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Author:Judit Frigyesi
Bela Bartok and Turn-Of-The-Century Budapest
Bart's music is greatly prized by concertgoers, yet we know little about the intellectual milieu that gave rise to his artistry. Bart is often seen as a lonely genius emerging from a gray background of an "underdeveloped country." Now Judit Frigyesi offers a broader...- $34.95
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Author:Tara Browner
Heartbeat of the People: Music and Dance of the Northern Pow-wow
The intertribal pow-wow is the most widespread venue for traditional Indian music and dance in North America. Heartbeat of the People is an insider's journey into the dances and music, the traditions and regalia, and the functions and significance of these vital cultural events....- $23.00
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Author:John-Carlos Perea
Intertribal Native American Music in the United States: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture [With CDROM] [With CDROM]
Over time many Native American tribes have developed a shared musical culture that is prominently audible on local, national, and international stages. In Intertribal Native American Music in the United States, ethnomusicologist and GRAMMY(R) Award-winning musician Dr. John-Carlos Perea shows how traditional sounds, such...- $102.99
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Author:Patricia Hall
The Oxford Handbook of Music Censorship
Throughout history and across the globe, governments have taken a strong hand in censoring music. Whether in the interests of "safeguarding" the moral and religious values of their citizens or of promoting their own political goals, the character and severity of actions taken to...- $165.00
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Author:Donna Lee Kwon
Music in Korea: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture [With CD (Audio)]
*** Music in Korea is one of several case-study volumes that can be used along with Thinking Musically, the core book in the Global Music Series. Thinking Musically incorporates music from many diverse cultures and establishes the framework for exploring the practice of music...- $102.99
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Author:George E. Ruckert
Music in North India: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture [With CD]
Music in North India is one of several case-study volumes that can be used along with Thinking Musically, the core book in the Global Music Series. Thinking Musically incorporates music from many diverse cultures and establishes the framework for exploring the practice of music...- $102.99
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Author:Svanibor Pettan
De-Colonization, Heritage, and Advocacy: An Oxford Handbook of Applied Ethnomusicology, Volume 2
The nine ethnomusicologists who contributed to this volume present a diverse range of views, approaches, and methodologies that address indigenous peoples, immigrants, and marginalized communities. Discussing participatory action research, social justice, empowerment, and critical race theory in relation to ethnomusicology, De-Colonization, Heritage, and Advocacy...- $32.99
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Author:Ana R. Alonso-Minutti
Experimentalisms in Practice: Music Perspectives from Latin America
Experimentalisms in Practice explores the multiple sites in which experimentalism emerges and becomes meaningful beyond Eurocentric interpretative frameworks. Challenging the notion of experimentalism as defined in conventional narratives, contributors take a broad approach to a wide variety of Latin@ and Latin American music traditions...- $58.00
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Author:Lon疣 モ. Briain
Musical Minorities: The Sounds of Hmong Ethnicity in Northern Vietnam
Musical Minorities is the first English-language monograph on the performing arts of an ethnic minority in Vietnam. Living primarily in the northern mountains, the Hmong have strategically maintained their cultural distance from foreign invaders and encroaching state agencies for almost two centuries. They use...- $37.99
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Author:Brandi Carlile
Brandi Carlile - In These Silent Days: Guitar/Chords/Lyrics Songbook
(Guitar Chord Songbook). Our songbook features all ten songs from Brandi's chart-topping 2021 album, the follow-up to her Grammy-winning By the Way I Forgive You. The songs are presented in lead sheet format with guitar chord frames and vocal staves. Songs include: Broken Horses...- $19.99
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Author:Ken Jurney
The Union Grove Old-Time Fiddlers Convention: The Real Truth
The purpose of this book is to share the history of the Union Grove Old-time Fiddlers Convention with descendants of Henry Price (H.P.) & Ada Casey Van Hoy. I have no plans to publish or profit from the book and have made attempts to...- $20.00
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Author:Franklyn Addo
A Quick Ting On: Grime
From pirate radio to Glastonbury's Pyramid Stage, journalist and rapper Franklyn Addo pens an extraordinary narrative of the history, present and future of Grime music. The influence of Grime on contemporary British culture is difficult to understate. From fashion trends and evolving language to...- $22.95
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Author:Suzanna Bareghamyan
Call: 14 Original Songs with Armenian Themes
14 original songs with Armenian themes. Scores for piano, lyrics, educational materials. The manual has both informational and aesthetic contents. The melodies of the songs are inspired by ancient Armenian tunes and themes, whereas the worthy presentation of the rich vocabulary of the cherished...- $20.00
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Author:Victor Sinadinoski
50 Forgotten Macedonian Folk Songs: Old Lyrics with New Melodies and English Translations
A collection of 50 old Macedonian folk songs with newly composed melodies. The songs' lyrics primarily come from Dimitar and Konstantin Miladinov, two brothers who traveled Macedonia in the mid-19th century to collect and jot down these songs. However, the brothers did not notate...- $8.99
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Author:Lindsay Davidson
Canntaireachd Collection Volume 1: Twelve Small Tunes
Piobaireachd, ceol mor, is a beautiful and fascinating tradition for those who have the patience to study, sing and play it. This is a type of music which truly displays the grandeur and power of a highland bagpipe.This is not a collection of music...- $6.50
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Author:Patricia Caicedo
The Latin American Art Song: Sounds of the Imagined Nations
Taking as a thread the concept of national identity, this book elucidates the sound transformations that have taken place in the world of the Latin American art song since its appearance in the late nineteenth century to the present day. The book focuses in...- $44.99
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Author:Horacio El Negro Hernandez
Conversations in Clave: The Ultimate Technical Study of Four-Way Independence in Afro-Cuban Rhythms, Book & CD [With CD Features Sample Performances b
The ultimate technical study of four-way independence based on Afro-Cuban rhythms. This detailed and methodical approach will develop four-limb coordination and expand rhythmic vocabulary. Understanding the clave and the relationship between eighth-note and triplet rhythms will aid in mastering the multiple and complex rhythms...- $29.99
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Author:Burton W. Peretti
Lift Every Voice: The History of African American Music
Since their enslavement in West Africa and transport to plantations of the New World, black people have made music that has been deeply entwined with their religious, community, and individual identities. Music was one of the most important constant elements of African American culture...- $61.00
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Author:David Treece
Music Scenes and Migrations: Space and Transnationalism in Brazil, Portugal and the Atlantic
'Music Scenes and Migrations' brings together new work from Brazilian and European scholars around the themes of musical place and transnationalism across the Atlantic triangle connecting Brazil, Africa and Europe. Moving beyond now-contested models for conceptualizing international musical relations and hierarchies of powers and...- $125.00
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Author:Jes俍 A. Ramos-Kittrell
Decentering the Nation: Music, Mexicanidad, and Globalization
winner of the 2021 Ellen Koskoff Edited Volume PrizeThis book considers how global capitalism has upset the symbolic economy of "Mexican" cultural discourse. It focuses on the cultural processes through which people contest ideas about race, gender, and sexuality; reframe ideas of memory, history,...- $111.00
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Author:Kongo Zabana
African Drum Music - Kpanlogo
In African drum ensembles, a musician establishes a time line which establishes the points of entry for the different instruments. So the player must know the role of the particular instrument in the totality, and also the rhythm or rhythms assigned to it and...- $35.20
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Author:Sonny Oti
Highlife Music in West Africa
A posthumous publication, the book is an excursion into the origins and development of Highlife music in West Africa. Although highlife music belongs to the entertainment genre, it is essentially an urban music. Its dynamism does not lie in the aesthetics of its form...- $45.10
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Author:Kelly A. Parkes
Developing and Applying Assessments in the Music Classroom
Developing and Applying Assessments in the Music Classroom addresses the challenges faced by today's K-12 educators and future music educators who are expected to utilize and incorporate assessment data as a hallmark of student learning and reflection of effective teaching. Highlighting best practices while...- $56.95
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Author:Friedlind Riedel
Music as Atmosphere: Collective Feelings and Affective Sounds
This book explores the atmospheric dimensions of music and sound. With multidisciplinary insights from music studies, sound studies, philosophy and media studies, chapters investigate music and sound as shared environmental feelings.This book probes into cutting edge conceptual issues at the forefront of contemporary discussions...- $140.00
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Author:Jim Sykes
The Musical Gift: Sonic Generosity in Post-War Sri Lanka
The Musical Gift tells Sri Lanka's music history as a story of giving between humans and nonhumans, and between populations defined by difference. Author Jim Sykes argues that in the recent past, the genres we recognize today as Sri Lanka's esteemed traditional musics were...- $38.99
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Author:Ondrej Sarek
18 popular Czech Minuet for G/C diatonic accordion
I chose 18 popular Minuet from different musical folk songbooks. More often, the name of this dance was misspelled as "Minet". These dances are an example of how people in the village managed to modify what they heard from the nobility. They preserved the...- $9.15
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Author:Oliver N. Greene
The Garifuna Music Reader
The Garifuna Music Reader is the first text to provide scholarly research of all the principal genres of music and music-related rituals of the Garifuna people of Belize and, by similarities in practice and tradition, those of Central America and the United States. This...- $89.95
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Author:Annegret Fauser
Musical Encounters at the 1889 Paris World's Fair
Musical Encounters at the 1889 Paris World's Fair explores the ways in which music was used, appropriated, exhibited, listened to, and written about during the six months of the 1889 Exposition Universelle in Paris, thereby revealing the role and the sociopolitical uses of music...- $135.00
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Author:Deborah Pacini
Bachata: A Social History of a Dominican Popular Music
Like rap in the United States, bachata began as a music of the poor and dispossessed. Originating in the shantytowns of the Dominican Republic, it reflects the social and economic dislocation of the poorest Dominicans.Author: Deborah PaciniISBN-10: 1566393000ISBN-13: 9781566393003Publisher: Temple University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/06/1995Pages:...- $36.95
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Author:Mark F. DeWitt
Cajun and Zydeco Dance Music in Northern California: Modern Pleasures in a Postmodern World
How Louisiana transplants and new players have generated a thriving music and dance scene far from the South Queen Ida. Danny Poullard. Documentary filmmaker Les Blank. Chris Strachwitz and Arhoolie Records. These are names that are familiar to many fans of Cajun music and...- $35.00
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Author:Gary Stewart
Rumba on the River: A History of the Popular Music of the Two Congos
There had always been music along the banks of the Congo River--lutes and drums, the myriad instruments handed down from ancestors. But when Joseph Kabasele and his African Jazz went chop for chop with O.K. Jazz and Bantous de la Capitale, music in Africa...- $34.95
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Author:George Petrie
The Petrie Collection of the Ancient Music of Ireland
First published in 1855, George Petrie's "The Petrie Collection of the Ancient Music of Ireland", is widely regarded as one of the most important nineteenth-century collections of traditional Irish music. It contains nearly two hundred melodies collected by Petrie as well as song texts...- $29.00
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Author:Hal Leonard Corp
The Americana Songbook
(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook). 45 roots favorites in arrangements for piano, voice and guitar. Includes: Broken Halos (Chris Stapleton) * Copperhead Road (Steve Earle) * Hurricane (The Band of Heathens) * If I Had a Boat (Lyle Lovett) * If We Were Vampires (Jason Isbell and...- $19.99
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Author:Sherry T. Broussard
Louisiana's Zydeco
The bayou sings and the trees sway with the untold stories of many unsung heroes, including Louisiana's amazing Zydeco musicians. The music is an extraordinary blend of the accordion, the bass and electric guitars, the drums, the rub or scrub board, and other instruments....- $24.99
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Author:Swarn Lata
The Journey of the Sitar in Indian Classical Music: Origin, History, and Playing Styles
Since the thirteenth century, the sitar-a stringed, plucked instrument of India-has transformed into an instrument beloved by millions in its country of origin as well as all over the world. The Journey of the Sitar in Indian Classical Music details the origin, history, and...- $24.95
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Author:Ronald D. Cohen
Depression Folk: Grassroots Music and Left-Wing Politics in 1930s America
While music lovers and music historians alike understand that folk music played an increasingly pivotal role in American labor and politics during the economic and social tumult of the Great Depression, how did this relationship come to be? Ronald D. Cohen sheds new light...- $32.50
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Author:Angela Smith
Steel Drums and Steelbands: A History
Steel Drums and Steelbands: A History is a vivid account of the events that led to the "accidental" invention of the steel drum: the only acoustic musical instrument invented in the 20th century. Angela Smith walks readers through the evolution of the steel drum...- $53.00
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Author:Noonie Minogue
Markos Vamvakaris: The Man and the Bouzouki. Autobiography
Markos Vamvakaris, born in 1905 in Syros was a pioneer of rebetiko, the urban folk music of Greece. The bouzouki was a disreputable instrument but he paved its path to glory. He spent many years, first as a stevedore in the port of Piraeus...- $29.99
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Author:Toru Takemitsu
Confronting Silence: Selected Writings
In these writings, available here in English for the first time, the distinguished Japanese composer Toru Takemitsu reflects on his contemporaries, including John Cage, Olivier Messiaen, and Merce Cunningham; on nature, which has profoundly influenced his composition; on film and painting; on relationships between...- $49.00
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Author:Kenny Mathieson
Celtic Music: Third Ear: The Essential Listening Companion
This comprehensive guidebook covers all that is Celtic in music today, through essays exploring solo artists, bands, singers, and players of specialized instruments, such as harps, pipes, fiddles, drums, squeezeboxes, whistles, mandolins and more. Performers profiled range from the rock-influenced group Clannad, to Welsh...- $19.99
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Author:Darien J. Davis
White Face, Black Mask: Africaneity and the Early Social History of Popular Music in Brazil
Although African influences undeniably pervade the popular music of Brazil, until now few books have examined the role of Blackness--what author Dari駭 Davis calls "Africaneity"--in the creation and development of twentieth-century Brazilian musical traditions. This innovative, accessible work offers a fascinating look at Brazilian...- $29.95
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Author:Andrew F. Jones
Yellow Music: Media Culture and Colonial Modernity in the Chinese Jazz Age
Yellow Music is the first history of the emergence of Chinese popular music and urban media culture in early-twentieth-century China. Andrew F. Jones focuses on the affinities between "yellow" or "pornographic" music-as critics derisively referred to the "decadent" fusion of American jazz, Hollywood film...- $26.95
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Author:Marissa J. Moorman
Intonations: A Social History of Music and Nation in Luanda, Angola, from 1945 to Recent Times
Intonations tells the story of how Angola's urban residents in the late colonial period (roughly 1945-74) used music to talk back to their colonial oppressors and, more importantly, to define what it meant to be Angolan and what they hoped to gain from independence....- $32.95
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Author:Bill C. Malone
Singing Cowboys and Musical Mountaineers
In this slim, lively book our foremost historian of country music recalls the lost worlds of pioneering fiddlers and pickers, balladeers and yodelers. As he looks at "hillbilly" music's pre-commercial era and its early popular growth through radio and recordings, Bill C. Malone shows...- $23.95
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Author:Lydia Parrish
Slave Songs of the Georgia Sea Islands
A valuable collection of folk music and lore from the Gullah culture, Slave Songs of the Georgia Sea Islands preserves the rich traditions of slave descendants on the barrier islands of Georgia by interweaving their music with descriptions of their language, religious and social...- $34.95
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Author:Frederic Ramsey
Been Here and Gone
This volume documents Frederic Ramsey Jr.'s journeys through the 1950s South, where he traveled in search of what might still remain of an original, authentic African American musical tradition. In these photographs, songs, interviews, and narratives, Ramsey portrays farmers, railroad workers, housewives, children, church...- $25.95
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Author:Ian Macmillen
Playing It Dangerously: Tambura Bands, Race, and Affective Block in Croatia and Its Intimates
A study of race, gender, religion, and affect in postwar Croatian musicPlaying It Dangerously questions what happens when feelings attached to popular music conflict with expressions of the dominant socio-cultural order, and how this tension enters into the politics of popular culture at various...- $27.95
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Author:Alejo Carpentier
Music in Cuba
Originally published in 1946 and never before available in English, Music in Cuba is not only the best and most extensive study of Cuban musical history, it is a work of literature. Drawing on such primary documents as church circulars and musical scores, Carpentier...- $27.50
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Author:Sholom Kalib
The Musical Tradition of the Eastern European Synagogue: Volume 3a: The Sabbath Eve Service
The Sabbath Eve Service, a three-book set, is to date the most comprehensive annotated anthology of authentic musical liturgy of the Eastern European synagogue Friday night Shabbat service. Part of a projected five-volume set, this series is dedicated to the preservation of the legacy...- $150.00
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Author:M. L. Liebler
Heaven Was Detroit: From Jazz to Hip-Hop and Beyond
A comprehensive collection of essays on the long history of Detroit music by some of America's best-known music writers. Heaven Was Detroit: From Jazz to Hip Hop and Beyond is the first of its kind to capture the full spectrum of Detroit popular music...- $39.99
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