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  • The Oxford Handbook of Music Censorship by Hall, Patricia
    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...
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  • Jewish Contiguities and the Soundtrack of Israeli History by Shelleg, Assaf
    Assaf Shelleg

    Jewish Contiguities and the Soundtrack of Israeli History

    Jewish Contiguities and the Soundtrack of Israeli History unfolds the cultural itineraries of modern Jewish and Israeli art music. Extending from modern Jewish art music in Europe through its dislocation to British Palestine and Israel, the book captures the tensions between national rhetoric and...
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  • El Sistema: Orchestrating Venezuela's Youth by Baker, Geoffrey
    Geoffrey Baker

    El Sistema: Orchestrating Venezuela's Youth

    The Venezuelan youth orchestra program known as "El Sistema" has attracted much attention internationally, partly via its flagship orchestra, The Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra, headed by Gustavo Dudamel, and partly through its claims to use classical music education to rescue vulnerable children. Having been...
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  • Music in Korea: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture [With CD (Audio)] by Lee Kwon, Donna
    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...
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  • Music in North India: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture [With CD] by Ruckert, George E.
    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...
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  • Experimentalisms in Practice: Music Perspectives from Latin America by Alonso-Minutti, Ana R.
    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...
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  • Musical Minorities: The Sounds of Hmong Ethnicity in Northern Vietnam by Ó. Briain, Lonán
    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...
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  • In the Round: Angelica Mesiti by Mesiti, Angelica
    Angelica Mesiti

    In the Round: Angelica Mesiti

    Angelica Mesiti is one of the leading Australian artists of her generation. This beautiful book coincides with her first major exhibition in the UK, at the Talbot Rice Gallery. In the Round offers a window onto different elements of Mesiti's practice: from the communication...
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  • My Bloody Roots: From Sepultura to Soulfly and Beyond: The Autobiography (Revised & Updated Edition) by Cavalera, Max
    Max Cavalera

    My Bloody Roots: From Sepultura to Soulfly and Beyond: The Autobiography (Revised & Updated Edition)

    My Bloody Roots is the brutally honest story of life in two of the world's best-known heavy metal bands, Sepultura and Soulfly, by one of the global metal scene's most respected musicians. Max Cavalera has a unique and extraordinary story to tell, and My...
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  • Music Saved Them, They Say: Social Impacts of Music-Making and Learning in Kinshasa (DR Congo) by Pairon, Lukas
    Lukas Pairon

    Music Saved Them, They Say: Social Impacts of Music-Making and Learning in Kinshasa (Dr Congo)

    Music Saved Them, They Say: Social Impacts of Music-Making and Learning in Kinshasa (DR Congo) explores the role music-making has played in community projects run for young people in the poverty-stricken and often violent surroundings of Kinshasa, the capital city of the Democratic Republic...
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  • Songs of Earth: Aesthetic and Social Codes in Music by Wood, Anna L.
    Anna L. Wood

    Songs of Earth: Aesthetic and Social Codes in Music

    Based upon Cantometrics: An Approach to the Anthropology of Music (1976), by Alan Lomax, Songs of Earth: Aesthetic and Social Codes in Music is a contemporary guide to understanding and exploring Cantometrics, the system developed by Lomax and Victor Grauer for analyzing the formal...
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  • The Northern Silence: Journeys in Nordic Music and Culture by Mellor, Andrew
    Andrew Mellor

    The Northern Silence: Journeys in Nordic Music and Culture

    An essential exploration of Nordic composers and musicians, and the distinctive culture that continues to shape them Once considered a musical backwater, the Nordic region is now a musical powerhouse. Conductors from Denmark and Finland dominate the British and American orchestral scene. Interest in...
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  • Scholarly Research in Music: Shared and Disciplinary-Specific Practices by Lee, Sang-Hie
    Sang-Hie Lee

    Scholarly Research in Music: Shared and Disciplinary-Specific Practices

    Scholarly Research in Music: Shared and Disciplinary-Specific Practices, Second Edition offers a comprehensive and detailed guide to engaging in research in all disciplines of music. This second edition continues to provide the foundational principles of research for all musicians, including performers, theorists, composers, conductors,...
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  • Overtone Singing: Harmonic Dimensions of the Human Voice by Van Tongeren, Mark
    Mark Van Tongeren

    Overtone Singing: Harmonic Dimensions of the Human Voice

    An indispensable guide to a deeper understanding of the nature of the human voice and its harmonic possibilities from East to West. Overtone Singing is the most comprehensive book ever written on the hidden harmonies of the human voice. Ethnomusicologist and vocalist Mark van...
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  • Trends in World Music Analysis: New Directions in World Music Analysis by Shuster, Lawrence Beaumont
    Lawrence Beaumont Shuster

    Trends in World Music Analysis: New Directions in World Music Analysis

    This volume brings together a group of analytical chapters exploring traditional genres and styles of world music, capturing a vibrant and expanding field of research. These contributors, drawn from the forefront of researchers in world music analysis, seek to break down barriers and build...
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  • On Counter-Enlightenment, Existential Irony, and Sanctification: Essays in the Sociology of Western Art Musics by Matras, Judah
    Judah Matras

    On Counter-Enlightenment, Existential Irony, and Sanctification: Essays in the Sociology of Western Art Musics

    The book introduces the topics of Enlightenment, Counter-Enlightenment, and social demography in Western art musics and shows their historical and sociological importance, while exploring the concepts of "existential irony" and "sanctification," which have not previously been the focus of any other studies.Author: Judah MatrasISBN-10:...
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  • Focus: Gamelan Music of Indonesia by Spiller, Henry
    Henry Spiller

    Focus: Gamelan Music of Indonesia

    Focus: Gamelan Music of Indonesia, Third Edition, introduces the emblematic music of Southeast Asia's largest country, as sound and as cultural phenomenon, highlighting the significant role gamelan music plays in the national culture while teaching of Indonesian values and modern-day life. Despite Indonesia's great...
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  • Hearing Maskanda: Musical Epistemologies in South Africa by Titus, Barbara
    Barbara Titus

    Hearing Maskanda: Musical Epistemologies in South Africa

    Hearing Maskanda outlines how people make sense of their world through practicing and hearing maskanda music in South Africa. Having emerged in response to the experience of forced labour migration in the early 20th century, maskanda continues to straddle a wide range of cultural...
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  • The Kecak and Cultural Tourism on Bali by Stepputat, Kendra
    Kendra Stepputat

    The Kecak and Cultural Tourism on Bali

    Examines the history of one of the best known dramatic dance performance practices on Bali and its connection with cultural tourism. The kecak is one of the best-known dramatic dance performance practices on Bali. Based on the ancient Indian Ramayana epic, it is performed...
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  • Turkish Folk Music between Ghent and Turkey: Context, Performance, Function by Sels, Liselotte
    Liselotte Sels

    Turkish Folk Music between Ghent and Turkey: Context, Performance, Function

    Shaped by the processes of migration, diasporization and cosmopolitanization, musical performance conditions and contexts constantly change, while new musical forms emerge and evolve. The development of Turkish folk music is well-documented and provides rich material for study in the motherland and in the diaspora....
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  • Power Ballads And The Stories Behind by Yfantis, Vasileios
    Vasileios Yfantis

    Power Ballads And The Stories Behind

    Power Ballads is a term that derives from the 1970s and especially from an era when Led Zeppelin, Lynyrd Skynyrd and other associated acts conquered the airwaves with their electrified ballads. Millions of listeners were attracted to the songs that were a mix of...
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  • Rītigaula: A Study of Improvisation and Discourse in Indian Music by Mukherji, Somangshu
    Somangshu Mukherji

    Rītigaula: A Study of Improvisation and Discourse in Indian Music

    This book, authored by the late Princeton music scholar Harold Powers, discusses a single Indian rāga called Rītigaula. Rītigaula's pitch structure, conventions surrounding its performance, and its treatment in historical Indian music treatises are comprehensively described. Powers's unique approach to theorizing rāga examines rāga...
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  • Gullah Spirituals: The Sound of Freedom and Protest in the South Carolina Sea Islands by Crawford, Eric Sean
    Eric Sean Crawford

    Gullah Spirituals: The Sound of Freedom and Protest in the South Carolina Sea Islands

    In Gullah Spirituals musicologist Eric Crawford traces Gullah Geechee songs from their beginnings in West Africa to their height as songs for social change and Black identity in the twentieth century American South. While much has been done to study, preserve, and interpret Gullah...
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  • The Alphorn through the Eyes of the Classical Composer (Premium Color) by Jones, Frances
    Frances Jones

    The Alphorn through the Eyes of the Classical Composer (Premium Color)

    '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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  • Made in Nusantara: Studies in Popular Music by Johan, Adil
    Adil Johan

    Made in Nusantara: Studies in Popular Music

    Made in Nusantara serves as a comprehensive introduction to the history, sociology, ethnography, and musicology of historical and contemporary popular music in maritime Southeast Asia. Each essay covers major figures, styles, and social contexts of genres of a popular nature in the Nusantara region...
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  • Sonic Overload: Alfred Schnittke, Valentin Silvestrov, and Polystylism in the Late USSR by Schmelz, Peter J.
    Peter J. Schmelz

    Sonic Overload: Alfred Schnittke, Valentin Silvestrov, and Polystylism in the Late USSR

    Sonic Overload offers a new, music-centered cultural history of the late Soviet Union. It focuses on polystylism in music as a response to the information overload swamping listeners in the Soviet Union during its final decades. It traces the ways in which leading composers...
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  • Music and Autism: Speaking for Ourselves by Bakan, Michael
    Michael Bakan

    Music and Autism: Speaking for Ourselves

    In Music and Autism: Speaking for Ourselves, renowned ethnomusicologist Michael Bakan engages in deep conversations-some spanning the course of years-with ten unique and fascinating individuals who share two basic things in common: an autism spectrum diagnosis and a life in which music is central....
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  • Transforming Ethnomusicology Volume II: Political, Social & Ecological Issues by Diamond, Beverley
    Beverley Diamond

    Transforming Ethnomusicology Volume II: Political, Social & Ecological Issues

    For decades, ethnomusicologists across the world have considered how to affect positive change for the communities they work with. Through illuminating case studies and reflections by a diverse array of scholars and practitioners, Transforming Ethnomusicology aims to both expand dialogues about social engagement within...
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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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  • Female Highlife Performers in Ghana: Expression, Resistance, and Advocacy by Amoah-Ramey, Nana Abena
    Nana Abena Amoah-Ramey

    Female Highlife Performers in Ghana: Expression, Resistance, and Advocacy

    This book offers a detailed analysis of the history of female musicians in the Highlife music tradition of the Republic of Ghana, particularly the challenges and constraints these women faced and overcame. Highlife - a form of West African music infusing Ghana's traditional Akan...
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  • Giving Voice to Democracy in Music Education: Diversity and Social Justice in the Classroom by Delorenzo, Lisa C.
    Lisa C. Delorenzo

    Giving Voice to Democracy in Music Education: Diversity and Social Justice in the Classroom

    This book examines how music education presents opportunities to shape democratic awareness through political, pedagogical, and humanistic perspectives. Focusing on democracy as a vital dimension in teaching music, the essays in this volume have particular relevance to teaching music as democratic practice in both...
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  • Sound Communities in the Asia Pacific: Music, Media, and Technology by Briain, Lonán Ó.
    Lon疣 ﾓ. Briain

    Sound Communities in the Asia Pacific: Music, Media, and Technology

    The popularization of radio, television, and the Internet radically transformed musical practice in the Asia Pacific. These technologies bequeathed media broadcasters with a profound authority over the ways we engage with musical culture. Broadcasters use this power to promote distinct cultural traditions, popularize new...
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  • Theological Stains: Art Music and the Zionist Project by Shelleg, Assaf
    Assaf Shelleg

    Theological Stains: Art Music and the Zionist Project

    Theological Stains offers the first in-depth study of the development of art music in Israel from the mid-twentieth century to the turn of the twenty-first. In a bold and deeply researched account, author Assaf Shelleg explores the theological grammar of Zionism and its impact...
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  • Popular Music in Japan: Transformation Inspired by the West by Mitsui, Toru
    Toru Mitsui

    Popular Music in Japan: Transformation Inspired by the West

    Popular music in Japan has been under the overwhelming influence of American, Latin American and European popular music remarkably since 1945, when Japan was defeated in World War II. Beginning with gunka and enkaat the turn of the century, tracing the birth of hit...
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  • Improvising Sabor: Cuban Dance Music in New York by Miller, Sue
    Sue Miller

    Improvising Sabor: Cuban Dance Music in New York

    Improvising Sabor: Cuban Dance Music in New York begins in 1960s New York and examines in rich detail the playing styles and international influence of important figures in US Latin music. Such innovators as José Fajardo, Johnny Pacheco, George Castro, and Eddy Zervigón dazzled...
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  • Lift Every Voice: The History of African American Music by Peretti, Burton W.
    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...
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  • I Don't Like the Blues: Race, Place, and the Backbeat of Black Life by Foster, B. Brian
    B. Brian Foster

    I Don't Like the Blues: Race, Place, and the Backbeat of Black Life

    How do you love and not like the same thing at the same time? This was the riddle that met Mississippi writer B. Brian Foster when he returned to his home state to learn about Black culture and found himself hearing about the blues....
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  • Listening to War: Sound, Music, Trauma, and Survival in Wartime Iraq by Daughtry, J. Martin
    J. Martin Daughtry

    Listening to War: Sound, Music, Trauma, and Survival in Wartime Iraq

    To witness war is, in large part, to hear it. And to survive it is, among other things, to have listened to it--and to have listened through it. Listening to War: Sound, Music, Trauma, and Survival in Wartime Iraq is a groundbreaking study of...
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  • Musical Gentrification: Popular Music, Distinction and Social Mobility by Dyndahl, Petter
    Petter Dyndahl

    Musical Gentrification: Popular Music, Distinction and Social Mobility

    Musical Gentrification is an exploration of the role of popular music in processes of socio-cultural inclusion and exclusion in a variety of contexts. Twelve chapters by international scholars reveal how cultural objects of relatively lower status, in this case popular musics, are made objects...
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  • God Rock, Inc.: The Business of Niche Music by Mall, Andrew
    Andrew Mall

    God Rock, Inc.: The Business of Niche Music

    Popular music in the twenty-first century is increasingly divided into niche markets. How do fans, musicians, and music industry executives define their markets' boundaries? What happens when musicians cross those boundaries? What can Christian music teach us about commercial popular music? In God Rock,...
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  • Performing History: Approaches to History Across Musicology by November, Nancy
    Nancy November

    Performing History: Approaches to History Across Musicology

    The fifteen essays of this volume glimpse the diverse ways music historians "do" history, and the diverse ways in which music histories matter. The book takes in historical musicology as well as ethnomusicology and popular music, showcasing the diverse lines of evidence and approaches...
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  • Musicians' Migratory Patterns: American-Mexican Border Lands by Rodríguez, Mauricio
    Mauricio Rodr?uez

    Musicians' Migratory Patterns: American-Mexican Border Lands

    Musicians' Migratory Patterns: American-Mexican Border Lands considers the works and ideologies of an array of American-based, immigrant Mexican musicians. It asserts their immigrant status as a central force in nourishing, informing, and propelling musical and artistic concerns, uncovering pure and fresh forms of expression...
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  • Turkic Soundscapes: From Shamanic Voices to Hip-Hop by Sultanova, Razia
    Razia Sultanova

    Turkic Soundscapes: From Shamanic Voices to Hip-Hop

    The Turkic soundscape is both geographically huge and culturally diverse (twenty-eight countries, republics and districts extending from Eastern Europe through the Caucasus and throughout Central Asia). Although the Turkic peoples of the world can trace their linguistic and genetic ancestries to common sources, their...
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  • Music, Modernity, and Publicness in India by Niranjana, Tejaswini
    Tejaswini Niranjana

    Music, Modernity, and Publicness in India

    A collection of essays that focus on the role of music in the formation of a public in India across the twentieth century, Music, Modernity, and Publicness in India looks at different regions, languages, and different genres and styles of music. Modernity fundamentally changed...
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  • Music Scenes and Migrations: Space and Transnationalism in Brazil, Portugal and the Atlantic by Treece, David
    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...
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  • Music and Media in the Arab World by Frishkopf, Michael
    Michael Frishkopf

    Music and Media in the Arab World

    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 dissemination--from phonograph cylinders to MP3s--each subjected to the political and economic forces of its...
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  • Rihanna: Barbados World-Gurl in Global Popular Culture by Beckles, Hilary MCD
    Hilary MCD Beckles

    Rihanna: Barbados World-Gurl in Global Popular Culture

    Rihanna is arguably the most commercially successful Caribbean artist in history. She is Barbadian and has been unwavering in publicly articulating her national and regional belonging. Still, there have been varied responses to Rihanna's ascendancy, among both Barbadians and the wider Caribbean community. The...
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  • Luk Thung: The Culture and Politics of Thailand's Most Popular Music by Mitchell, James Leonard
    James Leonard Mitchell

    Luk Thung: The Culture and Politics of Thailand's Most Popular Music

    Since the 1960s, the hybrid popular music called luk thung has embodied the aspirations, frustrations, and sorrows of Thailand's working class. Global scholarship, however, has been slow in examining this seminal genre. In this pioneering book, ethnomusicologist James Mitchell explores the many facets of...
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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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  • The Musical Gift: Sonic Generosity in Post-War Sri Lanka by Sykes, Jim
    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...
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