...Patrick Burke Kīkā Kila: How the Hawaiian Steel Guitar Changed the Sound of Modern Music . By Troutman John W. . ( Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2016 . 392 pp., color plates, halftones, notes, bibliography, index . $35.00 cloth.) Copyright 2017 by American...

...Susan Rasmussen This essay examines the origins and directions of ichumar (also called tichumaren in some regions), a genre of guitar music popular among young Tuaregs in Mali and Niger. Initially composed and performed by Tuareg nationalist/separatist rebels, it is now composed and performed by...

... slaves but not by their masters, pushing the boundaries between language and musicology. Although the research, conceptualization, and interpretation are impressive, the chapter could be strengthened by better knowledge of interchange of musical instruments, especially the guitar and other string...

... many sides to Jim that are not reflected in his many writ- ings. He was very fond of Renaissance music and enjoyed playing the lute, vihuela, mandolin, recorder, and classical guitar with family and friends. He also found joy in woodworking and was good enough at it to craft his own furniture...

...; Warren, “‘The Cause of Her Grief,’” 1038; Beckles, White Servitude and Black Slavery , 31n57; Dunn, Sugar and Slaves , 227. 9 For Indian rebellions on Hispaniola, see Guitar, “Boiling It Down.” On St. Christopher the English massacred the Kalinago population in 1626 because they suspected that...

... fronds in their hands, and they play guitars and harps ( fig. 1 , top left; fig. 3 , second row right). One such figure thus bedecked climbs a ladder to enter heaven ( fig. 3 , third row left). These depictions grant heaven a sensory reality—movement, sound, scent, space—that render it solid and...

...- ment was dancing to the music of the rattle, “guayo,” and guitar.70 Culin recorded various aspects of the lifeways of the Yateras Indians. He entered a number of bohios or “conical Indian huts,” some, he noted, “occupied by the negroes.” In addition to noting the austere appearance of the...