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A Prodigy's Calling: The Early Musical Biography of Cosmas Magaya, Zimbabwean Mbira Master by Paul F. Berliner 9780226835174
RRP: $50.40$48.36The coming-of-age story of a master musician in mid-twentieth century colonial Rhodesia as he learns his community’s most cherished art, all while navigating profound social transformation. Ethnomusicologist Paul F. Berliner has been studying Zimbabwean... -
Summa Musice: A Thirteenth-Century Manual for Singers by Christopher Page 9780521036023
RRP: $104.98$88.28How did medieval musicians learn to perform? How did they compose? What was their sense of the history and purpose of music? The Summa musice, a treatise on practical music from c.1200, sheds light on all these questions. It is a manual for young singers... -
Tikopia Songs: Poetic and Musical Art of a Polynesian People of the Solomon Islands by Raymond Firth 9780521032056
RRP: $113.38$94.44Sir Raymond Firth is one of the most distinguished British anthropologists, and one internationally acclaimed. His work here forms part of one of the fullest and most professional ethnographic accounts by any anthropologist of a non-industrial people, an... -
Warrior Women and Popular Balladry 1650-1850 by Dianne Dugaw 9780521372541
RRP: $189.00$151.56Dianne Dugaw's book documents the flourishing of the female warrior heroine in lower-class popular songs of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In well over a hundred ballads during this period, the heroine masquerades as a man, going to war for... -
Music from the Tang Court: Volume 5 by Laurence Picken 9780521347761
RRP: $79.78$65.75From the oldest surviving Japanese manuscripts in tablature (ninth- fourteenth-centuries) the book provides transcripts into staff-notation of (largely) entertainment-music, played at banquets at the Chinese Court in the Tang period, borrowed by the... -
Music from the Tang Court: Volume 2 by Laurence Picken 9780521318587
RRP: $81.88$67.79During the two centuries before 841, the Japanese Court borrowed a large amount of secular entertainment music from China, chiefly music of the Sui and Tang Courts. This music, known as 'Tang Music' is preserved in manuscripts written between the eighth... -
Saibara: Volume 2: Music by Elizabeth J. Markham 9780521105989
RRP: $90.28$76.84Saibara ('Drover's Songs') is the title of a genre of measured Japanese court song, traditionally believed to have been derived from the songs of pack-horse drivers bringing tribute from the provinces to the Heian capital and known to have formed part of... -
Saibara: Volume 1: Text by Elizabeth Markham 9780521105972
RRP: $90.28$76.84Saibara ('Drover's Songs') is the title of a genre of measured Japanese court song, traditionally believed to have been derived from the songs of pack-horse drivers bringing tribute from the provinces to the Heian capital and known to have formed part of... -
Traditions of Gamelan Music in Java: Musical Pluralism and Regional Identity by R. Anderson Sutton 9780521103930
RRP: $83.98$69.85This book is a wide-ranging study of the varieties of gamelan music in contemporary Java seen from a regional perspective. While the focus of most studies of Javanese music has been limited to the court-derived music of Surakarta and Yogyakarta, Sutton... -
Scotland in Music: A European Enthusiasm by Roger Fiske 9780521069656
RRP: $83.98$69.85This book traces the unique attraction Scotland has had for the great eighteenth- and nineteenth-century composers. It is not about Scottish composers, but rather about the music that for two centuries was written and performed outside Scotland by... -
Music from the Tang Court: Volume 6 by Laurence E. R. Picken 9780521044523
RRP: $83.98$69.85This volume brings to an end the transcription and historical description of items from the Court Entertainment Music of the Tang found in two collections of zither and lute scores from the end of the twelfth century. They are from two mode-key groups:... -
Problems of Ethnomusicology by Constantin Brailoiu 9780521117449
RRP: $83.98$69.85This volume makes available, for the first time in English, some of the major writings of the Romanian ethnomusicologist Constantin Brailoiu. Despite the size and importance of his work and the fact that he was one of the leading ethnomusicologists of... -
Africanness in Action: Essentialism and Musical Imaginations of Africa in Brazil by Juan Diego Diaz 9780197549551
RRP: $210.00$191.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780197549551Author Juan Diego DiazFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Oxford University Press, USAPublisher Oxford University Press, USA -
The Oxford Handbook of Popular Music in the Nordic Countries by Fabian Holt 9780190603908
$231.00Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Summa Musice: A Thirteenth-Century Manual for Singers by Christopher Page 9780521404204
RRP: $243.60$216.45How did medieval musicians learn to perform? How did they compose? What was their sense of the history and purpose of music? The Summa musice, a treatise on practical music from c.1200, sheds light on all these questions. It is a manual for young singers... -
Tikopia Songs: Poetic and Musical Art of a Polynesian People of the Solomon Islands by Raymond Firth 9780521391290
RRP: $233.10$210.04Sir Raymond Firth is one of the most distinguished British anthropologists, and one internationally acclaimed. His work here forms part of one of the fullest and most professional ethnographic accounts by any anthropologist of a non-industrial people, an... -
Music from the Tang Court: Volume 3 by Laurence Picken 9780521278386
RRP: $79.78$65.75During the two centuries before 841, the Japanese Court borrowed a large amount of secular entertainment music from China, chiefly music of the Sui and Tang Courts. This music, known as 'Tang Music' is preserved in manuscripts written between the eighth... -
Music from the Tang Court by Laurence Picken 9780521318341
RRP: $81.88$67.79During the two centuries before 841, the Japanese Court borrowed a large amount of secular entertainment music from China, chiefly music of the Sui and Tang Courts. This music, known as 'Tang Music' is preserved in manuscripts written between the eighth... -
Musica Asiatica: Volume 6 by Allan Marett 9780521072182
RRP: $79.78$65.75This is the sixth volume in a series of books devoted to the history, documentation and analysis of music in Asia. Four essays are dedicated to documents from the past: fifth-century Korean tomb paintings; tenth-century Chinese scores for lute;... -
Fiddler on the Move: Exploring the Klezmer World by Mark Slobin 9780195161809
RRP: $61.93$53.45"Klezmer" is a Yiddish word for professional folk instrumentalist-the flutist, fiddler, and bass player that made brides weep and guests dance at weddings throughout Jewish eastern Europe before the culture was destroyed in the Holocaust,... -
Neapolitan Postcards: The Canzone Napoletana as Transnational Subject by Goffredo Plastino 9780810881594
RRP: $226.80$184.95Neapolitan Postcards gathers a diverse group of international scholars to investigate unexplored transnational aspects of the intimate yet globally popular canzone napoletana. Performed and beloved worldwide in almost every language, the style had hits... -
Bewitching Russian Opera: The Tsarina from State to Stage by Inna Naroditskaya 9780190931858
RRP: $76.63$64.16In Bewitching Russian Opera: The Tsarina from State to Stage, author Inna Naroditskaya investigates the musical lives of four female monarchs who ruled Russia for most of the eighteenth century: Catherine I, Anna, Elizabeth, and Catherine the Great... -
Ethnicity, Identity and Music: The Musical Construction of Place by Martin Stokes 9780854968770
RRP: $189.00$188.75- Directly relevant to the needs of teachers and researchers in music, musicology, ethnomusicology and social anthropology.This book examines the significance of music in the construction of identities and ethnicities, and suggests ways to understand... -
Music Endangerment: How Language Maintenance Can Help by Catherine Grant 9780199352180
RRP: $74.53$61.01In response to increased focus on the protection of intangible cultural heritage across the world, Music Endangerment offers a new practical approach to assessing, advocating, and assisting the sustainability of musical genres. Drawing upon relevant... -
Singing Across Divides: Music and Intimate Politics in Nepal by Anna Marie Stirr 9780190631987
RRP: $79.78$69.85An ethnographic study of music, performance, migration, and circulation, Singing Across Divides examines how forms of love and intimacy are linked to changing conceptions of political solidarity and forms of belonging, through the lens of Nepali dohori... -
From Sibelius to Sallinen: Finnish Nationalism and the Music of Finland by Lisa De Gorog 9780313267406
$174.80This comprehensive study of the evolution of Finnish art music from continental predecessors and native folk music traces the development of Sibelius's musical language from his first major work, Kullervo, the first genuine Finnish recitative, to the... -
Representing the Good Neighbor: Music, Difference, and the Pan American Dream by Carol A. Hess 9780199919994
RRP: $113.40$90.66In Representing the Good Neighbor, Carol A. Hess investigates the reception of Latin American art music in the US during the Pan American movement of the 1930s and 40s. An amalgamation of economic, political and cultural objectives, Pan Americanism was... -
Claiming Diaspora: Music, Transnationalism, and Cultural Politics in Asian/Chinese America by Su Zheng 9780199873593
RRP: $88.18$58.38Framed by a century and a half of racialized Chinese American musical experiences, Claiming Diaspora explores the thriving contemporary musical culture of Asian/Chinese America. Ranging from traditional operas to modern instrumental music, from ethnic... -
Jewish Contiguities and the Soundtrack of Israeli History by Assaf Shelleg 9780199354948
RRP: $172.20$137.61Jewish Contiguities and the Soundtrack of Israeli History revolutionizes the study of modern Israeli art music by tracking the surprising itineraries of Jewish art music in the move from Europe to Mandatory Palestine and Israel. Leaving behind cliches... -
Jewish Music and Modernity by Philip V. Bohlman 9780195178326
RRP: $132.30$105.65Is there really such a thing as Jewish music? And how does it survive as a practice of worship and cultural expression even in the face of the many brutal aesthetic and political challenges of modernity? In Jewish Music and Modernity, Philip V. Bohlman... -
Flying Dragons, Flowing Streams: Music in the Life of San Francisco's Chinese by Ronald Riddle 9780313236822
$174.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313236822Author Ronald RiddleFormat HardbackPage Count 349Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO -
Cajun Breakdown: The Emergence of an American-Made Music by Ryan Andre Brasseaux 9780190628444
RRP: $81.88$78.29In 1946, Harry Choates, a Cajun fiddle virtuoso, changed the course of American musical history when his recording of the so-called Cajun national anthem "Jole Blon" reached number four on the national Billboard charts. Cajun music became part... -
The Allemande and the Tanz by Richard Hudson 9780521116572
RRP: $65.08$49.98First published in 1986, this is the second of two volumes devoted to the evolution of the Allemande, the Balletto, and the Tanz from 1540 to 1750. Volume I traces the history of the dances from the time of the Renaissance to the Baroque period as they... -
Essays in Sound: First, Technophonia, Diffractions, Final by Alessio Cavallaro 9780958795609
RRP: $52.40$46.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780958795609Author Alessio CavallaroFormat PaperbackPage Count 418Imprint ArmediaPublisher ArmediaWeight(grams) 744g -
The Singing of the New World: Indigenous Voice in the Era of European Contact by Gary Tomlinson 9780521873918
RRP: $189.00$142.07In The Singing of the New World Gary Tomlinson offers histories of ancient music long since silent: the songs of the Indians that Europeans met in the sixteenth century. Merging recent cultural history, early European accounts, archaeological findings,... -
Negro Slave Songs in the United States by Miles Mark Fisher 9780806500904
RRP: $23.08$20.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806500904Author Miles Mark FisherFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Citadel PressPublisher Kensington PublishingWeight(grams) 358g -
New Strung, And Shall Be Heard: An essay on the re-invention of the Celtic harp by Mike Parker 9781008996380
RRP: $22.68$19.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781008996380Author Mike ParkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 152g -
The Oxford Handbook of Music Revival by Caroline Bithell 9780190618810
RRP: $98.68$91.92Revival movements aim to revitalize traditions perceived as threatened or moribund by adapting them to new temporal, spatial, and social contexts. While many of these movements have been well-documented in Western Europe and North America,those occurring... -
Passport to Jewish Music: Its History, Traditions, and Culture by Irene Heskes 9780313280351
$175.64The purpose of this book is to present a survey of Jewish music to illuminate its special role as a mirror of history, tradition, and cultural heritage. The 27 topical chapters have been placed within a modified chronological perspective to present a... -
Music from behind the Bridge: Steelband Aesthetics and Politics in Trinidad and Tobago by Shannon Dudley 9780195175479
RRP: $283.50$219.81A symbol of Trinidadian culture, the steelband has made an extraordinary transformation since its origins-from junk metal to steel orchestra, and from disparaged underclass pastime to Trinidad and Tobago's national instrument. Now, Shannon Dudley gives...