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Jewish Music and Modernity by Philip V. Bohlman 9780199946846
RRP: £44.49£27.89Is 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... -
Musica Asiatica: Volume 5 by Richard Widdess 9780521116619
RRP: £30.99£23.80This is the fifth volume in a series of books devoted to the history, documentation and analysis of music in Asia. The five essays each have a different focus ranging from historical change in the Turkish classical repertoire, speech-tones and vocal... -
Ethnic and Vernacular Music, 1898-1960: A Resource and Guide to Recordings by Mr. Paul Vernon 9780313295539
£72.57Detailed information on almost all ethnic and vernacular recordings from many countries on 78rpm is provided in this seminal work. The current state of discographical research in this wide and varied field is such that a research tool of this nature is... -
Gongs and Pop Songs: Sounding Minangkabau in Indonesia by Jennifer A. Fraser 9780896802957
£30.70Scholarship on the musical traditions of Indonesia has long focused on practices from Java and Bali, including famed gamelan traditions, at the expense of the wide diversity of other musical forms within the archipelago. Jennifer A. Fraser counters this... -
Music from the Tang Court: Volume 7 by Laurence E. R. Picken 9780521543361
RRP: £30.99£23.80The series of volumes of Music from the Tang Court considers a repertory of music at least 1400 years old. During the two centuries before 841 the Japanese Court borrowed a large amount of secular entertainment music from China. This 'Tang Music'... -
Musica Asiatica: Volume 4 by Laurence Picken 9780521278379
RRP: £30.99£23.80In this fourth volume of studies in the historical musicology and organology of Asia, Jonathan Condit completes his survey of Korean scores in mensural notation, and Roger Blench examines the morphology and distribution of sub-Saharan musical instruments... -
Lyrics of the Afro-American Spiritual: A Documentary Collection by Erskine Peters 9780313262388
£73.77Under the rubric spirituals are subsumed sorrow songs, jubilee songs, shout songs, chants, homilies, mantras, affirmations, and collective, personal, and historical allegories. Their lyrics tell an impassioned story of an embattled people, while... -
A Discography of Hindustani and Karnatic Music by Michael Kinnear 9780313244797
£73.17This exhaustive and complete discography of Indian music issued on microgroove discs and cassettes provides information on over 2,700 recordings of classical and semiclassical music of the Indian subcontinent. It covers the period from the early 1950s to... -
The Most Musical Nation: Jews and Culture in the Late Russian Empire by James Loeffler 9780300198300
£39.49Drawing on a mass of unpublished writings and archival sources from prerevolutionary Russian conservatories, this book offers an insightful account of the Jewish search for a modern identity in Russia through music, rather than politics or religion.Book... -
Composing the Canon in the German Democratic Republic: Narratives of Nineteenth-Century Music by Elaine Kelly 9780199998098
£54.85When the German Democratic Republic (GDR) was founded in 1949, its leaders did not position it as a new state. Instead, they represented East German socialism as the culmination of all that was positive in Germany's past. The GDR was heralded as the... -
Klezmer's Afterlife: An Ethnography of the Jewish Music Revival in Poland and Germany by Magdalena Waligorska 9780199314744
RRP: £32.99£31.31Klezmer in Europe has been a controversial topic ever since this traditional Jewish wedding music made it to the concert halls and discos of Berlin, Warsaw, Budapest and Prague. Played mostly by non-Jews and for non-Jews, it was hailed as... -
Music from behind the Bridge: Steelband Spirit and Politics in Trinidad and Tobago by Shannon Dudley 9780195321234
RRP: £37.99£26.91A 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... -
Claiming Diaspora: Music, Transnationalism, and Cultural Politics in Asian/Chinese America by Su Zheng 9780195134377
RRP: £88.00£70.36Claiming Diaspora explores the thriving contemporary musical culture of Asian/Chinese America. Ranging from traditional operas to modern instrumental music, from ethnic media networks to popular music, from Asian American jazz to the work of recent... -
The Oxford Handbook of Children's Musical Cultures by Patricia Shehan Campbell 9780190206413
RRP: £49.49£45.97The Oxford Handbook of Children's Musical Cultures is a compendium of perspectives on children and their musical engagements as singers, dancers, players, and avid listeners. Over the course of 35 chapters, contributors from around the world provide an... -
Popular Music and Human Rights: Volume II: World Music by Professor Ian Peddie 9780754668534
RRP: £86.99£75.94Popular 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... -
Musica Nortena: Mexican Americans Creating a Nation Between Nations by Catherine Ragland 9781592137466 [USED COPY]
RRP: £77.00£1.25Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Greeted With Smiles: Bukharian Jewish Music and Musicians in New York by Evan Rapport 9780199379033
£24.53As the Soviet Union stood on the brink of collapse, thousands of Bukharian Jews left their homes from across the predominantly Muslim cities of Central Asia, to reestablish their lives in the United States, Israel and Europe. Today, about thirty thousand... -
Celia Cruz: The Defiant Voice of Afro-Cuban Music by Roberto Miguel Rodriguez 9798223337553
RRP: £13.99£12.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798223337553Author Roberto Miguel RodriguezFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Roberto Miguel RodriguezPublisher Roberto Miguel RodriguezWeight(grams) 122g -
Gongs and Pop Songs: Sounding Minangkabau in Indonesia by Jennifer A. Fraser 9780896802940
£72.17Scholarship on the musical traditions of Indonesia has long focused on practices from Java and Bali, including famed gamelan traditions, at the expense of the wide diversity of other musical forms within the archipelago. Jennifer A. Fraser counters this... -
Augustine Kwasiga Younge: The Great Musician, Composer, Educator, Scouter and Counselor: The Pioneer in Revitalization and Africanization of the Catholic Liturgy and Mass in Ghana by Paschal Yao Younge 9789988902476
RRP: £30.24£26.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789988902476Author Paschal Yao YoungeFormat PaperbackPage Count 356Imprint Dakpabli & AssociatesPublisher Dakpabli & AssociatesWeight(grams) 476g -
Jimi Hendrix Black Legacy: (A Dream Deferred) by Corey Artrail Washington 9781647133016
RRP: £20.00£15.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647133016Author Corey Artrail WashingtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 532Imprint Plain Talk Inc.Publisher Plain Talk Inc.Weight(grams) 771gDimensions(mm)... -
Pathways in Early European Ethnomusicology: Pioneers and Discourses by Iryna Dovhalyuk 9783205219170
£84.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783205219170Author Iryna DovhalyukFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint Bohlau VerlagPublisher Bohlau Verlag -
The Mediterranean in Music: Critical Perspectives, Common Concerns, Cultural Differences by Mr David Cooper 9780810854079
£70.99Politically and historically, the Mediterranean has been a space for critical dialogue for competing and often antagonistic voices, and still functions as meeting place for diverse and interdisciplinary approaches. Although other academic disciplines... -
Sheram: Songs with music notation in Armenian and transliterated English lyrics by Grigor Talyan (Ashugh Sheram) 9781777999063
RRP: £62.73£45.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781777999063Author Grigor Talyan (Ashugh Sheram)Format HardbackPage Count 302Imprint DudukhousePublisher DudukhouseWeight(grams) 984g -
Music in Puerto Rico: A Reader's Anthology by Donald Thompson 9780810839144
RRP: £58.00£50.59Puerto Rico's rich musical history is chronicled in Donald Thompson's translated texts, a history that is often unavailable to those who do not read Spanish easily. Music in Puerto Rico details the Caribbean island's musical roots from Christopher... -
The Duduk and National Identity in Armenia by Andy Nercessian 9780810840751
RRP: £62.00£54.01The 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... -
Musical Exodus: Al-Andalus and Its Jewish Diasporas by Ruth F. Davis 9780810881754
RRP: £90.00£78.81For 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: £46.00£40.35Music 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... -
Postmodernism and Globalization in Ethnomusicology: An Epistemological Problem by Andy H. Nercessian 9780810841222
RRP: £48.00£42.05Is the music world clinging to an outdated school of thought in ethnomusicology? Nercessian shows how the theory of cultural relativism continues to detrimentally pervade ethnomusicological thought, and then offers a solution that may better serve... -
Human Action Signs in Cultural Context: The Visible and the Invisible in Movement and Dance by Brenda Farnell 9780810840331
RRP: £63.00£54.86Despite the tremendous multi-disciplinary upsurge of interest in "the body" of late, little or no attention has been given to the moving body or rather, the moving person, a situation that is remedied by this book. For the first time, leading... -
Song and Social Change in Latin America by Lauren E. Shaw 9780739179482
RRP: £81.00£71.06Song & Social Change in Latin America offers seven essays from a diverse group of scholars on the topic of music as a reflection of the many social-political upheavals throughout Latin America from the 20th century to the present. Topics covered... -
The Latin American Art Song: Sounds of the Imagined Nations by Patricia Caicedo 9781498581622
RRP: £90.00£78.81Taking as a thread the concept of national identity, this book elucidates the sound transformations that have taken place in the world of the Latin American art song since its appearance in the late nineteenth century to the present day. The book focuses... -
Traditional World Music Influences in Contemporary Solo Piano Literature: A Selected Bibliographic Survey and Review by Elizabeth C. Axford 9780810833807
RRP: £105.00£92.13"Everything But Bach, Beethoven and Brahms," comprises this multicultural repertoire guide for pianists, composers, music teachers and students, world music enthusiasts and scholars. It identifies pieces in the contemporary solo piano... -
Phonetic Readings of Brahms Lieder by Candace A. Magner 9780810844162
RRP: £71.00£61.70New in paper! The first pronunciation guide to the German in every song composed by Johannes Brahms. Each line of German is presented with its pronunciation clearly spelled in IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet). Included are 297 texts of Brahms lieder... -
The Latin American Art Song: Sounds of the Imagined Nations by Patricia Caicedo 9781498581646
RRP: £37.00£32.66Taking as a thread the concept of national identity, this book elucidates the sound transformations that have taken place in the world of the Latin American art song since its appearance in the late nineteenth century to the present day. The book focuses... -
Voice Tantra, Yoga Mantra by Manjaree Vikas Gokhale 9789381205143
RRP: £6.81£6.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789381205143Author Manjaree Vikas GokhaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint Power PublishersPublisher Power PublishersWeight(grams) 191g -
International Reggae: Current and Future Trends in Jamaican Popular Music by Miss Donna P Hope 9789768240125
RRP: £15.00£13.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789768240125Author Miss Donna P HopeFormat PaperbackImprint Pelican Publishers LimitedPublisher Pelican Publishers LimitedWeight(grams) 485gDimensions(mm)... -
The American Indians and Their Music. (Facsimile of 1926 Edition). by Frances Densmore 9781849550499
RRP: £8.95£8.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849550499Author Frances DensmoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint Travis and Emery Music BookshopPublisher Travis and Emery Music... -
Manele in Romania: Cultural Expression and Social Meaning in Balkan Popular Music by Margaret Beissinger 9781442267077
RRP: £105.00£92.13This edited volume examines manele (sing. manea), an urban Romanian song-dance ethnopop genre that combines local traditional and popular music with Balkan and Middle Eastern elements. The genre is performed primarily by male Romani musicians at weddings... -
Portrait of Percy Grainger by Malcolm Gillies 9781580460873
£89.88Percy Grainger [1882-1961] was a pianist, composer, ethnographer, essayist, and much more. The Australian-American musician aspired to the condition of a polymath, with strong interests in language, culture, ecology and technology. In an age of...