers -- Secular impulses: dancing to the beats of different drummers -- Say it loud! …”
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    Music in other words Victorian conversations / by Solie, Ruth A.

    Published 2004
    Table of Contents: “…Beethoven as secular humanist : ideology and the Ninth symphony in 19th-century criticism -- Music in a Victorian mirror : MacMillan's magazine in the Grove years -- "Girling" at the parlor piano -- Biedermeier domesticity and the Schubert circle : a rereading -- Tadpole pleasures" : George Eliot's Daniel Deronda as music historiography -- Fictions of the opera box.…”
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    When colleges sang the story of singing in American college life / by Winstead, J. Lloyd, 1966-

    Published 2013
    Table of Contents: “…College singing amid the Puritan culture, 1636-1700 -- Sacred and secular college singing, 1700-1800 -- Singing in student organizations, 1800-1850 -- The first college songbooks, 1850-1890 -- College singing at the turn of the century, 1890-1910 -- Warring, roaring, and scoring, 1910-1930 -- Sounds of college life, 1930-1950 -- Singing traditions, 1950-present.…”
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    Juan Bautista Plaza and musical nationalism in Venezuela by Labonville, Marie Elizabeth, 1954-

    Published 2007
    Table of Contents: “…Beginnings; first compositions; vocational indecision; first writings on music (1898-1920) ; Rome; plans for musical renewal in Venezuela (1920-1923) ; Paid to compose : the chapel mastership (1923-1948) ; The educator, part 1 (1923-1928) ; The early secular and nationalist compositions (1924-1929) ; The nascent journalist (1925-1928) ; The founding of the Orfeón Lamas, and Plaza's creative response (1927-1963) ; Plaza and the Orquesta Sinfónica Venezuela (1930-1957) ; The mature journalist; writings on nationalism in music (1929-1948) ; The principal nationalist compositions with instruments (1930-1956) ; The educator, part 2 (1930-1941) ; The musicological pioneer (1936-1964) ; Plaza as the subject of reportage ; The later non-nationalist compositions (1930s-1963) ; The educator, part 3 (1942-1962) ; Retirement : final thoughts on education and culture (1962-1964) ; Plaza in retrospect.…”
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