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  • Ethos and Identity

    Three Studies in Ethnicity

    by A.L. Epstein, Alan Merriam ...
    Ethos and Identity asks the ever-puzzling question: What is ethnicity and how is it to be explained? In a new introduction to this work, Athena Leoussi describes Epstein's response to this challenging age-old query, and demonstrates why this classic volume is of continuing importance.Originally published thirty years ago, Ethos and Identity still fascinates the twenty-first century reader. Epstein ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Following the Elephant

    Ethnomusicologists Contemplate Their Discipline

    by Bruno Nettl, Ethnomusicology, Charlotte J. Frisbie, Mieczylaw Kolinski, Gerhard Kubik, George List, Alan P Merriam, David Pruett, Adelaida Reyes, Timothy Rice0, Jesse D Ruskin1, Kay Shelemay2, Gabriel Solis3, Jeff Todd Titon4, J. Lawrence Witzleben5, Deborah Wong6 ...
    Series series Common Threads
    In Following the Elephant, Bruno Nettl edits articles drawn from fifty years of the pioneering journal Ethnomusicology. The roster of acclaimed scholars hail from across generations, using other works in the collection as launching points for dialogues on the history and accomplishments of the field. Nettl divides the collection into three sections. In the first, authors survey ethnomusicology ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Ethnomusicology of the Flathead Indians

    Edited by Alan Merriam ...
    All people, in no matter what culture, must be able to place their music firmly in the context of the totality of their beliefs, experiences, and activities, for without such ties, music cannot exist. This means that there must be a body of theory connected with any music system - not necessarily a theory of the structure of music sound, although that may be present as well, but rather a theory of ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

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    The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry

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    The national bestseller that reveals how we are descended from seven prehistoric women.One of the most dramatic stories of genetic discovery since James Watson's The Double Helix, The Seven Daughters of Eve reveals the remarkable story behind a groundbreaking scientific discovery. After being summoned in 1997 to an archaeological site to examine the remains of a five-thousand-year-old man, Bryan ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

  • The Sound of Pictures

    Listening to the Movies, from Hitchcock to High Fidelity

    by Andrew Ford ...
    The Sound of Pictures is an illuminating journey through the soundtracks of more than 400 films. How do filmmakers play with sound? And how does that affect the way we watch their movies? Whether pop or classical, sweeping or sparse, music plays a crucial role in our cinematic experience. Other sounds can be even more evocative: the sounds of nature, of cities and of voices.In The Sound of ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • How to play the Aeolian or natural minor scale in A - Secrets of the Guitar

    by Herman Brock ...
    Learn how to play the Aeolian or natural minor scale in A.Learn all the scale patterns on different positions on the guitar neck, and how to switch positions fast.- Natural minor scale in A explained- Different positions on the neck- Guitar neck explained- I - IV - V explained- Practice exercisesAvailable in this series:How to read guitar tabs and tablatureHow to play the blues scale in E minorHow ... Read more

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  • Playing Along

    Digital Games, YouTube, and Virtual Performance

    by Kiri Miller ...
    Series series Oxford Music / Media
    Why don't Guitar Hero players just pick up real guitars? What happens when millions of people play the role of a young black gang member in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas? How are YouTube-based music lessons changing the nature of amateur musicianship? This book is about play, performance, and participatory culture in the digital age. Miller shows how video games and social media are bridging ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • Curious Behavior

    Yawning, Laughing, Hiccupping, and Beyond

    by Robert R. Provine ...
    Provine boldly goes where other scientists seldom tread—in search of hiccups, coughs, yawns, sneezes, and other lowly, undignified, human behaviors. Our earthiest instinctive acts bear the imprint of our evolutionary origins and can be valuable tools for understanding how the human brain works and what makes us different from other species. ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Music, Criticism, and the Challenge of History

    Shaping Modern Musical Thought in Late Nineteenth Century Vienna

    by Kevin Karnes ...
    Series series AMS Studies in Music
    More than a century after Guido Adler's appointment to the first chair in musicology at the University of Vienna, Music, Criticism, and the Challenge of History provides a first look at the discipline in this earliest period, and at the ideological dilemmas and methodological anxieties that characterized it upon its institutionalization. Author Kevin Karnes contends that some of the most vital ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Fundamentals of Forensic Science

    by Max M. Houck, Jay A. Siegel ...
    Fundamentals of Forensic Science, Third Edition, provides current case studies that reflect the ways professional forensic scientists work, not how forensic academicians teach. The book includes the binding principles of forensic science, including the relationships between people, places, and things as demonstrated by transferred evidence, the context of those people, places, and things, and the ... Read more

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  • Applying Karnatic Rhythmical Techniques to Western Music

    by Rafael Reina ...
    Most classical musicians, whether in orchestral or ensemble situations, will have to face a piece by composers such as Ligeti, Messiaen, Varèse or Xenakis, while improvisers face music influenced by Dave Holland, Steve Coleman, Aka Moon, Weather Report, Irakere or elements from the Balkans, India, Africa or Cuba. Rafael Reina argues that today’s music demands a new approach to rhythmical training, ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Ukulele Lessons for Beginners

    Teach Yourself How to Play Ukulele (Free Video Available)

    by LearnToPlayMusic.com, Peter Gelling ...
    Series series Progressive Beginner
    Teach yourself how to play ukulele with our easy ukulele lessons for beginners.***Comes with online access to free ukulele videos and audio demonstrating all examples. See and hear how each one is played by a teacher, then play along with the backing band. Also includes music score animation for easy music learning.***"Some of my favorite tunes are used in this book! And the language is so easy to ... Read more

    $9.99 USD