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  • Different Drummers: Rhythm and Race in the Americas Volume 14 by Munro, Martin
    Martin Munro

    Different Drummers: Rhythm and Race in the Americas Volume 14

    Long a taboo subject among critics, rhythm finally takes center stage in this book's dazzling, wide-ranging examination of diverse black cultures across the New World. Martin Munro's groundbreaking work traces the central-and contested-role of music in shaping identities, politics, social history, and artistic expression....
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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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  • Baltic Musics/Baltic Musicologies: The Landscape Since 1991 by Karnes, Kevin C.
    Kevin C. Karnes

    Baltic Musics/Baltic Musicologies: The Landscape Since 1991

    This volume is the first to bring together music scholars working on Baltic topics from throughout Europe, North America, and the Middle East for the purpose of exploring the impact of Nazi and Soviet occupation (1940-91) and the restoration of republican independence upon the...
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  • Queerness in Heavy Metal Music: Metal Bent by Clifford-Napoleone, Amber R.
    Amber R. Clifford-Napoleone

    Queerness in Heavy Metal Music: Metal Bent

    While the growing field of scholarship on heavy metal music and its subcultures has produced excellent work on the sounds, scenes, and histories of heavy metal around the world, few works have included a study of gender and sexuality. This cutting-edge volume focuses on...
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  • Musical Performance and the Changing City: Post-Industrial Contexts in Europe and the United States by Holt, Fabian
    Fabian Holt

    Musical Performance and the Changing City: Post-Industrial Contexts in Europe and the United States

    A contribution to the field of urban music studies, this book presents new interdisciplinary approaches to the study of music in urban social life. It takes musical performance as its key focus, exploring how and why different kinds of performance are evolving in contemporary...
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  • Masculinity in Opera by Purvis, Philip
    Philip Purvis

    Masculinity in Opera

    This book addresses the ways in which masculinity is negotiated, constructed, represented, and problematized within operatic music and practice. Although the consideration of masculine ontology and epistemology has pervaded cultural and sociological studies since the late 1980s, and masculinity has been the focus of...
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  • The Globalization of Musics in Transit: Music Migration and Tourism by Krüger, Simone
    Simone Krüger

    The Globalization of Musics in Transit: Music Migration and Tourism

    This book traces the particularities of music migration and tourism in different global settings, and provides current, even new perspectives for ethnomusicological research on globalizing musics in transit. The dual focus on tourism and migration is central to debates on globalization, and their examination--separately...
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  • Vocal Music and Contemporary Identities: Unlimited Voices in East Asia and the West by Utz, Christian
    Christian Utz

    Vocal Music and Contemporary Identities: Unlimited Voices in East Asia and the West

    Looking at musical globalization and vocal music, this collection of essays studies the complex relationship between the human voice and cultural identity in 20th- and 21st-century music in both East Asian and Western music. The authors approach musical meaning in specific case studies against...
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  • Congregational Music, Conflict and Community by Dueck, Jonathan
    Jonathan Dueck

    Congregational Music, Conflict and Community

    Congregational Music, Conflict and Community is the first study of the music of the contemporary 'worship wars' - conflicts over church music that continue to animate and divide Protestants today - to be based on long-term in-person observation and interviews. It tells the story...
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  • The Tamburitza Tradition: From the Balkans to the American Midwest by March, Richard
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    Richard March

    The Tamburitza Tradition: From the Balkans to the American Midwest

    The Tamburitza Tradition is a lively and well-illustrated comprehensive introduction to a Balkan folk music that now also thrives in communities throughout Europe, the Americas, and Australia. Tamburitza features acoustic stringed instruments, ranging in size from tamburas as small as a ukulele to ones...
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  • Echoes of Antiquity: A Guide to Ancient Chinese Music: A Journey Through History, Instruments, and Cultural Significance by Carter, Emily
    Emily Carter

    Echoes of Antiquity: A Guide to Ancient Chinese Music: A Journey Through History, Instruments, and Cultural Significance

    Embark on a captivating journey through the world of ancient Chinese music with 'Echoes of Antiquity.' This comprehensive guide unveils the secrets of a musical heritage deeply intertwined with cosmology, philosophy, and ritual. Discover the cultural and symbolic value of instruments like the guqin...
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  • Steep Slopes: Music and change in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea by Gillespie, Kirsty
    Kirsty Gillespie

    Steep Slopes: Music and change in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea

    The Duna live in a physical environment of steep slopes that are sometimes difficult to traverse. A stick of bamboo used as a prop goes a long way in assisting a struggling traveller. Similarly, the Duna live in a social and cultural environment of...
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  • The Old Songs are Always New: Singing Traditions of the Tiwi Islands by Campbell, Genevieve
    Genevieve Campbell

    The Old Songs are Always New: Singing Traditions of the Tiwi Islands

    It's really great. It's like they're all here. I hear all of these voices and I sing with them, you know? - Yikliya Eustace Tipiloura, senior songman and ElderPerhaps the most defining feature of Tiwi song is the importance placed on the creative innovation...
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  • Knowing Jazz: Community, Pedagogy, and Canon in the Information Age by Prouty, Ken
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    Ken Prouty

    Knowing Jazz: Community, Pedagogy, and Canon in the Information Age

    How the claim to jazz knowledge forges community and forms an understanding of canon Ken Prouty argues that knowledge of jazz, or more to the point, claims to knowledge of jazz, are the prime movers in forming jazz's identity, its canon, and its community....
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  • Downhome Gospel: African American Spiritual Activism in Wiregrass Country 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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  • The Berimbau: Soul of Brazilian Music by Galm, Eric A.
    Eric A. Galm

    The Berimbau: Soul of Brazilian Music

    The Brazilian berimbau, a musical bow, is most commonly associated with the energetic martial art/dance/game of capoeira. This study explores the berimbau's stature from the 1950s to the present in diverse musical genres including bossa nova, samba-reggae, MPB (Popular Brazilian Music), electronic dance music,...
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  • Javanese Gamelan and the West by Sumarsam
    Sumarsam

    Javanese Gamelan and the West

    In Javanese Gamelan and the West, 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. The book begins by looking at the "domestication" of Western music in Java...
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  • The Resource Book of Jewish Music: A Bibliographical and Topical Guide to the Book and Journal Literature and Program Materials by Heskes, Irene
    Irene Heskes

    The Resource Book of Jewish Music: A Bibliographical and Topical Guide to the Book and Journal Literature and Program Materials

    Product information not available.Author: Irene Heskes,UnknownISBN-10: 0313232512ISBN-13: 9780313232510Publisher: GreenwoodLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/18/1985Pages: 302Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.37lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.75d
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  • Communities of Sound: Religion, Displacement, and Caste in the Bay of Bengal by Lorea, Carola E.
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    Carola E. Lorea

    Communities of Sound: Religion, Displacement, and Caste in the Bay of Bengal

    Sounding untouchability across postcolonial bordersCommunities of Sound brings together insights from religion, anthropology, sound, and migration studies to explore the sonic traces of untouchability and forced migration across the Bay of Bengal. Based on an immersive, multi-sited ethnography with Matua devotees--a low-caste, Bengali-speaking Dalit...
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  • Music and Political Imprisonment in Pinochet's Chile by Chornik, Katia
    Katia Chornik

    Music and Political Imprisonment in Pinochet's Chile

    Author: Katia ChornikISBN-10: 0190052260ISBN-13: 9780190052263Publisher: Oxford University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/19/2025Pages: 184Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.62lbsSize: 9.28h x 6.21w x 0.46d
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  • The Making of the Sound of Music by Wilk, Max
    Max Wilk

    The Making of the Sound of Music

    The Sound of Music was the last - and most successful - collaboration of two giants of the musical theater, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein. Enjoying a long run on Broadway and then transformed into a major hit film--recently reissued in a 40th anniversary...
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  • Musicking Tiktok: A Musical Ethnography from a Glocal Austrian Context by Bermúdez, Juan
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    Juan Bermúdez

    Musicking Tiktok: A Musical Ethnography from a Glocal Austrian Context

    This ethnographic work about TikTok's musicking in a glocal (Austrian) context complements and build upon ethnomusicological assumptions, theories, and methods for the study of musical practices in digital spaces. An overview of elements that make up TikTok's interface as well as the technical-performative possibilities...
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  • Making Value: Music, Capital, and the Social by Taylor, Timothy D.
    Timothy D. Taylor

    Making Value: Music, Capital, and the Social

    In Making Value, Timothy D. Taylor examines how people's conceptions of value inform and shape their production and consumption of music. Drawing on anthropological value theory, Taylor theorizes music's economic and noneconomic forms of value both ethnographically and historically. He covers the creation and...
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  • Old Salem in Ballad and Song by Strom, Robert E.
    Robert E. Strom

    Old Salem in Ballad and Song

    Old Salem in Ballad and Song is a collection of ballads and songs that have roots in Salem Massachusetts' history through the oral and the written tradition. The songs, ballads and broadsides describe events and give a hint of Salem's past and its influence...
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  • The Oxford Handbook of the Phenomenology of Music Cultures by Berger, Harris M.
    Harris M. Berger

    The Oxford Handbook of the Phenomenology of Music Cultures

    A source of profound insights into human existence and the nature of lived experience, phenomenology is among the most influential intellectual movements of the last hundred years. The Oxford Handbook of the Phenomenology of Music Cultures brings ideas from the phenomenological tradition of Continental...
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  • Traditional Musical Instruments of Southern Italy by Marisi, Rossella
    Rossella Marisi

    Traditional Musical Instruments of Southern Italy

    Southern Italy's traditional musical instruments come to life in this comprehensive study of ethno-organology. Tracing their origins from pre-Christian times through the accounts of early travelers, the book reveals how instruments-idiophones like sistra and rattles, membranophones including frame and friction drums, chordophones such as...
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  • Music Making in Iran from the 15th to the Early 20th Century by Pourjavady, Amir Hosein
    Amir Hosein Pourjavady

    Music Making in Iran from the 15th to the Early 20th Century

    Music Making in Iran from the 15th to the Early 20th Century looks at the change and evolution of music in Iran from both social and theoretical perspectives. Amir Hosein Pourjavady scrutinises the emergence and development of modal entities, rules for modulation, the formation...
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  • Traders, Chanters, and Mystics: The Networked Afterlives of North African Torah Scrolls by Webster-Kogen, Ilana
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    Ilana Webster-Kogen

    Traders, Chanters, and Mystics: The Networked Afterlives of North African Torah Scrolls

    Interdisciplinary ethnography of Torah scrolls as ritual objects and subjectsFor Jews all over the world, the Torah scroll is the height of holiness, framed as the carefully designed and produced word of God. Jews give great attention to the care of Torah scrolls, ensuring...
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  • Sensational Rhythms of the Ineffable: Ethical Affects in Sikh Sabad Kä«rtan by Kaur, Inderjit N.
    Inderjit N. Kaur

    Sensational Rhythms of the Ineffable: Ethical Affects in Sikh Sabad Kä«rtan

    At the intersection of music, philosophy, and religion, Sensational Rhythms of the Ineffable explores intimate collaborations between rhythm and body, showing how they engender deep devotional experiences and ethical sensations. The focus of ethnomusicologist Inderjit N. Kaur's study is Sabad Kirtan--the congregational singing of...
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  • Playing Berimbau for Beginners: Mastering Techniques, Capoeira Rhythms, Tuning, Striking Methods, Hand Positioning, Traditional Styles, Brazilian Musi by Zellner, Hutson
    Hutson Zellner

    Playing Berimbau for Beginners: Mastering Techniques, Capoeira Rhythms, Tuning, Striking Methods, Hand Positioning, Traditional Styles, Brazilian Musi

    Discover the powerful rhythms of Afro-Brazilian tradition and unlock the spirit of Capoeira through one of the most iconic instruments-the Berimbau. Playing Berimbau for Beginners is your comprehensive, beginner-friendly guide to mastering this unique single-stringed musical bow. Whether you're a curious learner, a Capoeira...
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  • One Heart, Many Voices: A Biographical History of the American Balkan Scene by Cohen, Hasina Renee
    Hasina Renee Cohen

    One Heart, Many Voices: A Biographical History of the American Balkan Scene

    One Heart, Many Voices is a journey through the lives of six individuals who make music and dance as part of a cultural constellation known as the American Balkan Scene, and by extension, a journey through the history of the Scene itself. Far from...
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  • And We're All Brothers: Singing in Yiddish in Contemporary North America by Wood, Abigail
    Abigail Wood

    And We're All Brothers: Singing in Yiddish in Contemporary North America

    The dawn of the twenty-first century marked a turning period for American Yiddish culture. The 'Old World' of Yiddish-speaking Eastern Europe was fading from living memory - yet at the same time, Yiddish song enjoyed a renaissance of creative interest, both among a younger...
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  • Music and Traditions of the Arabian Peninsula: Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, and Qatar by Urkevich, Lisa
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    Lisa Urkevich

    Music and Traditions of the Arabian Peninsula: Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, and Qatar

    Music and Traditions of the Arabian Peninsula provides a pioneering overview of folk and traditional urban music, along with dance and rituals, of Saudi Arabia and the Upper Gulf States of Kuwait, Bahrain, and Qatar. The nineteen chapters introduce variegated regions and subcultures and...
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  • I Belong to This Band, Hallelujah!: Community, Spirituality, and Tradition Among Sacred Harp Singers by Clawson, Laura
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    Laura Clawson

    I Belong to This Band, Hallelujah!: Community, Spirituality, and Tradition Among Sacred Harp Singers

    The Sacred Harp choral singing tradition originated in the American South in the mid-nineteenth century, spread widely across the country, and continues to thrive today. Sacred Harp isn't performed but participated in, ideally in large gatherings where, as the a cappella singers face each...
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  • Sounding Good: Advancing Cultural Sustainability and Social Justice Through Music by Grant, Catherine
    Catherine Grant

    Sounding Good: Advancing Cultural Sustainability and Social Justice Through Music

    Like biological species and languages, many musical and other cultural practices around the world are at risk. In some cases, the threat to their future is due to social inequalities or injustices that impinge upon people's capacity to engage in vibrant cultural lives of...
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  • Cultural Perspectives in Video Game Audio by Azadehfar, Mohammad R.
    Mohammad R. Azadehfar

    Cultural Perspectives in Video Game Audio

    Cultural Perspectives in Video Game Audio explores the fundamental role of sound - specifically sound effects, music, and voice acting - in video games. This book provides readers with a deeper understanding of the impact of sound on gameplay and storytelling and examines sound's...
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  • Music on the Borderland: Remembering and Chronicling the 1979 Revolution's Shadow on Iranian Music by Emami, Keyan
    Keyan Emami

    Music on the Borderland: Remembering and Chronicling the 1979 Revolution's Shadow on Iranian Music

    This research illuminates the sociopolitical backdrop of Iranian music from the 1979 Revolution through 1989, alongside the narratives of modern Iranian composers who have studied music, pursued careers as professional musicians, and engaged in composition. The study highlights their societal obstacles and their strategies...
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  • The Necessity of Music: Variations on a German Theme by Applegate, Celia
    Celia Applegate

    The Necessity of Music: Variations on a German Theme

    In The Necessity of Music, Celia Applegate explores the many ways that Germans thought about and made music from the eighteenth- to twentieth-centuries.Author: Celia ApplegateISBN-10: 1487520484ISBN-13: 9781487520489Publisher: University of Toronto PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/13/2017Pages: 416Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.30lbsSize: 9.00h x 5.90w x 1.00d
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  • 'Performing' Nature: Ecology and the Arts in South Asia by Basu, Priyanka
    Priyanka Basu

    'Performing' Nature: Ecology and the Arts in South Asia

    This book is the first to explore the interconnections between ecology and performance in South Asia.The essays in the volume take inspiration from these different methodological strains in recent scholarship connecting the environment with South Asian music and performance traditions.Author: Priyanka BasuISBN-10: 1032875356ISBN-13: 9781032875354Publisher:...
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  • From Sibelius to Sallinen: Finnish Nationalism and the Music of Finland by de Gorog, Lisa
    Lisa de Gorog

    From Sibelius to Sallinen: Finnish Nationalism and the Music of Finland

    This comprehensive study of the evolution of Finnish art music from continental predecessors and native folk music traces the development of Sibelius's musical language from his first major work, Kullervo, the first genuine Finnish recitative, to the last tone poem, Tapiola. De Gorog asserts...
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  • The Art of Persian Music by During, Jean
    Jean During

    The Art of Persian Music

    The Art of Persian Music offers a richly layered introduction to the music and culture of Iran through a compelling multimedia approach. Like the Persian carpet-fine, intricate, and evocative-Persian music is one of Iran's most exquisite art forms. Yet it remains little known in...
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  • AI and Duende: When the Machine Learns Flamenco: Artificial Intelligence and the Purest Emotion of Spanish Music by Gago, Manuel
    Manuel Gago

    AI and Duende: When the Machine Learns Flamenco: Artificial Intelligence and the Purest Emotion of Spanish Music

    AI and Duende: When the Machine Learns FlamencoArtificial intelligence meets the purest emotion of Spanish music Can a machine learn to feel?This is the question that gives life to "AI and Duende," a fascinating journey through the sometimes harmonious, sometimes impossible encounter between the...
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  • Regarding Charlottesville Music: An Oral History by Tarbell, Rich
    Rich Tarbell

    Regarding Charlottesville Music: An Oral History

    Regarding Charlottesville Music is a photography project of the present, rooted in the past, documenting five decades of local musicians. This book is the oral history. The book focuses on local musical centers of influence. The stories of a few bands are included in...
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  • The Music of Multicultural America: Performance, Identity, and Community in the United States by Lornell, Kip
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    Kip Lornell

    The Music of Multicultural America: Performance, Identity, and Community in the United States

    The Music of Multicultural America explores the intersection of performance, identity, and community in a wide range of musical expressions. Fifteen essays explore traditions that range from the Klezmer revival in New York, to Arab music in Detroit, to West Indian steel bands in...
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  • Sacred and Secular Musics by Kalra, Virinder S.
    Virinder S. Kalra

    Sacred and Secular Musics

    How does the sacred/secular opposition explain itself in the context of musical production? This volume traces this binary as it frames Western Classical music and Indian Classical music in the 18th and 19th centuries, laying the ground for a contemporary exploration of what is...
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  • Paul Vernon

    Ethnic and Vernacular Music, 1898-1960: A Resource and Guide to Recordings

    Detailed information on almost all ethnic and vernacular recordings from many countries on 78rpm is provided in this seminal work. The current state of discographical research in this wide and varied field is such that a research tool of this nature is badly needed....
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  • A Discography of Hindustani and Karnatic Music by Kinnear, Michael
    Michael Kinnear

    A Discography of Hindustani and Karnatic Music

    This exhaustive and complete discography of Indian music issued on microgroove discs and cassettes provides information on over 2,700 recordings of classical and semiclassical music of the Indian subcontinent. It covers the period from the early 1950s to the end of 1983 and also...
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  • Art of Grafted Song: Citation and Allusion in the Age of Machaut by Plumley, Yolanda
    Yolanda Plumley

    Art of Grafted Song: Citation and Allusion in the Age of Machaut

    Just as our society delights in citations, quotations, and allusions in myriad contexts, not least in popular song, late medieval poets and composers knew well that such references could greatly enrich their own works. In The Art of the Grafted Song: Citation and Allusion...
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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 it in its many facets: movement structures, sound structures, dancers and musicians, and the complex relations between these factors that all have their...
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  • Sounding Good: Advancing Cultural Sustainability and Social Justice Through Music by Grant, Catherine
    Catherine Grant

    Sounding Good: Advancing Cultural Sustainability and Social Justice Through Music

    Like biological species and languages, many musical and other cultural practices around the world are at risk. In some cases, the threat to their future is due to social inequalities or injustices that impinge upon people's capacity to engage in vibrant cultural lives of...
    $29.99
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