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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780981759012Author Barry FoyFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Frogchart PressPublisher Frogchart PressWeight(grams) 118gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm *...

'I doubt I'll ever read a better account of the history and sociology of popular music than this one.' Brian Eno'Profound.and beyond.' Robert PlantLegendary producer and record label boss Joe Boyd has spent a lifetime travelling the globe and immersing...

This book explores art song as an emblem of musical modernity in early twentieth-century East Asia and Australia. It appraises the lyrical power of art song - a solo song set to a poem in the local language in Western art music style accompanied by piano...

Lines from a Mined Mind brings together lyrics and musings from the twenty-five-year recording career of John Trudell, an internationally acclaimed poet, musician, and leader of the American Indian Movement. More than a simple anthology, this collection...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781933983240Author Cameron PowersFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint G. L. DesignPublisher G. L. DesignWeight(grams) 376gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm * 8mm

Big dreams, rivalries and romance collide in this must-read YA novel for K-pop fans everywhere! 'I'm still giddy over this electrifying, big-hearted, all-kill smash of a debut. I couldn't put it down.' BECKY ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524749071Author Henry ThreadgillFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. Knopf

Now available in paperback, this fully illustrated volume traces the emergence of Welsh traditional music through the ages and is complemented throughout with more than 200 musical examples. Phyllis Kinney's Welsh Traditional Music covers the traditional...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781847615602Author Gemma TelferPage Count 40Imprint Schott Musik International GmbH & Co KGPublisher Schott Musik International GmbH & Co KGWeight(grams)...

***WINNER OF THE NEW ANGLE PRIZE FOR LITERATURE******WINNER OF THE HWA NON-FICTION AWARD***A beautifully written exploration of the world of Edwardian folk music, and its influence on the composer Ralph Vaughan WilliamsIn January 1905 the young Vaughan...

This is dub poetry: bold and musical, funny and furious.This collection brings together the work of nine inventive and brilliant poets who defined and drove the dub poetry genre. From the Caribbean, Canada and the UK, the poetry in this collection spans...

Detailing the understanding and performance of the French melodie, famous French baritone Pierre Bernac provides insight in this book for singers, accompanists, and concert-goers. Teamed with composer Francis Poulenc for more than 25 years, Bernac and...

This definitive work on the contribution of the Gypsies to the development of flamenco traces their influences on music from their long migration from India, through Iran, Turkey, Greece, and Hungary, to their persecution in Spain. This new updated...

An exhilarating debut novel told through three different voices, Whites Can Dance Too is Kalaf Epalanga's reflection on and celebration of the music of his homeland, the intertwining of cultural roots, and freedom and love.It took being caught at a...

From the founder of Los Cenzontles Cultural Arts Academy, a profoundly personal exploration of music's power to build cultural bridges that last."I wish I had studied with Eugene Rodrigeuz when I was growing up. Read this beautifully written book about...

An encyclopedia survey of Brazilian popular music--now updated and expandedAn encyclopedia survey of Brazilian popular music--now updated and expandedAbout the AuthorChris McGowan has written about Brazilian music for Billboard, Musician and many other...

This book provides the authoritative history of salsa.Salsa is one of the most popular types of music listened to and danced to in the United States. Until now, the single comprehensive chronicle of the music - and the industry that grew up around it,...

Globetrotters brings together twelve toe-tapping original tunes in styles from around the world-from Arabic to Chinese and from klezmer to the Cuban cha-cha-cha- for the budding saxophonist. This unique book presents a kaleidoscope of musical traditions,...

A major new contribution to the study of African music, Soweto Blues tells the remarkable story of how jazz became a key part of South Africa's struggle in the 20th century, and provides a fascinating overview of the ongoing links between African and...

There had always been music along the banks of the Congo River-lutes and drums, the myriad instruments handed down from ancestors. But when Joseph Kabasele and his African Jazz went chop for chop with O.K. Jazz and Bantous de la Capitale, music in Africa...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781901447408Author Colin HarperFormat PaperbackPage Count 425Imprint Cherry Red BooksPublisher Cherry Red BooksWeight(grams) 659g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780994700995Author Marilyn NanceFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint Fourthwall BooksPublisher Fourthwall Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913689582Author Paul PurgasFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Strange Attractor PressPublisher Strange Attractor Press

Who are "the folk" in folk music? This book traces the musical culture of these elusive figures in Britain and the US during a crucial period of industrialization from 1870 to 1930, and beyond to the contemporary alt-right. Drawing on a broad,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993688034Author Ernest K KaaiFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint Blue Terrier PressPublisher Blue Terrier PressWeight(grams) 141g

In these writings, available here in English for the first time, the distinguished Japanese composer Toru Takemitsu reflects on his contemporaries, including John Cage, Olivier Messiaen, and Merce Cunningham; on nature, which has profoundly influenced...

...revisit the people and places and deepen your enjoyment of the sublime BBC tv series "Wayfaring Stranger"...in these pages revisit people and places you loved in the BBC tv series "Wayfaring Stranger"... by the authors as featured in the acclaimed BBC...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781784541552Author Hal Leonard Publishing CorporationPage Count 54Imprint Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers LtdPublisher Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692781876Author Earl Ofari HutchinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Middle Passage PressPublisher Middle Passage PressWeight(grams) 154g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954397609Author Joep BorFormat PaperbackPage Count 191Imprint Nimbus Publishing (CN)Publisher Nimbus Publishing (CN)Weight(grams) 1g

The first book-length study on Cuban music in the English language. This volume consists of thirteen articles written by nine authors, including four Cuban scholars and five North American ethnomusicologists. The articles by Cuban scholars, translated...

winner of the 2021 Ellen Koskoff Edited Volume PrizeDecentering the Nation: Music, Mexicanidad, and Globalization considers how neoliberal capitalism has upset the symbolic economy of “Mexican” cultural discourse, and how this phenomenon touches on a...

In this book, author Martin Munro offers a new path into Caribbean studies based on sound. He argues that to understand and begin to transform the past, present, and future of Caribbean studies, historians must do so at the node of both sound and vision...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806168876Author Frances BartonFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint University of Oklahoma PressPublisher University of Oklahoma Press

Winner of the 2004 ARSC Award for Best Research in Recorded Rock, Rhythm & Blues or Soul, The Holy Profane explores the strong presence of religion in the secular music of twentieth-century African American artists as diverse as Rosetta Tharpe, Sam...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780714530765Author Samuel B. ChartersFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Marion Boyars Publishers LtdPublisher Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd

How does structural economic change look and feel? How are such changes normalized? Who represents hope? Who are the cautionary tales? Unfinished Business argues that U.S. deindustrialization cannot be understood apart from issues of race, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780714529462Author Claus SchreinerFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Marion Boyars Publishers LtdPublisher Marion Boyars Publishers LtdWeight(grams) 612g

Although studies of modernism have focused largely on European nations, Spain has been conspicuously neglected. As Carol A. Hess argues in this book, such neglect is undeserved. Through the composer Manuel de Falla (1876-1946), Hess explores the advent...

This book considers how global capitalism has upset the symbolic economy of "Mexican" cultural discourse. It focuses on the cultural processes through which people contest ideas about race, gender, and sexuality; reframe ideas of memory,...