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  • Music in Arabia

    Perspectives on Heritage, Mobility, and Nation

    by Scheherazade Hassan, Ghazi al-Mulaifi, Jean Lambert, Ahmad AlSalhi, Aisha Bilkhair, Yassine Ayari, Majid H. al-Harthy, Kay Hardy Campbell, Khalid Albudoor, Anne van Oostrum, Musallam al-Kathiri, George Mürer, David A. McDonald, Ruth M. Stone ...
    Music in Arabia extends and challenges existing narratives of the region's distinctive but understudied music to reveal diverse and dynamic music cultures rooted in centuries-old heritage.Contributors to Music in Arabia bring a critical eye and ear to the contemporary soundscape, musical life, and expressive culture in the Gulf region. Including work by leading scholars and local authorities, this ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music

    The World's Music: General Perspectives and Reference Tools

    Edited by Ruth M. Stone ...
    Series series Garland Encyclopedia of World Music
    The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music is a ten-volume reference work, organized geographically by continent to represent the musics of the world in nine volumes. The tenth volume houses reference tools and descriptive information about the encyclopedia’s structure, criteria for inclusion and other information specific to the field of ethnomusicology. An award-winning reference, its contributions ... Read more

    $735.00 USD

  • The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music

    Africa

    Edited by Ruth M. Stone ...
    Series series Garland Encyclopedia of World Music
    Explores key themes in African music that have emerged in recent years-a subject usually neglected in country-by-country coverageemphasizes the contexts of musical performance-unlike studies that offer static interpretations isolated from other performing traditionspresents the fresh insights and analyses of musicologists and anthropologists of diverse national origins-African, Asian, European, ... Read more

    $735.00 USD

  • The Garland Handbook of African Music

    Edited by Ruth M. Stone ...
    Series series Garland Handbooks of World Music
    The Garland Handbook of African Music is comprised of essays from The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: Volume 1, Africa, (1997). Revised and updated, the essays offer detailed, regional studies of the different musical cultures of Africa and examine the ways in which music helps to define the identity of this particular area. Part One provides an in-depth introduction to Africa. Part Two ... Read more

    $105.99 USD

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  • 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

  • The Other Classical Musics

    Fifteen Great Traditions

    by Michael Church, Scott DeVeaux, Ivan Hewett, Dwight Reynolds, Scott Marcus, Robert Labaree, Ameneh Youssefzadeh, Will Sumits, Terry E. Miller, Neil Sorrell0, David Hughes1, Frank Kouwenhoven2, Richard Widdess3, Jonathan Katz4, Roderic Knight5 ...
    Winner of the Royal Philharmonic Society Music Award for Creative Communication 2015There is a treasure trove of underappreciated music out there; this book will convince many to explore it. The EconomistWhatis classical music? This book answers the question in a manner never before attempted, by presenting the history of fifteen parallel traditions, of which Western classical music is just one. ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The No-Nonsense Guide to World Music

    by Louise Gray ...
    Series series No-Nonsense Guides
    "World music" is an awkward phrase. Used to describe the hugely multifaceted nature of a range of typically non-English-language popular music from the world over, it's a tag that throws up as many problems as it does solutions.Louise Gray's The No-Nonsense Guide to World Music attempts to go behind the phrase to explore the reasons for the contemporary interest in world music, who listens to it, ... Read more

    $10.79 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

  • The Cambridge History of World Music

    Edited by Philip V. Bohlman ...
    Series series The Cambridge History of Music
    Scholars have long known that world music was not merely the globalized product of modern media, but rather that it connected religions, cultures, languages and nations throughout world history. The chapters in this History take readers to foundational historical moments – in Europe, Oceania, China, India, the Muslim world, North and South America – in search of the connections provided by a truly ... Read more

    $53.29 USD

  • World Music: A Global Journey

    by Terry E. Miller, Andrew Shahriari, Terry Miller ...
    World Music: A Global Journey, Fifth Edition, explores the diversity of musical expression around the world, taking students across the globe to experience cultural traditions that challenge the ear, the mind, and the spirit. It surveys world music within a systematic study of the world’s major cultures, supported by a strong pedagogical framework. Providing historical and cultural overviews of ... Read more

    $140.00 USD

  • Performing Ethnomusicology

    Teaching and Representation in World Music Ensembles

    Edited by Ted Solis ...
    Performing Ethnomusicology is the first book to deal exclusively with creating, teaching, and contextualizing academic world music performing ensembles. Considering the formidable theoretical, ethical, and practical issues that confront ethnomusicologists who direct such ensembles, the sixteen essays in this volume discuss problems of public performance and the pragmatics of pedagogy and learning ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • 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