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UNINA9910465502803321 |
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Lornell Kip <1953-> |
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Exploring American folk music [[electronic resource] ] : ethnic, grassroots, and regional traditions in the United States / / Kip Lornell |
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Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, c2012 |
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1-280-69163-8 |
9786613668578 |
1-61703-266-2 |
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[3rd ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (409 p.) |
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American made music series |
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Folk music - United States - History and criticism |
Popular music - United States - History and criticism |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Cover; Contents; Exploring American Folk Music: A Preamble to the Third Edition; A Prelude to the Second Edition; Preface and Acknowledgments; 1. START HERE!; Introduction; The Roots of Twenty-first-Century Folk Music; Music in Our Daily Lives and in the Academy; Defining American Folk Music; Cultural Geography and Traditions; Folk Culture in the United States; Bred in the Bone; Listening to American Folk Music; Instruments; Accordion; Banjo; Dulcimer; Fiddle; Fife; Guitar; Harmonica; Mandolin; Mouth Bow; One-String; Quills; Washboard; Final Thoughts; 2. MASS MEDIA; Introduction |
Minstrel and Medicine Shows Recording the Blues; Record Companies and Folk Music; Country Music over the Airwaves; Border Radio; The Ancestors of MTV and VH-1; Uncle Dave Macon and the Electronic Media; Final Thoughts; 3. FIELDWORK IN TWENTY-FIRST-CENTURY AMERICA; Musical Communities and Fieldwork; Accomplishing Fieldwork; Topic; Focus; Preparation; Questions; Communication; Interview; Ethics; Some Nuts and Bolts of Fieldwork; Final Thoughts; 4. ANGLO-AMERICAN SECULAR FOLK MUSIC; British Ballads; Broadsides; Native American Ballads; Singing Cowboys; Tin Pan Alley and Country Music Texts |
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Ernest Stoneman's Repertoire The Father of Bluegrass; Honky-Tonk; Western Swing; Final Thoughts; 5. ANGLO-AMERICAN SACRED MUSIC; Psalmody; Shape Notes; Camp Meetings; Shakers; Later Hymnody and Gospel Songs; Sanctified Styles; Southern Gospel Boogie; Final Thoughts; 6. AFRICAN AMERICAN RELIGIOUS FOLK MUSIC; The Great Awakening and Camp Meetings; Spirituals; Ring Shouts; Gospel; Pentecostal Singing and Guitar Evangelists; Preachers on Record; Gospel Quartets; Final Thoughts; 7. AFRICAN AMERICAN SECULAR FOLK MUSIC; Work Songs; String Bands; Fife and Drum Bands; Ragtime and Coon Songs; Ballads |
Songsters and Rural Music Down-home Blues; Modern Blues; Final Thoughts; 8. ETHNIC AND NATIVE AMERICAN TRADITIONS; Jewish American: Klezmer; Native American; Music and Ceremony Today; Musical Characteristics; Instruments; Powwows; Hawaiian American; Franco-American; Cajun Country; Zydeco; Northeastern States; Scandinavian American; Ballads; Instrumental Music; Polka and More Polka!; Norwegian American Folk Music; Final Thoughts; 9. THE HISPANIC AMERICAN DIASPORA; The Southwest; Tex-Mex Music; Corridos; Mariachi; Native American Influences; Florida; New York City; Final Thoughts |
10. THE FOLK REVIVALS Red Roots; The Mass Media and Popular Culture; Field Research; The 1960's Folk Revival; A British Invasion; The Blues Boom; Back to the Mountains; New Entrepreneurs and Frontiers; Final Thoughts; 11. THE FOLK ROOTS OF CONTEMPORARY POPULAR MUSIC; Black Codes from the Underground; Improvisation in Black Musical Culture; Rhythm and Blues; Rockabilly; Early Rock 'n' Roll and Rock; Motown and Soul; Hip-Hop and Rap; Country Music Today; Final Thoughts; 12. URBAN FOLK MUSIC; Introduction; Blues and Gospel in Chicago; San Antonio's Country and Conjunto Traditions; Washington, D.C. |
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Exploring American Folk Music: Ethnic, Regional & Vernacular Traditions in the United States reflects the fascinating diversity of regional and grassroots music in the United States. The book covers the diverse strains of American folk music--Latin, Native American, African, French-Canadian, British, and Cajun--and offers a chronology of the development of folk music in the United States. The book is divided into discrete chapters covering topics as seemingly disparate as sacred harp singing, conjunto music, the folk revival, blues, and ballad singing. It is among the few textbooks in American |
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UNINA9910143681903321 |
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Autore |
Archer Michael D (Michael Duane) |
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Forex chartist companion [[electronic resource] ] : a visual approach to technical analysis / / Michael D. Archer, James L. Bickford |
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Hoboken, N.J., : Wiley, c2007 |
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1-119-19793-7 |
1-280-82223-6 |
9786610822232 |
0-470-11636-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (383 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Stocks |
Investment analysis |
Foreign exchange market |
Electronic books. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 341-347) and index. |
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The Forex Chartist Companion The Forex Chartist Companion; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; ABOUT THIS BOOK; HOW THIS BOOK IS ORGANIZED; DISCLAIMER; Part I: Forex-Specific Charting Techniques; Chapter 1: Streaming Data; OVERVIEW; TICK CHART; SPREAD CHART; CONCLUSION; Chapter 2: Activity; OVERVIEW; ACTIVITY BAR CHART; COMPOSITE ACTIVITY; TIME OF DAY ACTIVITY CHART; DAY OF WEEK ACTIVITY CHART; EQUI-ACTIVITY CHART; ACTIVITY MERCURY CHART; UPTICK-DOWNTICK MERCURY CHART; CONCLUSION; Chapter 3: Direction; OVERVIEW; DIRECTION CHART; DIRECTION MERCURY CHART; ACTIVITY-DIRECTION MERCURY CHART |
CONCLUSIONChapter 4: Forex versus Futures; OVERVIEW; PIP DIFFERENTIAL CHART; ACTIVITY VERSUS VOLUME AND OPEN INTEREST; CONCLUSION; Chapter 5: Arbitrage; OVERVIEW; TRANSITIVITY; TRIANGULAR ARBITRAGE CHART; EQUILIBRIUM; MAJOR CURRENCIES; OBSERVATION; Chapter 6: The Mundo; OVERVIEW; FOREX BETA; MUNDO LINE CHART; WEIGHTING; MUNDO BAR CHART; OBSERVATION; Chapter |
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7: Range Charts; OVERVIEW; RANGE BAR CHART; COMPOSITE RANGE CHARTS; TIME OF DAY RANGE CHART; DAY OF WEEK RANGE CHART; AVERAGE INTERVAL RANGE CHART; OBSERVATIONS; Chapter 8: Absolute Momentum; OVERVIEW; ABSOLUTE MOMENTUM |
TIME OF DAY MOMENTUM CHARTDAY OF WEEK MOMENTUM CHART; CONCLUSION; Chapter 9: Two-Dimensional Momentum; OVERVIEW; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MOMENTUM \ CHART; ISLANDS; SMOOTHING; OBSERVATION; Chapter 10: Moving Trend Analysis; OVERVIEW; LINEAR REGRESSION; ORDINARY LEAST SQUARES METHOD; COEFFICENT OF CORRELATION; TREND OSCILLATORS; MOVING SLOPE OSCILLATOR; MOVING CORRELATION OSCILLATOR; MOVING TREND INDEX; OBSERVATIONS; Part II: Point and Figure Charting; Chapter 11: History of Point and Figure Charting; OVERVIEW; HISTORY; Chapter 12: The Point and Figure Algorithm; OVERVIEW; P& F ANATOMY; BOX SIZE |
REVERSAL AMOUNTUNRAVELING BAR QUOTE DATA; P&F ALGORITHM; TIME REPRESENTATION; Chapter 13: Trend Lines; SUPPORT AND RESISTANCE; TREND LINES; BUY SIGNALS; SELL SIGNALS; Chapter 14: Double Tops and Bottoms; OVERVIEW; DOUBLE TOP PATTERN; DOUBLE BOTTOM PATTERN; DOUBLE TOP SIGNALS; DOUBLE BOTTOM SIGNALS; FALSE SIGNALS; SIGNAL PERCENTAGES; OBSERVATIONS; Chapter 15: Triple Tops and Bottoms; OVERVIEW; TRIPLE TOP PATTERN; TRIPLE BOTTOM PATTERN; TRIPLE TOP SIGNALS; TRIPLE BOTTOM SIGNALS; FALSE SIGNALS; SIGNAL PERCENTAGES; OBSERVATIONS; Chapter 16: Triangles; OVERVIEW; ASCENDING TRIANGLES |
DESCENDING TRIANGLESSYMMETRICAL TRIANGLES; TRIANGLE SIGNALS; ASCENDING AND DESCENDING FREQUENCIES; SYMMETRICAL FREQUENCIES; OBSERVATION; Chapter 17: Pattern Frequencies; OVERVIEW; BOX SIZE = ONE PIP; BOX SIZE = TWO PIPS; BOX SIZE = THREE PIPS; INVERSE PATTERNS; USAGE; Chapter 18: Breakout Analysis; OVERVIEW; PRECEDING COLUMNS; SUCCEEDING COLUMNS; OBSERVATIONS; Chapter 19: Count Methods; OVERVIEW; HORIZONTAL COUNT (BUY); HORIZONTAL COUNT (SELL); VERTICAL COUNT (BUY); VERTICAL COUNT (SELL); OBSERVATIONS; Chapter 20: Plotting Point and Figure Charts in Real Time; OVERVIEW; TOOLS OF THE TRADE |
TRADING PLATFORM |
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THE FOREX CHARTIST COMPANION The foreign exchange (Forex) market has quickly become the market of choice for traders looking to increase their profit potential. The combination of high liquidity and low transaction costs-as well as twenty-four-hour accessibility-has attracted the attention of both new and veteran traders. In The Forex Chartist Companion, authors and active Forex traders Michael Archer and James Bickford provide a visual window into the behavior of the Forex market along with detailed information on the mechanics of day trading, market entry timing, and much m |
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