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  • High Bias: The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape by Marc Masters 9781469675985

    High Bias: The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape by Marc Masters 9781469675985

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    The cassette tape was revolutionary. Cheap, portable, and reusable, this small plastic rectangle changed music history. Make your own tapes! Trade them with friends! Tape over the ones you don't like! The cassette tape upended pop culture, creating...
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  • Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks

    Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks

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    'A humane discourse on the fragility of our minds, of the bodies that give rise to them, and of the world they create for us. This book is filled with wonders' - Daily Telegraph Oliver Sacks' compassionate tales of people struggling to adapt to different...
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  • The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin 9780099769910

    The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin 9780099769910

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    Bruce Chatwin provides a fascinating background to indigenous Australian life.The songlines are the invisible pathways that criss-cross Australia, tracks connecting communities and following ancient boundaries. Along these lines, Aboriginals passed the...
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  • The Music Instinct: How Music Works and Why We Can't Do Without It by Philip Ball 9780099535447 [USED COPY]

    The Music Instinct: How Music Works and Why We Can't Do Without It by Philip Ball 9780099535447 [USED COPY]

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    Why have all human cultures - today and throughout history - made music? Why does music excite such rich emotion? How do we make sense of musical sound? These are questions that have, until recently, remained mysterious. Now The Music Instinct explores...
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  • The Music Instinct: How Music Works and Why We Can't Do Without It by Philip Ball

    The Music Instinct: How Music Works and Why We Can't Do Without It by Philip Ball

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    Why have all human cultures - today and throughout history - made music? Why does music excite such rich emotion? How do we make sense of musical sound? These are questions that have, until recently, remained mysterious. Now The Music Instinct explores...
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  • Where Rivers and Mountains Sing: Sound, Music, and Nomadism in Tuva and Beyond by Theodore Levin

    Where Rivers and Mountains Sing: Sound, Music, and Nomadism in Tuva and Beyond by Theodore Levin

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    Theodore Levin takes readers on a journey through the rich sonic world of inner Asia, where the elemental energies of wind, water, and echo; the ubiquitous presence of birds and animals; and the legendary feats of heroes have inspired a remarkable art...
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  • Recording History: Jews, Muslims, and Music across Twentieth-Century North Africa by Christopher Silver 9781503631687

    Recording History: Jews, Muslims, and Music across Twentieth-Century North Africa by Christopher Silver 9781503631687

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    A new history of twentieth-century North Africa, that gives voice to the musicians who defined an era and the vibrant recording industry that carried their popular sounds from the colonial period through decolonization. If twentieth-century stories of...
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  • Wake the Town and Tell the People: Dancehall Culture in Jamaica by Norman C. Stolzoff

    Wake the Town and Tell the People: Dancehall Culture in Jamaica by Norman C. Stolzoff

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    Jamaican dancehall has long been one of the most vital and influential cultural and artistic forces within contemporary global music. Wake the Town and Tell the People presents, for the first time, a lively, nuanced, and comprehensive view of this...
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  • Blood, fire, death: The Swedish Metal Story by Ika Johannesson 9781627310673

    Blood, fire, death: The Swedish Metal Story by Ika Johannesson 9781627310673

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781627310673Author Ika JohannessonFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Feral House,U.S.Publisher Feral House,U.S.
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  • Songs in Their Heads: Music and Its Meaning in Children's Lives by Patricia Shehan Campbell 9780195382525

    Songs in Their Heads: Music and Its Meaning in Children's Lives by Patricia Shehan Campbell 9780195382525

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    This book explores the meaning and value of music in children's lives, based upon their expressed thoughts and actual musicking behaviors in school and at play. Blending standard education field experiences with ethnomusicological techniques, Campbell...
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  • The Revolution's Echoes: Music, Politics, and Pleasure in Guinea by Nomi Dave

    The Revolution's Echoes: Music, Politics, and Pleasure in Guinea by Nomi Dave

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    Music has long been an avenue for protest, seen as a way to promote freedom and equality, instill hope, and fight for change. Popular music, in particular, is considered to be an effective form of subversion and resistance under oppressive circumstances...
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  • Erotic Triangles: Sundanese Dance and Masculinity in West Java by Henry Spiller

    Erotic Triangles: Sundanese Dance and Masculinity in West Java by Henry Spiller

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    In West Java, Indonesia, all it takes is a woman's voice and a drumbeat to make a man get up and dance. Every day, men there - be they students, pedicab drivers, civil servants, or businessmen - breach ordinary standards of decorum and succumb to the...
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  • Teklife, Ghettoville, Eski: The Sonic Ecologies of Black Music in the Early 21st Century Dhanveer Singhi. Brar 9781912685790

    Teklife, Ghettoville, Eski: The Sonic Ecologies of Black Music in the Early 21st Century Dhanveer Singhi. Brar 9781912685790

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912685790Author Dhanveer Singhi. BrarFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Goldsmiths, Unversity of LondonPublisher Goldsmiths, Unversity of London
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  • Ears To The Ground: Adventures in Field Recording and Electronic Music by Ben Murphy 9781913231521

    Ears To The Ground: Adventures in Field Recording and Electronic Music by Ben Murphy 9781913231521

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913231521Author Ben MurphyFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Velocity PressPublisher Velocity Press
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  • Music Theory in Ethnomusicology by Stephen Blum

    Music Theory in Ethnomusicology by Stephen Blum

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    During the 1960s and 70s some ethnomusicologists formed relationships with music-makers and ritual specialists in an attempt to interpret how they understood their musical actions. Subsequently ethnomusicologists have studied the respects in which...
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  • The Power of Black Music: Interpreting its History from Africa to the United States by Samuel A. Floyd 9780195109757

    The Power of Black Music: Interpreting its History from Africa to the United States by Samuel A. Floyd 9780195109757

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    The Power of Black Music offers a new way of listening to the music of black America, and appreciating its profound contribution to all American music. Striving to break down the barriers that remain between high art and low art, it illuminates the...
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  • Collins Primary Music - Listen & Celebrate: Activities to enrich and diversify primary music by Nathan Holder 9780008531560

    Collins Primary Music - Listen & Celebrate: Activities to enrich and diversify primary music by Nathan Holder 9780008531560

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    Listen and celebrate introduces a selection of 15 pieces from a range of time periods, countries and styles, celebrating the people who wrote the music and offering an immersive experience through active listening and composing activities. As...
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  • Holy Ghost: The Life And Death Of Free Jazz Pioneer Albert Ayler Richard Koloda 9781911036937

    Holy Ghost: The Life And Death Of Free Jazz Pioneer Albert Ayler Richard Koloda 9781911036937

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    Holy Ghost is the first extended study of free jazz saxophonist Albert Ayler, who is seen today as one of the most important innovators in the history of jazz. Ayler synthesized children s songs, La Marseillaise, American march music, and gospel hymns,...
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  • Audible Infrastructures by Kyle Devine

    Audible Infrastructures by Kyle Devine

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    Our day-to-day musical enjoyment seems so simple, so easy, so automatic. Songs instantly emanate from our computers and phones, at any time of day. The tools for playing and making music, such as records and guitars, wait for us in stores, ready for...
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  • Remixology: Tracing the Dub Diaspora by Paul Sullivan

    Remixology: Tracing the Dub Diaspora by Paul Sullivan

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    In Remixology: Tracing the Dub Diaspora Paul Sullivan explores the evolution of Dub; the avant-garde verso of Reggae. Dub as a set of studio strategies and techniques was among the first forms of popular music to turn the idea of song inside out, and is...
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  • The New (Ethno)musicologies by Henry Stobart 9780810861015

    The New (Ethno)musicologies by Henry Stobart 9780810861015

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    Over the past twenty years, a range of radical developments has revolutionized musicology, leading certain practitioners to describe their discipline as 'New.' What has happened to ethnomusicology during this period? Have its theories, methodologies, and...
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  • Inside Arabic Music: Arabic Maqam Performance and Theory in the 20th Century by Johnny Farraj 9780190658366

    Inside Arabic Music: Arabic Maqam Performance and Theory in the 20th Century by Johnny Farraj 9780190658366

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    What makes hundreds of listeners cheer ecstatically at the same instant during a live concert by Egyptian diva Umm Kulthum? What is the unspoken language behind a taqsim (traditional instrumental improvisation) that performers and listeners implicitly...
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  • The Land Where Blues Began by Alan Lomax

    The Land Where Blues Began by Alan Lomax

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    Winner of a National Book Critics Circle award, a rollicking and unforgettable memoir by the man who helped bring the music of the blues into the mainstream"Without Lomax it's possible that there would have been no blues explosion, no R&B movement, no...
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  • Class Control and Classical Music by Bull

    Class Control and Classical Music by Bull

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    Why is classical music predominantly the preserve of the white middle classes? Contemporary associations between classical music and social class remain underexplored, with classical music primarily studied as a text rather than as a practice until...
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  • The Northern Silence: Journeys in Nordic Music and Culture by Andrew Mellor

    The Northern Silence: Journeys in Nordic Music and Culture by Andrew Mellor

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    An essential exploration of Nordic composers and musicians, and the distinctive culture that continues to shape them Once considered a musical backwater, the Nordic region is now a musical powerhouse. Conductors from Denmark and Finland dominate the...
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  • My Bloody Roots: From Sepultura to Soulfly and Beyond: The Autobiography: Revised & Updated Edition by Max Cavalera

    My Bloody Roots: From Sepultura to Soulfly and Beyond: The Autobiography: Revised & Updated Edition by Max Cavalera

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    My Bloody Roots is the brutally honest story of life in two of the world s best-known heavy metal bands, Sepultura and Soulfly, by one of the global metal scene s most respected musicians. Max Cavalera s has a unique and extraordinary story to tell, and...
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  • Voice Lessons: French Melodie in the Belle Epoque by Katherine Bergeron 9780195337051

    Voice Lessons: French Melodie in the Belle Epoque by Katherine Bergeron 9780195337051

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    Language, education, science, and song come together in surprising ways in Katherine Bergeron's new history of music in the Belle Epoque. Voice Lessons examines the modern musical art known as la melodie francaise and its rise to prominence in the years...
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  • Musicology: The Key Concepts by Kenneth Gloag 9780415679688

    Musicology: The Key Concepts by Kenneth Gloag 9780415679688

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    Now in an updated 2nd edition, Musicology: The Key Concepts is a handy A-Z reference guide to the terms and concepts associated with contemporary musicology. Drawing on critical theory with a focus on new musicology, this updated edition contains over 35...
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  • Music and Autism: Speaking for Ourselves by Michael Bakan

    Music and Autism: Speaking for Ourselves by Michael Bakan

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    In Music and Autism: Speaking for Ourselves, renowned ethnomusicologist Michael Bakan engages in deep conversations-some spanning the course of years-with ten unique and fascinating individuals who share two basic things in common: an autism spectrum...
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  • Rap and Redemption on Death Row: Seeking Justice and Finding Purpose behind Bars by Mark Katz 9781469678719

    Rap and Redemption on Death Row: Seeking Justice and Finding Purpose behind Bars by Mark Katz 9781469678719

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    Imprisoned since age nineteen, Alim Braxton has spent more than a quarter century on North Carolina's death row. During that time, he converted to Islam and dedicated his life to redemption. Braxton, a rapper since the age of thirteen, uses his rhymes as...
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  • Relax Baby Be Cool: The Artistry And Audacity Of Serge Gainsbourg by Jeremy Allen

    Relax Baby Be Cool: The Artistry And Audacity Of Serge Gainsbourg by Jeremy Allen

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    Why has Serge Gainsbourg crossed over to the English-speaking world when so many of his contemporaries have remained largely confined to the Francosphere? What is it about this unshaven provocateur that so appeals to us? And who was the real Serge...
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  • Sonic Meditations by Pauline Oliveros 9781088038536

    Sonic Meditations by Pauline Oliveros 9781088038536

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781088038536Author Pauline OliverosFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint IngramSparkPublisher IngramSparkWeight(grams) 82gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 3mm
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  • Collins Secondary Music – Listen & Celebrate Key Stage 3: Activities to enrich and diversify Key Stage 3 music by Nathan Holder 9780008620936

    Collins Secondary Music – Listen & Celebrate Key Stage 3: Activities to enrich and diversify Key Stage 3 music by Nathan Holder 9780008620936

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    Listen and celebrate Key Stage 3 is designed to help teachers enrich and diversify Key Stage 3 music by introducing a selection of 15 pieces from a range of countries and styles, celebrating the people who wrote the music and offering an immersive...
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  • Check the Technique: Liner Notes for Hip-Hop Junkies Brian Coleman 9780812977752

    Check the Technique: Liner Notes for Hip-Hop Junkies Brian Coleman 9780812977752

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age 2008.Book InformationISBN 9780812977752Author Brian ColemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Random House USA...
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  • Hungry Listening: Resonant Theory for Indigenous Sound Studies by Dylan Robinson

    Hungry Listening: Resonant Theory for Indigenous Sound Studies by Dylan Robinson

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    WInner of the Best First Book from the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association Winner of the Labriola Center American Indian National Book Award Winner of the Ann Saddlemyer Award from the Canadian Association for Theatre ResearchReimagining...
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  • Music for Inclusion and Healing in Schools and Beyond: Hip Hop, Techno, Grime, and More by Pete Dale 9780197692684

    Music for Inclusion and Healing in Schools and Beyond: Hip Hop, Techno, Grime, and More by Pete Dale 9780197692684

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    Contemporary popular musics such as hip hop, techno, grime, EDM, drill, house and so on are among the most listened to in the world and yet, typically, they are barely covered in the music classroom if at all. This needs to be better reflected in...
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  • On Repeat: How Music Plays the Mind by Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis 9780199990825

    On Repeat: How Music Plays the Mind by Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis 9780199990825

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    What is it about the music you love that makes you want to hear it again? Why do we crave a "hook" that returns, again and again, within the same piece? And how does a song end up getting stuck in your head? Whether it's a motif repeated...
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  • Overtone Singing: Harmonic Dimensions of the Human Voice by Mark Van Tongeren

    Overtone Singing: Harmonic Dimensions of the Human Voice by Mark Van Tongeren

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949597226Author Mark Van TongerenFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Terra Nova PressPublisher Terra Nova Press
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  • Lament from Epirus: An Odyssey into Europe's Oldest Surviving Folk Music by Christopher C. King 9780393248999

    Lament from Epirus: An Odyssey into Europe's Oldest Surviving Folk Music by Christopher C. King 9780393248999

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    In a dark record shop in Istanbul, Christopher King uncovered some of the strangest-and most hypnotic-sounds he had ever heard. The 78s seemed to tap into a primal well of emotion inaccessible to contemporary music. The songs, King learned, were from...
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  • Why Suya Sing: A Musical Anthropology of an Amazonian People by Anthony Seeger

    Why Suya Sing: A Musical Anthropology of an Amazonian People by Anthony Seeger

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    Like many other South American Indian communities, the Suya Indians of Mato Grosso, Brazil, devote a great deal of time and energy to making music, especially singing. In paperback for the first time, Anthony Seeger's Why Suya Sing considers the reasons...
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