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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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  • Sound Relations: Native Ways of Doing Music History in Alaska by Perea, Jessica Bissett
    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...
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  • Book of Salsa by Rondón, César Miguel
    C駸ar Miguel Rond

    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...
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  • African Rhythm and African Sensibility: Aesthetics and Social Action in African Musical Idioms by Chernoff, John Miller
    John Miller Chernoff

    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...
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  • Mercyful Fate's Don't Break the Oath by Marstal, Henrik
    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...
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  • Soundscapes: Exploring Music in a Changing World by Shelemay, Kay Kaufman
    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...
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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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  • Pop Anthology - Book 2: 50 Pop Songs for All Piano Methods Early Intermediate - Intermediate by Hal Leonard Corp
    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...
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  • K-Pop A to Z: The Definitive K-Pop Encyclopedia by Lee, Bina
    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:...
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  • Music in Elizabethan Court Politics by Butler, Katherine
    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...
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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 by Kim, Gooyong
    Gooyong Kim

    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...
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  • Singing in Mandarin: A Guide to Chinese Lyric Diction and Vocal Repertoire by Chu, Katherine
    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...
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  • Songs for Great Leaders: Ideology and Creativity in North Korean Music and Dance by Howard, Keith
    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...
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  • Dreams of Germany: Musical Imaginaries from the Concert Hall to the Dance Floor by Gregor, Neil
    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...
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  • Darkthrone's a Blaze in the Northern Sky by Hagen, Ross
    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...
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  • Jazz in Europe: Networking and Negotiating Identities by Dias, José
    José Dias

    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...
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  • The Arabesk Debate: Music and Musicians in Modern Turkey by Stokes, Martin
    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...
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  • The Musical Discourse of Servitude: Authority, Autonomy, and the Work-Concept in Fux, Bach and Handel by White, Harry
    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...
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  • Music as Mao's Weapon: Remembering the Cultural Revolution by Ouyang, Lei X.
    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...
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  • Heitor Villa-Lobos's Bachianas Brasileiras: Intertextuality and Stylization by Dudeque, Norton
    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,...
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  • John Farnham's Whispering Jack by Turner, Graeme
    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...
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  • The Oxford Handbook of Country Music by Stimeling, Travis D.
    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...
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  • Balinese Gamelan Music [With CD (Audio)] by Tenzer, Michael
    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...
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  • Elvis, September 1958 by Belard, Paul
    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
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  • Unusual Guitar Scales from Around the World: Exotic Guitar Riffs and Licks by Orheim, Raif Justin
    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...
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  • Fela: From West Africa to West Broadway by Schoonmaker, Trevor
    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...
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  • Global Popular Music by Garcia, Thomas
    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....
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  • Modeselektor's Happy Birthday! by Nye, Sean
    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,...
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  • Balinese Dance, Drama & Music: A Beginner's Guide to the Performing Arts of Bali (Bonus Online Content) by Dibia, I. Wayan
    I. Wayan Dibia

    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...
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  • Eighteenth-Century Russian Music by Ritzarev, Marina
    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...
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  • Tony Allen: An Autobiography of the Master Drummer of Afrobeat by Allen, Tony
    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...
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  • British Invasion: The Crosscurrents of Musical Influence by Philo, Simon
    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...
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  • Cuban Flute Style: Interpretation and Improvisation by Miller, Sue
    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...
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  • Bach in Berlin: Nation and Culture in Mendelssohn's Revival of the St. Matthew Passion by Applegate, Celia
    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...
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  • Top-Requested Irish Sheet Music: 21 Popular and Traditional Favorites (Piano/Vocal/Guitar) by Alfred Music
    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,...
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  • The Dastgah Concept in Persian Music by Farhat, Hormoz
    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...
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  • Russian Music and Nationalism: From Glinka to Stalin by Frolova-Walker, Marina
    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...
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  • Intertribal Native American Music in the United States: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture [With CDROM] [With CDROM] by Perea, John-Carlos
    John-Carlos Perea

    Intertribal Native American Music in the United States: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture [With CDROM] [With CDROM]

    Over time many Native American tribes have developed a shared musical culture that is prominently audible on local, national, and international stages. In Intertribal Native American Music in the United States, ethnomusicologist and GRAMMY(R) Award-winning musician Dr. John-Carlos Perea shows how traditional sounds, such...
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  • Harmony and Discord: Music and the Transformation of Russian Cultural Life by Sargeant, Lynn M.
    Lynn M. Sargeant

    Harmony and Discord: Music and the Transformation of Russian Cultural Life

    Harmony and Discord: Music and the Transformation of Russian Cultural Life explores the complex development of Russian musical life during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. At the heart of this cultural history lies the Russian Musical Society, as both a unique driving force...
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  • The Oxford History of English Music: Volume 1: From the Beginnings to C.1715 by Caldwell, John
    John Caldwell

    The Oxford History of English Music: Volume 1: From the Beginnings to C.1715

    This first volume of a magisterial two-volume survey of English music charts its development from its beginnings to about 1715. It looks at the music of early monastic institutions and the development of polyphony, including the extraordinarily advanced mid-thirteenth-century canon, "Sumeris icumen in." It...
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  • Music in Korea: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture [With CD (Audio)] by Lee Kwon, Donna
    Donna Lee Kwon

    Music in Korea: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture [With CD (Audio)]

    *** Music in Korea is one of several 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...
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  • Federico Moreno Torroba by Clark, Walter Aaron
    Walter Aaron Clark

    Federico Moreno Torroba

    The last of the Spanish Romantics, composer, conductor, and impresario Federico Moreno Torroba (1891-1982) left his mark on virtually every aspect of Spanish musical culture during a career which spanned six decades, and saw tremendous political and cultural upheavals. After Falla, he was the...
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  • Historical Dictionary of Russian Music by Jaffé, Daniel
    Daniel Jaffé

    Historical Dictionary of Russian Music

    Russian music today has a firm hold around the world in the repertoire of opera houses, ballet companies, and orchestras. The music of Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Sergey Rachmaninov, Sergey Prokofiev, and Dmitri Shostakovich is very much today's lingua franca both in the concert...
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  • Regurgitator's Unit by Goold, Lachlan
    Lachlan Goold

    Regurgitator's Unit

    Regurgitator's second full-length album, Unit (1997), was produced in a DIY warehouse studio at a time when this was unusual for a major label band. The album went three times Platinum in Australia and won five esteemed ARIA Awards in 1998, including Album of...
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  • Hearing Maskanda: Musical Epistemologies in South Africa by Titus, Barbara
    Barbara Titus

    Hearing Maskanda: Musical Epistemologies in South Africa

    Hearing Maskanda outlines how people make sense of their world through practicing and hearing maskanda music in South Africa. Having emerged in response to the experience of forced labour migration in the early 20th century, maskanda continues to straddle a wide range of cultural...
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  • Plunky by Branch, James Plunky
    James Plunky Branch

    Plunky

    Includes discography (pages 448-450) and appendices.Author: James Plunky BranchISBN-10: 1887276459ISBN-13: 9781887276450Publisher: Cool Grove Publishing Inc NYLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/13/2015Pages: 478Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.40lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.96d
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  • Czeslaw Niemen's Niemen Enigmatic by Gradowski, Mariusz
    Mariusz Gradowski

    Czeslaw Niemen's Niemen Enigmatic

    Niemen Enigmatic is the fourth album in the career of Czeslaw Niemen, arguably one of the greatest Polish musicians of all time (from pop and rock to jazz-rock and avant-garde). The book asks how significant was this album? How enduring is its popularity? Has...
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  • Odes to Music: A Collection of Short Stories by Deller-Carr, Susan
    Susan Deller-Carr

    Odes to Music: A Collection of Short Stories

    Susan Deller grew up in South East Queensland, Australia and became interested in writing at school but never thought of taking it any further, and in 1988 she became an on-call printers' table hand - so Susan made books instead of writing them! Although,...
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  • Oral Poetry in Africa: the Abagusii of Kenya by Okemwa, Christopher
    Christopher Okemwa

    Oral Poetry in Africa: the Abagusii of Kenya

    Oral Poetry of the Abagusii of Kenya highlights characteristics of African oral traditions with a particular focus on the oral poetry of the Abagusii of Kenya. It shows that oral poetry in the Abagusii community covered every facet of life. The community's social-political and...
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  • Made in Nusantara: Studies in Popular Music by Johan, Adil
    Adil Johan

    Made in Nusantara: Studies in Popular Music

    Made in Nusantara serves as a comprehensive introduction to the history, sociology, ethnography, and musicology of historical and contemporary popular music in maritime Southeast Asia. Each essay covers major figures, styles, and social contexts of genres of a popular nature in the Nusantara region...
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