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  • The Routledge Companion to Voice and Identity

    Edited by Amy Skjerseth, Freya Jarman, Naomi Andre ...
    Series series Routledge Music Companions
    This collection pushes the boundaries of studies and practices of voice–not only past essential, transcendental, and universal notions of voicing, but also to understudied arenas of voice and identity, especially in race, disability, aging, geographical, Indigenous, trans, and other contexts.The authors and editors understand the voice as existing both in and across contexts. Case studies ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

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  • Black Opera

    History, Power, Engagement

    by Naomi Andre ...
    From classic films like Carmen Jones to contemporary works like The Diary of Sally Hemings and U-Carmen eKhayelitsa, American and South African artists and composers have used opera to reclaim black people's place in history. Naomi André draws on the experiences of performers and audiences to explore this music's resonance with today's listeners. Interacting with creators and performers, as well ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • The Music of Mzilikazi Khumalo

    Language, Culture, and Song in South Africa

    Edited by Dr. Thomas Pooley, Dr. Naomi André, Dr. Innocentia Mhlambi, Dr. Donato Somma ...
    Mzilikazi Khumalo (1932-2021), an iconic figure in choral music in South Africa, rose to prominence as one of Africa's leading composers of art music. This is a work of music history.Biographical essays on Khumalo's major works, including those for choir, orchestra, and opera are complemented by contextual studies of his compositions and arrangements as well as reflections on his roles as editor, ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • African Performance Arts and Political Acts

    by Naomi Andre, Yolanda Covington-Ward, Jendele Hungbo ...
    Series series African Perspectives
    African Performance Arts and Political Actspresents innovative formulations for how African performance and the arts shape the narratives of cultural history and politics. This collection, edited by Naomi André, Yolanda Covington-Ward, and Jendele Hungbo, engages with a breadth of African countries and art forms, bringing together speech, hip hop, religious healing and gesture, theater and social ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

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  • Music

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Nicholas Cook ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring The world teems with different kinds of music - traditional, folk, classical, jazz, rock, pop - and each type of music tends to come with its own way of thinking. Drawing on a wealth of accessible examples ranging from Beethoven to Chinese zither music, this Very Short Introduction considers the history of music and thinking about music, ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Africa and the Blues

    by Gerhard Kubik ...
    In 1969 Gerhard Kubik chanced to encounter a Mozambican labor migrant, a miner in Transvaal, South Africa, tapping a cipendani, a mouth-resonated musical bow. A comparable instrument was seen in the hands of a white Appalachian musician who claimed it as part of his own cultural heritage. Through connections like these Kubik realized that the link between these two far-flung musicians is African ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Music and History

    Bridging the Disciplines

    Edited by Jeffrey H. Jackson, Stanley C. Pelkey ...
    This book begins with a simple question: Why haven't historians and musicologists been talking to one another?Historians frequently look to all aspects of human activity, including music, in order to better understand the past. Musicologists inquire into the social, cultural, and historical contexts of musical works and musical practices to develop theories about the meanings of compositions and ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Film Music

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Kathryn Kalinak ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Film music is as old as cinema itself. Years before synchronized sound became the norm, projected moving images were shown to musical accompaniment, whether performed by a lone piano player or a hundred-piece orchestra. Today film music has become its own industry, indispensable to the marketability of movies around the world. Film Music: A Very Short Introduction is a compact, lucid, and ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Musicking

    The Meanings of Performing and Listening

    by Christopher Small ...
    Extending the inquiry of his early groundbreaking books, Christopher Small strikes at the heart of traditional studies of Western music by asserting that music is not a thing, but rather an activity. In this new book, Small outlines a theory of what he terms "musicking," a verb that encompasses all musical activity from composing to performing to listening to a Walkman to singing in the shower ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Japanoise

    Music at the Edge of Circulation

    by David Novak ...
    Series series Sign, Storage, Transmission
    Noise, an underground music made through an amalgam of feedback, distortion, and electronic effects, first emerged as a genre in the 1980s, circulating on cassette tapes traded between fans in Japan, Europe, and North America. With its cultivated obscurity, ear-shattering sound, and over-the-top performances, Noise has captured the imagination of a small but passionate transnational audience.For ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Wondrous Strange

    The Life and Art of Glenn Gould

    by Kevin Bazzana ...
    The first major biography of Glenn Gould to stress the critical influence of the Canadian context on his life and artGlenn Gould was not, as has previously been suggested, an isolated and self-taught eccentric who burst out of nowhere onto the international musical scene in the mid-1950s. He was, says Kevin Bazzana in this fascinating new full-scale biography, very much a product of his time and ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Ethnomusicology

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Timothy Rice ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Ethnomusicologists believe that all humans, not just those we call musicians, are musical, and that musicality is one of the essential touchstones of the human experience. This insight raises big questions about the nature of music and the nature of humankind, and ethnomusicologists argue that to properly address these questions, we must study music in all its geographical and historical diversity ... Read more

    $7.99 USD