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The Music of South Asia: An Institutionally Appropriate Approach to the Classical Music of India, Bangladesh, and Pakistan by Chandrakantha N Courtney 9781893644106
RRP: $124.28$94.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781893644106Author Chandrakantha N CourtneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint Sur Sangeet ServicesPublisher Sur Sangeet ServicesWeight(grams)... -
Archaic Instruments in Modern West Java: Bamboo Murmurs by Henry Spiller 9781032299358
RRP: $83.98$73.63Archaic Instruments in Modern West Java: Bamboo Murmurs explores how current residents of Bandung, Indonesia, have (re-)adopted bamboo musical instruments to forge meaningful bridges between their past and present—between traditional and modern values... -
Age Included: On Music, Generations, Diversity, and Freedom by Sandra Trienekens 9789088506895
RRP: $54.39$42.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789088506895Author Sandra TrienekensFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Swp PublishingPublisher Swp PublishingWeight(grams) 263g -
Sami Musical Performance and the Politics of Indigeneity in Northern Europe by Thomas R. Hilder 9780810888951
RRP: $212.10$185.39The Sami are Europe's only recognized indigenous people living across regions of Norway, Sweden, Finland and the Russian Kola peninsula. The subjects of a history of Christianization, land dispossession, and cultural assimilation, the Sami have through... -
Empire of Song: Europe and Nation in the Eurovision Song Contest by Dafni Tragaki 9780810886995
RRP: $235.20$206.12The Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) is more than a musical event that ostensibly "unites European people" through music. It is a spectacle: a performative event that allegorically represents the idea of "Europe." Since its beginning in the Cold War era,... -
Becoming an Ethnomusicologist: A Miscellany of Influences by Bruno Nettl 9780810886971
RRP: $193.20$169.11Becoming an Ethnomusicologist centers on the life and education of the author, Bruno Nettl, a well-known ethnomusicologist. Focusing on eleven individuals who influenced him significantly, it follows their roles through his career from his childhood in... -
Hip Hop's Inheritance: From the Harlem Renaissance to the Hip Hop Feminist Movement by Reiland Rabaka 9780739164815
RRP: $96.60$84.74Hip Hop's Inheritance arguably offers the first book-length treatment of what hip hop culture has, literally, 'inherited' from the Harlem Renaissance, the Black Arts movement, the Feminist Art movement, and 1980s and 1990s postmodern aesthetics. By... -
Rap and Redemption on Death Row: Seeking Justice and Finding Purpose behind Bars by Mark Katz 9781469678719
RRP: $48.20$31.00Imprisoned since age nineteen, Alim Braxton has spent more than a quarter century on North Carolina's death row. During that time, he converted to Islam and dedicated his life to redemption. Braxton, a rapper since the age of thirteen, uses his rhymes as... -
Tin Pan Alley and the Philippines: American Songs of War And Love, 1898-1946, A Resource Guide by Thomas P. Walsh 9780810886087
RRP: $258.30$226.02In this innovative resource, Thomas P. Walsh has compiled a unique collection of some 1,400 published and unpublished American musical compositions related to the Philippines during the American colonial era from 1898 to 1946. For the guide, Walsh... -
Island Songs: A Global Repertoire by Godfrey Baldacchino 9780810881778
RRP: $193.20$169.95Islands are concentrated "instances" of place, in every sense of the term. As such, there are no better candidates for observing and critiquing the dynamics of globalization. Through the close analysis of musical performance and traditions, the... -
The Legacy of Tanzanian Musicians Muhidin Gurumo and Hassan Bitchuka: Rhumba Kiserebuka! by Frank Gunderson 9781498564397
RRP: $220.50$193.47Muhidin Maalim Gurumo and Hassan Rehani Bitchuka are two of Tanzania's most well-known singers in the popular music genre known as muziki wa dansi (literally, 'music for dancing'), a variation of the Cuban-based rhumba idiom that has been enormously... -
The African American Trails of Eastern North Carolina by Beverly Patterson 9781469610795
RRP: $44.00$29.82Thelonius Monk, Billy Taylor, and Maceo Parker--famous jazz artists who have shared the unique sounds of North Carolina with the world--are but a few of the dynamic African American artists from eastern North Carolina featured in The African American... -
Revival and Reconciliation: Sacred Music in the Making of European Modernity by Philip V. Bohlman 9780810881839
RRP: $235.20$206.12Sacred music has long contributed fundamentally to the making of Europe. The passage from origin myths to history, the sacred journeys that have mobilized pilgrims, crusaders, and colonizers, the politics and power sounded by the vox populi-all have... -
What Makes Music European: Looking beyond Sound by Marcello Sorce Keller 9780810876712
RRP: $220.50$193.47We seldom consider how much we mistakenly presume in hewing to definitions of music that differ dramatically from the standpoint of other cultures. In What Makes Music European, Marcello Sorce Keller examines the limitations of accepted wisdom about the... -
To the Ends of the Earth: Northern Soul and Southern Nights in Western Australia by Paul Mercieca 9780761860785
RRP: $138.60$120.60Northern Soul is a cultural phenomenon twice removed from its original source in Britain in the late 1960s. Rooted in gospel and rhythm and blues music, with pounding "four-to-the floor" beats, it is often accompanied by swirling strings, vibraphone... -
The Popular Music and Entertainment Culture of Barbados: Pathways to Digital Culture by Curwen Best 9780810877498
RRP: $205.80$179.97During the second half of the 20th century, the Caribbean island of Barbados emerged as a key player in the creation and nurturing of Caribbean popular music. And, yet, despite its vital role in the popularization of tuk music, the rise of spouge, and... -
Hip Hop's Inheritance: From the Harlem Renaissance to the Hip Hop Feminist Movement by Reiland Rabaka 9780739164808
RRP: $231.00$202.50Hip Hop's Inheritance arguably offers the first book-length treatment of what hip hop culture has, literally, "inherited" from the Harlem Renaissance, the Black Arts movement, the Feminist Art movement, and 1980s and 1990s postmodern aesthetics... -
A Musical View of the Universe: Kalapalo Myth and Ritual Performances by Ellen B. Basso 9780812279313
$192.57A Musical View of the Universe is a study of the relationships between spoken myth and musical ritual in a native Brazilian community, the Carib-speaking Kalpalo of the Upper Xingu Basin. The book focuses on the meanings created and expressed through... -
Sound Figures of Modernity: German Music and Philosophy by Jost Hermand 9780299219307
RRP: $83.90$70.67The rich conceptual and experiential relays between music and philosophy - echoes of what Theodor W. Adorno once called Klangfiguren, or ""sound figures"" - resonate with heightened intensity during the period of modernity that... -
Old-Time Music and Dance: Community and Folk Revival by John Bealle 9780253346384
$42.59In the summer of 1972, a group of young people in Bloomington, Indiana, began a weekly gathering with the purpose of reviving traditional American old-time music and dance. In time, the group became a kind of accidental utopia, a community bound by... -
Jazz Transatlantic, Volume I: The African Undercurrent in Twentieth-Century Jazz Culture by Gerhard Kubik 9781628462302
RRP: $228.90$212.84In Jazz Transatlantic, Volume I, renowned scholar Gerhard Kubik takes the reader across the Atlantic from Africa to the Americas and then back in pursuit of the music we call jazz. This first volume explores the term itself and how jazz has been defined... -
Steelpan Ambassadors: The US Navy Steel Band, 1957-1999 by Andrew R. Martin 9781496812407
RRP: $136.50$128.29"Maybe you won't like steel band. It's possible. But it's been said that the Pied Piper had a steel band helping him on his famous visit to Hamelin." When the US Navy distributed this press release, anxieties and tensions of the impending Cold... -
Sounding Our Way Home: Japanese American Musicking and the Politics of Identity by Susan Miyo Asai 9781496847638
RRP: $228.90$185.79A product of twenty-five years of archival and primary research, Sounding Our Way Home: Japanese American Musicking and the Politics of Identity narrates the efforts of three generations of Japanese Americans to reach "home" through musicking. Using... -
Harmony and Normalization: US-Cuban Musical Diplomacy by Timothy P. Storhoff 9781496830883
RRP: $73.40$69.09Harmony and Normalization: US-Cuban Musical Diplomacy explores the channels of musical exchange between Cuba and the United States during the eight-year presidency of Barack Obama, who eased the musical embargo of the island and restored relations with... -
Improvising Sabor: Cuban Dance Music in New York by Sue Miller 9781496832153
RRP: $228.90$217.50Improvising Sabor: Cuban Dance Music in New York begins in 1960s New York and examines in rich detail the playing styles and international influence of important figures in US Latin music. Such innovators as Jose Fajardo, Johnny Pacheco, George Castro,... -
Improvising Sabor: Cuban Dance Music in New York by Sue Miller 9781496832160
RRP: $73.40$69.09Improvising Sabor: Cuban Dance Music in New York begins in 1960s New York and examines in rich detail the playing styles and international influence of important figures in US Latin music. Such innovators as Jose Fajardo, Johnny Pacheco, George Castro,... -
Geographies of Cubanidad: Place, Race, and Musical Performance in Contemporary Cuba by Rebecca M. Bodenheimer 9781628462395
RRP: $228.90$212.84Derived from the nationalist writings of Jose Marti, the concept of Cubanidad (Cubanness) has always imagined a unified hybrid nation where racial difference is nonexistent and nationality trumps all other axes identities. Scholars have critiqued this... -
George P. Knauff's Virginia Reels and the History of American Fiddling by Chris Goertzen 9781496828163
RRP: $73.40$69.09George P. Knauff's Virginia Reels (1839) was the first collection of southern fiddle tunes and the only substantial one published in the nineteenth century. Knauff's activity could not anticipate our modern contest-driven fiddle subcultures. But the fate... -
From Biblical Book to Musical Megahit: William B. Bradbury's Esther, the Beautiful Queen by Juanita Karpf 9781496845740
RRP: $228.90$185.79Many church-goers will recognize the name William Bradbury, a nineteenth-century American composer of popular hymns still sung at Sunday services. Bradbury’s name may also bring to mind Esther, the Beautiful Queen, his choral setting of a text based on... -
Bata Drumming: The Instruments, the Rhythms, and the People Who Play Them by Alejandro Carvajal Guerra 9780996226325
RRP: $63.00$50.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996226325Author Alejandro Carvajal GuerraFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Contemporary Music ProjectPublisher Contemporary Music... -
Sounding the Center: History and Aesthetics in Thai Buddhist Performance by Deborah Wong 9780226905853
RRP: $168.00$161.72"Sounding the Centre" is an in-depth look at the power behind classical music and dance in Bangkok, the capital and sacred centre of Buddhist Thailand. Focusing on the ritual honouring teachers of music and dance, Deborah A. Wong reveals a... -
What Whistle Would You Play at Your Mother's Funeral?: L.E. McCullough's Writings on Irish Traditional Music, 1974-2016 - Vol. 1 by L E McCullough 9780997037135
$27.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997037135Author L E McCulloughFormat PaperbackPage Count 286Imprint Silver Spear PublicationsPublisher Silver Spear PublicationsWeight(grams) 667g -
Musical Resilience: Performing Patronage in the Indian Thar Desert Shalini R. Ayyagari 9780819500106
RRP: $41.90$38.41In Musical Resilience, Shalini Ayyagari shows how professional low-caste musicians from the Thar Desert borderland of Rajasthan, India have skillfully reinvented their cultural and economic value in postcolonial India. Before India's independence in... -
What Whistle Would You Play at Your Mother's Funeral?: L.E. McCullough's Writings on Irish Traditional Music, 1974-2016 - Vol. 2 by L E McCullough 9780997037159
$42.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997037159Author L E McCulloughFormat PaperbackPage Count 444Imprint Silver Spear PublicationsPublisher Silver Spear PublicationsWeight(grams) 1021g -
Hotel Mariachi: Urban Space and Cultural Heritage in Los Angeles by Catherine L. Kurland 9780826353726
RRP: $54.50$40.64In Boyle Heights, gateway to East Los Angeles, sits the 1889 landmark "Hotel Mariachi," where musicians have lived and gathered on the adjacent plaza for more than half a century. This book is a photographic and ethnographic study of the... -
Recollecting from the Past by Ron Emoff 9780819565006
RRP: $38.85$36.83The first serious ethnomusicological study of Malagasy music, Recollecting from the Past evokes the complex sound and performative aesthetic in Madagascar called maresaka. Maresaka pertains not only to musical expression but extends into ways of... -
The Mystery of Music: An Exploration Centered on the Lives of Thirty Ancient Musicians by Lewis M Holmes 9780692197875
RRP: $27.20$21.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692197875Author Lewis M HolmesFormat PaperbackPage Count 346Imprint Cek Publishing LLCPublisher Cek Publishing LLCWeight(grams) 395gDimensions(mm) 203mm... -
From Ring Shout to Bomba: Ethnographic Perceptions and Approaches to Music and Religion in the Gullah/Geechee and Afro-Latin Diasporas by Anthony L Sánchez Cruz 9780578970387
RRP: $42.00$25.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578970387Author Anthony L Sánchez CruzFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint SceaudPublisher SceaudWeight(grams) 340g -
Land, Faith, and Voice: Christian Music in the Pacific Northwest by Alexander Rosenblatt 9789815129113
RRP: $79.78$70.10This book summarizes a decade of research on its topic, while each specific perspective either formed in advance, or arose in the process of ethnography and its analysis. The book explores various aspects of Christian music in British Columbia,... -
Making Value: Music, Capital, and the Social by Timothy D. Taylor 9781478030355
RRP: $44.08$38.58In Making Value, Timothy D. Taylor examines how people’s conceptions of value inform and shape their production and consumption of music. Drawing on anthropological value theory, Taylor theorizes music’s economic and noneconomic forms of value both...