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SINGING IN ZION: Music and Song in the Life of One Arkansas Family
Robert Cochran
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Description for SINGING IN ZION: Music and Song in the Life of One Arkansas Family
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages, 26 illustrations. BIC Classification: AVG; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 422.
This book is a lyrical, scholarly exploration of the connection between one family's musical traditions and its rural community of Zion, Arkansas. In 1959, three Gilbert sisters—Alma, Helen, and Phydella—began compiling songs they remembered as their own and sending them to one another in letters. Their tendency to center memory in sound rather than sight reveals an unusual musical birthright.
Robert Cochran has constructed a composite portrait of this family for whom music is the center of life. He examines their lived experience as they anchor their history through song, singing, and the playing of musical instruments. The Gilberts ... Read more
This book is a lyrical, scholarly exploration of the connection between one family's musical traditions and its rural community of Zion, Arkansas. In 1959, three Gilbert sisters—Alma, Helen, and Phydella—began compiling songs they remembered as their own and sending them to one another in letters. Their tendency to center memory in sound rather than sight reveals an unusual musical birthright.
Robert Cochran has constructed a composite portrait of this family for whom music is the center of life. He examines their lived experience as they anchor their history through song, singing, and the playing of musical instruments. The Gilberts ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University of Arkansas Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Fayetteville, United States
ISBN
9781557285485
SKU
V9781557285485
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Ref
99-3
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