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Vendor: Deborah Paredez
Selenidad: Selena, Latinos, and the Performance of Memory
An outpouring of memorial tributes and public expressions of grief followed the death of the Tejana recording artist Selena Quintanilla P駻ez in 1995. The Latina superstar was remembered and mourned in documentaries, magazines, websites, monuments, biographies, murals, look-alike contests, musicals, drag shows, and more....- $27.95
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Music by Subscription: Composers and their Networks in the British Music-Publishing Trade, 1676-1820
This book breaks new ground in the social and cultural history of eighteenth-century music in Britain through the study of a hitherto neglected resource, the lists of subscribers that were attached to a wide variety of publications, including musical works.Author: Simon D. I. FlemingISBN-10:...- $170.00
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Joe Hisaishi's Soundtrack for My Neighbor Totoro
My Neighbor Totoro is a long-standing international icon of Japanese pop culture that grew out of the partnership between the legendary animator Miyazaki Hayao and the world-renowned composer Joe Hisaishi. A crucial step in the two artists' collaboration was the creation of the album,...- $80.00
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The Minqar-I Musiqar: Hazrat Inayat Khan's Classic 1912 Work on Indian Musical Theory and Practice
Hazrat Inayat Khan's classic 1912 work on Indian musical theory and practice. The Minqār-i Mūsīqār is prized as much for the quality of its content as for its distinguished author. This book communicates the musical learning and enthusiasms of the twenty-five-year-old Inayat Khan, whose...- $34.00
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Anton? Dvo%r疚's New World Symphony
Before Anton? Dvor疚's New World Symphony became one of the most universally beloved pieces of classical music, it exposed the deep wounds of racism at the dawn of the Jim Crow era while serving as a flashpoint in broader debates about the American ideals...- $21.99
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Vendor: Martha Sprigge
Socialist Laments: Musical Mourning in the German Democratic Republic
Antifascist and socialist monuments pervaded the landscape of the former German Democratic Republic (1949-89), presenting a distorted vision of the national past. Official commemorative culture in East Germany celebrated a selective set of political heroes, seeming to leave no public space for mourning those...- $64.00
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Vendor: Benjamin Lapidus
New York and the International Sound of Latin Music, 1940-1990
New York City has long been a generative nexus for the transnational Latin music scene. Currently, there is no other place in the Americas where such large numbers of people from throughout the Caribbean come together to make music. In this book, Benjamin Lapidus...- $110.00
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Vendor: John Collins
Fela: Kalakuta Notes
An intimate portrait of the Afrobeat legendFela: Kalakuta Notes is an evocative account of Fela Kuti--the Afrobeat superstar who took African music into the arena of direct action. With his antiestablishment songs, he dedicated himself to Pan-Africanism and the down-trodden Nigerian masses, or "sufferheads."...- $24.95
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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...- $85.99
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Vendor: Barry Foy
Field Guide to the Irish Music Session
Field Guide to the Irish Music Session is the first and only book devoted entirely to the dynamics and etiquette of the traditional Irish musical gathering. There's more to these events than meets the eye or ear, and Field Guide covers it all, with...- $9.95
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Vendor: Cameron Powers
Arabic Musical Scales: Basic Maqam Notation
Musicians desiring to play the Dance music, the Sacred music or the Folk music of the Arab and Turkish worlds must study these scales. Discover the musical basis for the incredibly rich emotions associated with Middle Eastern music. Forty-Five Arabic Musical Scales are taught...- $19.95
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Vendor: Olaf Salie
Chanson: A Tribute to France's Most Romantic and Poetic Musical Tradition
A photographic tribute to France's most lyrical, romantic, and poetic musical tradition. Virtually no other musical discipline is as closely linked with the culture and essence of a country as the chanson with France. With roots in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, this secular,...- $70.00
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Vendor: Sherifa Zuhur
Popular Dance and Music in Modern Egypt
This book is an exploration into the history, aesthetics, social reality, regulation, and transformation of dance and dance music in Egypt. It covers Oriental dance, known as belly dance or danse du ventre, regional or group-specific dances and rituals, sha'bi (lower-class urban music and...- $45.00
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Vendor: 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...- $110.00
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Vendor: Jessica Bissett Perea
Sound Relations: Native Ways of Doing Music History in Alaska
Sound Relations delves into histories of Inuit musical life in Alaska to register the significance of sound as integral to self-determination and sovereignty. Offering radical and relational ways of listening to Inuit performances across a range of genres--from hip hop to Christian hymnody and...- $37.99
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Book of Salsa
Salsa is one of the most popular types of music listened to and danced to in the United States. Until now, the single comprehensive history of the music--and the industry that grew up around it, including musicians, performances, styles, movements, and production--was available only...- $34.95
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African Rhythm and African Sensibility: Aesthetics and Social Action in African Musical Idioms
"We have in this book a Rosetta stone for mediating, or translating, African musical behavior and aesthetics."-Andrew Tracey, African Music "John Miller Chernoff, who spent 10 years studying African drumming, has a flair for descriptive writing, and his first-person narratives should be easily understood...- $33.00
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Vendor: Henrik Marstal
Mercyful Fate's Don't Break the Oath
Upon its release, Don't Break the Oath charted fifth on the official British heavy metal album list and was supported by a two month long sold-out American tour in early 1985. The band's controversial stage appearance with burning crosses, a microphone stand formed as...- $22.95
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Vendor: Kay Kaufman Shelemay
Soundscapes: Exploring Music in a Changing World
Music doesn't stop at the border, and neither should your textbook. This text gives students a global sense of music and its significance across cultures by introducing them to a diverse repertoire and developing listening skills applicable to all music. An accessible three-part model...- $158.50
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Vendor: 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...- $200.00
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Vendor: Hal Leonard Corp
Pop Anthology - Book 2: 50 Pop Songs for All Piano Methods Early Intermediate - Intermediate
(Educational Piano Library). Being able to play songs you recognize soon after beginning piano lessons can be a key toward motivating students and boosting confidence as the building blocks to playing the instrument are starting to develop. This collection picks up where Volume 1...- $19.99
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Vendor: Bina Lee
K-Pop A to Z: The Definitive K-Pop Encyclopedia
Everything fans could possibly need to know about Korean pop music K-POP is popping up everywhere Don't be left out of the phenomenon This book will help you learn the K-Pop lingo, culture, and important facts about the top stars of the industry, including:...- $16.99
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Vendor: Katherine Butler
Music in Elizabethan Court Politics
Music and musical entertainments are here shown to be used for different ends, by both monarch and courtiers. Queen Elizabeth I (1558-1603) had a strong reputation for musicality; her court musicians, Thomas Tallis and William Byrd, even suggested that music was indispensable to the...- $36.95
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From Factory Girls to K-Pop Idol Girls: Cultural Politics of Developmentalism, Patriarchy, and Neoliberalism in South Korea's Popular Music Industry
Focusing on female idols' proliferation in the South Korean popular music (K-pop) industry since the late 1990s, Gooyong Kim critically analyzes structural conditions of possibilities in contemporary popular music from production to consumption. Kim contextualizes the success of K-pop within Korea's development trajectories, scrutinizing...- $44.99
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Vendor: Katherine Chu
Singing in Mandarin: A Guide to Chinese Lyric Diction and Vocal Repertoire
Access audio files at: https: //soundcloud.com/k-chu-j-petrus/sets/singing-in-mandarin-recordedThe success of Chinese artists internationally across many art forms has focused the world's attention on the developing cultural phenomenon in China, an emerging stage for the vocal arts. As one of the most widely spoken languages in the...- $51.00
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Vendor: Keith Howard
Songs for Great Leaders: Ideology and Creativity in North Korean Music and Dance
Famously reclusive and secretive, North Korea can be seen as a theatre that projects itself through music and performance. The first book-length account of North Korean music and dance in any language other than Korean, Songs for "Great Leaders" pulls back the curtain on...- $97.00
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Vendor: Neil Gregor
Dreams of Germany: Musical Imaginaries from the Concert Hall to the Dance Floor
For many centuries, Germany has enjoyed a reputation as the 'land of music'. But just how was this reputation established and transformed over time, and to what extent was it produced within or outside of Germany? Through case studies that range from Bruckner to...- $34.95
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Vendor: Ross Hagen
Darkthrone's a Blaze in the Northern Sky
Darkthrone's A Blaze in the Northern Sky (1992) is a foundational keystone of the musical and aesthetic vision of the notorious Norwegian black metal scene and one of the most beloved albums of the genre. Its mysterious artwork and raw sound continue to captivate...- $22.95
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Jazz in Europe: Networking and Negotiating Identities
Should we talk of European jazz or jazz in Europe? What kinds of networks link those who make it happen 'on the ground'? What challenges do they have to face?Jazz is a part of the cultural fabric of many of the European countries. Jazz...- $44.95
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Vendor: Martin Stokes
The Arabesk Debate: Music and Musicians in Modern Turkey
The Arabesk Debate describes the way in which Turkish musicians discuss, dispute, and attribute meanings to their music. Martin Stokes examines the debate over 'Arabesk', a musical genre popular throughout Turkey. His book is an ethnographic study of urban music-making in Istanbul, focusing on...- $38.99
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Vendor: Harry White
The Musical Discourse of Servitude: Authority, Autonomy, and the Work-Concept in Fux, Bach and Handel
Examining, for the first time, the compositions of Johann Joseph Fux in relation to his contemporaries Bach and Handel, The Musical Discourse of Servitude presents a new theory of the late baroque musical imagination. Author Harry White contrasts musical "servility" and "freedom" in his...- $92.00
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Vendor: Lei X. Ouyang
Music as Mao's Weapon: Remembering the Cultural Revolution
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2022 China's Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) produced propaganda music that still stirs unease and, at times, evokes nostalgia. Lei X. Ouyang uses selections from revolutionary songbooks to untangle the complex interactions between memory, trauma, and generational imprinting among those...- $28.00
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Vendor: Norton Dudeque
Heitor Villa-Lobos's Bachianas Brasileiras: Intertextuality and Stylization
Heitor Villa-Lobos's Bachianas Brasileiras demonstrates how the composer achieved his own Brazilian neoclassical style in a group of works, nine suites in total, that is arguably one of the best examples of homage to J.S. Bach's music in the twentieth century. In this book,...- $52.95
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Vendor: Graeme Turner
John Farnham's Whispering Jack
The album examined in this book transformed the singer John Farnham from a faded teen pop star into the most popular solo rock performer in Australia, in a career that has lasted for more than 30 years. Whispering Jack remains the top-selling album by...- $22.95
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Vendor: Travis D. Stimeling
The Oxford Handbook of Country Music
Now in its sixth decade, country music studies is a thriving field of inquiry involving scholars working in the fields of American history, folklore, sociology, anthropology, musicology, ethnomusicology, cultural studies, and geography, among many others. Covering issues of historiography and practice as well as...- $54.00
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Vendor: Michael Tenzer
Balinese Gamelan Music [With CD (Audio)]
With extensive photographs and audio recordings, this guide to Balinese music showcases the history, culture and art of the gamelan ceremony. Bali has developed and nourished an astonishing variety of musical ensembles--called gamelan--comprising dozens of instruments mainly made of bronze or bamboo, and organized...- $17.95
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Vendor: Paul Belard
Elvis, September 1958
Author: Paul BelardISBN-10: 0999893947ISBN-13: 9780999893944Publisher: Linden PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/19/2019Pages: 188Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.36lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.49d- $40.00
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Vendor: Raif Justin Orheim
Unusual Guitar Scales from Around the World: Exotic Guitar Riffs and Licks
Travel the globe with your fingertips -- through 14 unique guitar scales from around the world -- an entertaining look at unusual exotic scale sounds you may not have played before. In addition to the fourteen different scales, the book also provides chords derived...- $24.95
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Vendor: Trevor Schoonmaker
Fela: From West Africa to West Broadway
Combine elements of Bob Marley, Malcolm X and Patrice Lumumba you get a sense of the power of the world's wildest rockstar. Fela created Afrobeat, an infectious mix of American funk and jazz with traditional Yoruba and highlife music, and used it to rail...- $20.99
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Vendor: Thomas Garcia
Global Popular Music
The anthology Global Popular Music features readings that examine the commonalities and differences among different popular music traditions in the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Europe. The text explores the ways in which each tradition developed, evolved, eventually disseminated, and how they gained global reach....- $157.95
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Vendor: Sean Nye
Modeselektor's Happy Birthday!
Modeselektor, the Berlin electronic duo consisting of Gernot Bronsert and Sebastian Szary, released Happy Birthday! in 2007, an album that mixed emotion, humor, and party excess. Through this album, this book presents a unique window into the histories of Berlin techno, European rave culture,...- $22.95
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Balinese Dance, Drama & Music: A Beginner's Guide to the Performing Arts of Bali (Bonus Online Content)
Discover the richness and beauty of Bali's many performing art forms. This book is a lavishly illustrated introduction to the most popular forms of traditional performing arts in Bali--among the most intricate and spectacular musical and theatrical performances found anywhere. Ideal reading for visitors...- $18.99
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Vendor: Marina Ritzarev
Eighteenth-Century Russian Music
Little is known outside of Russia about the nation's musical heritage prior to the nineteenth century. Western scholarship has tended to view the history of Russian music as not beginning until the end of the eighteenth century. Marina Ritzarev's work shows this interpretation to...- $69.99
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Vendor: Tony Allen
Tony Allen: An Autobiography of the Master Drummer of Afrobeat
Tony Allen is the autobiography of legendary Nigerian drummer Tony Allen, the rhythmic engine of Fela Kuti's Afrobeat. Conversational, inviting, and packed with telling anecdotes, Allen's memoir is based on hundreds of hours of interviews with the musician and scholar Michael E. Veal. It...- $26.95
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Vendor: Simon Philo
British Invasion: The Crosscurrents of Musical Influence
Before The Beatles landed on American shores in February 1964 only two British acts had topped the Billboard singles chart. In the first quarter of 1964, however, the Beatles alone accounted for sixty percent of all recorded music sold in the United States; in...- $33.00
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Vendor: Sue Miller
Cuban Flute Style: Interpretation and Improvisation
Richard Egües and José Fajardo are universally regarded as the leading exponents of charanga flute playing, an improvisatory style that crystallized in 1950s Cuba with the rise of the mambo and the chachachá. Despite the commercial success of their recordings with Orquesta Aragón and...- $121.00
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Vendor: Celia Applegate
Bach in Berlin: Nation and Culture in Mendelssohn's Revival of the St. Matthew Passion
Bach's St. Matthew Passion is universally acknowledged to be one of the world's supreme musical masterpieces, yet in the years after Bach's death it was forgotten by all but a small number of his pupils and admirers. The public rediscovered it in 1829, when...- $37.95
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Vendor: Alfred Music
Top-Requested Irish Sheet Music: 21 Popular and Traditional Favorites (Piano/Vocal/Guitar)
From nostalgic ballads to raucous sing-along favorites, this collection of sheet music brings fun to every Irish celebration, from St. Patrick's Day parties to weddings, and more. This practical songbook focuses on the Irish songs that are most familiar and beloved among today's audiences,...- $14.99
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Vendor: Hormoz Farhat
The Dastgah Concept in Persian Music
The tradition of Persian art music embodies twelve modal systems, known as dastgahs. Each dastgah represents a complex of skeletal melodic models on the basis of which a performer produces extemporised pieces. The dastgahs revolve around unspecified central nuclear melodies which the individual musician...- $46.99
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Vendor: Marina Frolova-Walker
Russian Music and Nationalism: From Glinka to Stalin
Challenging what is widely regarded as the distinguishing feature of Russian music - its ineffable 'Russianness' - Marina Frolova-Walker examines the history of Russian music from the premiere of Glinka's opera 'A Life for the Tsar' in 1836 to the death of Stalin in...- $51.00
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