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  • Resounding Afro Asia

    Interracial Music and the Politics of Collaboration

    by Tamara Roberts ...
    Series series American Musicspheres
    Cultural hybridity is a celebrated hallmark of U.S. American music and identity. Yet hybrid music is all too often marked -and marketed - under a single racial label. Resounding Afro Asia examines music projects that counter this convention; these projects instead foreground racial mixture in players, audiences, and sound in the very face of the ghettoizing culture industry. Giving voice to four ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

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    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

  • Little Songs of Geisha

    Traditional Japanese Ko-Uta

    by Liza Dalby ...
    A fascinating look into the world of the Geisha through the 400-year-old art of Ko-Uta, the traditional song form sung to three-stringed shamisen music. It is a vivid evocation of the romanticism of feudal Japan.Traditional Japanese kouta are the musical embodiment of the geisha in the intoxicating "flower and willow world." Literally, these are "little songs" sung by a geisha who accompanies ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

  • Balinese Gamelan Music

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    by Michael Tenzer ...
    With extensive photographs and an audio CD, this guide to Balinese music showcases the history, culture and art of the gamelan ceremony.Bali has developed and nourished an astonishing variety of musical ensembles—called gamelan—comprising dozens of instruments mainly made of bronze or bamboo, and organized into groups with as many as 30 to 40 players. In Balinese Gamelan Music, Michael Tenzer, a ... Read more

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  • Tracing Tangueros

    Argentine Tango Instrumental Music

    by Kacey Link, Kristin Wendland ...
    Series series Currents in Latin American and Iberian Music
    Tracing Tangueros offers an inside view of Argentine tango music in the context of the growth and development of the art form's instrumental and stylistic innovations. Rather than perpetuating the glamorous worldwide conceptions that often only reflect the tango that left Argentina nearly 100 years ago, authors Kacey Link and Kristin Wendland trace tango's historical and stylistic musical ... Read more

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  • The African Imagination in Music

    by Kofi Agawu ...
    The world of Sub-Saharan African music is immensely rich and diverse, containing a plethora of repertoires and traditions. In The African Imagination in Music, renowned music scholar Kofi Agawu offers an introduction to the major dimensions of this music and the values upon which it rests. Agawu leads his readers through an exploration of the traditions, structural elements, instruments, and ... Read more

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  • Across the Water

    Teaching Irish Music and Dance at Home and Abroad

    by Rebecca E. Farrell ...
    Immerse students in the music traditions of the Irish, one of North America's largest ethnic populations. Across the Water: Teaching Irish Music and Dance at Home and Abroad gives general music teachers the tools to introduce the music and dance of Ireland while respecting the music's cultural origins. An overview of the history of Irish traditional music provides a basic understanding of the ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Cuban Counterpoints

    The Legacy of Fernando Ortiz

    by Carmen Almodóvar Muñoz, Alejandra Bronfman, Patricia Catoira, Fernando Coronil, María Del Rosario Díaz Rodríguez, Antonio Fernández Ferrer, Tomás Fernández Robaina, Roberto González Echevarría, Benjamin L. Lapidus, María Teresa Linares Savio, Octavio di Leo, José Matos Arévalos, Miguel Angel Puig-Samper Mulero, Consuelo Naranjo Orovio, María Fernanda Ortiz Herrera, Marifeli Pérez-Stable, Enrique S. Pumar, Jorge Ramírez Calzadilla, Rafael Rojas Jr., Pamela Maria Smorkaloff, Jean Stubbs, Viñalet ...
    Series series Bildner Western Hemisphere Studies
    While Fernando Ortiz's contribution to our understanding of Cuba and Latin America more generally has been widely recognized since the 1940s, recently there has been renewed interest in this scholar and activist who made lasting contributions to a staggering array of fields. This book is the first work in English to reassess Ortiz's vast intellectual universe. Essays in this volume analyze and ... Read more

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  • Music and Media in the Arab World

    Edited by Michael Frishkopf ...
    Since the turn of the twentieth century the dramatic rise of mass media has profoundly transformed music practices in the Arab world. Music has adapted to successive forms of media disseminationfrom phonograph cylinders to MP3seach subjected to the political and economic forces of its particular era and region. Carried by mass media, the broader culture of Arab music has been thoroughly ... Read more

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  • How to Live for Love & Hip Hop

    Learn to Live Your Passion as Ms. Hennessey speaks to World Star Hip Hop Artists

    by Maxine Johns ...
    This book is your opportunity to see into the real life of creatives and artists. You will see how we connect and how important great conversations are. Maybe you’re reading this book because your passion is Hip Hop. Maybe you’d like to take the insights from the creatives you will read about to become a local or global artist yourself. Maybe you want to take how I structure my interviews for your ... Read more

    $5.39 USD

  • Vibe Merchants: The Sound Creators of Jamaican Popular Music

    by Ray Hitchins ...
    Series series Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series
    Vibe Merchants offers an insider’s perspective on the development of Jamaican Popular Music, researched and analysed by a thirty-year veteran with a wide range of experience in performance, production and academic study. This rare perspective, derived from interviews and ethnographic methodologies, focuses on the actual details of music-making practice, rationalized in the context of the economic ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Music and World Christianities

    Edited by Suzel Ana Reily, Jonathan M. Dueck ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Music and World Christianities investigates music's role in everyday practice and social history across the diversity of Christian religions and practices around the globe. The volume explores Christian communities in the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia as sites of transmission, transformation, and creation of deeply diverse musical traditions. The book's ... Read more

    $133.19 USD