Many Musics of America

Event Category: Performance

From Veracruz to Virginia

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A picture of an accordion with trees in the background
    From Veracruz to Virginia   Organized in partnership with the Fandango de Durham festival and the Floyd Country Store, this event will highlight the relationship between Mexican and Appalachian music. The event will feature Dr. Sophia Enríquez, Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of Music at Duke [...]
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2023 Kennedy Creek Old Time Music Concert

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Georgia Cloudland Canyon State Park
2023 Kennedy Creek Old Time Music Concert: The Short House Serenaders   Close out a day of Old Time Music at the Kennedy Creek Old Time Music Festival by joining us for a concert with the Short House Serenaders and friends. The Short House Serenaders [...]
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Scott Joplin’s Ragtime

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Scott Joplin
Scott Joplin's Ragtime   In this lecture recital, distinguished performer and scholar, Marilyn Nonken, performs and speaks to the music of Scott Joplin (1868-1917) and his collaborators Scott Hayden (1882-1915), Arthur Marshall (1881-1968), and Louis Chauvin (1882-1908). These early-twentieth-century American artists formed a tightly-knit community, [...]
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HipHop Literacies Conference

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Hiphop artists
HipHop Literacies Conference   Register Now The 2023 HipHop Literacies Conference is co-sponsored by the American Musicological Society's Many Musics of America project. Held at The Ohio State University, the HipHop Literacies Conference is an academic-community event designed to explore issues relevant to the lives [...]
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The Evolution of Fife and Drum Music

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Rising stars fife and drum
      The Evolution of Fife and Drum Music   The Rising Stars Fife and Drum Band, led by Sharde Thomas of Cold Water, Mississippi, presents a mixture folk, blues, and pop in the traditional style of fife and drum music that has been [...]
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2022 Kennedy Creek Old Time Music Concert

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Hog-Eyed Man band

Kennedy Creek Old Time Music Concert: Hog-Eyed Man & The Griddle Lickers Close out a day of Old Time Music at the Kennedy Creek Old Time Music Festival by joining us for a concert with Hog-Eyed Man and friends. Fiddler Jason Cade and multi-instrumentalist Rob […]

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Gospel Music in Pittsburgh

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Hands of gospel choir
Gospel Music in Pittsburgh https://vimeo.com/821414483?share=copy In a tribute to Pittsburgh’s rich gospel-music history, the Alton Merrell Trio and the Heritage Gospel Chorale, under the direction of Herbert VRP Jones, will present the music of composer, arranger, and publisher Charles Henry Pace. With his wife Frankie, [...]
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Rhiannon Giddens: A Special Concert and Q&A

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Rhiannon Giddens with banjo

Rhiannon Giddens A Special Concert and Q&A   Rhiannon Giddens–North Carolinian folk musician, MacArthur “Genius” Award Recipient, former member of the Carolina Chocolate Drops, and Grammy-award winner–comes to Davidson College for a special concert and Q&A. This event is sponsored in part by the “Many […]

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Música y las misiones in South Texas

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Mission San Jose in South Texas
Música y las misiones in South Texas The history of mission music in South Texas is as rich and diverse as the cultures that have lived and interacted here, from chant to mariachi masses. Join us for an introduction to that music by musicians who [...]
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