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  • Punk Crisis: The Global Punk Rock Revolution by Patton, Raymond A.
    Raymond A. Patton

    Punk Crisis: The Global Punk Rock Revolution

    In March 1977, John "Johnny Rotten" Lydon of the punk band the Sex Pistols looked over the Berlin wall onto the grey, militarized landscape of East Berlin, which reminded him of home in London. Lydon went up to the wall and extended his middle...
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  • Thought and Play in Musical Rhythm by Wolf, Richard
    Richard Wolf

    Thought and Play in Musical Rhythm

    Thought and Play in Musical Rhythm offers new understandings of musical rhythm through the analysis and comparison of diverse repertoires, performance practices, and theories as formulated and transmitted in speech or writing. Editors Richard K. Wolf, Stephen Blum, and Christopher Hasty address a productive...
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  • The Oxford Handbook of Mobile Music Studies, Volume 1 by Gopinath, Sumanth
    Sumanth Gopinath

    The Oxford Handbook of Mobile Music Studies, Volume 1

    The two volumes of The Oxford Handbook of Mobile Music Studies consolidate an area of scholarly inquiry that addresses how mechanical, electrical, and digital technologies and their corresponding economies of scale have rendered music and sound increasingly mobile-portable, fungible, and ubiquitous. At once a...
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  • Singing Across Divides: Music and Intimate Politics in Nepal by Stirr, Anna Marie
    Anna Marie Stirr

    Singing Across Divides: Music and Intimate Politics in Nepal

    An ethnographic study of music, performance, migration, and circulation, Singing Across Divides examines how forms of love and intimacy are linked to changing conceptions of political solidarity and forms of belonging, through the lens of Nepali dohori song. The book describes dohori improvised, dialogic...
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  • Modeling Ethnomusicology by Rice, Timothy
    Timothy Rice

    Modeling Ethnomusicology

    Ethnomusicology is an academic discipline with a very broad mandate: to understand why and how human beings are musical through the study of music in all its geographical and historical diversity. Ethnomusicological scholarship, however, has been remiss in articulating such goals, methods, and theories....
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  • Musical Solidarities: Political Action and Music in Late Twentieth-Century Poland by Bohlman, Andrea F.
    Andrea F. Bohlman

    Musical Solidarities: Political Action and Music in Late Twentieth-Century Poland

    Musical Solidarities: Political Action and Music in Late Twentieth-Century Poland is a music history of Solidarity, the social movement opposing state socialism in 1980s Poland. The story unfolds along crucial sites of political action under state socialism: underground radio networks, the sanctuaries of the...
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  • Pinery Boys: Songs and Songcatching in the Lumberjack Era by Rickaby, Franz
    Franz Rickaby

    Pinery Boys: Songs and Songcatching in the Lumberjack Era

    As the heyday of the lumber camps faded, a young scholar named Franz Rickaby set out to find songs from shanty boys, river drivers, and sawmill hands in the Upper Midwest. Traveling mostly on foot with a fiddle slung over his shoulder, Rickaby fell...
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  • Sound Figures of Modernity: German Music and Philosophy by Hermand, Jost
    Jost Hermand

    Sound Figures of Modernity: German Music and Philosophy

    The rich conceptual and experiential relays between music and philosophy--echoes of what Theodor W. Adorno once called Klangfiguren, or "sound figures"--resonate with heightened intensity during the period of modernity that extends from early German Idealism to the Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School. This...
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  • Folk-Songs of the Southern United States by Combs, Josiah H.
    Josiah H. Combs

    Folk-Songs of the Southern United States

    "The spirit of balladry is not dead, but slowly dying. The instincts, sentiments, and feelings which it represents are indeed as immortal as romance itself, but their mode of expression, the folksong, is fighting with its back to the wall, with the odds against...
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  • Music for the Revolution: Musicians and Power in Early Soviet Russia by Nelson, Amy
    Amy Nelson

    Music for the Revolution: Musicians and Power in Early Soviet Russia

    Mention twentieth-century Russian music, and the names of three "giants"--Igor Stravinsky, Sergei Prokofiev, and Dmitrii Shostakovich--immediately come to mind. Yet during the turbulent decade following the Bolshevik Revolution, Stravinsky and Prokofiev lived abroad and Shostakovich was just finishing his conservatory training. While the fame...
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  • The Origins of Music by Wallin, Nils L.
    Nils L. Wallin

    The Origins of Music

    The book can be viewed as representing the birth of evolutionary biomusicology.What biological and cognitive forces have shaped humankind's musical behavior and the rich global repertoire of musical structures? What is music for, and why does every human culture have it? What are the...
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  • Music, Race, and Nation: Musica Tropical in Colombia by Wade, Peter
    Peter Wade

    Music, Race, and Nation: Musica Tropical in Colombia

    Long a favorite on dance floors in Latin America, the porro, cumbia, and vallenato styles that make up Colombia's m俍ica tropical are now enjoying international success. How did this music--which has its roots in a black, marginal region of the country--manage, from the 1940s...
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  • Music and Musical Thought in Early India by Rowell, Lewis
    Lewis Rowell

    Music and Musical Thought in Early India

    Offering a broad perspective of the philosophy, theory, and aesthetics of early Indian music and musical ideology, this study makes a unique contribution to our knowledge of the ancient foundations of India's musical culture. Lewis Rowell reconstructs the tunings, scales, modes, rhythms, gestures, formal...
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  • Voices of the Magi: Enchanted Journeys in Southeast Brazil by Reily, Suzel
    Suzel Reily

    Voices of the Magi: Enchanted Journeys in Southeast Brazil

    Voices of the Magi explores the popular Catholic musical ensembles of southeastern Brazil known as folias de reis (companies of kings). Composed predominantly of low-income workers, the folias reenact the journey of the Wise Men to Bethlehem and back to the Orient, as they...
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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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  • Vodou Nation: Haitian Art Music and Cultural Nationalism by Largey, Michael
    Michael Largey

    Vodou Nation: Haitian Art Music and Cultural Nationalism

    While the Haitian musical tradition is probably best known for the Vodou-inspired roots music that helped topple the two-generation Duvalier dictatorship, the nation's troubled history of civil unrest and its tangled relationship with the United States is more intensely experienced through its art music,...
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  • Urban Blues by Keil, Charles
    Charles Keil

    Urban Blues

    Charles Keil examines the expressive role of blues bands and performers and stresses the intense interaction between performer and audience. Profiling bluesmen Bobby Bland and B. B. King, Keil argues that they are symbols for the black community, embodying important attitudes and roles--success, strong...
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  • Re-Envisioning Past Musical Cultures: Ethnomusicology in the Study of Gregorian Chant by Jeffery, Peter
    Peter Jeffery

    Re-Envisioning Past Musical Cultures: Ethnomusicology in the Study of Gregorian Chant

    Studying Gregorian chant presents many problems to the researcher because its most important stages of development were not recorded in writing. From the sixth to the tenth century, this form of music existed only in song as medieval musicians relied on their memories and...
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  • Kwaito's Promise: Music and the Aesthetics of Freedom in South Africa by Steingo, Gavin
    Gavin Steingo

    Kwaito's Promise: Music and the Aesthetics of Freedom in South Africa

    In mid-1990s South Africa, apartheid ended, Nelson Mandela was elected president, and the country's urban black youth developed kwaito--a form of electronic music (redolent of North American house) that came to represent the post-struggle generation. In this book, Gavin Steingo examines kwaito as it...
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  • The Voice of Egypt: Umm Kulthum, Arabic Song, and Egyptian Society in the Twentieth Century Volume 1997 by Danielson, Virginia
    Virginia Danielson

    The Voice of Egypt: Umm Kulthum, Arabic Song, and Egyptian Society in the Twentieth Century Volume 1997

    Umm Kulthum, the "voice of Egypt," was the most celebrated musical performer of the century in the Arab world. More than twenty years after her death, her devoted audience, drawn from all strata of Arab society, still numbers in the millions. Thanks to her...
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  • Music, Culture, and Experience: Selected Papers of John Blacking by Blacking, John
    John Blacking

    Music, Culture, and Experience: Selected Papers of John Blacking

    One of the most important ethnomusicologists of the century, John Blacking achieved international recognition for his book, How Musical Is Man? Known for his interest in the relationship of music to biology, psychology, dance, and politics, Blacking was deeply committed to the idea that...
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  • Music and German National Identity by Applegate, Celia
    Celia Applegate

    Music and German National Identity

    Is it merely a coincidence that the three "Bs" of classical music--Bach, Beethoven, Brahms--are all German composers? Why do concert halls all over the world feature mostly the works of German and Austrian composers as their standard repertoire? Over the past three centuries, supporters...
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  • Dissonant Divas in Chicana Music: The Limits of La Onda by Vargas, Deborah R.
    Deborah R. Vargas

    Dissonant Divas in Chicana Music: The Limits of La Onda

    Musical sound has been central to heteromasculinist productions of nation and homeland, whether Chicano, Tejano, Texan, Mexican, or American. If this assertion holds true, as Deborah R. Vargas suggests, then what are we to make of those singers and musicians whose representations of gender...
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  • Earl Lovelace by Aiyejina, Funso
    Funso Aiyejina

    Earl Lovelace

    Earl Lovelace is a major Caribbean writer, one of the few of his generation to have lived in and written almost exclusively from the region. With sharp observation and even sharper wit, his writing pulses with the rhythm, flow and vibrancy of the lives...
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  • Dhrupad: Tradition and Performance in Indian Music by Sanyal, Ritwik
    Ritwik Sanyal

    Dhrupad: Tradition and Performance in Indian Music

    Dhrupad is believed to be the oldest style of classical vocal music performed today in North India. This detailed study of the genre considers the relationship between the oral tradition, its transmission from generation to generation, and its re-creation in performance. There is an...
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  • Drumming Asian America: Taiko, Performance, and Cultural Politics by Ahlgren, Angela K.
    Angela K. Ahlgren

    Drumming Asian America: Taiko, Performance, and Cultural Politics

    With its dynamic choreographies and booming drumbeats, taiko has gained worldwide popularity since its emergence in 1950s Japan. Harnessed by Japanese Americans in the late 1960s, taiko's sonic largesse and buoyant energy challenged stereotypical images of Asians in America as either model minorities or...
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  • Cuba and the USA: A Musical Journey by Hernandez, Fernando "fernan"
    Fernando "fernan" Hernandez

    Cuba and the USA: A Musical Journey

    In Cuba and the USA: A Musical Journey the author takes the reader on a voyage filled with pianos, congas, trumpets, drums, guitars, claves and many other instruments. Singers from the past and present are also remembered, this is a book for all music...
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  • Danzón Days: Age, Race, and Romance in Mexico by Malcomson, Hettie
    Hettie Malcomson

    Danz Days: Age, Race, and Romance in Mexico

    Older people negotiating dance routines, intimacy, and racialized differences provide a focal point for an ethnography of danz in Veracruz, the Mexican city closely associated with the music-dance genre. Hettie Malcomson draws upon on-site research with semi-professional musicians and amateur dancers to reveal how...
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  • Crossroad: Artist, Audience, and the Making of American Music by Kirby, David
    David Kirby

    Crossroad: Artist, Audience, and the Making of American Music

    From John Henry and "The House of the Rising Sun" to Elvis, the Beatles, Nirvana, and the turntable revolution, David Kirby traces the complex relationship between artist, audience, time, and place in the making of America's rich musical tradition.Author: David KirbyISBN-10: 1941561020ISBN-13: 9781941561027Publisher: New...
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  • Contact Languages and Music by Hollington, Andrea
    Andrea Hollington

    Contact Languages and Music

    Language and music are connected in manyways. As social and cultural practices, they have been intertwined inmultiple ways. Musical and linguistic practices are often intertwined toexpress distinct and complex identities, attitudes, ideologies, social rolesand political views. Spaces characterized by migration, contact, multilingualism, and colonial...
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  • Cuban Music: From Son and Rumba to the Buena Vista Social Club and Timba Cubana by Roy, Maya
    Maya Roy

    Cuban Music: From Son and Rumba to the Buena Vista Social Club and Timba Cubana

    Native Americans supplied the maracas. African slaves brought drums and ritual music, and Spaniards brought guitars, brass instruments, and clarinets along with European ballroom dancing. The advent of blues and jazz gave new forms to styles of songs, notably feeling songs, which joined the...
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  • Downhome Gospel by McGregory, Jerrilyn
    Jerrilyn McGregory

    Downhome Gospel: African American Spiritual Activism in Wiregrass Country

    Jerrilyn McGregory explores sacred music and spiritual activism in a little-known region of the South, the Wiregrass Country of Georgia, Alabama, and North Florida. She examines African American sacred music outside of Sunday church-related activities, showing that singing conventions and anniversary programs fortify spiritual...
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  • Digital Tradition: Arrangement and Labor in Istanbul's Recording Studio Culture by Bates, Eliot
    Eliot Bates

    Digital Tradition: Arrangement and Labor in Istanbul's Recording Studio Culture

    Istanbul is home to a multimillion dollar transnational music industry, which every year produces thousands of digital music recordings, including widely distributed film and television show soundtracks. Today, this centralized industry is responding to a growing global demand for Turkish, Kurdish, and other Anatolian...
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  • Dimensions of Energy in Shostakovich's Symphonies. Michael Rofe by Rofe, Michael
    Michael Rofe

    Dimensions of Energy in Shostakovich's Symphonies. Michael Rofe

    Shostakovich's music is often described as being dynamic, energetic. But what is meant by 'energy' in music? After setting out a broad conceptual framework for approaching this question, Michael Rofe proposes various potential sources of the perceived energy in Shostakovich's symphonies, describing also the...
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  • Creating Their Own Space: The Development of an Indian-Caribbean Musical Tradition by Ramnarine, Tina K.
    Tina K. Ramnarine

    Creating Their Own Space: The Development of an Indian-Caribbean Musical Tradition

    Characterized by fast-paced, highly danceable rhythms, Chutney is a fusion of traditional and contemporary Indian and Caribbean influences. With its roots in the Hindi folk songs performed at birth and wedding ceremonies, Chutney has recently emerged in contemporary Indian-Caribbean life and has gone largely...
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  • Debt and Redemption in the Blues: The Call for Justice by Simon, Julia
    Julia Simon

    Debt and Redemption in the Blues: The Call for Justice

    Explores lyrical representations of romantic and sexual betrayal in the blues, revealing deceit and entrapment constraining the physical, socioeconomic, and political movement of African Americans. Argues that blues music calls for a reckoning while expressing faith in a secular and moral justice-to-come.Author: Julia SimonISBN-10:...
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  • Conjuring Freedom: Music and Masculinity in the Civil War's "Gospel Army" by Jabir, Johari
    Johari Jabir

    Conjuring Freedom: Music and Masculinity in the Civil War's "Gospel Army"

    Conjuring Freedom: Music and Masculinity in the Civil War's "Gospel Army" analyzes the songs of the 1st South Carolina Volunteers, a regiment of Black soldiers who met nightly in the performance of the ring shout. In this study, acknowledging the importance of conjure as...
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  • Cry for Luck: Sacred Song and Speech Among the Yurok, Hupa, and Karok Indians of Northwestern California by Keeling, Richard
    Richard Keeling

    Cry for Luck: Sacred Song and Speech Among the Yurok, Hupa, and Karok Indians of Northwestern California

    The "sobbing" vocal quality in many traditional songs of northwestern California Indian tribes inspired the title of Richard Keeling's comprehensive study. Little has been known about the music of aboriginal Californians, and Cry for Luck will be welcomed by those who see the interpretation...
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  • Cry for Luck: Sacred Song and Speech Among the Yurok, Hupa, and Karok Indians of Northwestern California by Keeling, Richard
    Richard Keeling

    Cry for Luck: Sacred Song and Speech Among the Yurok, Hupa, and Karok Indians of Northwestern California

    The "sobbing" vocal quality in many traditional songs of northwestern California Indian tribes inspired the title of Richard Keeling's comprehensive study. Little has been known about the music of aboriginal Californians, and Cry for Luck will be welcomed by those who see the interpretation...
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  • Cool Town: How Athens, Georgia, Launched Alternative Music and Changed American Culture by Hale, Grace Elizabeth
    Grace Elizabeth Hale

    Cool Town: How Athens, Georgia, Launched Alternative Music and Changed American Culture

    In the summer of 1978, the B-52's conquered the New York underground. A year later, the band's self-titled debut album burst onto the Billboard charts, capturing the imagination of fans and music critics worldwide. The fact that the group had formed in the sleepy...
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  • Distillation of Sound by Abbey, Eric
    Eric Abbey

    Distillation of Sound: Dub and the Creation of Culture

    Distillation of Sound traces the beginnings of dub music in Jamaica and how the culture is distilled throughout the world. It focuses on the analysis of some of the most famous full-length albums of dub music and how the engineers, producers, and musicians created...
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  • Django Generations: Hearing Ethnorace, Citizenship, and Jazz Manouche in France by Lie, Siv B.
    Siv B. Lie

    Django Generations: Hearing Ethnorace, Citizenship, and Jazz Manouche in France

    Django Generations shows how relationships between racial identities, jazz, and national belonging become entangled in France. Jazz manouche--a genre known best for its energetic, guitar-centric swing tunes--is among France's most celebrated musical practices of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It centers on the recorded...
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  • Conjuring Freedom: Music and Masculinity in the Civil War's "Gospel Army" by Jabir, Johari
    Johari Jabir

    Conjuring Freedom: Music and Masculinity in the Civil War's "Gospel Army"

    Conjuring Freedom: Music and Masculinity in the Civil War's "Gospel Army" analyzes the songs of the 1st South Carolina Volunteers, a regiment of Black soldiers who met nightly in the performance of the ring shout. In this study, acknowledging the importance of conjure as...
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  • DIY House Shows and Music Venues in the US: Ethnographic Explorations of Place and Community by Verbuč, David
    David Verbuč

    DIY House Shows and Music Venues in the Us: Ethnographic Explorations of Place and Community

    DIY House Shows and Music Venues in the US is an interdisciplinary study of house concerts and other types of　DIY ("do- it- yourself") music venues and events in the United States, such as warehouses, all- ages clubs, and guerrilla shows, with its primary focus...
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  • Do You Remember House?: Chicago's Queer of Color Undergrounds by Salkind, Micah
    Micah Salkind

    Do You Remember House?: Chicago's Queer of Color Undergrounds

    Today, no matter where you are in the world, you can turn on a radio and hear the echoes and influences of Chicago house music. Do You Remember House? tells a comprehensive story of the emergence, and contemporary memorialization of house in Chicago, tracing...
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  • Danzón: Circum-Caribbean Dialogues in Music and Dance by Madrid, Alejandro L.
    Alejandro L. Madrid

    Danz: Circum-Caribbean Dialogues in Music and Dance

    Initially branching out of the European contradance tradition, the danz first emerged as a distinct form of music and dance among black performers in nineteenth-century Cuba. By the early twentieth-century, it had exploded in popularity throughout the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean basin. A...
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  • Crossing Bar Lines: The Politics and Practices of Black Musical Space by Williams, James Gordon
    James Gordon Williams

    Crossing Bar Lines: The Politics and Practices of Black Musical Space

    In Crossing Bar Lines: The Politics and Practices of Black Musical Space James Gordon Williams reframes the nature and purpose of jazz improvisation to illuminate the cultural work being done by five creative musicians between 2005 and 2019. The political thought of five African...
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  • Djoliba Crossing: Journeys Into West African Music and Culture by Kobrenski, Dave
    Dave Kobrenski

    Djoliba Crossing: Journeys Into West African Music and Culture

    Discover the music and culture of West Africa in this beautifully illustrated account of an artist's adventures in the Niger River valley. Djoliba Crossing is both an adventure memoir and a guidebook for the music traditions of West Africa. Descriptions of ancient music and...
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  • Dust of the Zulu: Ngoma Aesthetics after Apartheid by Meintjes, Louise
    Louise Meintjes

    Dust of the Zulu: Ngoma Aesthetics after Apartheid

    In Dust of the Zulu Louise Meintjes traces the political and aesthetic significance of ngoma, a competitive form of dance and music that emerged out of the legacies of colonialism and apartheid in South Africa. Contextualizing ngoma within South Africa's history of violence, migrant...
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  • Dancehall: A Reader on Jamaican Music and Culture by Stanley Niaah, Sonjah
    Sonjah Stanley Niaah

    Dancehall: A Reader on Jamaican Music and Culture

    Dancehall: A Reader on Jamaican Music and Culture contextualizes the emergence of the globally popular dancehall genre, while tracing the complex and often contradictory aspects of its evolution, dispersion and politics. This collection of foundational essays places dancehall in context with cutting-edge analyses of...
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