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Voicing Gender: Castrati, Travesti, and the Second Woman in Early-Nineteenth-Century Italian Opera by Naomi Andre
RRP: £21.99£18.79The early 19th century was a period of acute transition in operatic tradition and style, when time-honored practices gave way to the developing aesthetics of Romanticism, the rise of the tenor overtook the falling stars of the castrati, and the heroic,... -
Modeling Ethnomusicology by Timothy Rice 9780190616892
£31.82Ethnomusicology is an academic discipline with a very broad mandate: to understand why and how human beings are musical through the study of music in all its geographical and historical diversity. Ethnomusicological scholarship, however, has been remiss... -
Colm O Caodhain: An Irish Singer and His World by Rionach Ui Ogain
RRP: £35.00£28.82One of the most sought after aspects of Irish vernacular culture is traditional song. Access to earlier recordings is a way to ensure the best understanding and appreciation of earlier singers, styles and repertoires. Within Ireland this is often... -
The Cambridge History of World Music by Philip V. Bohlman
RRP: £41.99£35.36Scholars have long known that world music was not merely the globalized product of modern media, but rather that it connected religions, cultures, languages and nations throughout world history. The chapters in this History take readers to foundational... -
Music in Latin America and the Caribbean: An Encyclopedic History: Volume 1: Performing Beliefs: Indigenous Peoples of South America, Central America, and Mexico by Malena Kuss 9780292702981
RRP: £54.00£47.55The music of the peoples of South and Central America, Mexico, and the Caribbean has never received a comprehensive treatment in English until this multi-volume work. Taking a sociocultural and human-centered approach, Music in Latin America and the... -
Sound Play: Video Games and the Musical Imagination by William Cheng 9780199969975
£47.51Video games open portals into fantastical worlds where imaginative play prevails. The virtual medium seemingly provides us with ample opportunities to behave and act out with relative safety and impunity. Or does it? Sound Play explores the aesthetic,... -
Hearing the Crimean War: Wartime Sound and the Unmaking of Sense by Gavin Williams
RRP: £36.99£33.78What does sound, whether preserved or lost, tell us about nineteenth-century wartime? Hearing the Crimean War: Wartime Sound and the Unmaking of Sense pursues this question through the many territories affected by the Crimean War, including Britain,... -
Flip the Script: European Hip Hop and the Politics of Postcoloniality by J. Griffith Rollefson
RRP: £26.00£24.85Hip hop has long been a vehicle for protest in the United States, used by its primarily African American creators to address issues of prejudice, repression, and exclusion. But the music is now a worldwide phenomenon, and outside the United States it has... -
Song Walking: Women, Music, and Environmental Justice in an African Borderland by Angela Impey
RRP: £28.00£27.39Song Walking explores the politics of land, its position in memories, and its foundation in changing land-use practices in western Maputaland, a borderland region situated at the juncture of South Africa, Mozambique, and Swaziland. Angela Impey... -
Music, evolution, and the harmony of souls by Alan R. Harvey 9780198829355
RRP: £23.49£21.23Music is central to human cultural and intellectual experience. It is vitally important for the welfare of human society and - this book argues - should become more widely accepted in our community as a mainstream educational and therapeutic tool. ... -
Audible Empire: Music, Global Politics, Critique by Ronald M. Radano
RRP: £27.99£24.06Audible Empire rethinks the processes and mechanisms of empire and shows how musical practice has been crucial to its spread around the globe. Music is a means of comprehending empire as an audible formation, and the contributors highlight how it has... -
Different Drummers: Rhythm and Race in the Americas by Martin Munro 9780520262836
RRP: £27.00£20.63Long a taboo subject among critics, rhythm finally takes center stage in this book's dazzling, wide-ranging examination of diverse black cultures across the New World. Martin Munro's groundbreaking work traces the central - and contested - role of music... -
Irish Blood, English Heart: Second Generation Irish Musicians in England by Sean Campbell 9781859184615
RRP: £35.00£29.22Second-generation Irish musicians have played a vital role in the history of popular music in England. This book explores the role of Irish ethnicity in the lives and work of these musicians, focusing on three high-profile projects: Kevin Rowland and... -
Flamenco Music: History, Forms, Culture by Peter Manuel 9780252087455
RRP: £29.99£25.99An expert explains and analyzes the beloved art form An iconic symbol of Spain, flamenco has become a global phenomenon. Peter Manuel offers English-language readers a rare portrait of the music's history, styles, and cultural impact. Beginning with... -
The Mystery of Chopin's Préludes by Anatole Leikin
RRP: £39.99£35.06Chopin's twenty-four Preludes remain as mysterious today as when they were newly published. What prompted Franz Liszt and others to consider Chopin's Preludes to be compositions in their own right rather than introductions to other works? What did set... -
Russian Composers Abroad: How They Left, Stayed, Returned by Elena Dubinets 9780253057785
RRP: £31.00£26.84As waves of composers migrated from Russia in the 20th century, they grappled with the complex struggle between their own traditions and those of their adopted homes. Russian Composers Abroad explores the self-identity of these emigres, especially those... -
Music of the Sirens by Linda Phyllis Austern
RRP: £25.99£22.44Whether referred to as mermaid, usalka, mami wata, or by some other name, and whether considered an imaginary being or merely a person with extraordinary abilities, the siren is the remarkable creature that has inspired music and its representations from... -
Punk Ethnography: The Sublime Frequencies Companion by Michael Veal 9780819576538
RRP: £20.50£16.82This ground-breaking case study examines record production as ethnographic work. Since its founding in 2003, Seattle-based record label Sublime Frequencies has produced world music recordings that have been received as radical, sometimes problematic... -
The Anthropology of Music by Alan P. Merriam
RRP: £29.95£25.81In this highly praised and seminal work, Alan Merriam demonstrates that music is a social behavior-one worthy and available to study through the methods of anthropology. In it, he convincingly argues that ethnomusicology, by definition, cannot separate... -
Sonidos Negros: On the Blackness of Flamenco by K. Meira Goldberg 9780190466916
£91.27How is the politics of Blackness figured in the flamenco dancing body? What does flamenco dance tell us about the construction of race in the Atlantic world? Sonidos Negros traces how, in the span between 1492 and 1933, the vanquished Moor became Black,... -
The Yoruba God of Drumming: Transatlantic Perspectives on the Wood That Talks by Amanda Villepastour 9781496818348
RRP: £34.95£28.78As one of the salient forces in the ritual life of those who worship the pre-Christian and Muslim deities called orishas, the Yoruba god of drumming, known as Ayan in Africa and Ana in Cuba, is variously described as the orisha of drumming, the spirit of... -
Wild Music: Sound and Sovereignty in Ukraine by Maria Sonevytsky 9780819579164
RRP: £20.50£16.82What are the uses of musical exoticism? In Wild Music, Maria Sonevytsky tracks vernacular Ukrainian discourses of "wildness" as they manifested in popular music during a volatile decade of Ukrainian political history bracketed by two revolutions. From... -
Musica Brasileira: A History of Popular Music and the People of Brazil by Claus Schreiner 9780714530666
RRP: £9.95£7.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780714530666Author Claus SchreinerFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint Marion Boyars Publishers LtdPublisher Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd -
Musical Life in Guyana: History and Politics of Controlling Creativity by Vibert C. Cambridge 9781496809766
RRP: £34.95£29.18Musical Life in Guyana is the first in-depth study of Guyanese musical life. It is also a richly detailed description of the social, economic, and political conditions that have encouraged and sometimes discouraged musical and cultural creativity in... -
The Sight of Sound: Music, Representation, and the History of the Body by Richard Leppert 9780520203426
RRP: £31.00£27.18Richard Leppert boldly examines the social meanings of music as these have been shaped not only by hearing but also by seeing music in performance. His purview is the northern European bourgeoisie, principally in England and the Low Countries, from 1600... -
Ambient Sufism: Ritual Niches and the Social Work of Musical Form by Richard C. Jankowsky
RRP: £24.00£23.03Ambient Sufism is a study of the intertwined musical lives of several ritual communities in Tunisia that invoke the healing powers of long-deceased Muslim saints through music-driven trance rituals. Richard C. Jankowsky illuminates the virtually... -
Music, evolution, and the harmony of souls by Alan R. Harvey 9780198786856
RRP: £29.99£27.99Music is central to human cultural and intellectual experience. It is vitally important for the welfare of human society and - this book argues - should become more widely accepted in our community as a mainstream educational and therapeutic tool. ... -
Black Rhythms of Peru by Heidi Feldman 9780819568151
RRP: £20.50£16.82In the late 1950s to 1970s, an Afro-Peruvian revival brought the forgotten music and dances of Peru's African musical heritage to Lima's theatrical stages. The revival conjured newly imagined links to the past in order to celebrate-and to some extent... -
The German Symphony between Beethoven and Brahms: The Fall and Rise of a Genre by Christopher Fifield
RRP: £39.99£35.46It was Carl Dahlhaus who coined the phrase 'dead time' to describe the state of the symphony between Schumann and Brahms. Christopher Fifield argues that many of the symphonies dismissed by Dahlhaus made worthy contributions to the genre. He traces the... -
The Oxford Handbook of Country Music by Travis D Stimeling
£38.54Now in its sixth decade, country music studies is a thriving field of inquiry involving scholars working in the fields of American history, folklore, sociology, anthropology, musicology, ethnomusicology, cultural studies, and geography, among many others... -
Comparative Musicology and Anthropology of Music: Essays on the History of Ethnomusicology by Bruno Nettl
RRP: £37.00£35.77Nineteen scholars from five countries explore significant issues in the history of ethnomusicology and its methodological and theoretical foundations, while providing a critique of the discipline. "This is a useful and enriching collection of articles of... -
Ethnomusicology: A Contemporary Reader by Jennifer C. Post
RRP: £56.99£49.81Ethnomusicology: A Contemporary Reader is designed to supplement a textbook for an introductory course in ethnomusicology. It offers a cross section of the best new writing in the field from the last 15-20 years. Many instructors supplement textbook... -
Music in Latin America and the Caribbean: An Encyclopedic History: Volume 2: Performing the Caribbean Experience by Malena Kuss 9780292709515
RRP: £58.00£50.88The music of the peoples of South and Central America, Mexico, and the Caribbean is treated with unprecedented breadth in this multi-volume work. Taking a sociocultural and human-centered approach, Music in Latin America and the Caribbean gathers the... -
Richard Strauss's Orchestral Music and the German Intellectual Tradition: The Philosophical Roots of Musical Modernism by Charles Youmans
RRP: £40.00£34.72The young Richard Strauss was almost exclusively an orchestral composer. Yet, the year 1903 brought a significant break from orchestral writing, and Strauss then shifted his focus to opera for the next four decades. In the aftermath of the Second World... -
African Music, Power, and Being in Colonial Zimbabwe by Mhoze Chikowero 9780253018038
RRP: £29.99£25.99In 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... -
Tokyo Listening: Sound and Sense in a Contemporary City by Lorraine Plourde 9780819578846
RRP: £18.50£15.28Tokyo Listening examines how the sensory experience of the city informs how people listen to both music and everyday, ubiquitous sounds. Drawing on recent scholarship in the fields of sound studies, anthropology, and ethnomusicology and over fifteen... -
Black Ephemera: The Crisis and Challenge of the Musical Archive by Mark Anthony Neal
RRP: £23.99£20.41PROSE Award- Music and Performing Arts Category Winner A framework for understanding the deep archive of Black performance in the digital era In an era of Big Data and algorithms, our easy access to the archive of contemporary and historical Blackness... -
Beyond Exoticism: Western Music and the World by Timothy Dean Taylor
RRP: £24.99£21.23In Beyond Exoticism, Timothy D. Taylor considers how western cultures' understandings of racial, ethnic, and cultural differences have been incorporated into music from early operas to contemporary television advertisements, arguing that the commonly... -
The Local Scenes and Global Culture of Psytrance by Graham St. John
RRP: £44.99£39.28This lively textual symposium offers a collection of formative research on the culture of global psytrance (psychedelic trance). As the first book to address the diverse transnationalism of this contemporary electronic dance music phenomenon, the... -
Composing Japanese Musical Modernity by Bonnie C. Wade
RRP: £28.00£27.39When we think of composers like Mozart or Beethoven, we usually envision an isolated artist separate from the orchestra - someone alone in a study, surrounded by staff paper - and in Europe and America this image generally has been accurate. For most of...