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42608
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A triennial festival, LEAF, promotes connecting cultures and creating community through arts and music. It operates in ten countries around the world to encourage youth to be confident within their own cultures.
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26697
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Rudolph “Rudy” Alexander was the assistant dean of student affairs at East Carolina University and gave eastern North Carolina an opportunity to view performing arts and famous musicians such as Bette Midler, the Beach Boys, The Temptations, and the Doobie Brothers.
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36361
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In historically African American colleges and universities, the marching bands are immensely popular with spectators. The bands combine music, drilling, dance, showmanship, and pageantry in a way that speaks to the values and aesthetics of African American culture.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 50 Issue 1-2, Fall-Winter 2003,
p19-47
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23651
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Manager Steve Cohen has been in music management for more than 20 years and is the founder of Music + Art Management, Inc. He enjoys giving clients career guidance.
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26238
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Sixteenth-century Italian madrigals of the High Renaissance is a form of poetry and music written for voices but not necessarily for instruments. James Haar, professor of music, studies the origins, characteristics, and development of this musical genre.
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35842
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When North Carolina was still being settled by colonists, settlers in the mountain region used odd character notation for sight reading of music in Appalachia. These ‘shaped notes’ indicated the tone by their unique shape, whether written alone or placed on the lines and spaces of a musical staff.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 32 Issue 2, Fall-Winter 1984,
p82-90
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25859
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Mark Katz recently published a book about phonography effects, which refer to how and why recordings influence musical life, and how technology has changed the way we listen to or create music. He is now studying how DJ’s and turntables are defining a new culture of music.
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23961
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Marsh Woodwinds, a Raleigh music institution, closed its doors after three decades in business. The owner, Rodney Marsh, is retiring as a result of health issues.
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26723
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Deke Dickerson collects guitars that serve as a testament to great southern musicians and their musical instruments, including the first in his collection, a banjo from Charlie Poole of the North Carolina Ramblers.
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16752
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There is a major music business success story in progress in the small town of Graham, North Carolina. In a pair of indistinct warehouses, Tor Hansen and Glenn Dicker have turned a wild idea about distributing records into Redeye Distribution and Yep Roc Records. With a combination of foresight, patient, and music biz savvy, Hansen and Dicker have made Redeye one of the top small music distributors in the US.
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40673
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Rei Hotoda will be the conductor for the Asheville Symphony Orchestra for one night as an audition for the music director position.
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37024
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With voices soaring heavenward, the author asserts choirs resemble what awaits the faithful on both sides of the pew. As for the choir’s role, Kelly posits it is can greatly influence the quality of life—church life now and life hereafter.
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29005
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Theft, a new comic book by two Duke University law professors, examines the history of theft in music. The comic is mostly concerned with the way musicians have borrowed from, emulated, and sampled one another; and how attempts at musical control, in history and modern times, are really attempts at social control.
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23108
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Each Sunday from the end of May through mid-August, a variety of music reaches the ears of eager Greenville residents. For 42 years, Sunday in the Park has provided an escape, entertainment, and community development for the city.
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36856
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Chatterly is a documentary photographer, the subjects of his pictures jazz and blues musicians. Many projects hace developed beyod his original designs into richer, fuller collections because of his interest in people’s lives.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 59 Issue 1, Spring-Summer 2012,
p18-21
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