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  • Music and Ethics by Cobussen, Marcel
    Marcel Cobussen

    Music and Ethics

    It seems self-evident that music plays more than just an aesthetic role in contemporary society. In addition, music's social, political, emancipatory, and economical functions have been the subject of much recent research. Given this, it is surprising that the subject of ethics has often...
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  • Global Metal Music and Culture: Current Directions in Metal Studies by Spracklen, Karl
    Andy Brown

    Global Metal Music and Culture: Current Directions in Metal Studies

    This book defines the key ideas, scholarly debates, and research activities that have contributed to the formation of the international and interdisciplinary field of Metal Studies. Drawing on insights from a wide range of disciplines including popular music, cultural studies, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, and...
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  • Ugandan Music in the Marketing Era: The Branded Arena by Pier, David G.
    David G. Pier

    Ugandan Music in the Marketing Era: The Branded Arena

    David G. Pier offers an ethnographic study of the Senator Extravaganza traditional dance competition in Uganda, and the performers, marketers, and other actors who were involved in it. Pier illustrates the event as part of a broader moment in Ugandan and African public culture...
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  • Gongs and Pop Songs: Sounding Minangkabau in Indonesia by Fraser, Jennifer A.
    Jennifer A. Fraser

    Gongs and Pop Songs: Sounding Minangkabau in Indonesia

    Scholarship on the musical traditions of Indonesia has long focused on practices from Java and Bali, including famed gamelan traditions, at the expense of the wide diversity of other musical forms within the archipelago. Jennifer A. Fraser counters this tendency by exploring a little-known...
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  • Rockin' Las Americas: The Global Politics of Rock in Latin/o America by Pacini Hernandez, Deborah
    Deborah Pacini Hernandez

    Rockin' Las Americas: The Global Politics of Rock in Latin/o America

    Every nation in the Americas--from indigenous Peru to revolutionary Cuba--has been touched by the cultural and musical impact of rock. Rockin\u2019 Las Am\u00e9ricas is the first book to explore the production, dissemination, and consumption of rock music throughout the Caribbean, Mexico, Central America, Brazil,...
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  • Singing in Czech: A Guide to Czech Lyric Diction and Vocal Repertoire by Cheek, Timothy
    Timothy Cheek

    Singing in Czech: A Guide to Czech Lyric Diction and Vocal Repertoire

    Timothy Cheek's revised edition of Singing in Czech: A Guide to Czech Lyric Diction and Vocal Repertoire, with its accompanying audio accessible online, builds on the original pioneering work of 2001 that set "a new and very welcome high standard for teaching lyric diction,"...
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  • Tin Pan Alley and the Philippines: American Songs of War and Love, 1898-1946, a Resource Guide by Walsh, Thomas P.
    Thomas P. Walsh

    Tin Pan Alley and the Philippines: American Songs of War And Love, 1898-1946, A Resource Guide

    In this innovative resource, Thomas P. Walsh has compiled a unique collection of some 1,400 published and unpublished American musical compositions related to the Philippines during the American colonial era from 1898 to 1946. For the guide, Walsh surveyed a wide array of sources:...
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  • Music and Displacement: Diasporas, Mobilities, and Dislocations in Europe and Beyond by Levi, Erik
    Erik Levi

    Music and Displacement: Diasporas, Mobilities, and Dislocations in Europe and Beyond

    The grand narratives of European music history are informed by the dichotomy of placements and displacements. Yet musicology has thus far largely ignored the phenomenon of displacement and underestimated its significance for musical landscapes and music history. Music and Displacement: Diasporas, Mobilities, and Dislocations...
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  • Postmodernism and Globalization in Ethnomusicology: An Epistemological Problem by Nercessian, Andy H.
    Andy H. Nercessian

    Postmodernism and Globalization in Ethnomusicology: An Epistemological Problem

    Is the music world clinging to an outdated school of thought in ethnomusicology? Nercessian shows how the theory of cultural relativism continues to detrimentally pervade ethnomusicological thought, and then offers a solution that may better serve musical study in today's more globalized world. At...
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  • The Mystery of Samba: Popular Music and National Identity in Brazil by Vianna, Hermano
    Hermano Vianna

    The Mystery of Samba: Popular Music and National Identity in Brazil

    Samba is Brazil's "national rhythm," the foremost symbol of its culture and nationhood. To the outsider, samba and the famous pre-Lenten carnival of which it is the centerpiece seem to showcase the country's African heritage. Within Brazil, however, samba symbolizes the racial and cultural...
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  • Franklin D Roosevelt by Renshaw, Patrick
    Patrick Renshaw

    Franklin D Roosevelt

    An important addition to the Profiles in Power series, this critical biography looks at Franklin D. Roosevelt, the most dominant US politician of the 1930s and 1940s. Roosevelt led the United States through the two great crises of depression and the Second World War,...
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  • The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music, Space and Place by Stahl, Geoff
    Geoff Stahl

    The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music, Space and Place

    Popular music scholars have long been interested in the connection between place and music. This collection brings together a number of key scholars in order to introduce readers to concepts and theories used to explore the relationships between place and music. An interdisciplinary volume,...
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  • The Mystery of Chopin's Préludes by Leikin, Anatole
    Anatole Leikin

    The Mystery of Chopin's Pr駘udes

    Chopin's twenty-four Pr ludes remain as mysterious today as when they were newly published. What prompted Franz Liszt and others to consider Chopin's Pr ludes to be compositions in their own right rather than introductions to other works? What did set Chopin's Pr ludes...
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  • The Hallelujah Effect: Philosophical Reflections on Music, Performance Practice, and Technology by Babich, Babette
    Babette Babich

    The Hallelujah Effect: Philosophical Reflections on Music, Performance Practice, and Technology

    This book studies the working efficacy of Leonard Cohen's song Hallelujah in the context of today's network culture. Especially as recorded on YouTube, k.d. lang's interpretation(s) of Cohen's Hallelujah, embody acoustically and visually/viscerally, what Nietzsche named the 'spirit of music'. Today, the working of...
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  • Music Education in Africa: Concept, Process, and Practice by Akuno, Emily Achieng'
    Emily Achieng' Akuno

    Music Education in Africa: Concept, Process, and Practice

    This book explores the music of Africa and its experience in modern education, offering music education analyses from African perspectives. The collection assembles insights from around Africa to bring African and non-African scholars into the world of music, education, policy, and assessment as played...
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  • The Spirituals and the Blues - 50th Anniversary Edition by James, Cone
    Cone James

    The Spirituals and the Blues - 50th Anniversary Edition

    "The power of song in the struggle for Black survival--that is what the spirituals and the blues are about." James H. Cone revolutionized American theology with the publication in 1969 and 1970 of his first groundbreaking works on Black Liberation Theology--a fusion of themes...
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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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  • Missouri Folklore Society Journal: Special Issue: Black Music in the Black Press: an Anthology of Essays from the Heartland by Rice, Marc
    Marc Rice

    Missouri Folklore Society Journal: Special Issue: Black Music in the Black Press: an Anthology of Essays from the Heartland

    Ethnomusicologist Marc Rice immersed himself in African American newspapers published between 1879 and 1935, sifting through hundreds of articles and editorials by Black writers about Black music and musicians. In eight chapters, his Special Issue of the Missouri Folklore Society Journal traces the stars.Author:...
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  • The Games Black Girls Play: Learning the Ropes from Double-Dutch to Hip-Hop by Gaunt, Kyra D.
    Kyra D. Gaunt

    The Games Black Girls Play: Learning the Ropes from Double-Dutch to Hip-Hop

    2007 Alan Merriam Prize presented by the Society for Ethnomusicology 2007 PEN/Beyond Margins Book Award Finalist Explores how the traditions of black music are intertwined in the games black girls grow up with When we think of African American popular music, our first thought...
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  • Professional Music-Making in London: Ethnography and Experience by Cottrell, Stephen
    Stephen Cottrell

    Professional Music-Making in London: Ethnography and Experience

    Professional Music-Making in London is an engaging yet innovative study which examines the lives and work of Western art musicians from an ethnographic perspective. Drawing in part on his own professional experience, Stephen Cottrell considers to what extent musicians in Western society conform to...
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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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  • Presence Through Sound: Music and Place in East Asia by Howard, Keith
    Keith Howard

    Presence Through Sound: Music and Place in East Asia

    Presence Through Sound narrates and analyses, through a range of case studies on selected musics of China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and Tibet, some of the many ways in which music and 'place' intersect and are interwoven with meaning in East Asia. It explores how...
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  • Ethnomusicology and Cultural Diplomacy by Hebert, David G.
    David G. Hebert

    Ethnomusicology and Cultural Diplomacy

    Music has long played a prominent role in cultural diplomacy, but until now no resource has comparatively examined policies that shape how non-western countries use music for international relations. Ethnomusicology and Cultural Diplomacy, edited by scholars David G. Hebert and Jonathan McCollum, demonstrates music's...
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  • Microtonality and the Tuning Systems of Erv Wilson by Narushima, Terumi
    Terumi Narushima

    Microtonality and the Tuning Systems of Erv Wilson

    This book explores the emerging area of microtonality through an examination of the tuning theories of Erv Wilson. It is the first publication to offer a broad discussion of this influential theorist whose innovations have far-reaching ramifications for microtonal tuning systems. This study addresses...
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  • The Hidden Musicians: Music-Making in an English Town by Finnegan, Ruth
    Ruth Finnegan

    The Hidden Musicians: Music-Making in an English Town

    A classic ethnography reveals the worlds of amateur musicians. Back in print with a new preface.A landmark in the study of music and culture, this acclaimed volume documents the remarkable scope of amateur music-making in the English town of Milton Keynes. It presents in...
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  • Gamelan Girls: Gender, Childhood, and Politics in Balinese Music Ensembles by Downing, Sonja Lynn
    Sonja Lynn Downing

    Gamelan Girls: Gender, Childhood, and Politics in Balinese Music Ensembles

    In recent years, girls' and mixed-gender ensembles have challenged the tradition of male-dominated gamelan performance. The change heralds a fundamental shift in how Balinese think about gender roles and the gender behavior taught in children's music education. It also makes visible a national reorganization...
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  • Making It Up Together: The Art of Collective Improvisation in Balinese Music and Beyond by Tilley, Leslie A.
    Leslie A. Tilley

    Making It Up Together: The Art of Collective Improvisation in Balinese Music and Beyond

    Most studies of musical improvisation focus on individual musicians. But that is not the whole story. From jazz to flamenco, Shona mbira to Javanese gamelan, improvised practices thrive on group creativity, relying on the close interaction of multiple simultaneously improvising performers. In Making It...
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  • SamulNori: Contemporary Korean Drumming and the Rebirth of Itinerant Performance Culture [With CD (Audio)] by Hesselink, Nathan
    Nathan Hesselink

    SamulNori: Contemporary Korean Drumming and the Rebirth of Itinerant Performance Culture [With CD (Audio)]

    In 1978, four musicians crowded into a cramped basement theater in downtown Seoul, where they, for the first time, brought the rural percussive art of p'ungmul to a burgeoning urban audience. In doing so, they began a decades-long reinvention of tradition, one that would...
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  • Thinking Musically: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture [With CD (Audio)] by Wade, Bonnie C.
    Bonnie C. Wade

    Thinking Musically: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture [With CD (Audio)]

    As the cornerstone of the Global Music Series, Thinking Musically, Third Edition, explores musical diversity by integrating the sounds and traditions of world cultures. Bonnie C. Wade discusses how various cultural influences-gender, ethnicity, mass media, westernization, nationalism, and acculturation-are shaping music and the ways...
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  • Sonic Mobilities: Producing Worlds in Southern China by Kielman, Adam
    Adam Kielman

    Sonic Mobilities: Producing Worlds in Southern China

    A fascinating look at how the popular musical culture of Guangzhou expresses the city's unique cosmopolitanism. Guangzhou is a large Chinese city like many others. With a booming economy and abundant job opportunities, it has become a magnet for rural citizens seeking better job...
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  • Sonic Identity at the Margins by Love, Joanna
    Joanna Love

    Sonic Identity at the Margins

    Sonic Identity at the Margins convenes the interdisciplinary work of 17 academics, composers, and performers to examine sonic identity from the 19th century to the present. Recognizing the myriad aspects of identity formation, the authors in this volume adopt methodological approaches that range from...
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  • Music from the Tang Court: Volume 7: Some Ancient Connections Explored by Picken, Laurence E. R.
    Laurence E. R. Picken

    Music from the Tang Court: Volume 7: Some Ancient Connections Explored

    The series of volumes of Music from the Tang Court considers a repertory of music at least 1400 years old. During the two centuries before 841 the Japanese Court borrowed a large amount of secular entertainment music from China. This 'Tang Music' (Togaku) survives...
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  • Traditions of Gamelan Music in Java: Musical Pluralism and Regional Identity by Sutton, R. Anderson
    R. Anderson Sutton

    Traditions of Gamelan Music in Java: Musical Pluralism and Regional Identity

    This book is a wide-ranging study of the varieties of gamelan music in contemporary Java seen from a regional perspective. While the focus of most studies of Javanese music has been limited to the court-derived music of Surakarta and Yogyakarta, Sutton goes beyond them...
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  • Who Hears Here?: On Black Music, Pasts and Present Volume 1 by Ramsey, Guthrie P.
    Guthrie P. Ramsey

    Who Hears Here?: On Black Music, Pasts and Present Volume 1

    Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr., is an award-winning musicologist, music historian, composer, and pianist whose prescient theoretical and critical interventions have bridged Black cultural studies and musicology. Representing twenty-five years of commentary and scholarship, these essays document Ramsey's search to understand America's Black musical past...
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  • Songs of Seoul: An Ethnography of Voice and Voicing in Christian South Korea by Harkness, Nicholas
    Nicholas Harkness

    Songs of Seoul: An Ethnography of Voice and Voicing in Christian South Korea

    Songs of Seoul is an ethnographic study of voice in South Korea, where the performance of Western opera, art songs, and choral music is an overwhelmingly Evangelical Christian enterprise. Drawing on fieldwork in churches, concert halls, and schools of music, Harkness argues that the...
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  • On Russian Music by Taruskin, Richard
    Richard Taruskin

    On Russian Music

    Over the past four decades, Richard Taruskin's publications have redefined the field of Russian-music study. This volume gathers thirty-six essays on composers ranging from Bortnyansky in the eighteenth century to Tarnopolsky in the twenty-first, as well as all of the famous names in between....
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  • Women, the Recited Qur'an, and Islamic Music in Indonesia by Rasmussen, Anne
    Anne Rasmussen

    Women, the Recited Qur'an, and Islamic Music in Indonesia

    Women, the Recited Qur'an, and Islamic Music in Contemporary Indonesia takes readers to the heart of religious musical praxis in Indonesia, home to the largest Muslim population in the world. Anne K. Rasmussen explores a rich public soundscape, where women recite the divine texts...
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  • Music Divided: Bartók's Legacy in Cold War Culturevolume 7 by Fosler-Lussier, Danielle
    Danielle Fosler-Lussier

    Music Divided: Bart's Legacy in Cold War Culture Volume 7

    Music Divided explores how political pressures affected musical life on both sides of the iron curtain during the early years of the cold war. In this groundbreaking study, Danielle Fosler-Lussier illuminates the pervasive political anxieties of the day through particular attention to artistic, music-theoretical,...
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  • Unplayed Melodies: Javanese Gamelan and the Genesis of Music Theory by Perlman, Marc
    Marc Perlman

    Unplayed Melodies: Javanese Gamelan and the Genesis of Music Theory

    The gamelan music of Central Java is one of the world's great orchestral traditions. Its rich sonic texture is not based on Western-style harmony or counterpoint, but revolves around a single melody. The nature of that melody, however, is puzzling. In this book, Marc...
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  • Performing Ethnomusicology: Teaching and Representation in World Music Ensembles by Solis, Ted
    Ted Solis

    Performing Ethnomusicology: Teaching and Representation in World Music Ensembles

    Performing Ethnomusicology is the first book to deal exclusively with creating, teaching, and contextualizing academic world music performing ensembles. Considering the formidable theoretical, ethical, and practical issues that confront ethnomusicologists who direct such ensembles, the sixteen essays in this volume discuss problems of public...
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  • Music Theory in the Safavid Era: The Taqsīm Al-Naġamāt by Wright, Owen
    Owen Wright

    Music Theory in the Safavid Era: The taqsīm al-naġamāt

    The Safavid era (1501-1722) is one of the most important in the history of Persian culture, celebrated especially for its architecture and art, including miniature paintings that frequently represent singers and instrumentalists. Their presence reflects a sophisticated tradition of music making that was an...
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  • Music and Encounter at the Mediterranean Crossroads: A Sea of Voices by Davis, Ruth F.
    Ruth F. Davis

    Music and Encounter at the Mediterranean Crossroads: A Sea of Voices

    Music and Encounter at the Mediterranean Crossroads: A Sea of Voices explores the musical practices that circulate the Mediterranean Sea. Collectively, the authors relate this musical flow to broader transnational flows of people and power that generate complex encounters, bringing the diverse cultures of...
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  • Walking the Line: Country Music Lyricists and American Culture by Holmes, Thomas Alan
    Thomas Alan Holmes

    Walking the Line: Country Music Lyricists and American Culture

    An insightful and wide-ranging look at one of America's most popular genres of music, Walking the Line: Country Music Lyricists and American Culture examines how country songwriters engage with their nation's religion, literature, and politics. Country fans have long encountered the concept of walking...
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  • Music, Communities, Sustainability: Developing Policies and Practices by Schippers, Huib
    Huib Schippers

    Music, Communities, Sustainability: Developing Policies and Practices

    Music, Communities, Sustainability, edited thoughtfully by Huib Schippers and Anthony Seeger, traces the genesis, implementation, and development of the influential 2003 UNESCO Convention on Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage and its impact on music practices around the world. With insights from established and...
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  • Ocean of Sound: Ambient Sound and Radical Listening in the Age of Communication by Toop, David
    David Toop

    Ocean of Sound: Ambient Sound and Radical Listening in the Age of Communication

    David Toop's extraordinary work of sonic history travels from the rainforests of Amazonas to the megalopolis of Tokyo via the work of artists as diverse as Brian Eno, Sun Ra, Erik Satie, Kate Bush, Kraftwerk and Brian Wilson. Beginning in 1889 at the Paris...
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  • Spinning the Child: Musical Constructions of Childhood through Records, Radio and Television by Maloy, Liam
    Liam Maloy

    Spinning the Child: Musical Constructions of Childhood Through Records, Radio and Television

    Spinning the Child examines music for children on records, radio and television by assessing how ideals of entertainment, education, 'the child' and 'the family' have been communicated through folk music, the BBC's children's radio broadcasting, the children's songs of Woody Guthrie, Sesame Street, The...
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  • Popular Musicology and Identity: Essays in Honour of Stan Hawkins by Hansen, Kai Arne
    Kai Arne Hansen

    Popular Musicology and Identity: Essays in Honour of Stan Hawkins

    Popular Musicology and Identity paves new paths for studying popular music's entwinement with gender, sexuality, ethnicity, class, locality, and a range of other factors. The book consists of original essays in honour of Stan Hawkins, whose work has been a major influence on the...
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  • Hearing Brazil: Music and Histories in Minas Gerais by Grasse, Jonathon
    Jonathon Grasse

    Hearing Brazil: Music and Histories in Minas Gerais

    Minas Gerais is a state in southeastern Brazil deeply connected to the nation's slave past and home to many traditions related to the African diaspora. Addressing a wide range of traditions helping to define the region, ethnomusicologist Jonathon Grasse examines the complexity of Minas...
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  • Hearing Brazil: Music and Histories in Minas Gerais by Grasse, Jonathon
    Jonathon Grasse

    Hearing Brazil: Music and Histories in Minas Gerais

    Minas Gerais is a state in southeastern Brazil deeply connected to the nation's slave past and home to many traditions related to the African diaspora. Addressing a wide range of traditions helping to define the region, ethnomusicologist Jonathon Grasse examines the complexity of Minas...
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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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