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  • Javanese Gamelan and the West by Sumarsam
    Sumarsam

    Javanese Gamelan and the West

    Preeminant gamelan performer and scholar Sumarsam explores the concept of hybridity in performance traditions that have developed in the context of Javanese encounters with the West. Javanese Gamelan and the West studies the meaning, forms, and traditions of the Javanese performing arts as they...
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  • Perspectives in Motion: Engaging the Visual in Dance and Music by Stepputat, Kendra
    Kendra Stepputat

    Perspectives in Motion: Engaging the Visual in Dance and Music

    Focusing on visual approaches to performance in global cultural contexts, Perspectives in Motion explores the work of Adrienne L. Kaeppler, a pioneering researcher who has made a number of interdisciplinary contributions over five decades to dance and performance studies. Through a diverse range of...
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  • Soul in Seoul: African American Popular Music and K-Pop by Anderson, Crystal S.
    Crystal S. Anderson

    Soul in Seoul: African American Popular Music and K-Pop

    K-pop (Korean popular music) reigns as one of the most popular music genres in the world today, a phenomenon that appeals to listeners of all ages and nationalities. In Soul in Seoul: African American Popular Music and K-pop, Crystal S. Anderson examines the most...
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  • Flaming?: The Peculiar Theopolitics of Fire and Desire in Black Male Gospel Performance by Jones, Alisha Lola
    Alisha Lola Jones

    Flaming?: The Peculiar Theopolitics of Fire and Desire in Black Male Gospel Performance

    Male-centered theology, a dearth of men in the pews, and an overrepresentation of queer males in music ministry: these elements coexist within the spaces of historically black Protestant churches, creating an atmosphere where simultaneous heteropatriarchy and "real" masculinity anxieties, archetypes of the "alpha-male preacher",...
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  • Everybody's Doin' It: Sex, Music, and Dance in New York, 1840-1917 by Cockrell, Dale
    Dale Cockrell

    Everybody's Doin' It: Sex, Music, and Dance in New York, 1840-1917

    Everybody's Doin' It is the eye-opening story of popular music's seventy-year rise in the brothels, dance halls, and dives of New York City. It traces the birth of popular music, including ragtime and jazz, to convivial meeting places for sex, drink, music, and dance....
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  • Raga Sangeet: Understanding Hindustani Classical Vocal Music by Nagarkar, Samarth
    Samarth Nagarkar

    Raga Sangeet: Understanding Hindustani Classical Vocal Music

    In an incredible effort, this short book takes one through a musical journey of a lifetime. From mastering a single note to the complexities of raga exposition and emotional expression, from the basic musical perception of time to masterful and intricate rhythmic play, it...
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  • The Book of Klezmer: The History, the Music, the Folklore by Strom, Yale
    Yale Strom

    The Book of Klezmer: The History, the Music, the Folklore

    Klezmer is Yiddish music, the music of the Jews of Europe and America, a music of laughter and tears, of weddings and festivals, of dancing and prayer. Born in the Middle Ages, it came of age in the shtetl (the Eastern European Jewish country...
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  • Sing and Sing on: Sentinel Musicians and the Making of the Ethiopian American Diaspora by Shelemay, Kay Kaufman
    Kay Kaufman Shelemay

    Sing and Sing on: Sentinel Musicians and the Making of the Ethiopian American Diaspora

    A sweeping history of Ethiopian musicians during and following the 1974 Ethiopian revolution. Sing and Sing On is the first study of the forced migration of musicians out of the Horn of Africa dating from the 1974 Ethiopian revolution, a political event that overthrew...
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  • Siren Song: Understanding Pakistan Through Its Women Singers by Afzal-Khan, Fawzia
    Fawzia Afzal-Khan

    Siren Song: Understanding Pakistan Through Its Women Singers

    Fawzia Afzal-Khan's book is an important and timely feminist intervention in the study of classical music and a cogent challenge to the prevailing antisecular orthodoxy in the academy. In this complex and sensitive study...of the careers of artistes like Malka Pukhraj, Roshanara Begum, Reshma,...
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  • Singers Die Twice: A Journey to the Land of Dhrupad by Pannke, Peter
    Peter Pannke

    Singers Die Twice: A Journey to the Land of Dhrupad

    Singers Die Twice is the story of a life in music. One of Germany's best-known exponents of North Indian classical music, specifically dhrupad singing, Perer Pannke has traveled from his home in Germany to Varanasi, Delhi, Darbhanga, and the forests of Vrindaban to study...
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  • Soundscapes: Exploring Music in a Changing World by Shelemay, Kay Kaufman
    Kay Kaufman Shelemay

    Soundscapes: Exploring Music in a Changing World

    Music doesn't stop at the border, and neither should your textbook. This text gives students a global sense of music and its significance across cultures by introducing them to a diverse repertoire and developing listening skills applicable to all music. An accessible three-part model...
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  • Fight the Power: Rap, Race, and Reality by Jah, Yusaf
    Chuck D

    Fight the Power: Rap, Race, and Reality

    Like the hard-hitting sounds of a Public Enemy jam, the words of the band's lead singer, Chuck D, excite the mind and senses. In his first book, Chuck D pours out commentary that takes on Hollywood, race, the music industry, the murders of Tupac...
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  • The Sound of the City: The Rise of Rock and Roll by Gillett, Charlie
    Charlie Gillett

    The Sound of the City: The Rise of Rock and Roll

    This comprehensive study of the rise of rock and roll from 1954 to 1971 has now been expanded with close to 100 illustrations as well as a new introduction, recommended listening section, and bibliography.Author: Charlie GillettISBN-10: 0306806835ISBN-13: 9780306806834Publisher: Da Capo PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/22/1996Pages: 562Format:...
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  • On Repeat: How Music Plays the Mind by Margulis, Elizabeth Hellmuth
    Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis

    On Repeat: How Music Plays the Mind

    Winner of the Wallace Berry Award, Society for Music TheoryWinner of the Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Award, ASCAP What is it about the music you love that makes you want to hear it again? Why do we crave a "hook" that returns, again and again,...
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  • Music in China: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture [With CD (Audio)] by Lau, Frederick
    Frederick Lau

    Music in China: Experiencing Music, Expressing Cultureincludes CD [With CD (Audio)]

    Music in China is one of many 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 around...
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  • The Power of Black Music: Interpreting Its History from Africa to the United States by Floyd, Samuel A.
    Samuel A. Floyd

    The Power of Black Music: Interpreting Its History from Africa to the United States

    When Jimi Hendrix transfixed the crowds of Woodstock with his gripping version of "The Star Spangled Banner," he was building on a foundation reaching back, in part, to the revolutionary guitar playing of Howlin' Wolf and the other great Chicago bluesmen, and to the...
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  • Rethinking Social Action through Music: The Search for Coexistence and Citizenship in Medellín's Music Schools by Baker, Geoffrey
    Geoffrey Baker

    Rethinking Social Action through Music: The Search for Coexistence and Citizenship in Medell匤's Music Schools

    How can we better understand the past, present and future of Social Action through Music (SATM)?This ground-breaking book examines the development of the Red de Escuelas de M俍ica de Medell匤 (the Network of Music Schools of Medell匤), a network of 27 schools founded in...
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  • The Sound of Vultures' Wings: The Tibetan Buddhist Chod Ritual Practice of the Female Buddha Machik Labdron by Cupchik, Jeffrey W.
    Jeffrey W. Cupchik

    The Sound of Vultures' Wings: The Tibetan Buddhist Ch Ritual Practice of the Female Buddha Machik Labdr

    Explores the music of the Tibetan Ch tradition.Author: Jeffrey W. CupchikISBN-10: 143846441XISBN-13: 9781438464411Publisher: State University of New York PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/01/2024Pages: 460Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.86lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.19d
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  • Sound and Sentiment: Birds, Weeping, Poetics, and Song in Kaluli Expression, 3rd edition with a new introduction by the author by Feld, Steven
    Steven Feld

    Sound and Sentiment: Birds, Weeping, Poetics, and Song in Kaluli Expression, 3rd edition with a new introduction by the author

    This thirtieth anniversary edition of Sound and Sentiment makes Steven Feld's landmark, field-defining book available to a new generation of scholars and students. A sensory ethnography set in the rain forest of Papua New Guinea, among the Kaluli people of Bosavi, Sound and Sentiment...
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  • Gilberto Gil's Refazenda by Hertzman, Marc A.
    Marc A. Hertzman

    Gilberto Gil's Refazenda

    Refazenda connects a remarkable album by one of the 20th and 21st centuries' great musicians to a dazzling, often unexpected, array of people and places spread across the globe from Brazil to England to Chile to Japan. Critics and fans often project (or impose)...
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  • João Gilberto and Stan Getz's Getz/Gilberto by McCann, Bryan Daniel
    Bryan Daniel McCann

    Jo縊 Gilberto and Stan Getz's Getz/Gilberto

    Most die-hard Brazilian music fans would argue that Getz/Gilberto, the iconic 1964 album featuring "The Girl from Ipanema," is not the best bossa nova record. Yet we've all heard "The Girl from Ipanema" as background music in a thousand anodyne settings, from cocktail parties...
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  • The Latin American Art Song: Sounds of the Imagined Nations by Caicedo, Patricia
    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...
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  • The Legacy of Tanzanian Musicians Muhidin Gurumo and Hassan Bitchuka: Rhumba Kiserebuka! by Gunderson, Frank
    Frank Gunderson

    The Legacy of Tanzanian Musicians Muhidin Gurumo and Hassan Bitchuka: Rhumba Kiserebuka!

    Muhidin Maalim Gurumo and Hassan Rehani Bitchuka are two of Tanzania's most well-known singers in the popular music genre known as muziki wa dansi (literally, 'music for dancing'), a variation of the Cuban-based rhumba idiom that has been enormously impactful throughout central, eastern, and...
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  • The Yoruba God of Drumming: Transatlantic Perspectives on the Wood That Talks by Villepastour, Amanda
    Amanda Villepastour

    The Yoruba God of Drumming: Transatlantic Perspectives on the Wood That Talks

    As one of the salient forces in the ritual life of those who worship the pre-Christian and Muslim deities called orishas, the Yorùbá god of drumming, known as Àyàn in Africa and Añá in Cuba, is variously described as the orisha of drumming, the...
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  • Musical Life in Guyana: History and Politics of Controlling Creativity by Cambridge, Vibert C.
    Vibert C. Cambridge

    Musical Life in Guyana: History and Politics of Controlling Creativity

    Musical Life in Guyana is the first in-depth study of Guyanese musical life. It is also a richly detailed description of the social, economic, and political conditions that have encouraged and sometimes discouraged musical and cultural creativity in Guyana. The book contributes to the...
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  • Vibe Merchants: The Sound Creators of Jamaican Popular Music by Hitchins, Ray
    Ray Hitchins

    Vibe Merchants: The Sound Creators of Jamaican Popular Music

    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...
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  • Voice Tantra Yoga Mantra: Harmony of Inner and Expressed Voice by Gokhale Ph. D., Manjiree Vikas
    Manjiree Vikas Gokhale Ph. D.

    Voice Tantra Yoga Mantra: Harmony of Inner and Expressed Voice

    A book on effective techniques of Yoga for Voice, Speech, Singing, Communication, Expression and Creativity 'Voice' is the medium of communication, and expression. 'Voice' is responsible for abstract creativity. A sweet, melodious, loud enough, energetic, smooth, steady, effective and flexible speaking or singing voice...
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  • Gender in Chinese Music by Harris, Rachel
    Rachel Harris

    Gender in Chinese Music

    Gender in Chinese Music draws together contributions from ethnomusicologists, anthropologists, and literary scholars to explore how music is implicated in changing notions of masculinity, femininity, and genders "in between" in Chinese culture. Village ritualists, international classical pianists, pop idols, and professional mourners -- whether...
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  • On Highway 61: Music, Race, and the Evolution of Cultural Freedom by McNally, Dennis
    Dennis McNally

    On Highway 61: Music, Race, and the Evolution of Cultural Freedom

    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...
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  • Music in the Life of the African Church by King, Roberta
    Roberta King

    Music in the Life of the African Church

    During the twentieth century, the number of Christians in Africa grew from an estimated 4 million to more than 300 million. One of the forces that has propelled the church's remarkable growth is its liturgical music, which has been heavily influenced by indigenous musical...
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  • Jews and Music-Making in the Polish Lands by Guesnet, François
    François Guesnet

    Jews and Music-Making in the Polish Lands

    With its five thematic sections covering genres from cantorial to classical to klezmer, this pioneering multi-disciplinary volume presents rich coverage of the work of musicians of Jewish origin in the Polish lands. It opens with the musical consequences of developments in Jewish religious practice:...
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  • One with the Music: Cape Breton Step Dancing Tradition and Transmission by Melin, Mats
    Mats Melin

    One With the Music: Cape Breton Step Dancing Tradition and Transmission

    Swedish-born traditional dancer and researcher Mats Melin has worked and performed extensively in the Scottish Highlands, the Hebrides, Orkney and Shetland, in their schools and communities promoting Scottish traditional dance. He has also taught and performed in Sweden, Canada, USA, Russia and New Zealand....
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  • Multivocality: Singing on the Borders of Identity by Meizel, Katherine
    Katherine Meizel

    Multivocality: Singing on the Borders of Identity

    Multivocality frames vocality as a way to investigate the voice in music, as a concept encompassing all the implications with which voice is inscribed-the negotiation of sound and Self, individual and culture, medium and meaning, ontology and embodiment. Like identity, vocality is fluid and...
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  • George P. Knauff's Virginia Reels and the History of American Fiddling by Goertzen, Chris
    Chris Goertzen

    George P. Knauff's Virginia Reels and the History of American Fiddling

    George P. Knauff's Virginia Reels (1839) was the first collection of southern fiddle tunes and the only substantial one published in the nineteenth century. Knauff's activity could not anticipate our modern contest-driven fiddle subcultures. But the fate of the Virginia Reels pointed in that...
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  • Provincial Headz: British Hip Hop and Critical Regionalism by de Paor-Evans, Adam
    Adam de Paor-Evans

    Provincial Headz: British Hip Hop and Critical Regionalism

    Provincial Headz: British Hip Hop and Critical Regionalism draws upon spatial practice, material culture, human geography, ethnomusicology and cultural theory in order to present an interdisciplinary counter-narrative to that of hip hop as a strictly urban phenomenon; providing an insight into the relocation of...
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  • Georges Bizet's Carmen by Furman, Nelly
    Nelly Furman

    Georges Bizet's Carmen

    The popularity of Carmen endures across generations and continents, with one of the most frequently performed and instantly recognizable operatic scores of all time and a libretto derived from Prosper M駻im馥's novella of the same name, written 30 years prior to the opera's 1875...
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  • Ethnomusicology in East Africa Perspectives from Uganda and Beyond by Nannyonga-Tamusuza, Sylvia
    Sylvia Nannyonga-Tamusuza

    Ethnomusicology in East Africa Perspectives from Uganda and Beyond

    Ethnomusicology in East Africa is a first in this part of the world. It brings together thinkers and artists from Uganda, East Africa and further afield to discuss an area of vital importance to Africans as a people. The book presents selected papers from...
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  • Sonic Ethnography: Identity, Heritage and Creative Research Practice in Basilicata, Southern Italy by Ferrarini, Lorenzo
    Lorenzo Ferrarini

    Sonic Ethnography: Identity, Heritage and Creative Research Practice in Basilicata, Southern Italy

    Sonic ethnography makes a compelling argument for taking sound seriously as a crucial component of social life and as an ethnographic form of representation. This volume explores the role of sound-making and listening practices in the formation of local identities in the southern Italian...
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  • World Music Pedagogy, Volume VII: Teaching World Music in Higher Education: Teaching World Music in Higher Education by Coppola, William J.
    William J. Coppola

    World Music Pedagogy, Volume VII: Teaching World Music in Higher Education

    World Music Pedagogy, Volume VII: Teaching World Music in Higher Education addresses a pedagogical pathway of varied strategies for teaching world music in higher education, offering concrete means for diversifying undergraduate studies through world music culture courses. While the first six volumes in this...
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  • Zoltan Kodaly's World of Music: Volume 27 by Dalos, Anna
    Anna Dalos

    Zoltan Kodaly's World of Music: Volume 27

    Hungarian composer and musician Zolt n Kod ly (1882-1967) is best known for his pedagogical system, the Kod ly Method, which has been influential in the development of music education around the world. Author Anna Dalos considers, for the first time in publication, Kod...
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  • Jazz in Europe: Networking and Negotiating Identities by Dias, José
    José Dias

    Jazz in Europe: Networking and Negotiating Identities

    Should we talk of European jazz or jazz in Europe? What kinds of networks link those who make it happen 'on the ground'? What challenges do they have to face?Jazz is a part of the cultural fabric of many of the European countries. Jazz...
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  • The Arabesk Debate: Music and Musicians in Modern Turkey by Stokes, Martin
    Martin Stokes

    The Arabesk Debate: Music and Musicians in Modern Turkey

    The Arabesk Debate describes the way in which Turkish musicians discuss, dispute, and attribute meanings to their music. Martin Stokes examines the debate over 'Arabesk', a musical genre popular throughout Turkey. His book is an ethnographic study of urban music-making in Istanbul, focusing on...
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  • Studies on a Global History of Music: A Balzan Musicology Project by Strohm, Reinhard
    Reinhard Strohm

    Studies on a Global History of Music: A Balzan Musicology Project

    The idea of a global history of music may be traced back to the Enlightenment, and today, the question of a conceptual framework for a history of music that pays due attention to global relationships in music is often raised. But how might a...
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  • Surinamese Music in the Netherlands and Suriname by Weltak, Marcel
    Marcel Weltak

    Surinamese Music in the Netherlands and Suriname

    Contributions by Herman Dijo, J. Ketwaru, Guilly Koster, Lou Lichtveld, Pondo O'Bryan, and Marcel Weltak When Marcel Weltak's Surinamese Music in the Netherlands and Suriname was published in Dutch in 1990, it was the first book to provide an overview of the music styles...
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  • The Alphorn through the Eyes of the Classical Composer (B&W) by Jones, Frances
    Frances Jones

    The Alphorn through the Eyes of the Classical Composer (B&W)

    'The Alphorn through the Eyes of the Classical Composer' is the first and definitive book to be written about the alphorn in English. It has been written with English-speaking readers in mind, as it examines the extensive interest of primarily non-Swiss composers, writers and...
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  • Representing Australian Aboriginal Music and Dance 1930-1970 by Harris, Amanda
    Amanda Harris

    Representing Australian Aboriginal Music and Dance 1930-1970

    Shortlisted for the 2021 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Australian History.Representing Australian Aboriginal Music and Dance 1930-1970offers a rethinking of recent Australian music history. Amanda Harris presents accounts of Aboriginal music and dance by Aboriginal performers on public stages. Harris also historicizes the practices...
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  • Music as Mao's Weapon: Remembering the Cultural Revolution by Ouyang, Lei X.
    Lei X. Ouyang

    Music as Mao's Weapon: Remembering the Cultural Revolution

    A Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2022 China's Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) produced propaganda music that still stirs unease and, at times, evokes nostalgia. Lei X. Ouyang uses selections from revolutionary songbooks to untangle the complex interactions between memory, trauma, and generational imprinting among those...
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  • Hip Hop Heresies: Queer Aesthetics in New York City by Smalls, Shanté Paradigm
    Shanté Paradigm Smalls

    Hip Hop Heresies: Queer Aesthetics in New York City

    Winner of the 2022-2023 New York City Book Awards! SPECIAL MENTION, 2023 IASPM Book Prize, given by the International Association for the Study of Popular Music SHORTLISTED, 2023 Ralph J. Gleason Book Award, given by the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame/Clive Davis InstituteUnearths...
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  • Music, Piety, and Propaganda: The Soundscapes of Counter-Reformation Bavaria by Fisher, Alexander J.
    Alexander J. Fisher

    Music, Piety, and Propaganda: The Soundscapes of Counter-Reformation Bavaria

    Music, Piety, and Propaganda: The Soundscapes of Counter-Reformation Bavaria explores the nature of sound as a powerful yet ambivalent force in the religious struggles that permeated Germany during the Counter-Reformation. Author Alexander J. Fisher goes beyond a musicological treatment of composers, styles, and genres...
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  • Rude Citizenship: Jamaican Popular Music, Copyright, and the Reverberations of Colonial Power by Mann, Larisa Kingston
    Larisa Kingston Mann

    Rude Citizenship: Jamaican Popular Music, Copyright, and the Reverberations of Colonial Power

    In this deep dive into the Jamaican music world filled with the voices of creators, producers, and consumers, Larisa Kingston Mann--DJ, media law expert, and ethnographer--identifies how a culture of collaboration lies at the heart of Jamaican creative practices and legal personhood. In street...
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