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  • 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

    $8.69 USD

  • Cultural Sustainabilities

    Music, Media, Language, Advocacy

    by Jeff Todd Titon, Aaron S. Allen, Michael B. Bakan, Robert Baron, Daniel Cavicchi, Timothy J Cooley, Mark F. DeWitt, Barry Dornfeld, Thomas Faux0, Burt Feintuch1, Nancy Guy2, Mary Hufford3, Susan Hurley-Glowa4, Patrick Hutchinson5, Michelle Kisliuk6, Pauleena M. MacDougall7, Margarita Mazo8, Dotan Nitzberg9, Jennifer C. Post0, Tom Rankin1, Roshan Samtani2, Jeffrey A. Summit3, Joshua Tucker4, Rory Turner5, Denise Von Glahn6, Thomas Walker7 ...
    Environmental sustainability and human cultural sustainability are inextricably linked. Reversing damaging human impact on the global environment is ultimately a cultural question, and as with politics, the answers are often profoundly local. Cultural Sustainabilities presents twenty-three essays by musicologists and ethnomusicologists, anthropologists, folklorists, ethnographers, documentary ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Social Voices

    The Cultural Politics of Singers around the Globe

    by Jeff Todd Titon, Ruth Hellier, Anthony Seeger, Treva B. Lindsey, Nancy Guy, Carol Muller, Elijah Wald, Andrew Simon, John Lie0, Eric Lott1, Christina D Abreu2, Carol Silverman3, Michael K Bourdaghs4, Kwame Dawes5, Natalie Sarrazin6, Katherine Meizel7 ...
    Singers generating cultural identity from K-Pop to Beverly SillsAround the world and across time, singers and their songs stand at the crossroads of differing politics and perspectives. Levi S. Gibbs edits a collection built around the idea of listening as a political act that produces meaning. Contributors explore a wide range of issues by examining artists like Romani icon Esma Redžepova, Indian ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Performing Environmentalisms

    Expressive Culture and Ecological Change

    by John Holmes McDowell, Rebecca Dirksen, Aaron S. Allen, Eduardo S Brondizio, Assefa Tefera Dibaba, Mary Hufford, Mark Pedelty0, Jennifer C. Post1, Chie Sakakibara2, Jeff Todd Titon3, Rory Turner4, Lois Wilcken5 ...
    Performing Environmentalisms examines the existential challenge of the twenty-first century: improving the prospects for maintaining life on our planet. The contributors focus on the strategic use of traditional artistic expression--storytelling and songs, crafted objects, and ceremonies and rituals--performed during the social turmoil provoked by environmental degradation and ecological collapse. ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Sounds, Ecologies, Musics

    Edited by Aaron S. Allen, Jeff Todd Titon ...
    Sounds, Ecologies, Musics poses exciting challenges and provides fresh opportunities for scholars, scientists, environmental activists, musicians, and listeners to consider music and sound from ecological standpoints. Authors in Part I examine the natural and built environment and how music and sound are woven into it, how the environment enables music and sound, and how the natural and cultural ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • Uluru Rising

    by Jeff Todd ...
    What happens when an alien probe strikes the earth in the Arizona desert? What happens when rock hounds, college students, and the US Army confront this probe? What happens when religious zealots trek to the alien with hopes for salvation? An Australian shaman foresees that the Earth will change. And he sees that Uluru will rise. Can humankind adapt? Or must they resist? Down under, the Earth is ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Applied Ethnomusicology

    Edited by Svanibor Pettan, Jeff Todd Titon ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Applied studies scholarship has triggered a not-so-quiet revolution in the discipline of ethnomusicology. The current generation of applied ethnomusicologists has moved toward participatory action research, involving themselves in musical communities and working directly on their behalf. The essays in The Oxford Handbook of Applied Ethnomusicology, edited by Svanibor Pettan and Jeff Todd Titon, ... Read more

    $133.19 USD

  • Toward a Sound Ecology

    New and Selected Essays

    by Jeff Todd Titon ...
    Series series
    How does sound ecology—an acoustic connective tissue among communities—also become a basis for a healthy economy and a just community?Jeff Todd Titon's lived experiences shed light on the power of song, the ecology of musical cultures, and even cultural sustainability and resilience. In Toward a Sound Ecology, Titon's collected essays address his growing concerns with people making music, holistic ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Storm of Hate: Tales of Hurricane Katrina

    by Jeff Todd ...
    The storm has begun. Janna and Nate, an inter-racial couple living in the Lower 9th Ward, scratch and climb their way to the attic as the flood rises. Only one will survive, and only one will begin a journey through the New Orleans jungle in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. The melancholy SWAT officer, Darren, barely hangs on as he tries to maintain a thin thread of order in the Louisiana ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • Breach of Faith

    Hurricane Katrina and the Near Death of a Great American City

    by Jed Horne ...
    Hurricane Katrina shredded one of the great cities of the South, and as levees failed and the federal relief effort proved lethally incompetent, a natural disaster became a man-made catastrophe. As an editor of New Orleans’ daily newspaper, the Pulitzer Prize—winning Times-Picayune, Jed Horne has had a front-row seat to the unfolding drama of the city’s collapse into chaos and its continuing ... Read more

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  • Five Days at Memorial

    Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital

    by Sheri Fink ...
    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The award-winning book that inspired an Apple Original series from Apple TV+ • A landmark investigation of patient deaths at a New Orleans hospital ravaged by Hurricane Katrina—and the suspenseful portrayal of the quest for truth and justice—from a Pulitzer Prize–winning physician and reporter“An amazing tale, as inexorable as a Greek tragedy and as gripping as a ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Gray Mountain

    A Novel

    by John Grisham ...
    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From America’s favorite storyteller comes “one of his best legal dramas” (Associated Press): a gripping thriller about a former big-city lawyer who finds herself up against Big Coal—and under attack.“Yes, Gray Mountain is fiction. But after reading the book, you’ll believe heroic action must be taken.”—USA TodayThe year is 2008 and Samantha Kofer’s career at a huge ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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