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Contents of EAR AND EYE
Introduction:
Christoph Wagner: Picture Postcards and Shellac Records - The Genesis of the First Mass Media
39 essays by contemporary musicians and composers, each based on a particular vintage world music photographs:
Robert Wyatt: Bursting the Boundaries - Migrant Music in Spain
Charlie Mariano: Copy the Master - Music in South India
Charlotte Greig: Endlessly good and kind - English Harmonium Players
Mauricio Kagel: Bard with Guitar - Music from the Argentinian Country Side
Thomas Meinecke: Transatlantic Feedback - German Music in Texas
Pauline Oliveros: Rodeo in Houston - The Accordion Club of my Childhood
Jah Wobble: The One Note that fits - Music from Laos
Roman Bunka: Hookahs in the Coffee House - Music in Egypt
Terry Riley: The Spirit of the Past - Music in India
Mike Svoboda: Alphorn Turmoil
Christian Burchard: Nomad Musicians and Barbarians
Gerhard Stäbler: Sunny Japan
Fritz Hauser: Drumming Emotions
Rüdiger Carl: A Lesson about Music
Arnold Dreyblatt: My Great Aunt - The Veil Dancer
Toshio Hosokawa: The Become Buddha with One Note - Japanese Music
Mike Adcock: A Wedding in Hardanger - Norwegian Fiddle Music
Hartmut Geerken: Frozen Dance Step
Myra Melford: Living Music in India
Clive Bell: Messages to the Spirit World - South Asian Mouth Organs
Justin Adams: The Route of Trance - Gimbri Music of Morrocco
Ben Mandelson: Skiing in Madagascar - Experiences of a Record Producer
Joe Mogotsi: Melodies from Home - Sounds of South African
Malcolm Jones: Bagpipes versus Rock ‘n‘ Roll - Scottish Folk Music
Lol Coxhill: Busking - About Street Musicians
Amelia Cuni: The Disappearence of the Courtesans - Indian Dance and Music
Franz Koglmann: Viennese Sweet Schmaltz - Schrammel music from Vienna
Frank Wolff: Beautiful Old World
Robyn Schulkowsky: Drumming in the Night Air - About African Drumming
Colin Bass: Solitude and Lost Love - Music of Java
Christian Zehnder: Haunted by a Song
Sylvia Hallett: Music at the Pier
Kudsi Erguner: The Door to Paradise - Sufi Music
Stuart Brotman: Fiddler at Twilight - About Jewish Music
Andreas Koll: Reinventing tradition - Bavarian Folk Music
Simon Mayor: Holiday with a Mandolin
Adriana Hölszky: Archaic Modern Times - Music in Roumania
Teodoro Anzellotti: The Accordion as Cinderella
With the book comes a CD which provides the music in early recordings to illustrate the old photographs.24 tracks from Spain to India and from Iraq to Austria recorded between 1910 and 1943.
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