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Vendor: Christina Sunardi
Fashioning Femininities, Making Masculinities: Gender, Performance, and Lived Experience in Java, Indonesia
What can the lived experiences of performing artists in Java, Indonesia tell us about the production and negotiation of gender and local identity?Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Malang, East Java, author Christina Sunardi demonstrates ways individual performers have navigated cultural norms of masculinity...- $25.00
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Making Jazz in Contemporary Japan: A Passionate Search for Self-Expression
Making Jazz in Contemporary Japan: A Passionate Search for Self-Expression explores the ways in which Japanese jazz musicians express themselves through their art--not to "japanize" jazz, but to assert one's creativity, passion, and capacity for self-expression--establishing it as an art form with its own...- $49.95
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Making Mexican Rock: Censorship, Journalism, and Popular Music After Av?ndaro
The history of Mexican rock is one of censorship. A number of cultural histories recount how rock was repressed, censored, and marginalized by Mexico's single-party regime in the twentieth century, often focusing on the authoritarian crackdown that followed a mediatized moral panic after the...- $34.95
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Maldito Coronavirus!: Mapping Latin American Musical Responses to the Pandemic Moment
Maldito Coronavirus!: Mapping Latin American Musical Responses to the Pandemic Moment offers an expansive survey and analysis of local and regional musical responses to the global coronavirus moment. The authors situate this emergent phenomenon within interdisciplinary explorations of music-making on social media platforms, transnational...- $100.00
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Vendor: Richard J. Ripani
The New Blue Music: Changes in Rhythm & Blues, 1950-1999
Rhythm & blues emerged from the African American community in the late 1940s to become the driving force in American popular music over the next half-century. Although sometimes called "doo-wop," "soul," "funk," "urban contemporary," or "hip-hop," R&B is actually an umbrella category that includes...- $35.00
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Towards a Global Music Theory: Practical Concepts and Methods for the Analysis of Music Across Human Cultures
Since the beginning of the twentieth century, the cross-pollenization of world musical materials and practices has accelerated precipitously, due in large part to advances in higher-speed communications and travel. We live now in a world of global musical practice that will only continue to...- $69.99
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Vendor: Robert Fitzgerald
Hardcore Punk in the Age of Reagan: The Lyrical Lashing of an American Presidency
Few politicians produced the musical reaction that Ronald Reagan did. His California-branded conservatism inspired countless young people to pick up guitars and thrash out their political angst. Punk bands across the United States took aim at the man, his presidency, and the idea of...- $99.00
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Vendor: Houghton
Rock Aesthetics in Colombian Literature and Culture: Writing the Noise
Rock Aesthetics in Colombian Literature and Culture: Writing the Noise explores the presence of a rock aesthetic in the Colombian literary field and how its pivotal role in creating alternative creative expressions that challenge the dominance of tropicality as the prevailing artistic reference. More...- $115.00
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Vendor: Clarence Bernard Henry
Global Popular Music: A Research and Information Guide, Volume 1: Global Perspectives in Popular Music Studies
Global Popular Music: A Research and Information Guide, offers an essential annotated bibliography of scholarship on popular music around the world in a two-volume set. Volume I situates popular music studies within global perspectives and geo-cultural settings at large.Author: Clarence Bernard HenryISBN-10: 1032830182ISBN-13: 9781032830186Publisher:...- $170.00
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Vendor: Questlove
Hip-Hop Is History
This is a book only Questlove could have written: a perceptive and personal reflection on the first half-century of hip-hop. When hip-hop first emerged in the 1970s, it wasn't expected to become the cultural force it is today. But for a young Black kid...- $20.00
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Vendor: Robert Fitzgerald
Hardcore Punk in the Age of Reagan: The Lyrical Lashing of an American Presidency
Few politicians produced the musical reaction that Ronald Reagan did. His California-branded conservatism inspired countless young people to pick up guitars and thrash out their political angst. Punk bands across the United States took aim at the man, his presidency, and the idea of...- $34.95
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Vendor: Laura Emmery
Compositional Process in Elliott Carter's String Quartets: A Study in Sketches
Compositional Process in Elliott Carter's String Quartets is an interdisciplinary study examining the evolution and compositional process in Elliott Carter's five string quartets. Offering a systematic and logical way of unpacking concepts and processes in these quartets that would otherwise remain opaque, the book's...- $54.99
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The Changing Faces of Aawambo Musical Arts
How does a peoples' music reflect their history, their occupations, cultural beliefs and values? These are the core questions that this book addresses in relation to the Aawambo people of Namibia. The author, herself born and bred in Namibia, brings to the fore the...- $60.50
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Vendor: Tamara Roberts
Resounding Afro Asia: Interracial Music and the Politics of Collaboration
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...- $29.99
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Vendor: Sunhee Koo
Sound of the Border: Music and Identity of Korean Minority in China
Using ethnographic data collected in China and South Korea between 2004 and 2011, author Sunhee Koo provides a comprehensive view of the music of Koreans in China (Chaoxianzu), from its time as manifestation of a displaced culture to its return home after more than...- $30.00
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Vendor: Tristian Evans
Shared Meanings in the Film Music of Philip Glass: Music, Multimedia and Postminimalism
The study of music within multimedia contexts has become an increasingly active area of scholarly research. However, the application of such studies to musical genres outside the 'classical' film canon, or in television and other media remains largely unexplored in any detail. Tristian Evans...- $54.99
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Vendor: Helen Phelan
Singing the Rite to Belong: Ritual, Music, and the New Irish
This book explores the way in which singing can foster experiences of belonging through ritual performance. Based on more than two decades of ethnographic, pedagogical and musical research, it is set against the backdrop of "the new Ireland" of the late 20th and early...- $57.00
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Vendor: Lauren Coyle Rosen
Hannibal Lokumbe: Spiritual Soundscapes of Music, Life, and Liberation
For Hannibal Lokumbe, music is a profound source of spiritual liberation. A pathbreaking orchestral composer and visionary jazz musician, he composes resonant works that give voice to the freedom struggle of the African diaspora, the broader African American experience, Indigenous histories, and humanity. Many...- $115.00
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Vendor: Blanka Bogunovic
Psychological Perspectives on Musical Experiences and Skills: Research in the Western Balkans and Western Europe
Psychology of Music is a flourishing area of research in the Western Balkans. However, much of its findings and insights have remained relatively unknown outside the region. Psychological Perspectives on Musical Experiences and Skills features recent research from the Western Balkans, foregrounding its specific...- $63.95
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Vendor: Jonathan P. J. Stock
The Routledge Companion to Ethics and Research in Ethnomusicology
The Routledge Companion to Ethics and Research in Ethnomusicology is an in-depth survey of the moral challenges and imperatives of conducting research on people making music. It focuses on fundamental and compelling ethical questions that have challenged and shaped both the history of this...- $58.99
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Vendor: Rafal Zaborowski
Music Generations in the Digital Age: Social Practices of Listening and Idols in Japan
What do we do when we listen? The act of engagement with music in everyday life may seem simple on the surface but participation, interpretation, circulation and cultural production in the digital age are more complex and entangled than ever before. It is especially...- $131.00
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Vendor: Etha Molina
Vihuela (How to Play): Master Traditional Techniques, Improve Your Playing, And Unlock The Secrets Of The Spanish Guitar
Are you ready to master the intricate art of playing the Vihuela, an instrument rich in history and culture?Do you want to discover effective techniques and practice routines to become a proficient Vihuela player?Are you looking for guidance on balancing your music practice with...- $8.99
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Guitarr?n Mexicano (How to Play): Mastering the Heartbeat of Folk Music: Essential Techniques, Care Tips, Performance Mastery, and Cultural Insights
Discover the Secrets of the Guitarr?n Mexicano!Are you ready to master the soulful strums of the Guitarr?n Mexicano? Dive into the heart of Mexican music with this comprehensive guide that takes you from beginner basics to advanced techniques.What Will You Learn? Essential Techniques: How...- $8.99
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Vendor: Sumarsam
The In-Between in Javanese Performing Arts: History and Myth, Interculturalism and Interreligiosity
The role of performing art in one of the world's most diverse and complex societiesThis book is the first comprehensive overview of Javanese performing arts from their origins to their dynamic present. Renowned scholar and musician Sumarsam draws from a lifetime of immersion in...- $26.95
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Vendor: Marek Korczynski
Songs of the Factory: Pop Music, Culture, and Resistance
In Songs of the Factory, Marek Korczynski examines the role that popular music plays in workers' culture on the factory floor. Reporting on his ethnographic fieldwork in a British factory that manufactures window blinds, Korczynski shows how workers make often-grueling assembly-line work tolerable by...- $31.95
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Vendor: Michael L. Austin
Audiovisual Alterity: Representing Ourselves and Others in Music Videos
Immerse yourself in the groundbreaking exploration of diversity and representation in music videos with Audiovisual Alterity. This new research delves into the portrayal of marginalized and subaltern groups across a rich tapestry of genres of popular music, tracing the evolution of inclusivity and disenfranchisement...- $35.00
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Vendor: Daniel S. Margolies
Maldito Coronavirus!: Mapping Latin American Musical Responses to the Pandemic Moment
Maldito Coronavirus!: Mapping Latin American Musical Responses to the Pandemic Moment offers an expansive survey and analysis of local and regional musical responses to the global coronavirus moment. The authors situate this emergent phenomenon within interdisciplinary explorations of music-making on social media platforms, transnational...- $34.00
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Vendor: Anabel Maler
Seeing Voices: Analyzing Sign Language Music
We often think of music in terms of sounds intentionally organized into patterns, but music performed in signed languages poses considerable challenges to this sound-based definition. Performances of sign language music are defined culturally as music, but they do not necessarily make sound their...- $29.99
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Vendor: H. Hazel Hahn
Cross-Cultural Exchange and the Colonial Imaginary: Global Encounters Via Southeast Asia
For years, the study of how culture operates in colonial contexts was dominated by the ideas of transmission and influence. Yet the more we learn, the less useful those concepts seem to be. This collection deliberately complicates the binary of colonizer and colonized in...- $42.00
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Vendor: Katherine In-Young Lee
Dynamic Korea and Rhythmic Form
South Korean percussion genre samul nori goes globalWinner of the the 2019 Béla Bartók Award for Outstanding EthnomusicologyThe South Korean percussion genre, samul nori, is a world phenomenon whose rhythmic form is the key to its popularity and mobility. Based on both ethnographic research...- $25.95
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Vendor: Hugo R. Viera-Vargas
Made in Puerto Rico: Studies in Popular Music
Made in Puerto Rico: Studies in Popular Music serves as a comprehensive introduction to the history, culture, and musicology of 20th and 21st century popular music in Puerto Rico. The essays in this volume, written by both local experts and leading scholars, contextualize under-researched...- $49.99
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Vendor: Michelle Comstock
Composing Resonance: Culture and Collaboration in Sonic Practices
New Media TheorySeries Editor: Byron HawkWhat People Are Saying"I'm excited by the way Composing Resonance brings together classroom experiences, experimental sound art, and musicians' practices under the headings of material and sonic rhetorics. It is an exciting expansion of work by the Comstock and...- $24.95
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Vendor: Lyra Van Aether
How To Play The Theremin: The Ultimate Guide To Learning The Theremin With Step-By-Step Instructions
Unlock the ethereal world of theremin music with "How to Play the Theremin," an all-encompassing guide designed for both beginners and seasoned musicians. This book takes you on a journey through the enchanting and enigmatic art of theremin playing, an instrument known for its...- $11.99
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Vendor: Masato Tani
Traditional Iranian Music: Orality, Physicality and Improvisation
Improvisation is a defining characteristic of traditional Iranian music. Iranian musicians describe their music as ' impossible to play in the same way twice' or ' able to be performed in many ways, ' emphasizing that they do not perform prepared compositions. What exactly...- $69.95
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Vendor: Giorgio Scalici
Pain, Play and Music: Death and Healing Rites Among the Wana
The Wana people of Morowali accept the experiences of pain, illness and loss and transform them into something positive: rituals that celebrate life, friendship and the community. Through fieldwork with the Wana people of Morowali, Central Sulawesi, Giorgio Scalici shows how music serves as...- $115.00
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Vendor: David A. McDonald
My Voice Is My Weapon: Music, Nationalism, and the Poetics of Palestinian Resistance
In My Voice Is My Weapon, David A. McDonald rethinks the conventional history of the Palestinian crisis through an ethnographic analysis of music and musicians, protest songs, and popular culture. Charting a historical narrative that stretches from the late-Ottoman period through the end of...- $107.95
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Vendor: Etha Molina
Tiple (How to Play): A Comprehensive Guide to Mastering the Colombian Guitar: Techniques, Maintenance, and Performance Tips for All Skill L
Are You Fascinated By The Unique Sound Of The Tiple?Do You Want To Master This Traditional Latin American Instrument?Are You Looking For A Comprehensive Guide That Covers Everything From Choosing Your First Tiple To Performing On Stage?Do You Want To Learn The Secrets Of...- $8.99
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Vendor: Patrick M. Patterson
Music and Words: Producing Popular Songs in Modern Japan, 1887-1952
This book analyzes composer Nakayama Shimpei's popular songs in the context of Japan's developing record industry and popular music market between 1887 and 1952.Author: Patrick M. PattersonISBN-10: 1498550355ISBN-13: 9781498550352Publisher: Rlpg/GalleysLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/15/2018Pages: 230Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.10lbsSize: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.90d- $117.00
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Vendor: Alastair Williams
Constructing Musicology
This title was first published in 2001: Unlike many other academic disciplines, musicology has been somewhat reluctant to explore the possibilities that critical theory might offer to our understanding of music and the ways in which we study it. In recent years, however, both...- $44.99
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Vendor: Paulla A. Ebron
Performing Africa
The jali--a member of a hereditary group of Mandinka professional performers--is a charismatic but contradictory figure. He is at once the repository of his people's history, the voice of contemporary political authority, the inspiration for African American dreams of an African homeland, and the...- $35.00
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Vendor: Lawrence Kramer
Music as Cultural Practice, 1800-1900: Volume 8
In Music as Cultural Practice, Lawrence Kramer adapts the resources of contemporary literary theory to forge a genuinely new discourse about music. Rethinking fundamental questions of meaning and expression, he demonstrates how European music of the nineteenth century collaborates on equal terms with textual...- $31.95
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Vendor: Bruno Nettl
Comparative Musicology and Anthropology of Music: Essays on the History of Ethnomusicology
Nineteen scholars from five countries explore significant issues in the history of ethnomusicology and its methodological and theoretical foundations, while providing a critique of the discipline. "This is a useful and enriching collection of articles of interest to musicologists and ethnomusicologists. . . ....- $46.00
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Vendor: Veit Erlmann
African Stars: Studies in Black South African Performance
In recent years black South African music and dance have become ever more popular in the West, where they are now widely celebrated as expressions of opposition to discrimination and repression. Less well known is the rich history of these arts, which were shaped...- $33.00
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Vendor: Martin Clayton
Experience and Meaning in Music Performance
How does the immediate experience of musical sound relate to processes of meaning construction and discursive mediation? This question lies at the heart of the studies presented in Experience and Meaning in Music Performance, a unique multi-authored work that both draws on and contributes...- $53.00
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Vendor: Miguel Roig-Francoli
Workbook/Anthology for Use with Harmony in Context
Author: Miguel Roig-FrancoliISBN-10: 1260153843ISBN-13: 9781260153842Publisher: McGraw-Hill CompaniesLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/08/2019Pages: 432Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.49lbsSize: 10.70h x 8.50w x 0.80d- $168.75
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Vendor: Joseph Keola Donaghy
Mele on the Mauna: Perpetuating Genealogies of Hawaiian Musical Activism on Maunakea
In the summer of 2019, a group of kia'i, or protectors, made up of kānaka 'ōiwi (Native Hawaiians) and their allies came together to prevent the construction of the Thirty-Meter Telescope (TMT) on the dormant volcano Maunakea. In Mele on the Mauna, Joseph Keola...- $25.00
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Vendor: Stephen Koch
From Almeda to Zilphia: Arkansas Women Who Transformed American Popular Song
Author: Stephen KochISBN-10: 1944528318ISBN-13: 9781944528317Publisher: Et Alia PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/17/2024Pages: 112Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.68lbsSize: 9.00h x 8.50w x 0.29d- $28.95
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Vendor: Nelson Varas-D?az
Seeing Metal Music in Latin America and the Caribbean
For many fans, metal was visual before it was aural. This book explores the visual dimensions of metal music from the specific socio-historic, geographic, and political positionality of Latin America and the Caribbean where this visual register allows creators and consumers to engage in...- $115.00
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Vendor: Lauren Coyle Rosen
Hannibal Lokumbe: Spiritual Soundscapes of Music, Life, and Liberation
For Hannibal Lokumbe, music is a profound source of spiritual liberation. A pathbreaking orchestral composer and visionary jazz musician, he composes resonant works that give voice to the freedom struggle of the African diaspora, the broader African American experience, Indigenous histories, and humanity. Many...- $28.00
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Vendor: Charles Williams Mead
The Musical Instruments of the Incas; a Guide Leaflet to the Collection on Exhibition in the American Museum of Natural History
The Incas were known for their sophisticated and beautiful musical instruments, which represented an important part of their culture and religion. In this guide, the American Museum of Natural History presents a detailed exploration of its collection of Inca musical instruments, including panpipes, drums,...- $26.95
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