Across Fields and Festivals

Maher Asaad Baker (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

220 Seiten

2025
tredition (Verlag)
9783384527844 (ISBN)

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Journey into Belgium's musical heart as "Across Fields and Festivals" reveals territorial growth and music highlights while depicting classic performance styles which developed Belgium's identity.Readers will discover the individual musical expressions within Flanders' dancing traditions through Wallonia's balladic music and communal singing from the German-speaking part of Belgium through "Across Fields and Festivals." Experiencing songs and Native Instruments instruments like hurdy-gurdy and bagpipes and accordion helps listeners understand their sound qualities and condemns traditional dances' evolution throughout history.The musical chapters in the book guide readers through successive festivals that reveal core elements of Belgian culture through a story progression from harvest festival chants to festive carnival dances. This book examines medieval minstrel groups and present-day revival movements with an analysis of how folk music developed throughout Belgian history.Our presentation delves into the profound musical story by constantly presenting how Belgian folk music continues to influence listeners all over the world. Join us for this intriguing exploration.

Maher Asaad Baker (In Arabic: ماهر أسعد بكر) is a Syrian Musician, Author, Journalist, VFX & Graphic artist, and Director, he was born in Damascus in 1977. Since his teens, he has been building up his career, starting by developing applications and websites while exploring various types of media-creating paths. He started his career in 1997 with a dream of being one of the most well-known artists in the world. Reading was always a part of his life as he was always surrounded by his father's books, but his writing ability didn't develop until a later age as his most time was occupied with other things such as developing, writing songs and music, or in media projects production, he is most known for his book "How I wrote a million Wikipedia articles" and a novel entitled "Becoming the man".

Erscheint lt. Verlag	14.2.2025
Verlagsort	Cairo
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	457 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musikgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Schlagworte	Belgian Culture • Belgium • Cultural Identity • Folk music • folk traditions • musical resistance • music instrument • Singing Revolution
ISBN-13	9783384527844 / 9783384527844
Zustand	Neuware