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The Art Song in East Asia and Australia, 1900 to 1950 Alison McQueen Tokita 9781032321660
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £34.52This 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... -
Blood, fire, death: The Swedish Metal Story by Ika Johannesson 9781627310673
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £15.41Apologies 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. -
The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin 9780099769910
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.99Bruce 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... -
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15'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... -
The Music Instinct: How Music Works and Why We Can't Do Without It by Philip Ball 9780099535447 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £2.65Why 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... -
The Music Instinct: How Music Works and Why We Can't Do Without It by Philip Ball
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.31Why 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... -
Recording History: Jews, Muslims, and Music across Twentieth-Century North Africa by Christopher Silver 9781503631687
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.34A 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... -
Community Music: In Theory and In Practice by Lee Higgins 9780199777846
RRP: £43.49Booksplease Price: £26.49Community musicians move in many diverse settings, and facilitate local music activities in a wide array of community contexts including schools, hospitals places of worship, music festivals, and prisons. Underscoring the importance of active... -
Inside Arabic Music: Arabic Maqam Performance and Theory in the 20th Century by Johnny Farraj 9780190658366
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £33.17What 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... -
The Revolution's Echoes: Music, Politics, and Pleasure in Guinea by Nomi Dave
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £23.21Music 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... -
Teklife, Ghettoville, Eski: The Sonic Ecologies of Black Music in the Early 21st Century Dhanveer Singhi. Brar 9781912685790
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £17.72Apologies 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 -
Ears To The Ground: Adventures in Field Recording and Electronic Music by Ben Murphy 9781913231521
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.02Apologies 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 -
Ethnomusicology: A Very Short Introduction by Timothy Rice 9780199794379
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.51Ethnomusicologists believe that all humans, not just those we call musicians, are musical, and that musicality is one of the essential touchstones of the human experience. This insight raises big questions about the nature of music and the nature of... -
Collins Primary Music - Listen & Celebrate: Activities to enrich and diversify primary music by Nathan Holder 9780008531560
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £23.45Listen 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... -
Holy Ghost: The Life And Death Of Free Jazz Pioneer Albert Ayler Richard Koloda 9781911036937
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £11.60Holy 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,... -
Class Control and Classical Music by Bull
RRP: £28.49Booksplease Price: £25.85Why 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... -
The New (Ethno)musicologies by Henry Stobart 9780810861015
RRP: £62.00Booksplease Price: £53.58Over 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... -
The Land Where Blues Began by Alan Lomax
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £17.65Winner 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... -
Remixology: Tracing the Dub Diaspora by Paul Sullivan
Booksplease Price: £16.34In 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... -
Sonic Meditations by Pauline Oliveros 9781088038536
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £12.38Apologies 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 -
The Northern Silence: Journeys in Nordic Music and Culture by Andrew Mellor
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £19.05An 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... -
Lament from Epirus: An Odyssey into Europe's Oldest Surviving Folk Music by Christopher C. King 9780393248999
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £20.41In 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... -
My Bloody Roots: From Sepultura to Soulfly and Beyond: The Autobiography: Revised & Updated Edition by Max Cavalera
Booksplease Price: £17.50My 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... -
Music as Social Life: The Politics of Participation by Thomas Turino
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.94People around the world and throughout history have used music to express their inner emotions, reach out to the divine, woo lovers, celebrate weddings, inspire political movements, and lull babies to sleep. In "Music as Social Life", Thomas Turino... -
Brick City Vanguard: Amiri Baraka, Black Music, Black Modernity by James Smethurst 9781625345158
RRP: £22.95Booksplease Price: £21.91Amiri Baraka is unquestionably the most recognized leader of the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s, and one of the key literary and cultural figures of the postwar United States. While Baraka's political and aesthetic stances changed... -
Musicology: The Key Concepts by Kenneth Gloag 9780415679688
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £24.28Now 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... -
Rap and Redemption on Death Row: Seeking Justice and Finding Purpose behind Bars by Mark Katz 9781469678719
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £15.32Imprisoned 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... -
Relax Baby Be Cool: The Artistry And Audacity Of Serge Gainsbourg by Jeremy Allen
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £10.00Why 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... -
Overtone Singing: Harmonic Dimensions of the Human Voice by Mark Van Tongeren
RRP: £26.00Booksplease Price: £17.11Apologies 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 -
Collins Secondary Music – Listen & Celebrate Key Stage 3: Activities to enrich and diversify Key Stage 3 music by Nathan Holder 9780008620936
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £23.45Listen 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... -
Salsa Rising: New York Latin Music of the Sixties Generation by Juan Flores 9780199764907
RRP: £30.49Booksplease Price: £22.37In the 1920s and 30s, musicians from Latin America and the Caribbean were flocking to New York, lured by the burgeoning recording studios and lucrative entertainment venues. In the late 1940s and 50s, the big-band mambo dance scene at the famed Palladium... -
The Power of Black Music: Interpreting its History from Africa to the United States by Samuel A. Floyd 9780195109757
RRP: £22.49Booksplease Price: £15.24The 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... -
Hungry Listening: Resonant Theory for Indigenous Sound Studies by Dylan Robinson
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.34WInner 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... -
Banjo Roots and Branches by Robert B Winans
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £22.49The story of the banjo's journey from Africa to the western hemisphere blends music, history, and a union of cultures. In Banjo Roots and Branches, Robert B. Winans presents cutting-edge scholarship that covers the instrument's West African origins and... -
Carnival, Canboulay and Calypso: Traditions in the Making by John Cowley 9780521653893
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £32.99Starting from the days of slavery and following through to the first decades of the twentieth century, this book traces the evolution of Carnival and secular black music in Trinidad and the links that existed with other territories and beyond. Calypso... -
Music of the Korean Renaissance: Songs and Dances of the Fifteenth Century by Jonathan Condit 9780521106870
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £38.13Koreans of the fifteenth century recorded for posterity a large body of music which has been preserved to the present day. This book presents that music in transcription, with an introductory section providing detailed background on the music itself and... -
Voice Lessons: French Melodie in the Belle Epoque by Katherine Bergeron 9780195337051
RRP: £37.99Booksplease Price: £31.05Language, 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... -
The Cultural Study of Music: A Critical Introduction by Martin Clayton 9780415881913
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £43.90What is the relationship between music and culture? The first edition of The Cultural Study of Music: A Critical Introduction explored this question with groundbreaking rigor and breadth. Now this second edition refines that original analysis while... -
Wake the Town and Tell the People: Dancehall Culture in Jamaica by Norman C. Stolzoff
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £24.57Jamaican 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... -
High Bias: The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape by Marc Masters 9781469675985
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £13.40The 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...