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On Site, In Sound: Performance Geographies in America Latina by Kirstie A. Dorr
RRP: £20.99£18.37In 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: £23.99£20.84In 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: £19.99£17.54Rai 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: £27.99£24.14Aissata 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: £66.00£57.33This 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 Jon Stratton 9781472429780
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: EUTERPE 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... -
French and Soviet Musical Diplomacies in Post-War Austria, 1945-1955 Alexander Golovlev 9781032423968
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 relations at... -
Music, Communities, Sustainability: Developing Policies and Practices by Adjunct Professor Huib Schippers
RRP: £31.49£28.91Apologies 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 Alison Hood 9781138247871
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... -
American Music Documentary: Five Case Studies of Cine-Ethnomusicology Benjamin J. Harbert 9780819578013
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
£25.49Despite 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 Deborah Wong 9780415970402
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 Asian... -
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 Larry Crook (University of Florida, USA) 9780415960656
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: £39.00£34.12Stories 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: £27.99£23.61Modern Jerusalem, a city central to Jewish, Muslim, and Christian religious imaginaries and the political epicenter of the Israeli-Palestinian crisis, is to put it mildly a highly contested space. More surprising, perhaps, is that its musical landscape... -
Music as a Science of Mankind in Eighteenth-Century Britain by Maria Semi
RRP: £53.99£46.87Music as a Science of Mankind offers a philosophical and historical perspective on the intellectual representation of music in British eighteenth-century culture. From the field of natural philosophy, involving the science of sounds and acoustics, to the... -
Popular Music of Vietnam: The Politics of Remembering, the Economics of Forgetting by Dale A. Olsen
RRP: £47.99£41.81Based on the author's research in Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi, and other urban areas in Vietnam, this study of contemporary Vietnamese popular music explores the ways globalization and free market economics have influenced the music and subcultures of... -
The Gypsy Caravan: From Real Roma to Imaginary Gypsies in Western Music by David Malvinni
RRP: £47.99£41.81First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9780415861458Author David MalvinniFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 386g -
Making Congregational Music Local in Christian Communities Worldwide Monique M. Ingalls (Baylor University, USA) 9780367890926
RRP: £39.99£35.06What does it mean for music to be considered local in contemporary Christian communities, and who shapes this meaning? Through what musical processes have religious beliefs and practices once 'foreign' become 'indigenous'? How does using indigenous... -
Cultural Histories of Noise, Sound and Listening in Europe, 1300-1918 Kirsten Gibson 9780367230517
RRP: £43.99£38.44Cultural Histories of Noise, Sound and Listening in Europe, 1300-1918 presents a range of historical case studies on the sounding worlds of the European past. The chapters in this volume explore ways of thinking about sound historically, and seek to... -
The Singer-Songwriter in Europe: Paradigms, Politics and Place Isabelle Marc 9780367229238
RRP: £43.99£38.44The Singer-Songwriter in Europe is the first book to explore and compare the multifaceted discourses and practices of this figure within and across linguistic spaces in Europe and in dialogue with spaces beyond continental borders. The concept of the... -
Musical Notations of the Orient: Notational Systems of Continental East, South, and Central Asia by Walter Kaufmann
RRP: £35.00£31.14This book provides a description and preservation of Oriental notational systems, the study of which makes possible a deeper understanding of Eastern art music and demonstrates its character to the student more meaningfully than does the mere... -
The Making of a Reform Jewish Cantor: Musical Authority, Cultural Investment by Judah M. Cohen
RRP: £24.99£21.67The Making of a Reform Jewish Cantor provides an unprecedented look into the meaning of attaining musical authority among American Reform Jews at the turn of the 21st century. How do aspiring cantors adapt traditional musical forms to the practices of... -
Singing Yoruba Christianity: Music, Media, and Morality by Vicki L. Brennan
RRP: £23.99£20.84Singing the same song is a central part of the worship practice for members for the Cherubim and Seraphim Christian Church in Lagos, Nigeria. Vicki L. Brennan reveals that by singing together, church members create one spiritual mind and become unified... -
Resounding Afro Asia: Interracial Music and the Politics of Collaboration by Tamara Roberts
RRP: £24.99£22.52Though cultural hybridity is celebrated as a hallmark of U.S. American music and identity, hybrid music is all too often marked and marketed under a single racial label.Tamara Roberts' book Resounding Afro Asia examines music projects that foreground... -
Sounding Salsa: Performing Latin Music in New York City by Christopher Washburne
£33.27Examines how musicians navigated their everyday lives, grappling with the intercultural tensions and commercial pressures that were so pronounced on the salsa sceneExamines how musicians navigated their everyday lives, grappling with the intercultural... -
Gender in Chinese Music by Rachel Harris
RRP: £32.99£29.23Gender in Chinese Music draws together contributions from ethnomusicologists, anthropologists, and literary scholars to explore how music is implicated in changing notions of masculinity, femininity, and genders "in between" in Chinese culture. ... -
Performing Nostalgia: Migration Culture and Creativity in South Albania by Eckehard Pistrick
RRP: £135.00£117.68Migration 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... -
Critical Music Historiography: Probing Canons, Ideologies and Institutions by Vesa Kurkela
RRP: £39.99£35.46During 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...