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  • Six Reasons to Travel: An American Singer in Georgia by Gelzer, Stuart
    Stuart Gelzer

    Six Reasons to Travel: An American Singer in Georgia

    Author: Stuart GelzerISBN-10: 0578992981ISBN-13: 9780578992983Publisher: Bertie Stanhope PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/01/2024Pages: 316Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.73lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.86d
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  • Music and Modernity Among First Peoples of North America by Levine, Victoria Lindsay
    Victoria Lindsay Levine

    Music and Modernity Among First Peoples of North America

    Revisioning Indigenous musicologyWinner of the 2020 Ruth A. Solie Award for Edited Collections from the American Musicological Society (AMS), which honors each year a collection of musicological essays of exceptional merit published during the previous year in any language and in any country and...
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  • Contemp. Study of Musical V4 by Nzewi, Meki
    Meki Nzewi

    Contemp. Study of Musical V4

    The Contemporary study of musical arts, Volumes 1 to 5 is a series that emphasizes the intellectual security of cultural knowledge orientation in the study and research of the musical arts for students and educators that could engage in global knowledge discourse and practice...
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  • The Sound of Vultures' Wings: The Tibetan Buddhist Chöd Ritual Practice of the Female Buddha Machik Labdrön by Cupchik, Jeffrey W.
    Jeffrey W. Cupchik

    The Sound of Vultures' Wings: The Tibetan Buddhist Chöd Ritual Practice of the Female Buddha Machik Labdrön

    The Sound of Vultures' Wings offers the first in-depth exploration of the music of the Tibetan Ch?d tradition, which is based on the liturgical song-poems of the twelfth-century Tibetan female ascetic Machik Labdr?n (1055-1153). Ch?d is a musical-meditative Vajrayāna method for cutting off the...
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  • From Blues to Beyonc?: A Century of Black Women's Generational Sonic Rhetorics by McGee, Alexis
    Alexis McGee

    From Blues to Beyonc?: A Century of Black Women's Generational Sonic Rhetorics

    Explores how Black women have continually used sound to convey stories and forge community across generations.Author: Alexis McGeeISBN-10: 1438496508ISBN-13: 9781438496504Publisher: State University of New York PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/02/2024Pages: 240Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.79lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.55d
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  • Folklore Matters: Incursions in the Field, 1965-2021 by Jackson, Bruce
    Bruce Jackson

    Folklore Matters: Incursions in the Field, 1965-2021

    Celebrates over a half-century of the work of one of America's greatest folklorists.Author: Bruce JacksonISBN-10: 143849615XISBN-13: 9781438496153Publisher: State University of New York PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/02/2024Pages: 388Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.25lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.86d
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  • Popular Musics of the Non-Western World: An Introductory Survey by Manuel, Peter
    Peter Manuel

    Popular Musics of the Non-Western World: An Introductory Survey

    Reflecting the growing interest in popular music from the developing world, this unique book is the first to examine all major non-Western urban music styles, from increasingly familiar genres like reggae and salsa, to the lesser-known regional styles of Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa,...
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  • Ojibwe Singers: Hymns, Grief, and a Native Culture in Motion by McNally, Michael D.
    Michael D. McNally

    Ojibwe Singers: Hymns, Grief, and a Native Culture in Motion

    The Ojibwe or Anishinaabe are a native American people of the northern Great Lakes region. 19th-century missionaries promoted the singing of evangelical hymns translated into the Ojibwe language as a tool for rooting out their "indianness," but the Ojibwe have ritualized the singing to...
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  • The Oxford Handbook of Video Game Music and Sound by Gibbons, William
    William Gibbons

    The Oxford Handbook of Video Game Music and Sound

    The music and sounds of video games have become an inescapable part of our world. Not only do these sonic elements profoundly shape the experiences of billions of players every day, but also the soundscapes of games have stretched out from our living rooms...
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  • Enemy Way Music: a Study of Social and Esthetic Values as Seen in Navaho Music by McAllester, David P.
    David P. McAllester

    Enemy Way Music: a Study of Social and Esthetic Values as Seen in Navaho Music

    Navaho music is a fascinating and complex art form that has long fascinated scholars and enthusiasts alike. In this pioneering study, P. David McAllester explores the social and esthetic values embodied in Navaho music, shedding new light on this important aspect of Navaho culture.This...
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  • Ti Edy au Pays des Rythmes: What is Konpa? by Brisseaux, Edy
    Edy Brisseaux

    Ti Edy au Pays des Rythmes: What is Konpa?

    6x9 inchesKonpa, a reconfiguration of the meringue's nucleotides has baffled many for years; These five African based rhythm units with their ultimate syncopation were merged with Ameridian and European music. A recessive trait that seldom appears as a phenotype; but remains the the matrix...
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  • Celia Cruz: The Defiant Voice of Afro-Cuban Music by Rodriguez, Roberto Miguel
    Roberto Miguel Rodriguez

    Celia Cruz: The Defiant Voice of Afro-Cuban Music

    "Celia Cruz - The Defiant Voice of Afro-Cuban Music" is a riveting tribute to the life, legacy, and indomitable spirit of one of Latin music's most celebrated icons. This biography captures the essence of Celia Cruz's journey -- from her humble beginnings in Havana's...
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  • Interspecies Communication: Sound and Music beyond Humanity by Steingo, Gavin
    Gavin Steingo

    Interspecies Communication: Sound and Music beyond Humanity

    A surprising study reveals a plethora of attempts to communicate with non-humans in the modern era. In Interspecies Communication, music scholar Gavin Steingo examines significant cases of attempted communication beyond the human-cases in which the dualistic relationship of human to non-human is dramatically challenged....
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  • Mele on the Mauna: Perpetuating Genealogies of Hawaiian Musical Activism on Maunakea by Donaghy, Joseph Keola
    Joseph Keola Donaghy

    Mele on the Mauna: Perpetuating Genealogies of Hawaiian Musical Activism on Maunakea

    In the summer of 2019, a group of kia'i, or protectors, made up of kānaka 'ōiwi (Native Hawaiians) and their allies came together to prevent the construction of the Thirty-Meter Telescope (TMT) on the dormant volcano Maunakea. In Mele on the Mauna, Joseph Keola...
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  • Mande Music: Traditional and Modern Music of the Maninka and Mandinka of Western Africa by Charry, Eric
    Eric Charry

    Mande Music: Traditional and Modern Music of the Maninka and Mandinka of Western Africa

    With Mande Music, Eric Charry offers the most comprehensive source available on one of Africa's richest and most sophisticated music cultures. Using resources as disparate as early Arabic travel accounts, oral histories, and archival research as well as his own extensive studies in Mali,...
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  • Audible States: Socialist Politics and Popular Music in Albania by Tochka, Nicholas
    Nicholas Tochka

    Audible States: Socialist Politics and Popular Music in Albania

    During the Cold War, state-sponsored musical performances were central to the diplomatic agendas of the United States and the Soviet Union. But states on the periphery of the conflict also used state-funded performances to articulate their positions in the polarized global network. In Albania...
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  • Jazz Migrations: Movement as Place Among New York Musicians by Gazit, Ofer
    Ofer Gazit

    Jazz Migrations: Movement as Place Among New York Musicians

    Since the 1990s, migrant musicians have become increasingly prominent in New York City's jazz scene. Challenging norms about who can be a jazz musician and what immigrant music should sound like, these musicians create mobile and diverse notions of jazz while inadvertently contributing to...
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  • Tango Dance and Music: A Choreomusical Exploration of Tango Argentino by Stepputat, Kendra
    Kendra Stepputat

    Tango Dance and Music: A Choreomusical Exploration of Tango Argentino

    This book investigates choreomusical aspects of tango argentino in translocal practice, in particular its current manifestation in Europe. It looks at translocal tango argentino in its many facets: movement structures, sound structures, dancers and musicians, and the complex relations between these factors that all...
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  • Finding the Beat: Entrainment, Rhythmic Play, and Social Meaning in Rock Music by Hesselink, Nathan
    Nathan Hesselink

    Finding the Beat: Entrainment, Rhythmic Play, and Social Meaning in Rock Music

    Finding the Beatexplores humankind's ability, propensity, and enjoyment in finding the beat in live and recorded experiences of music-making through the lens of entrainment, the human capacity to perceive a beat and to synchronize to it. Anyone who has attended a concert, gone to...
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  • Revival and Reconciliation: Sacred Music in the Making of European Modernity by Bohlman, Philip V.
    Philip V. Bohlman

    Revival and Reconciliation: Sacred Music in the Making of European Modernity

    Sacred music has long contributed fundamentally to the making of Europe. The passage from origin myths to history, the sacred journeys that have mobilized pilgrims, crusaders, and colonizers, the politics and power sounded by the vox populi--all have joined in counterpoint to shape Europe's...
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  • Lying Up a Nation: Race and Black Music by Radano, Ronald M.
    Ronald M. Radano

    Lying Up a Nation: Race and Black Music

    Author: Ronald M. RadanoISBN-10: 0226701980ISBN-13: 9780226701981Publisher: University of Chicago PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/2003Pages: 417Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.28lbsSize: 9.24h x 5.90w x 0.97dReview Citation(s): Choice 05/01/2004 pg. 1674
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  • Ethnomusicology by Anonymous
    Anonymous

    Ethnomusicology

    This insightful volume examines the complex relationship between music and culture in societies around the world, exploring the diverse ways that music has been used throughout history to express emotions, communicate ideas and build community.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally...
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  • Sounds of Crossing: Music, Migration, and the Aural Poetics of Huapango Arribeño by Chávez, Alex E.
    Alex E. Chávez

    Sounds of Crossing: Music, Migration, and the Aural Poetics of Huapango Arribeño

    In Sounds of Crossing Alex E. Chávez explores the contemporary politics of Mexican migrant cultural expression manifest in the sounds and poetics of huapango arribeño, a musical genre originating from north-central Mexico. Following the resonance of huapango's improvisational performance within the lives of audiences,...
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  • Music in the German Renaissance: Sources, Styles, and Contexts by Kmetz, John
    John Kmetz

    Music in the German Renaissance: Sources, Styles, and Contexts

    This collection of fourteen essays explores the musical culture of the German-speaking realm between c. 1450 and 1600. The essays demonstrate the important role played by German speakers in the development of instrumental music in the Renaissance, in setting patterns of musical patronage, and...
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  • Ethnomusicology: A Contemporary Reader by Post, Jennifer C.
    Jennifer C. Post

    Ethnomusicology: A Contemporary Reader

    Ethnomusicology: A Contemporary Reader is designed to supplement a textbook for an introductory course in ethnomusicology. It offers a cross section of the best new writing in the field from the last 15-20 years. Many instructors supplement textbook readings and listening assignments with scholarly...
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  • A Song to Save the Salish Sea: Musical Performance as Environmental Activism by Pedelty, Mark
    Mark Pedelty

    A Song to Save the Salish Sea: Musical Performance as Environmental Activism

    On the coast of Washington and British Columbia sit the misty forests and towering mountains of Cascadia. With archipelagos surrounding its shores and tidal surges of the Salish Sea trundling through the interior, this bioregion has long attracted loggers, fishing fleets, and land developers,...
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  • The Globalization of Music in History by Wetzel, Richard
    Richard Wetzel

    The Globalization of Music in History

    This book contextualizes a globalization process that has since ancient times involved the creation, use, and world-wide movement of song, instrumental music, musical drama, music with dance, concert, secular, popular and religious music. Integral to the process have been political, economic, military, and religious...
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  • The Artistry of Afro-Cuban Bata Drumming: Aesthetics, Transmission, Bonding, and Creativity by Schweitzer, Kenneth
    Kenneth Schweitzer

    The Artistry of Afro-Cuban Bata Drumming: Aesthetics, Transmission, Bonding, and Creativity

    An examination of one of the most sophisticated, intriguing, and elusive of the world's drumming traditions An iconic symbol and sound of the Lucumí/Santería religion, AfroCuban batá are talking drums that express the epic mythological narratives of the West African Yoruba deities known as...
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  • T.N. Rajarattinam Pillai Charisma, Caste Rivalry and the Contested Past in South Indian Music by Yoshitaka, Terada
    Terada Yoshitaka

    T.N. Rajarattinam Pillai Charisma, Caste Rivalry and the Contested Past in South Indian Music

    TeradaYoshitaka, Professor Emeritus at the National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan began his journey with South Indian music with a rather simplequery.Why had Periya Me l -am (the traditional musical genre featuring thena gasvaram and the tavil), which is considered to be extremely important...
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  • Music for Inclusion and Healing in Schools and Beyond: Hip Hop, Techno, Grime, and More by Dale, Pete
    Pete Dale

    Music for Inclusion and Healing in Schools and Beyond: Hip Hop, Techno, Grime, and More

    Contemporary popular musics such as hip hop, techno, grime, EDM, drill, house and so on are among the most listened to in the world and yet, typically, they are barely covered in the music classroom if at all. This needs to be better reflected...
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  • Performing Post-Tariqa Sufism: Making Sacred Space with Mevlevi and Rifai Zikir in Turkey by ﾇizmeci, Esra
    Esra ﾇizmeci

    Performing Post-Tariqa Sufism: Making Sacred Space with Mevlevi and Rifai Zikir in Turkey

    This ethnographic research project examines the generation of post-tariqa Tasavvuf (Sufism: a spiritual practice and philosophy recognised as the inner dimension of Islam) in a variety of private, semi-public, public, secular and sacred urban spaces in present-day Turkey. Through extensive field research in minority...
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  • Ilmatar's Inspirations: Nationalism, Globalization, and the Changing Soundscapes of Finnish Folk Music by Ramnarine, Tina K.
    Tina K. Ramnarine

    Ilmatar's Inspirations: Nationalism, Globalization, and the Changing Soundscapes of Finnish Folk Music

    Author: Tina K. RamnarineISBN-10: 0226704033ISBN-13: 9780226704036Publisher: University of Chicago PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/01/2003Pages: 288Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.86lbsSize: 8.30h x 6.78w x 0.61d
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  • Rasa: Affect and Intuition in Javanese Musical Aesthetics by Benamou, Marc
    Marc Benamou

    Rasa: Affect and Intuition in Javanese Musical Aesthetics

    The complex notion of rasa, as understood by Javanese musicians, refers to a combination of various qualities, including: taste, feeling, affect, mood, sense, inner meaning, a faculty of knowing intuitively, and deep understanding. This leaves us with a number of questions: how is rasa...
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  • Arsenio Rodr?uez and the Transnational Flows of Latin Popular Music by Garcia, David
    David Garcia

    Arsenio Rodr?uez and the Transnational Flows of Latin Popular Music

    David Garcia traces Arsenio Rodriguez's early career in Cuba, his influence on Cuban and Latin popular music in the 1940s, his struggle for recognition at the height of mambo-mania in the 1950s, and his importance to Puerto Rican and Cuban communities in New York...
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  • Russia Gets the Blues by Urban, Michael
    Michael Urban

    Russia Gets the Blues

    Michael Urban chronicles the advent of blues music in Russia and explores the significance of the genre in the turbulent, postcommunist society. Russians, he explains, have taken a music originating in the "low" culture of the American South and transformed it into an object...
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  • Essays on Music by Adorno, Theodor
    Theodor Adorno

    Essays on Music

    Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969), one of the principal figures associated with the Frankfurt School, wrote extensively on culture, modernity, aesthetics, literature, and-more than any other subject-music. To this day, Adorno remains the single most influential contributor to the development of qualitative musical sociology which,...
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  • Flaco's Legacy: The Globalization of Conjunto by Bauer, Erin E.
    Erin E. Bauer

    Flaco's Legacy: The Globalization of Conjunto

    A combination of button accordion and bajo sexto, conjunto originated in the Texas-Mexico borderlands as a popular dance music and became a powerful form of regional identity. Today, listeners and musicians around the world have embraced the genre and the work of conjunto masters...
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  • Maps of Sorrow: Migration and Music in the Construction of Precolonial Afroasia by
    Ari Sitas

    Maps of Sorrow: Migration and Music in the Construction of Pre-Colonial Afroasia

    This book takes readers across the polycentric world of the pre-colonial period in AfroAsia, which involved systems, processes and interactions that were interconnected through long-distance trade, slavery and migration. It was also punctuated by the movement of symbolic forms like music that were in...
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  • Field Hollers And Freedom Songs: Featuring the collected works from the Sweat Equity Investment in the Cotton Kingdom Symposium by Turnipseed, C. Sade
    C. Sade Turnipseed

    Field Hollers And Freedom Songs: Featuring the collected works from the Sweat Equity Investment in the Cotton Kingdom Symposium

    Taking place annually in "the most southern place on earth," aka, the "Cotton Kingdom," the Sweat Equity Investment in the Cotton Kingdom Symposium offers a platform to honor, celebrate, and recognize the legacy of the African Americans who labored in the cotton fields of...
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  • Sonic Signatures: Music, Migration and the City at Night by Pardue, Derek
    Derek Pardue

    Sonic Signatures: Music, Migration and the City at Night

    This edited volume demonstrates and interprets contemporary migrant musics as sonic signatures constitutive of the city at night. The distinct contribution is the articulation of migrancy and emplacement practices to the scholarship on urban musicology and the burgeoning field of night studies. 49 b/w...
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  • Recorder for Beginners. 50 Easy-to-Play Songs from Over the World: Easy Solo Recorder Songbook by Gilbert, Nadya
    Nadya Gilbert

    Recorder for Beginners. 50 Easy-to-Play Songs from Over the World: Easy Solo Recorder Songbook

    We've gathered 50 different national songs adapted for the recorder musical instrument including lyrics, classic sheet music, letter-coded notations, and online audio tracks.This musical book is suitable for kids or adult beginners. The songbook is designed with national patterns. You will enjoy folk music,...
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  • In the Borderland Between Song and Speech: Vocal Expressions in Oral Cultures by
    H虧an Lundstr

    In the Borderland Between Song and Speech: Vocal Expressions in Oral Cultures

    This is a study of vocal expressions in the borderland between speech and song, based on performances from cultural contexts where oral transmission dominates. Approaches drawn from perspectives belonging to both ethnomusicology and linguistics are integrated in the analysis. As the idea of the...
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  • The Musical Tradition of the Eastern European Synagogue: Volume 2 by Kalib, Sholom
    Sholom Kalib

    Musical Tradition of the Eastern European Synagogue: Volume 2: The Weekday Services

    This volume includes multiple renditions of every prayer, thus illustrating the broad diversity within traditional intonation of each prayer mode. In accordance with the traditional role assigned to the prayer leader of each service, renditions are presented at levels appropriate to the lay cantor...
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  • Kalimba. 45 Simple Songs Around the World: Play by Number by Winter, Helen
    Helen Winter

    Kalimba. 45 Simple Songs Around the World: Play by Number

    International songs are one of the most exciting and appealing avenues to introducing children to new and different cultures through music.We've gathered 45 different national songs adapted especially for kalimba, including lyrics, classical sheet music, number-coded notation, and online audio tracks.This book includes complete...
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  • Jazz Cultures by Ake, David
    David Ake

    Jazz Cultures

    From its beginning, jazz has presented a contradictory social world: jazz musicians have worked diligently to erase old boundaries, but they have just as resolutely constructed new ones. David Ake's vibrant and original book considers the diverse musics and related identities that jazz communities...
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  • Interspecies Communication: Sound and Music Beyond Humanity by Steingo, Gavin
    Gavin Steingo

    Interspecies Communication: Sound and Music Beyond Humanity

    A surprising study reveals a plethora of attempts to communicate with non-humans in the modern era. In Interspecies Communication, music scholar Gavin Steingo examines significant cases of attempted communication beyond the human--cases in which the dualistic relationship of human to non-human is dramatically challenged....
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  • Music Films: Documentaries, Concert Films and Other Cinematic Representations of Popular Music by Fox, Neil
    Neil Fox

    Music Films: Documentaries, Concert Films and Other Cinematic Representations of Popular Music

    In Music Films, Neil Fox considers a broad range of music documentaries, delving into their cinematic style, political undertones, racial dynamics, and gender representations, in order to assess their role in the cultivation of myth. Combining historical and critical analyses, and drawing on film...
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  • On Methods of Music Theory and (Ethno-) Musicology: From Interdisciplinary Research to Teaching by Sch?er, Nico
    Nico Sch?er

    On Methods of Music Theory and (Ethno-) Musicology: From Interdisciplinary Research to Teaching

    Although all research makes use of specific research methods, much music scholarship is being published without any reference to, or reflection on, the premises of the methods employed. In other words, published articles and books are often lacking a discussion of the scope and...
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  • Everyday Music Listening: Absorption, Dissociation and Trancing by Herbert, Ruth
    Ruth Herbert

    Everyday Music Listening: Absorption, Dissociation and Trancing

    In what ways does listening to music shape everyday perception? Is music particularly effective in promoting shifts in consciousness? Is there any difference perceptually between contemplating one's surroundings and experiencing a work of art? Everyday Music Listening is the first book to focus in...
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  • Music in Puerto Rico: A Reader's Anthology by Thompson, Donald
    Donald Thompson

    Music in Puerto Rico: A Reader's Anthology

    Thompson's book provides a glimpse into a society in which cultures intersect and in which magic was born in the form of the popular salsa. Musicians, musicologists, historians, students of Hispanic culture, and anyone interested in the musical foundations of Puerto Rican life will...
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