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Being Musically Attuned: The Act of Listening to Music Erik Wallrup 9781472429902
RRP: £135.00£117.68Listening according to mood is likely to be what most people do when they listen to music. We want to take part in, or even be part of, the emerging world of the musical work. Using the sources of musical history and philosophy, Erik Wallrup explores... -
Soundscapes from the Americas: Ethnomusicological Essays on the Power, Poetics, and Ontology of Performance by Donna A. Buchanan 9781472415837
RRP: £135.00£117.68Dedicated to the late Gerard Behague (1937-2005), whose pioneering work in Latin American music, popular culture, and performance studies contributed extensively to ethnomusicological discourse in the 1970s-1990s, this anthology offers comparative... -
Critical Music Historiography: Probing Canons, Ideologies and Institutions Vesa Kurkela 9781472414199
RRP: £135.00£117.68During the past two decades, there has emerged a growing need to reconsider the objects, axioms and perspectives of writing music history. A certain suspicion towards Francois Lyotard's grand narratives, as a sign of what he diagnosed as our 'postmodern... -
Music in Cyprus Jim Samson 9781409465737
RRP: £135.00£117.68Music in Cyprus draws its authors from both sides of the divided island to give a rounded picture of musical culture from the beginning of the British colonial period (1878-1960) until today. The book crosses conventional scholarly divides between... -
Popular Music and Human Rights: Volume II: World Music Ian Peddie 9781409464051
RRP: £43.99£38.44Popular music has long understood that human rights, if attainable at all, involve a struggle without end. The right to imagine an individual will, the right to some form of self-determination and the right to self-legislation have long been at the... -
Making Aboriginal Men and Music in Central Australia by Ase Ottosson 9781350040113
RRP: £39.99£35.06This detailed ethnographic study explores the intercultural crafting of contemporary forms of Aboriginal manhood in the world of country, rock and reggae music making in Central Australia. Focusing on four different musical contexts - an Aboriginal... -
Efficacy of Sound: Power, Potency, and Promise in the Translocal Ritual Music of Cuban Ifá-Òrìsà by Ruthie Meadows 9780226830223
RRP: £84.00£80.36The first book-length ethnographic study on music and Ifá divination in Cuba and Nigeria. Hailing from Cuba, Nigeria, and various sites across Latin America and the Caribbean, Ifá missionary-practitioners are transforming the landscape of Ifá divination... -
Efficacy of Sound: Power, Potency, and Promise in the Translocal Ritual Music of Cuban Ifá-Òrìsà by Ruthie Meadows 9780226828954
RRP: £28.00£27.39The first book-length ethnographic study on music and Ifá divination in Cuba and Nigeria. Hailing from Cuba, Nigeria, and various sites across Latin America and the Caribbean, Ifá missionary-practitioners are transforming the landscape of Ifá divination... -
Songs for Cabo Verde - Norberto Tavares`s Musical Visions for a New Republic by Susan Hurley-glowa 9781648250217
RRP: £95.00£90.68Based on twenty years of collaborative fieldwork, Songs for Cabo Verde: Norberto Tavares's Musical Visions for a New Republic focuses on the musician Norberto Tavares but also tells a larger story about postcolonial nation building, musical activism, and... -
African Diaspora: A Musical Perspective by Ingrid Monson 9781138966277
RRP: £45.99£40.53The African Diaspora presents musical case studies from various regions of the African diaspora, including Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America, North America, and Europe, that engage with broader interdisciplinary discussions about race, gender,... -
Local Music Scenes and Globalization: Transnational Platforms in Beirut by Thomas Burkhalter 9781138849716
RRP: £45.99£40.13This book offers the first in-depth study of experimental and popular music scenes in Beirut, looking at musicians working towards a new understanding of musical creativity and music culture in a country that is dominated by mass-mediated pop music, and... -
The Hallelujah Effect: Philosophical Reflections on Music, Performance Practice, and Technology Babette Babich 9781138274136
RRP: £29.99£26.64This book studies the working efficacy of Leonard Cohen's song Hallelujah in the context of today's network culture. Especially as recorded on YouTube, k.d. lang's interpretation(s) of Cohen's Hallelujah, embody acoustically and visually/viscerally, what... -
Representations of the Orient in Western Music: Violence and Sensuality by Nasser Al-Taee 9781138273283
RRP: £53.99£47.27This book focuses on the cultural, political and religious representations of the Orient in Western music. Dr Nasser Al-Taee traces several threads in a vast repertoire of musical representations, concentrating primarily on the images of violence and... -
Music Semiotics: A Network of Significations: In Honour and Memory of Raymond Monelle Esti Sheinberg 9781138270749
RRP: £49.99£43.50United in their indebtedness to the scholarship of Raymond Monelle, an international group of contributors, including leading authorities on music and culture, come together in this state of the art volume to investigate different ways in which music... -
Towards a Global Music Theory: Practical Concepts and Methods for the Analysis of Music Across Human Cultures Mark Hijleh 9781138252172
RRP: £53.99£46.87Since the beginning of the twentieth century, the cross-pollenization of world musical materials and practices has accelerated precipitously, due in large part to advances in higher-speed communications and travel. We live now in a world of global... -
Music and Identity in Ireland and Beyond Mark Fitzgerald 9781138247970
RRP: £53.99£46.87Music and Identity in Ireland and Beyond represents the first interdisciplinary volume of chapters on an intricate cultural field that can be experienced and interpreted in manifold ways, whether in Ireland (The Republic of Ireland and/or Northern... -
Dimensions of Energy in Shostakovich's Symphonies Michael Rofe 9781138268272
RRP: £53.99£46.87Shostakovich's music is often described as being dynamic, energetic. But what is meant by 'energy' in music? After setting out a broad conceptual framework for approaching this question, Michael Rofe proposes various potential sources of the perceived... -
Sounding the Virtual: Gilles Deleuze and the Theory and Philosophy of Music Nick Nesbitt 9781138272118
RRP: £53.99£46.87It is the contention of the editors and contributors of this volume that the work carried out by Gilles Deleuze, where rigorously applied, has the potential to cut through much of the intellectual sedimentation that has settled in the fields of music... -
Singer-Songwriters and Musical Open Mics by Marcus Aldredge 9781138255548
RRP: £49.99£43.50Singer-Songwriters and Musical Open Mics is an ethnographic exploration of New York City's live music events where musicians signup and perform short sets. This sociological study dispels the common assumption that open mics are culturally monolithic and... -
Becoming a Garamut Player in Baluan, Papua New Guinea: Musical Analysis as a Pathway to Learning by Tony Lewis 9781138222915
RRP: £130.00£112.11The garamut is a log idiophone that is found in many of the coastal and island areas of Papua New Guinea. The instrument's primary use is as a speech surrogate and in some regions the garamut is also used in large ensembles to play complex music for... -
The Garland Handbook of Latin American Music by Dale Olsen 9781138129672
RRP: £135.00£118.28The Garland Handbook of Latin American Music is comprised of essays from The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: Volume 2, South America, Mexico, Central America, and the Carribean, (1998). Revised and updated, the essays offer detailed, regional... -
Resilient Voices: Estonian Choirs and Song Festivals in World War II Displaced Person Camps by Ramona Holmes 9781032016054
RRP: £49.99£40.70The aftermath of World War II sent thousands of Estonian refugees into Europe. The years of Estonian independence (1917-1940) had given a taste of freedom and so relocation to displaced person (DP) camps in post-war Germany was extremely painful. One way... -
Balkan Refrain: Form and Tradition in European Folk Song by Dimitrije O. Golemovic 9780810867376
RRP: £92.00£80.29While the refrain is a frequent and important feature of folk singing, little has been written on it and what it can achieve. Balkan Refrain: Form and Tradition in European Folk Song attempts to establish what refrain actually is and how it can be... -
Lullabies and Battle Cries: Music, Identity, and Emotion among Republican Parading Bands in Northern Ireland by Jaime Rollins 9781785339219
RRP: £99.00£79.83Set against a volatile political landscape, Irish republican culture has struggled to maintain continuity with the past, affirm legitimacy in the present, and generate a sense of community for the future. Lullabies and Battle Cries explores the... -
The Effects of Inuit Drum Dancing on Psychosocial Well-Being and Resilience: Productivity and Cultural Competence in an Inuit Settlement by Tim Murray 9781793609779
RRP: £69.00£59.99Since time immemorial, Inuit drum dancing songs have been used throughout the Arctic to reaffirm kinship ties, decompress from the rigors of hunting and gathering, and redirect competitive behavior. The Effects of Inuit Drum Dancing on Psychosocial... -
The Routledge Companion to Music and Human Rights by Julian Fifer 9780367494155
RRP: £43.99£39.441) For academic researchers, human rights practitioners, musicians and all artists 2) Addresses a valiant and highly relevant and timely need: to fostering a culture of humanism in support of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and related goals... -
Music and its Virtues in Islamic and Judaic Writings by Amnon Shiloah 9781138375123
RRP: £49.99£43.90A fascinating aspect of the study of music in medieval Islamic and Judaic writings is the broad and interdisciplinary nature of the works and treatises in which it is covered. In addition, such works verbalize an art that was transmitted orally and took... -
On a Rock in the Middle of the Ocean: Songs and Singers in Tory Island, Ireland by Lillis O Laoire 9780810851368
RRP: £123.00£106.76Taking as its subject the small Gaelic-speaking community of Tory Island off the Donegal coast of Ireland, On a Rock in the Middle of the Ocean tries to answer the deceptively simple question of why people sing. The book focuses on aspects of song... -
Everyday Musical Life among the Indigenous Bunun, Taiwan by Jonathan P.J. Stock 9780367748494
RRP: £39.99£35.06Everyday Musical Life among the Indigenous Bunun, Taiwan contributes to multidisciplinary research on music in everyday human life by pushing beyond the urbanized Western populations routinely featured in such writing. Based on ethnographic study in... -
Performing Nostalgia: Migration Culture and Creativity in South Albania by Eckehard Pistrick 9780367598334
RRP: £39.99£35.06Migration studies is an area of increasing significance in musicology as in other disciplines. How do migrants express and imagine themselves through musical practice? How does music help them to construct social imaginaries and to cope with longings and... -
The Republic of Love: Cultural Intimacy in Turkish Popular Music by Martin Stokes 9780226775050
RRP: £91.00£86.93At the heart of "The Republic of Love" are the voices of three musicians - queer nightclub star Zeki Muren, arabesk originator Orhan Gencebay, and pop diva Sezen Aksu - who collectively have dominated mass media in Turkey since the early 1950s. Their... -
Performing Arts and Gender in Postcolonial Western Uganda by Dr Linda Cimardi 9781648250323
RRP: £95.00£90.68Focusing on runyege, the main traditional performance genre of the Banyoro and Batooro people, this book explores the entanglement of traditional music, dance, and theater with gender and postcolonialism in Western Uganda. Drawing on archival research... -
From Biblical Book to Musical Megahit: William B. Bradbury's Esther, the Beautiful Queen by Juanita Karpf 9781496845757
£34.00Many church-goers will recognize the name William Bradbury, a nineteenth-century American composer of popular hymns still sung at Sunday services. Bradbury’s name may also bring to mind Esther, the Beautiful Queen, his choral setting of a text based on... -
Music and the Racial Imagination by Ronald M. Radano 9780226701998
RRP: £112.00£107.01"A spectre lurks in the house of music, and it goes by the name of race", write Ronald Radano and Philip Bohlman in their introduction. Yet the intimate relationship between race and music has rarely been examined by contemporary scholars, most of whom... -
DIY House Shows and Music Venues in the US: Ethnographic Explorations of Place and Community by David Verbuč 9781032061832
RRP: £39.99£35.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781032061832Author David VerbučFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint RoutledgePublisher RoutledgeWeight(grams) 381g -
Sounding Our Way Home: Japanese American Musicking and the Politics of Identity by Susan Miyo Asai 9781496847645
£33.95A product of twenty-five years of archival and primary research, Sounding Our Way Home: Japanese American Musicking and the Politics of Identity narrates the efforts of three generations of Japanese Americans to reach "home" through musicking. Using... -
Sounding Latin Music, Hearing the Americas by Jairo Moreno 9780226825663
RRP: £85.00£81.30How is Latin American music heard, by whom, and why? Many in the United States believe Latin American musicians make “Latin music”—which carries with it a whole host of assumptions, definitions, and contradictions. In their own countries, these... -
Sounding Latin Music, Hearing the Americas by Jairo Moreno 9780226825687
RRP: £28.00£27.39How is Latin American music heard, by whom, and why? Many in the United States believe Latin American musicians make “Latin music”—which carries with it a whole host of assumptions, definitions, and contradictions. In their own countries, these... -
The Scattered Court: Hindustani Music in Colonial Bengal Richard David Williams 9780226825434
RRP: £85.00£81.30Presents a new history of how Hindustani court music responded to the political transitions of the nineteenth century. How far did colonialism transform north Indian music? In the period between the Mughal empire and the British Raj, how did the... -
Archaic Instruments in Modern West Java: Bamboo Murmurs by Henry Spiller 9781032299341
RRP: £125.00£107.86Archaic Bamboo Instruments explores how current residents of Bandung, Indonesia, have (re-) adopted bamboo musical instruments to forge meaningful bridges between their past and present—between traditional and modern values. The book grapples with...