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  • 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

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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

  • On Highway 61

    Music, Race, and the Evolution of Cultural Freedom

    by Dennis McNally ...
    On Highway 61 explores the historical context of the significant social dissent that was central to the cultural genesis of the sixties. The book is going to search for the deeper roots of American cultural and musical evolution for the past 150 years by studying what the Western European culture learned from African American culture in a historical progression that reaches from the minstrel era ... Read more

    $13.99 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

  • Applying Karnatic Rhythmical Techniques to Western Music

    by Rafael Reina ...
    Most classical musicians, whether in orchestral or ensemble situations, will have to face a piece by composers such as Ligeti, Messiaen, Varèse or Xenakis, while improvisers face music influenced by Dave Holland, Steve Coleman, Aka Moon, Weather Report, Irakere or elements from the Balkans, India, Africa or Cuba. Rafael Reina argues that today’s music demands a new approach to rhythmical training, ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • The Mystery of Chopin's Préludes

    by Anatole Leikin ...
    Chopin's twenty-four Préludes remain as mysterious today as when they were newly published. What prompted Franz Liszt and others to consider Chopin's Préludes to be compositions in their own right rather than introductions to other works? What did set Chopin's Préludes so drastically apart from their forerunners? What exactly was 'the morbid, the feverish, the repellent' that Schumann heard in ... Read more

    $61.99 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Coherence in New Music: Experience, Aesthetics, Analysis

    by Mark Hutchinson ...
    What does it mean to talk about musical coherence at the end of a century characterised by fragmentation and discontinuity? How can the diverse influences which stand behind the works of many late twentieth-century composers be reconciled with the singular immediacy of the experiences that they can create? How might an awareness of the distinctive ways in which these experiences are generated and ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • 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