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  • Transforming Ethnomusicology Volume I: Methodologies, Institutional Structures, and Policies by Diamond, Beverley
    Beverley Diamond

    Transforming Ethnomusicology Volume I: Methodologies, Institutional Structures, and Policies

    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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  • Music, City and the Roma Under Communism by Piotrowska, Anna G.
    Anna G. Piotrowska

    Music, City and the Roma under Communism

    This book highlights the role of Romani musical presence in Central and Eastern Europe, especially from Krakow in the Communist period, and argues that music can and should be treated as one of the main points of relation between Roma and non-Roma. It discusses...
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  • Transatlantic History of Haitian Vodou: Rasin Figuier, Rasin Bwa Kayiman, and the Rada and Gede Rites (Hardback) by Hebblethwaite, Benjamin
    Benjamin Hebblethwaite

    A Transatlantic History of Haitian Vodou: Rasin Figuier, Rasin Bwa Kayiman, and the Rada and Gede Rites

    Connecting four centuries of political, social, and religious history with fieldwork and language documentation, A Transatlantic History of Haitian Vodou analyzes Haitian Vodou's African origins, transmission to Saint-Domingue, and promulgation through song in contemporary Haiti. Split into two sections, the African chapters focus on...
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  • Science and Music by H. Jeans, James
    James H. Jeans

    Science and Music

    As the author mentions in the Preface, the intent of the book is to explain in a non-technical manner the main outlines of parts of science specially related to the questions and problems of music, assuming no previous knowledge either of science or of...
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  • The Oxford Handbook of Medical Ethnomusicology by Koen, Benjamin
    Benjamin Koen

    The Oxford Handbook of Medical Ethnomusicology

    Medical Ethnomusicology is a new field of integrative and holistic research and applied practice that approaches music, health, and healing anew, engaging the biological, psychological, emotional, social, and spiritual domains of human life that frame and inform our experiences of health and healing, illness...
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  • Music in Pacific Island Cultures: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture by Diettrich, Brian
    Brian Diettrich

    Music in Pacific Island Cultures: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture

    Music in Pacific Island Cultures is one of several case-study volumes that can be used along with Thinking Musically, Second Edition, the core book in the Global Music Series. Thinking Musically incorporates music from many diverse cultures and establishes the framework for exploring the...
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  • Extreme Exoticism: Japan in the American Musical Imagination by Sheppard, W. Anthony
    W. Anthony Sheppard

    Extreme Exoticism: Japan in the American Musical Imagination

    To what extent can music be employed to shape one culture's understanding of another? In the American imagination, Japan has represented the "most alien" nation for over 150 years. This perceived difference has inspired fantasies--of both desire and repulsion--through which Japanese culture has profoundly...
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  • The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music and Social Class by Peddie, Ian
    Ian Peddie

    The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music and Social Class

    The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music and Social Class is the first extensive analysis of the most important themes and concepts in this field. Encompassing contemporary research in ethnomusicology, sociology, cultural studies, history, and race studies, the volume explores the intersections between music and...
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  • Sam Henry's Songs of the People by Henry, Sam
    Sam Henry

    Sam Henry's Songs of the People

    The story of Ireland--its graces and shortcomings, triumphs and sorrows--is told by ballads, dirges, and humorous songs of its common people. Music is a direct and powerful expression of Irish folk culture and an aspect of Irish life beloved throughout the rest of the...
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  • Tokyo Listening: Sound and Sense in a Contemporary City by Plourde, Lorraine
    Lorraine Plourde

    Tokyo Listening: Sound and Sense in a Contemporary City

    Ethnographic analysis of urban music in JapanTokyo Listening examines how the sensory experience of the city informs how people listen to both music and everyday, ubiquitous sounds. Drawing on recent scholarship in the fields of sound studies, anthropology, and ethnomusicology and over fifteen years...
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  • The Tide Was Always High: The Music of Latin America in Los Angeles by Kun, Josh
    Josh Kun

    The Tide Was Always High: The Music of Latin America in Los Angeles

    In 1980, the celebrated new wave band Blondie headed to Los Angeles to record a new album and along with it, the cover song "The Tide Is High," originally written by Jamaican legend John Holt. Featuring percussion by Peruvian drummer and veteran LA session...
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  • How to Play the Hawaiian Ukulele: 10 Easy Lessons by Witt, Diane
    Diane Witt

    How to Play the Hawaiian Ukulele: 10 Easy Lessons

    This easy-to-follow guide instructs how to play the popular Hawaiian musical instrument- the ukulele- in ten easy lessons. Readers will learn how to read music, strumming techniques, finger exercises, and accompaniments and songs to sing along to. Includes a glossary and chord chart for...
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  • World Music and the Black Atlantic: Producing and Consuming African-Cuban Musics on World Music Stages by Whitmore, Aleysia K.
    Aleysia K. Whitmore

    World Music and the Black Atlantic: Producing and Consuming African-Cuban Musics on World Music Stages

    In the mid-20th century, African musicians took up Cuban music as their own and claimed it as a marker of black Atlantic connections and of cosmopolitanism untethered from European colonial relations. Today, Cuban/African bands popular in Africa in the 1960s and '70s have moved...
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  • Rebel Music in the Triumphant Empire: Punk Rock in the 1990s United States by Pearson, David
    David Pearson

    Rebel Music in the Triumphant Empire: Punk Rock in the 1990s United States

    At the dawn of the 1990s, as the United States celebrated its victory in the Cold War and sole superpower status by waging war on Iraq and proclaiming democratic capitalism as the best possible society, the 1990s underground punk renaissance transformed the punk scene...
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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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  • Listen with the Ear of the Heart: Music and Monastery Life at Weston Priory by Guarino, Maria S.
    Maria S. Guarino

    Listen with the Ear of the Heart: Music and Monastery Life at Weston Priory

    A "contemplative" ethnographic study of a Benedictine monastery in Vermont known for its folk-inspired music. Far from being a long-silent echo of medieval religion, modern monastery music is instead a resounding, living illustration of the role of music in religious life. Benedictine monks gather...
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  • The Life And Times Of Joseph Hill and Culture by Doumerc, Eric
    Eric Doumerc

    The Life And Times Of Joseph Hill and Culture

    The recording biography of reggae artist Joseph Hill and his group Culture.Author: Eric DoumercISBN-10: 8201429214ISBN-13: 9798201429218Publisher: APS PublicationsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/23/2019Pages: 100Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.32lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.21d
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  • The Jazz Republic: Music, Race, and American Culture in Weimar Germany by Wipplinger, Jonathan O.
    Jonathan O. Wipplinger

    The Jazz Republic: Music, Race, and American Culture in Weimar Germany

    The Jazz Republic examines jazz music and the jazz artists who shaped Germany's exposure to this African American art form from 1919 through 1933. Jonathan O. Wipplinger explores the history of jazz in Germany as well as the roles that music, race (especially Blackness),...
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  • Musicology: The Key Concepts by Beard, David
    David Beard

    Musicology: The Key Concepts

    Now in an updated 2nd edition, Musicology: The Key Concepts is a handy A-Z reference guide to the terms and concepts associated with contemporary musicology. Drawing on critical theory with a focus on new musicology, this updated edition contains over 35 new entries including:...
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  • Music in Portugal and Spain: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture by El-Shawan Castelo-Branco, Salwa
    Salwa El-Shawan Castelo-Branco

    Music in Portugal and Spain: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture

    Ideal for introductory undergraduate courses in world music or ethnomusicology and for upper-level courses on music of the Iberian Peninsula, Music in Portugal and Spain: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture introduces students to the diverse musical cultures of these two Iberian countries. This unique text...
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  • Writings on Music, 1965-2000 by Reich, Steve
    Steve Reich

    Writings on Music, 1965-2000

    In the mid-1960s, Steve Reich radically renewed the musical landscape with a back-to-basics sound that came to be called Minimalism. These early works, characterized by a relentless pulse and static harmony, focused single-mindedly on the process of gradual rhythmic change. Throughout his career, Reich...
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  • Guitar: Guitar Lessons For Beginners, Simple Guide Through Easy Techniques, How T by Mahalo, Tom
    Tom Mahalo

    Guitar: Guitar Lessons For Beginners, Simple Guide Through Easy Techniques, How T

    Updated Content On February 17, 2018, Learn How To Play The Guitar Within A Few Days Of Training TodayFree BONUS IncludedThis book will help you to learn the basics of a guitar, and how to strum simple songs on your guitar within a few...
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  • The Cambridge History of World Music by Bohlman, Philip V.
    Philip V. Bohlman

    The Cambridge History of World Music

    Scholars have long known that world music was not merely the globalized product of modern media, but rather that it connected religions, cultures, languages and nations throughout world history. The chapters in this History take readers to foundational historical moments - in Europe, Oceania,...
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  • The History of Basque Music by Okinena, Josu
    Josu Okina

    The History of the Basque Music

    "Basque music" refers to the music that is created or experienced where Basque culture has been established or is practiced mainly in the present-day Euskal Herria (Basque Country) but also outside of its borders, including the music created by Basques in the diaspora. Although...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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