This band was formed in Auckland, New Zealand following the success of an earlier drum and fife band associated with the Ponsonby Boy Scouts Association. It undertook several country-wide tours on both islands during the 1920’s and was a very successful and sought-after musical organisation.

A „Don Juan”-nak szentelt, valójában az önálló mítosszá nőtt Mozart-operához, a Don Giovanni néven jegyzett „dramma giocoso per musicá”-hoz hozzászóló értekezéseikben E. T. A. Hoffman és Søren Kierkegaard nemcsak érzékeny elemzését adják az operának, hanem ezenfelül megörökítik az opera előadásához kötődő élményeiket – Kierkegaard utalásszerűen,…[Read more]

This chapter is an updated and newly illustrated version of “Islam, Sound and Space: Acoustemology and Muslim Citizenship on the Kenyan Coast,” originally published in the volume _Music, Sound and Space: Transformations of Public and Private Experience_ (2013, ed. Georgina Born, Cambridge University Press).

In preindustrial societies, singing and working was – and still is – conceived as part of the same activity, of the same life experience. However, the great social transformation that will imply the industrialization of much of the Catalan Countries at the end of the 19th century, and the progressive impetus of the capitalist production system,…[Read more]

The period following the end of Getúlio Vargas’s second government (1951-1954) saw a massive expansion of the media industries with popular music in particular becoming an important cultural touchstone. Some salient trends in the post-War period include the politicization of music and other media (radio, television, social media), the in…[Read more]

“Democratizing the American University” argues for a more democratic approach to academic appointments within the US academy.

Brass bands in Africa have been in existence since the 19th century after the various colonial powers had established their presence across the continent. The history of such bands is very sketchy and limited, and the small amount of information I have collected so far is presented here. I hope that future researchers will be able to open up much…[Read more]

En aquest article presentam la relació entre Maria Antònia Salvà i Palmira Jaquetti, dues dones que des de perspectives i amb finalitats diferents, s’acostaren i s’interessaren pel món de la cançó popular.

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From the earliest days of brass bands in the British Isles, they have been supported at various times and to differing extents by businesses and their owners. In some cases this support has been purely philanthropic, but there was usually a quid pro quo involved where the sponsor received benefits – e.g. advertising, income from band e…[Read more]

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