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Shaped by Japanese Music: Kikuoka Hiroaki and Nagauta Shamisen in Tokyo by Jay Davis Keister
RRP: £49.99£43.50Shaped by Japanese Music is an in-depth analysis of the musical world of an individual performer, composer, and teacher. Using an ethnographic approach, this study situates musical analysis in the context of its creation, demonstrating that traditional... -
Art as Music, Music as Poetry, Poetry as Art, from Whistler to Stravinsky and Beyond Peter Dayan 9781138276253
RRP: £53.99£46.87In 1877, Ruskin accused Whistler of 'flinging a pot of paint in the public's face'. Was he right? After all, Whistler always denied that the true function of art was to represent anything. If a painting does not represent, what is it, other than mere... -
Stereo: Comparative Perspectives on the Sociological Study of Popular Music in France and Britain by Philippe Le Guern
RRP: £53.99£46.87The term 'Popular Music' has traditionally denoted different things in France and Britain. In France, the very concept of 'popular' music has been fiercely debated and contested, whereas in Britain and more largely throughout what the French describe as... -
Turkish Metal: Music, Meaning, and Morality in a Muslim Society by Pierre Hecker
RRP: £53.99£46.87Turkish Metal journeys deep into the heart of the Turkish heavy metal scene, uncovering the emergence, evolution, and especially the social implications of this controversial musical genre in a Muslim society. The book applies an ethnographic approach in... -
Taarab Music in Zanzibar in the Twentieth Century: A Story of 'Old is Gold' and Flying Spirits by Janet Topp Fargion
RRP: £49.99£43.50The musical genre of taarab is played for entertainment at weddings and other festive occasions all along the Swahili Coast in East Africa. Taarab contains all the features of a typical 'Indian Ocean' music, combining influences from Egypt, the Arabian... -
The Garland Handbook of Southeast Asian Music by Terry Miller
RRP: £68.99£59.92The Garland Handbook of Southeast Asian Music is comprised of essays from The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: Volume 4, Southeast Asia (1998). Largely revised and updated, the essays offer detailed, regional studies of the different musical cultures... -
Widening the Horizon: Exoticism in Post-War Popular Music by Philip Hayward
RRP: £15.99£14.24During the 1950s and early 1960s, the musical exotica produced by performers such as Les Baxter, Martin Denny, and Arthur Lyman enjoyed international success. Widening the Horizon is the first in-depth analysis of the music and its cultural context.First... -
Listen with the Ear of the Heart - Music and Monastery Life at Weston Priory by Maria S. Guarino
RRP: £28.99£24.27A "contemplative" ethnographic study of a Benedictine monastery in Vermont known for its folk-inspired music. Far from being a long-silent echo of medieval religion, modern monastery music is instead a resounding, living illustration of the role of... -
Tuning the Kingdom - Kawuugulu Musical Performance, Politics, and Storytelling in Buganda by Damascus Kafumbe
RRP: £32.99£32.02Tuning the Kingdom draws on oral and written accounts, archival research, and musical analysis to examine how the Kawuugulu Clan-Royal Musical Ensemble of the Kingdom of Buganda (arguably the kingdom's oldest and longest-surviving performance ensemble)... -
Making Aboriginal Men and Music in Central Australia by Ase Ottosson
RRP: £135.00£117.28This 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... -
A Respectable Spell: Transformations of Samba in Rio de Janeiro by Carlos Sandroni
RRP: £21.99£19.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780252086083Author Carlos SandroniFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint University of Illinois PressPublisher University of Illinois PressWeight(grams) 156g -
Chants of the Byzantine Rite: The Italo-Albanian Tradition in Sicily by Bartolomeo Salvo
RRP: £75.99£62.02Book & DVD. This book presents for the first time the complete chant repertory of an orally transmitted repertory of church hymns for the celebration of the Byzantine Rite in Sicily. This body of chant has been cultivated by the Albanian-speaking... -
Vocal Music and Contemporary Identities: Unlimited Voices in East Asia and the West Christian Utz (University of Music and Dramatic Arts, Granz, Austria.) 9781138108035
RRP: £43.99£38.84Looking at musical globalization and vocal music, this collection of essays studies the complex relationship between the human voice and cultural identity in 20th- and 21st-century music in both East Asian and Western music. The authors approach musical... -
Listening for Africa: Freedom, Modernity, and the Logic of Black Music's African Origins by David F. Garcia
RRP: £23.99£20.84In Listening for Africa David F. Garcia explores how a diverse group of musicians, dancers, academics, and activists engaged with the idea of black music and dance's African origins between the 1930s and 1950s. Garcia examines the work of figures ranging... -
Being Musically Attuned: The Act of Listening to Music Erik Wallrup 9780367879518
RRP: £39.99£35.06Listening 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... -
Music and Mourning Jane W. Davidson 9780367229269
RRP: £39.99£35.06While grief is suffered in all cultures, it is expressed differently all over the world in accordance with local customs and beliefs. Music has been associated with the healing of grief for many centuries, with Homer prescribing music as an antidote to... -
Black Lives Matter and Music: Protest, Intervention, Reflection by Fernando Orejuela
RRP: £45.00£39.18Music has always been integral to the Black Lives Matter movement in the United States, with songs such as Kendrick Lamar's "Alright," J. Cole's "Be Free," D'Angelo and the Vanguard's "The Charade," The Game's "Don't... -
African Music, Power, and Being in Colonial Zimbabwe by Mhoze Chikowero
RRP: £70.00£60.71In this new history of music in Zimbabwe, Mhoze Chikowero deftly uses African sources to interrogate the copious colonial archive, reading it as a confessional voice along and against the grain to write a complex history of music, colonialism, and... -
The Sounds of Capitalism: Advertising, Music, and the Conquest of Culture Timothy D. Taylor 9780226791159
RRP: £80.00£77.01From the early days of radio through the rise of television after World War II to the present, music has been used more and more often to sell goods and establish brand identities. And since at least the 1920s, songs originally written for commercials... -
Making Music Indigenous: Popular Music in the Peruvian Andes by Joshua Tucker
RRP: £80.00£76.61When thinking of indigenous music, many people may imagine acoustic instruments and pastoral settings far removed from the whirl of modern life. But, in contemporary Peru, indigenous chimaycha music has become a wildly popular genre that is even heard in... -
The Tango Machine: Musical Culture in the Age of Expediency by Morgan James Luker
RRP: £26.00£24.85In Argentina, tango isn't just the national music it's a national brand. But ask any contemporary Argentine if they ever really listen to it and chances are the answer is no: tango hasn't been popular for more than fifty years. In this book, Morgan James... -
Modernism and the Cult of Mountains: Music, Opera, Cinema Christopher Morris 9781138279261
RRP: £45.99£40.13Adopting and transforming the Romantic fascination with mountains, modernism in the German-speaking lands claimed the Alps as a space both of resistance and of escape. This new 'cult of mountains' reacted to the symptoms and alienating forces associated... -
Professional Knowledge in Music Teacher Education Pamela Burnard 9781138272583
RRP: £53.99£46.87The complexity of the various forms of knowledge and practices that are encountered by teachers, university lecturers, teacher trainers, student teachers, policy makers and researchers, demands careful thought and reflection. Professional Knowledge in... -
Bad Vibrations: The History of the Idea of Music as a Cause of Disease James Kennaway 9781138249141
RRP: £53.99£43.87Music has been used as a cure for disease since as far back as King David's lyre, but the notion that it might be a serious cause of mental and physical illness was rare until the late eighteenth century. At that time, physicians started to argue that... -
Music as Intangible Cultural Heritage: Policy, Ideology, and Practice in the Preservation of East Asian Traditions by Keith Howard
RRP: £53.99£46.87Focussing on music traditions, these essays explore the policy, ideology and practice of preservation and promotion of East Asian intangible cultural heritage. For the first time, Japan, Korea, China and Taiwan - states that were amongst the first to... -
Women's Songs from West Africa by Thomas A. Hale
RRP: £39.00£34.52Exploring the origins, organization, subject matter, and performance contexts of singers and singing, Women's Songs from West Africa expands our understanding of the world of women in West Africa and their complex and subtle roles as verbal artists... -
Voices of the Magi: Enchanted Journeys in Southeast Brazil Suzel Reily 9780226709413
RRP: £30.00£29.25Voices of the Magi explores the popular Catholic musical ensembles of southeastern Brazil known as folias de reis (companies of kings). Composed predominantly of low-income workers, the folias reenact the journey of the Wise Men to Bethlehem and back to... -
Music, Performance and African Identities by Toyin Falola
RRP: £47.99£41.81Cutting across countries, genres, and time periods, this volume explores topics ranging from hip hop's influence on Maasai identity in current day Tanzania to jazz in Bulawayo during the interwar years, using music to tell a larger story about the... -
Voices of the Field: Pathways in Public Ethnomusicology by Leon F Garcia Corona
RRP: £24.49£20.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780197526699Author Leon F Garcia CoronaFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Oxford University Press, USAPublisher Oxford University Press, USA -
Luk Thung: The Culture and Politics of Thailand's Most Popular Music by James Leonard Mitchell
RRP: £27.99£24.14Since the 1960s, the hybrid popular music called luk thung has embodied the aspirations, frustrations, and sorrows of Thailand's working class. Global scholarship, however, has been slow in examining this seminal genre. In this pioneering book,... -
Serbian and Greek Art Music: A Patch to Western Music History by Katy Romanou
RRP: £35.95£31.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781841502786Author Katy RomanouFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Intellect BooksPublisher Intellect Books -
This is the Sound of Irony: Music, Politics and Popular Culture Katherine L. Turner 9781472442598
RRP: £135.00£117.68The use of irony in music is just beginning to be defined and critiqued, although it has been used, implied and decried by composers, performers, listeners and critics for centuries. Irony in popular music is especially worthy of study because it is... -
Fiesta de diez pesos: Music and Gay Identity in Special Period Cuba by Moshe Morad
RRP: £135.00£117.68The 'Special Period' in Cuba was an extended era of economic depression starting in the early 1990s, characterized by the collapse of revolutionary values and social norms, and a way of life conducted by improvised solutions for survival, including... -
This is the Sound of Irony: Music, Politics and Popular Culture by Katherine L. Turner
RRP: £39.99£35.06The use of irony in music is just beginning to be defined and critiqued, although it has been used, implied and decried by composers, performers, listeners and critics for centuries. Irony in popular music is especially worthy of study because it is... -
Shared Meanings in the Film Music of Philip Glass: Music, Multimedia and Postminimalism by Tristian Evans
RRP: £39.99£35.06The study of music within multimedia contexts has become an increasingly active area of scholarly research. However, the application of such studies to musical genres outside the 'classical' film canon, or in television and other media remains largely... -
The Voice of the Rural: Music, Poetry, and Masculinity among Migrant Moroccan Men in Umbria by Professor Alessandra Ciucci
RRP: £24.00£20.12A moving portrait of the contemporary experiences of migrant Moroccan men. Umbria is known to most Americans for its picturesque rolling hills and medieval villages, but to the many migrant Moroccan men who travel there, Umbria is better known for the... -
The Horse-head Fiddle and the Cosmopolitan Reimagination of Tradition in Mongolia Peter K. Marsh 9781138820807
RRP: £49.99£43.50Few other nations have undergone as profound a change in their social, political, and cultural life as Mongolia did in the twentieth century. Beginning the century as a largely rural, nomadic, and tradition-oriented society, the nation was transformed by... -
Anyone Can Do It: Empowerment, Tradition and the Punk Underground Pete Dale 9781138279674
RRP: £53.99£46.87For more than three decades, a punk underground has repeatedly insisted that 'anyone can do it'. This underground punk movement has evolved via several micro-traditions, each offering distinct and novel presentations of what punk is, isn't, or should be... -
Soundscapes from the Americas: Ethnomusicological Essays on the Power, Poetics, and Ontology of Performance by Donna A. Buchanan
RRP: £47.99£41.81Dedicated 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... -
Duende: A Journey Into the Heart of Flamenco by Jason Webster
RRP: £19.00£12.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767911672Author Jason WebsterFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Broadway BooksPublisher Broadway BooksWeight(grams) 277g