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  • Dancing with Devtas: Drums, Power and Possession in the Music of Garhwal, North India

    by Andrew Alter ...
    Series series SOAS Studies in Music
    In the Central Himalayan region of Garhwal, the gods (devtas) enjoy dancing. Musicians - whether ritual specialists or musical specialists - are therefore an indispensable part of most entertainment and religious events. In shamanistic ceremonies, their incantations, songs and drumming 'make' the gods possess their mediums. In other contexts, such as dramatic theatrical renditions of stories of ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

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  • 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

  • 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

    $32.39 USD

  • African Music, Power, and Being in Colonial Zimbabwe

    by Mhoze Chikowero ...
    In this new history of music in Zimbabwe, Mhoze Chikowero deftly uses African sources to interrogate the copious colonial archive, reading it as a confessional voice along and against the grain to write a complex history of music, colonialism, and African self-liberation. Chikowero's book begins in the 1890s with missionary crusades against African performative cultures and African students being ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Cape Breton Fiddle Companion

    by Liz Doherty, PhD ...
    Celtic music scholar and musician Liz Doherty is no stranger to Cape Breton music – in fact, she has made a study of it. Doherty’s exposure to, and research of, the island’s music traditions was the germination for this compendium on the Cape Breton fiddle: its history, its people, the tunes, the recordings. The fiddle music of Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, has its own sound, artistic standards ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Music of Azerbaijan

    From Mugham to Opera

    by Aida Huseynova ...
    Series series Ethnomusicology Multimedia
    This book traces the development of Azerbaijani art music from its origins in the Eastern, modal, improvisational tradition known as mugham through its fusion with Western classical, jazz, and world art music. Aida Huseynova places the fascinating and little-known history of music in Azerbaijan against the vivid backdrop of cultural life under Soviet influence, which paradoxically both encouraged ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Kaprálová Companion

    by Timothy Cheek, Judith Mabary, Jindriska Bártová, Michael Beckerman ...
    The Kaprálová Companion, edited by Karla Hartl and Erik Entwistle, is a collection of biographical and analytical essays on Czech composer Vítezslava Kaprálová [1915–1940]. Accompanied by an annotated catalog of works, annotated chronology of life events, bibliography, discography, and a list of published works, The Kaprálová Companion is an essential, comprehensive guide to the composer's life ... Read more

    $105.99 USD

  • Queerness in Heavy Metal Music

    Metal Bent

    by Amber R. Clifford-Napoleone ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Popular Music
    While the growing field of scholarship on heavy metal music and its subcultures has produced excellent work on the sounds, scenes, and histories of heavy metal around the world, few works have included a study of gender and sexuality. This cutting-edge volume focuses on queer fans, performers, and spaces within the heavy metal sphere, and demonstrates the importance, pervasiveness, and subcultural ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Paradosiaká: Music, Meaning and Identity in Modern Greece

    by Eleni Kallimopoulou ...
    Series series SOAS Studies in Music
    Since the 1980s, musicians and audiences in Athens have been rediscovering musical traditions associated with the Ottoman period of Greek history. The result of this revivalist movement has been the urban musical style of 'paradosiaká' ('traditional'). Drawing from a varied repertoire that includes Turkish art music and folk and popular musics of Greece and Turkey, and identified by the use of ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Music, Travel, and Imperial Encounter in 19th-Century France

    Musical Apprehensions

    by Ruth Rosenberg ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Ethnomusicology
    This book considers the activities and writings of early song collectors and proto-ethnomusicologists, memoirists, and other "musical travelers" in 19th-century France. Each of the book’s discrete but interrelated chapters is devoted to a different geographic and discursive site of empire, examining French representations of musical encounters in North America, the Middle East, as well as in ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Hearts of Pine

    Songs in the Lives of Three Korean Survivors of the Japanese "Comfort Women"

    by Joshua D. Pilzer, J. D. ...
    In the wake of the Asia-Pacific War, Korean survivors of the "comfort women" system-those bound into sexual slavery for the Japanese military during the war-lived under great pressure not to speak about what had happened to them. Hearts of Pine brings us into the lives of three such survivors: Pak Duri, Mun Pilgi, and Bae Chunhui. Over the course of eight years, author Joshua Pilzer worked with ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Punk Ethnography

    Artists & Scholars Listen to Sublime Frequencies

    Edited by Michael E. Veal, E. Tammy Kim ...
    Series series Music / Culture
    This ground-breaking case study examines record production as ethnographic work. Since its founding in 2003, Seattle-based record label Sublime Frequencies has produced world music recordings that have been received as radical, sometimes problematic critiques of the practices of sound ethnography. Founded by punk rocker brothers Alan and Richard Bishop, along with filmmaker Hisham Mayet, the label ... Read more

    $16.59 USD