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Moravian Soundscapes: A Sonic History of the Moravian Missions in Early Pennsylvania by Sarah Justina Eyerly
RRP: £29.99£25.99In Moravian Soundscapes, Sarah Eyerly contends that the study of sound is integral to understanding the interactions between German Moravian missionaries and Native communities in early Pennsylvania. In the mid-18th century, when the frontier between... -
Where Rivers and Mountains Sing: Sound, Music, and Nomadism in Tuva and Beyond by Theodore Levin
RRP: £25.99£22.04Theodore 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... -
Spiders of the Market: Ghanaian Trickster Performance in a Web of Neoliberalism by David Afriyie Donkor
RRP: £25.99£22.04The Ghanaian trickster-spider, Ananse, is a deceptive figure full of comic delight who blurs the lines of class, politics, and morality. David Afriyie Donkor identifies social performance as a way to understand trickster behavior within the shifting... -
Vodou Nation: Haitian Art Music and Cultural Nationalism by Michael Largey
RRP: £30.00£29.25While the Haitian musical tradition is probably best known for the Vodou-inspired roots music that helped topple the two-generation Duvalier dictatorship, the nation's troubled history of civil unrest and its tangled relationship with the United States... -
American Popular Music in Britain`s Raj by Bradley G. Shope
RRP: £90.00£85.99American Popular Music in Britain's Raj is the first systematic study of the character and scope of American popular music in India during British rule. Drawing on ethnographic and archival research, it examines blackface minstrel shows, ragtime, jazz,... -
Tehrangeles Dreaming: Intimacy and Imagination in Southern California's Iranian Pop Music by Farzaneh Hemmasi
RRP: £23.99£20.41Los Angeles, called Tehrangeles because it is home to the largest concentration of Iranians outside of Iran, is the birthplace of a distinctive form of postrevolutionary pop music. Created by professional musicians and media producers fleeing Iran's... -
Music and Ideology by Mark Carroll
RRP: £86.99£76.54This volume gathers together a cross-section of essays and book chapters dealing with the ways in which musicians and their music have been pressed into the service of political, nationalist and racial ideologies. Arranged chronologically according to... -
Becoming an Irish Traditional Musician: Learning and Embodying Musical Culture by Jessica Cawley
RRP: £115.00£99.36Coupling the narratives of twenty-two Irish traditional musicians alongside intensive field research, Becoming an Irish Traditional Musician explores the rich and diverse ways traditional musicians hone their craft. It details the educational benefits... -
Greek Rebetiko from a Psychocultural Perspective: Same Songs Changing Minds by Daniel Koglin
RRP: £39.99£35.06Greek Rebetiko from a Psychocultural Perspective: Same Songs Changing Minds examines the ways in which audiences in present-day Greece and Turkey perceive and use the Greek popular song genre rebetiko to cultivate specific cultural habits and identities... -
Resilient Voices: Estonian Choirs and Song Festivals in World War II Displaced Person Camps by Ramona Holmes
RRP: £17.99£16.04The aftermath of World War II sent thousands of Estonian refugees into Europe. The years of Estonian independence (1917-1940) had given them a taste of freedom and so relocation to displaced person (DP) camps in post-war Germany was extremely painful... -
Music Saved Them, They Say: Social Impacts of Music-Making and Learning in Kinshasa (DR Congo) by Lukas Pairon
RRP: £39.99£35.06Music Saved Them, They Say: Social Impacts of Music-Making and Learning in Kinshasa (DR Congo) explores the role music-making has played in community projects run for young people in the poverty-stricken and often violent surroundings of Kinshasa, the... -
Arab Music: A Survey of Its History and Its Modern Practice by Leo Plenckers
RRP: £32.00£26.44Arab Music: A survey of its history and modern practice is primarily meant for the general Western reader with some basic knowledge of music and music notation. It aims at correcting the still prevalent romantic image of Arab music, spread in the 19th... -
Loading the Silence: Australian Sound Art in the Post-Digital Age by Linda Ioanna Kouvaras
RRP: £53.99£46.87The experimentalist phenomenon of 'noise' as constituting 'art' in much twentieth-century music (paradoxically) reached its zenith in Cage's ('silent' piece) 4'33 . But much post-1970s musical endeavour with an experimentalist telos, collectively known... -
On Site, In Sound: Performance Geographies in America Latina by Kirstie A. Dorr
RRP: £22.99£19.60In On Site, In Sound Kirstie A. Dorr examines the spatiality of sound and the ways in which the sonic is bound up in perceptions and constructions of geographic space. Focusing on the hemispheric circulation of South American musical cultures, Dorr shows... -
My Voice Is My Weapon: Music, Nationalism, and the Poetics of Palestinian Resistance by David A. McDonald
RRP: £25.99£22.04In My Voice Is My Weapon, David A. McDonald rethinks the conventional history of the Palestinian crisis through an ethnographic analysis of music and musicians, protest songs, and popular culture. Charting a historical narrative that stretches from the... -
Popular Music and Human Rights: Volume I: World Music by Professor Ian Peddie
RRP: £39.99£35.06Popular 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... -
Musicology: The Key Concepts by Kenneth Gloag
RRP: £110.00£95.51Now 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... -
Men and Popular Music in Algeria: The Social Significance of Rai by Marc Schade-Poulsen
RRP: £21.99£18.79Rai music is often called the voice of the voiceless in Algeria, a society currently swept by tragic conflict. Rai is the voice of Algerian men, young men caught between generations and classes, in political strife, and in economic inequality. In a... -
Women's Voices from West Africa: An Anthology of Songs from the Sahel by Aissata G. Sidikou
RRP: £29.99£25.99Aissata G. Sidikou and Thomas A. Hale reveal the world of women's songs and singing in West Africa. This anthology-collected from 17 ethnic traditions across West Africa-introduces the power and beauty of the intimate expressions of African women. The... -
Music of Azerbaijan: From Mugham to Opera by Aida Huseynova
RRP: £72.00£61.32This book traces the development of Azerbaijani art music from its origins in the Eastern, modal, improvisational tradition known as mugham through its fusion with Western classical, jazz, and world art music. Aida Huseynova places the fascinating and... -
Creolized Aurality: Guadeloupean Gwoka and Postcolonial Politics by Jerome Camal
RRP: £26.00£24.85In the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, the complex interplay between anticolonial resistance and accommodation resounds in its music. Guadeloupean gwoka music--a secular, drum-based tradition--captures the entangled histories of French colonization,... -
When Music Migrates: Crossing British and European Racial Faultlines, 1945-2010 by Jon Stratton
RRP: £135.00£117.68When Music Migrates uses rich material to examine the ways that music has crossed racial faultlines that have developed in the post-Second World War era as a consequence of the movement of previously colonized peoples to the countries that colonized them... -
Reform, Notation and Ottoman music in Early 19th Century Istanbul: EUTERPE by Mehmet Ali Sanlikol
RRP: £125.00£108.26Reform, Notation and Ottoman music in Early 19th Century Istanbul presents the first complete set of transcription and edition of Euterpe (1830) from Byzantine neumatic notation into the modified staff notation used by classical Turkish music and is... -
French and Soviet Musical Diplomacies in Post-War Austria, 1945-1955 by Alexander Golovlev
RRP: £37.99£33.38French and Soviet Musical Diplomacies in Post-War Austria, 1945-1955 investigates how promoting "national" music and musicians was used as an important asset by France and the USSR in post-Nazi Austria, covering music's role in international... -
Music, Communities, Sustainability: Developing Policies and Practices by Adjunct Professor Huib Schippers
RRP: £29.99£27.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780197609118Author Adjunct Professor Huib SchippersFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint Oxford University Press, USAPublisher Oxford University Press, USA -
Interpreting Chopin: Analysis and Performance by Alison Hood
RRP: £49.99£43.50Music theory is often seen as independent from - even antithetical to - performance. While music theory is an intellectual enterprise, performance requires an intuitive response to the music. But this binary opposition is a false one, which serves... -
Singers Die Twice: A Journey to the Land of Dhrupad by Peter Pannke
RRP: £12.99£11.46Singers Die Twice is the story of a life in music. One of Germany's best-known exponents of North Indian classical music, specifically dhrupad singing, Perer Pannke has traveled from his home in Germany to Varanasi, Delhi, Darbhanga, and the forests... -
American Music Documentary: Five Case Studies of Cine-Ethnomusicology by Benjamin J. Harbert
RRP: £20.50£19.66Documentary filmmakers have been making films about music for a half-century. American Music Documentary looks at five key films to begin to imagine how we might produce, edit, and watch films from an ethnomusicological point of view. Reconsidering... -
Music Entries at Stationers' Hall, 1710-1818: from lists prepared for William Hawes, D.W. Krummel and Alan Tyson and from other sources by Mr Michael Kassler
RRP: £135.00£118.88The British Copyright Act of 1709 protected proprietors of books and music printed after 10 April 1710 who gave copies to the Company of Stationers in London. Upon receipt of a copy, usually within days of its first publication, the Stationers' Hall... -
Heartbeat, Warble, and the Electric Powwow: American Indian Music by Craig Harris
RRP: £21.95£17.94Despite centuries of suppression and oppression, American Indian music survives today as a profound cultural force. Heartbeat, Warble, and the Electric Powwow celebrates in depth the vibrant soundscape of Native North America, from the... -
Global Minstrels: Voices of World Music by Elijah Wald
RRP: £37.99£33.38As the fastest growing sector of the U.S. music market, world music has embedded itself in the fabric of American life. Artists such as Peter Gabriel, Paul Simon and the Talking Heads have all utilized characteristics of the "world" sound in... -
Speak it Louder: Asian Americans Making Music by Deborah Wong
RRP: £51.99£45.19Speak It Louder: Asian Americans Making Music documents the variety of musics-from traditional Asian through jazz, classical, and pop-that have been created by Asian Americans. This book is not about "Asian American music" but rather about... -
Focus: Music of South Africa by Carol A. Muller
RRP: £135.00£117.68Focus: Music of South Africa provides an in-depth look at the full spectrum of South African music, a musical culture that epitomizes the enormous ethnic, religious, linguistic, class, and gender diversity of the nation itself. Drawing on extensive field... -
Focus: Music of Northeast Brazil by Larry Crook
RRP: £53.99£46.87Focus: Music of Northeast Brazil examines the historical and contemporary manifestations of the music of Brazil, a country with a musical landscape that is layered with complexity and diversity. Based on the author's field research during the past twenty... -
Storytime in India: Wedding Songs, Victorian Tales, and the Ethnographic Experience by Helen Priscilla Myers
RRP: £45.00£38.47Stories are the backbone of ethnographic research. During fieldwork, subjects describe their lives through stories. Afterward ethnographers come home from their journeys with stories of their own about their experiences in the field. Storytime in... -
Music in the World: Selected Essays by Timothy D. Taylor
RRP: £31.00£30.19In music studies, Timothy D. Taylor is known for his insightful essays on music, globalization, and capitalism. Music and the World is a collection of some of Taylor's most recent writings essays concerned with questions about music in capitalist... -
Dimensions of Energy in Shostakovich's Symphonies by Michael Rofe
RRP: £130.00£112.51Shostakovich'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... -
Qupai in Chinese Music: Melodic Models in Form and Practice by Alan R Thrasher
RRP: £45.99£40.13Presenting the latest research in the area, this volume explores the fundamental concept of qupai 曲牌, melodic models upon which most traditional Chinese instrumental music (and some vocal music) is based. The greater part of the traditional instrumental... -
Hearing Brazil: Music and Histories in Minas Gerais by Jonathon Grasse
RRP: £34.95£31.81Minas Gerais is a state in southeastern Brazil deeply connected to the nation's slave past and home to many traditions related to the African diaspora. Addressing a wide range of traditions helping to define the region, ethnomusicologist Jonathon Grasse... -
City of Song: Music and the Making of Modern Jerusalem by Michael A Figueroa
RRP: £26.49£22.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780197546437Author Michael A FigueroaFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Oxford University Press, USAPublisher Oxford University Press, USA