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Beyond Exoticism: Western Music and the World by Timothy Dean Taylor
RRP: $52.48$44.58In 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: $94.48$82.49This 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: $58.80$57.52When 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... -
Sing and Sing On: Sentinel Musicians and the Making of the Ethiopian American Diaspora by Kay Kaufman Shelemay
RRP: $65.10$64.24A sweeping history of Ethiopian musicians during and following the 1974 Ethiopian revolution.Sing and Sing On is the first study of the forced migration of musicians out of the Horn of Africa dating from the 1974 Ethiopian revolution, a political event... -
Popular Music Fandom: Identities, Roles and Practices by Mark Duffett
RRP: $83.98$76.50This book explores popular music fandom from a cultural studies perspective that incorporates popular music studies, audience research, and media fandom. The essays draw together recent work on fandom in popular music studies and begin a dialogue with... -
War, Exile and the Music of Afghanistan: The Ethnographer's Tale by John Baily
RRP: $92.38$80.72In the 1970s John Baily conducted extensive ethnomusicological research in Afghanistan, principally in the city of Herat but also in Kabul. Then, with Taraki's coup in 1978, came conflict, war, and the dispersal of many musicians to locations far and... -
Oliver Mtukudzi: Living Tuku Music in Zimbabwe by Jennifer W. Kyker
RRP: $54.58$46.28Oliver "Tuku" Mtukudzi, a Zimbabwean guitarist, vocalist, and composer, has performed worldwide and released some 50 albums. One of a handful of artists to have a beat named after him, Mtukudzi blends Zimbabwean traditional sounds with South African... -
The Art of Mbira: Musical Inheritance and Legacy by Paul F Berliner
RRP: $81.90$81.12Growing out of the collaborative research of an American ethnomusicologist and Zimbabwean musician, Paul F. Berliner's The Art of Mbira documents the repertory for a keyboard instrument known generally as mbira. At the heart of this work lies the... -
Performing Environmentalisms: Expressive Culture and Ecological Change by John Holmes McDowell
RRP: $54.58$46.28Performing Environmentalisms examines the existential challenge of the twenty-first century: improving the prospects for maintaining life on our planet. The contributors focus on the strategic use of traditional artistic expression--storytelling and... -
The Republic of Love: Cultural Intimacy in Turkish Popular Music by Martin Stokes
RRP: $65.10$63.40At 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... -
Music, Culture and Experience: Selected Papers of John Blacking by John Blacking 9780226088303
RRP: $75.60$73.14One of the most important ethnomusicologists of the century, John Blacking is known for his interest in the relationship of music to biology, psychology, dance and politics. He attempted to document the ways in which music-making expresses the human... -
Walking with Asafo in Ghana: An Ethnographic Account of Kormantse Bentsir Warrior Music by Professor Ama Oforiwaa Aduonum
RRP: $58.78$57.50The first full-length study of the musical pasts of Asafo warrior associations based on the author's "ways of walking" with local scholars along the Ghanaian littoral. What is Asafo ndwom (music)? How and when is it performed? What is the state of... -
Sound-Politics in Sao Paulo by Leonardo Cardoso 9780190660109
RRP: $69.28$63.50How does the state separate music from noise? How can such a filtering apparatus shape the content and form of sound production in the city? As a marker of co-presence to the hearing body, sound is always open to (or rather opens up) the politics of... -
Mbira's Restless Dance: An Archive of Improvisation by Paul F Berliner 9780226626277
$195.49Growing out of the collaborative research of an American ethnomusicologist and Zimbabwean musician, Paul F. Berliner and Cosmas Magaya's Mbira's Restless Dance documents the repertory for a keyboard instrument known generally as mbira. At the heart of... -
The Cambridge Companion to Caribbean Music by Nanette De Jong
RRP: $48.28$41.08The diverse musics of the Caribbean form a vital part of the identity of individual island nations and their diasporic communities. At the same time, they witness to collective continuities and the interrelatedness that underlies the region's... -
In Hip Hop Time: Music, Memory, and Social Change in Urban Senegal by Catherine M. Appert 9780190913496
$100.97In the twenty-first century, Senegalese hip hop--"Rap Galsen"--has reverberated throughout the world as an exemplar of hip hop resistance in its mobilization against government corruption during a series of tumultuous presidential elections. Yet... -
Black Lives Matter and Music: Protest, Intervention, Reflection by Fernando Orejuela 9780253038425
RRP: $46.18$39.46Music 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 Shoot," Janelle Monae's "Hell You... -
Performing Ethnomusicology: Teaching and Representation in World Music Ensembles by Ted Solis
RRP: $63.00$47.92"Performing Ethnomusicology" is the first book to deal exclusively with creating, teaching, and contextualizing academic world music performing ensembles. Considering the formidable theoretical, ethical, and practical issues that confront... -
Music and Transcendence by Ferdia J. Stone-Davis
RRP: $83.98$73.63Music and Transcendence explores the ways in which music relates to transcendence by bringing together the disciplines of musicology, philosophy and theology, thereby uncovering congruencies between them that have often been obscured. Music has the... -
Music in Cyprus by Jim Samson
RRP: $83.98$73.63Music 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... -
The Mystery of Chopin's Preludes by Anatole Leikin 9781409452249
RRP: $283.50$246.29Chopin'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... -
Music as Cultural Practice, 1800-1900 by Lawrence Kramer
RRP: $56.70$50.65In Music as Cultural Practice, Lawrence Kramer adapts the resources of contemporary literary theory to forge a genuinely new discourse about music. Rethinking fundamental questions of meaning and expression, he demonstrates how European music of the... -
Lost Paradise: Andalusi Music in Urban North Africa by Jonathan Glasser
RRP: $54.60$52.19For more than a century, urban North Africans have sought to protect and revive Andalusi music, a prestigious Arabic-language performance tradition said to originate in the "lost paradise" of medieval Islamic Spain. Yet despite the Andalusi repertoire's... -
Stambeli: Music, Trance, and Alterity in Tunisia by Richard C. Jankowsky
RRP: $58.80$57.52In "Stambeli", Richard C. Jankowsky presents a vivid ethnographic account of the healing trance music created by the descendants of sub-Saharan slaves brought to Tunisia during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Stambeli music calls upon an... -
Performing Democracy: Bulgarian Music and Musicians in Transition by Donna A. Buchanan 9780226078274
$96.10The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 signaled the onset of tumultuous political, economic, and social reforms throughout Eastern Europe. In Czechoslovakia, Poland, and the Soviet Union these changes were linked to the activities and philosophies of... -
Dark Side of the Tune: Popular Music and Violence by Professor Bruce Johnson
RRP: $92.38$80.72Written against the academically dominant but simplistic romanticization of popular music as a positive force, this book focuses on the 'dark side' of the subject. It is a pioneering examination of the ways in which popular music has been deployed in... -
Music in Arabia: Perspectives on Heritage, Mobility, and Nation by Issa Boulos
RRP: $65.10$56.36Music in Arabia extends and challenges existing narratives of the region's distinctive but understudied music to reveal diverse and dynamic music cultures rooted in centuries-old heritage.Contributors to Music in Arabia bring a critical eye and ear to... -
Songs of Earth: Aesthetic and Social Codes in Music by Anna L. Wood 9781496840356
RRP: $73.40$62.54Based upon Cantometrics: An Approach to the Anthropology of Music (1976), by Alan Lomax, Songs of Earth: Aesthetic and Social Codes in Music is a contemporary guide to understanding and exploring Cantometrics, the system developed by Lomax and Victor... -
Folksongs of Another America: Field Recordings from the Upper Midwest, 1937-1946 by James Leary
RRP: $52.40$42.02Music / Folklore / Ethnic & Native American Studies / American Midwest.America's Upper Midwest is a distinctive region where many indigenous and immigrant peoples have maintained, merged, and modified their folk song traditions for more than two... -
Sheram: Songs with music notation in Armenian and transliterated English lyrics by Grigor Talyan (Ashugh Sheram) 9781777999063
$119.70Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Music in Puerto Rico: A Reader's Anthology by Donald Thompson 9780810839144
$87.91Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Kat'a Kabanova: Translations and Pronunciation by Timothy Cheek 9780810850149
$95.49Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Honoring Those That Went Before (2015): Classical & World Music Piano Scores by Arttsi Institute 9781496116307
RRP: $31.48$27.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496116307Author Arttsi InstituteFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
The Duduk and National Identity in Armenia by Andy Nercessian 9780810840751
RRP: $130.20$116.89The book is an outline of the Armenian duduk, a cylindrical double-reed aerophone made of apricot-wood, and its relation to the Armenian identity. It attempts to deepen our understanding of musical instruments not only through an examination of musical... -
Musics of the World by Professor of Ethnomusicology Sean Williams 9780190235864
$228.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780190235864Author Professor of Ethnomusicology Sean WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Oxford University Press, USAPublisher Oxford University... -
Musical Exodus: Al-Andalus and Its Jewish Diasporas by Ruth F. Davis 9780810881754
RRP: $178.50$170.56For nearly eight centuries - from the Muslim conquest of Spain in 711 to the final expulsion of the Jews in 1492 - Muslims, Jews and Christians shared a common Andalusian culture under alternating Muslim and Christian rule. Following their expulsion, the... -
Music and Coexistence: A Journey across the World in Search of Musicians Making a Difference by Osseily Hanna 9781442237537
RRP: $92.40$87.30Music and Coexistence: A Journey across the World in Search of Musicians Making a Difference is both study and travelogue, as author Osseily Hanna explores the courageous work of musicians who compose and perform with their ostensible enemies or in... -
Celtic Modern: Music at the Global Fringe by Martin Stokes 9780810847804
RRP: $220.50$198.51The study of 'Celtic' culture has been locked within modern nationalist paradigms, shaped by contemporary media, tourism, and labor migration. Celtic Modern collects critical essays on the global circulation of Celtic music, and the place of music in the... -
Music of El Dorado: The Ethnomusicology of Ancient South American Cultures by Dale A. Olsen 9780813024400
RRP: $126.00$102.98In the first comprehensive synthesis of Andean musical instruments, Dale Olsen breathes life and humanity into the music making of pre-Hispanic cultures in the northern and central Andes. He assesses three decades' worth of anthropological findings from... -
Compelled To Play: The Building Of A Guitar Player by Stan Hirsch 9781512014082
RRP: $20.98$17.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781512014082Author Stan HirschFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...