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  • Pieces of the Musical World: Sounds and Cultures

    by Rachel Harris, Rowan Pease ...
    Pieces of the Musical World: Sounds and Cultures is a fieldwork-based ethnomusicology textbook that introduces a series of musical worlds each through a single "piece." It focuses on a musical sound or object that provides a springboard from which to tell a story about a particular geographic region, introducing key aspects of the cultures in which it is embedded, contexts of performance, the ... Read more

    $94.99 USD

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    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

  • Representing African Music

    Postcolonial Notes, Queries, Positions

    by Kofi Agawu ...
    The aim of this book is to stimulate debate by offering a critique of discourse about African music. Who writes about African music, how, and why? What assumptions and prejudices influence the presentation of ethnographic data? Even the term "African music" suggests there is an agreed-upon meaning, but African music signifies differently to different people. This book also poses the question then, ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Focus: Music of South Africa

    by Carol A. Muller ...
    Series series Focus on World Music Series
    Focus: Music of South Africa provides an in-depth look at the full spectrum of South African music, a musical culture that epitomizes the enormous ethnic, religious, linguistic, class, and gender diversity of the nation itself. Drawing on extensive field and archival research, as well as her own personal experiences, noted ethnomusicologist and South African native Carol A. Muller looks at how ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Focus: Music, Nationalism, and the Making of the New Europe

    by Philip V. Bohlman ...
    Series series Focus on World Music Series
    Two decades after the fall of communism in Eastern Europe and one decade into the twenty-first century, European music remains one of the most powerful forces for shaping nationalism. Using intensive fieldwork throughout Europe -- from participation in alpine foot pilgrimages to studies of the grandest music spectacle anywhere in the world, the Eurovision Song Contest -- Philip V. Bohlman reveals ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Global Minstrels

    Voices of World Music

    by Elijah Wald ...
    As the fastest growing sector of the U.S. music market, world music has embedded itself in the fabric of American life. Artists such as Peter Gabriel, Paul Simon and the Talking Heads have all utilized characteristics of the "world" sound in their music, while international performers are enjoying unexpected fame in the U.S. At the same time, in an era of unprecedented immigration and ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Garland Handbook of Southeast Asian Music

    Edited by Terry Miller ...
    Series series Garland Handbooks of World Music
    The Garland Handbook of Southeast Asian Music is comprised of essays from The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: Volume 4, Southeast Asia (1998). Largely revised and updated, the essays offer detailed, regional studies of the different musical cultures of Southeast Asia and examine the ways in which music helps to define the identity of this particular area.Part one provides an in-depth ... Read more

    $102.99 USD

  • Korea and the Western Drumset: Scattering Rhythms

    by Simon Barker ...
    Series series SOAS Studies in Music
    For over a century, drummers have been turning to a variety of percussive traditions as prompts for the creation of new expressive possibilities on the drumset. In this book, Simon Barker sets out in detail the developmental processes he has followed creating an improvisational language for the drumset utilizing Korean rhythm/sticking cells, aesthetic conceptions, improvisatory codes, and ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Speak it Louder

    Asian Americans Making Music

    by Deborah Wong ...
    Speak It Louder: Asian Americans Making Music documents the variety of musics-from traditional Asian through jazz, classical, and pop-that have been created by Asian Americans. This book is not about "Asian American music" but rather about Asian Americans making music. This key distinction allows the author to track a wide range of musical genres. Wong covers an astonishing variety of music, ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • War, Exile and the Music of Afghanistan

    The Ethnographer’s Tale

    by John Baily ...
    Series series SOAS Studies in Music
    In the 1970s John Baily conducted extensive ethnomusicological research in Afghanistan, principally in the city of Herat but also in Kabul. Then, with Taraki’s coup in 1978, came conflict, war, and the dispersal of many musicians to locations far and wide. This new publication is the culmination of Baily’s further research on Afghan music over the 35 years that followed. This took him to ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Music Theory in Mamluk Cairo

    The ġāyat al-maṭlūb fī ‘ilm al-adwār wa-’l-ḍurūb by Ibn Kurr

    by Owen Wright ...
    Series series SOAS Studies in Music
    The ġāyat al-maṭlūb fī ‘ilm al-adwār wa-'l-ḍurūb by Ibn Kurr is the only theoretical text of any substance that can be considered representative of musicological discourse in Cairo during the first half of the fourteenth century CE. Indeed, nothing comparable survives from the whole Mamluk period, which extends from 1260 until the Ottoman invasion and conquest of Egypt in 1516. But its value does ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • The Ethnomusicologists' Cookbook

    Complete Meals from Around the World

    Edited by Sean Williams ...
    Named one of New York Times Top-20 Cookbooks of 2006.Have you ever wanted to host a full evening of Indian food, culture, and music? How about preparing a traditional Balinese banquet? Or take a trip to Cairo and enjoy an Egyptian feast? The Ethnomusicologists' Cookbook takes you around the world on a culinary journey that is also a cultural and social odyssey.Many cookbooks offer a snapshot of ... Read more

    $57.99 USD