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  • Critical Themes in World Music

    A Reader for Excursions in World Music, Eighth Edition

    Edited by Timothy Rommen ...
    Critical Themes in World Music is a reader of nine short essays by the authors of the successful Excursions in World Music, Eighth Edition, edited by Timothy Rommen and Bruno Nettl. The essays introduce key and contemporary themes in ethnomusicology—gender and sexuality, coloniality and race, technology and media, sound and space, and more—creating a counterpoint to the area studies approach of ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Excursions in World Music

    Edited by Timothy Rommen, Bruno Nettl ...
    Excursions in World Music is a comprehensive introductory textbook to the musics of the world, creating a panoramic experience for students by engaging the many cultures around the globe, and highlighting the sheer diversity to be experienced in the world of music. At the same time, the text illustrates the often profound ways through which a deeper exploration of these many different communities ... Read more

    $165.00 USD

  • Sounds of Vacation

    Political Economies of Caribbean Tourism

    Edited by Jocelyne Guilbault, Timothy Rommen ...
    The contributors to Sounds of Vacation examine the commodification of music and sound at popular vacation destinations throughout the Caribbean in order to tease out the relationships between political economy, hospitality, and the legacies of slavery and colonialism. Drawing on case studies from Barbados, the Bahamas, Guadeloupe, Saint Martin, and Saint Lucia, the contributors point to the myriad ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Funky Nassau

    Roots, Routes, and Representation in Bahamian Popular Music

    by Timothy Rommen ...
    Series Book 15 - Music of the African Diaspora
    This book examines the role music has played in the formation of the political and national identity of the Bahamas. Timothy Rommen analyzes Bahamian musical life as it has been influenced and shaped by the islands’ location between the United States and the rest of the Caribbean; tourism; and Bahamian colonial and postcolonial history. Focusing on popular music in the second half of the twentieth ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

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  • The Song Machine

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    by John Seabrook ...
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    Jimi Hendrix is regarded by many to have been the greatest of all rock guitarists. The 40th anniversary of his death on the 18th October reminded us all that in all these years no other guitarist has come along in the way that Hendrix had to defy musical conventions and to question how we listen to music. His recordings continue to sell. In America alone the amount is estimated to be somewhere in ... Read more

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  • Without Frontiers: The Life & Music of Peter Gabriel

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  • The Rise, The Fall, and The Rise

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  • Psychedelic Bubble Gum

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