Black Sea Sketches: Music, Place and People

by Jim Samson

Book Overview

Black Sea Sketches is a portrait of some of the diverse musical cultures surrounding the Black Sea and in its hinterlands. Its six separate chapters follow a very broad trajectory from close-ups of traditional music (chapters 1-4) towards wide-angle studies of art music (chapters 5-6), and each of them opens windows to big, border-crossing themes about music and place. A wide variety of repertoires is discussed: ancient layers of polyphonic music,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367700298
• ISBN13: 9780367700294
• Release Date: August 2022
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"