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  • Music and the Elusive Revolution: Cultural Politics and Political Culture in France, 1968-1981volume 12 by Drott, Eric
    Eric Drott

    Music and the Elusive Revolution: Cultural Politics and Political Culture in France, 1968-1981 Volume 12

    In May 1968, France teetered on the brink of revolution as a series of student protests spiraled into the largest general strike the country has ever known. In the forty years since, May '68 has come to occupy a singular place in the modern...
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  • Musics of Many Cultures: An Introduction by May, Elizabeth
    Elizabeth May

    Musics of Many Cultures: An Introduction

    The foremost authorities in the field of music from around the world have contributed twenty original essays for this volume, edited by Elizabeth May. Only European musics have been omitted, except insofar as they affect other musics discussed here. North American music is represented...
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  • Representing African Music: Postcolonial Notes, Queries, Positions by Agawu, Kofi
    Kofi Agawu

    Representing African Music: Postcolonial Notes, Queries, Positions

    The aim of this book is to stimulate debate by offering a critique of discourse about African music. Who writes about African music, how, and why? What assumptions and prejudices influence the presentation of ethnographic data? Even the term "African music" suggests there is...
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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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  • The Music of Africa by Nketia, J. H. Kwabena
    J. H. Kwabena Nketia

    The Music of Africa

    Author: J. H. Kwabena NketiaISBN-10: 0393092496ISBN-13: 9780393092493Publisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/17/1974Pages: 228Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.77lbsSize: 8.19h x 5.39w x 0.87d
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  • Lili Marlene: The Soldiers' Song of World War II by Leibovitz, Liel
    Liel Leibovitz

    Lili Marlene: The Soldiers' Song of World War II

    "Lili Marlene," the unlikely anthem of World War II, cut across front lines and ideological divides, uniting soldiers across the globe. This love song, telling the story of a young woman waiting for her lover to return from the battlefield, began as a poem...
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  • Music in Mexico: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture [With CD (Audio)] [With CD (Audio)] by Madrid, Alejandro L.
    Alejandro L. Madrid

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

    The complex legacy of Mexico's ethnic past and geographic location have shaped the country and its culture. In Music in Mexico, Alejandro L. Madrid uses extensive fieldwork, interviews with performers, eyewitness accounts of performances, and vivid illustrations to guide students through modern-day music practices....
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  • Music in Chopin's Warsaw by Goldberg, Halina
    Halina Goldberg

    Music in Chopin's Warsaw

    Music in Chopin's Warsaw examines the rich musical environment of Fryderyk Chopin's youth--largely unknown to the English-speaking world--and places Chopin's early works in this context. Halina Goldberg provides a historiographic perspective that allows a new and better understanding of Poland's cultural and musical circumstances....
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  • Music, Science, and Natural Magic in Seventeenth-Century England by Gouk, Penelope
    Penelope Gouk

    Music, Science, and Natural Magic in Seventeenth-Century England

    What influence did music have in the domains of natural magic and early modern experimental science? In this highly original book, Penelope Gouk argues that developments in sixteenth-century musical practices changed English thought on science and magic in the next century. Her exploration of...
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  • The Powers of Sound and Song in Early Modern Paris by Hammond, Nicholas
    Nicholas Hammond

    The Powers of Sound and Song in Early Modern Paris

    The long and spectacular reign of Louis XIV of France is typically described in overwhelmingly visual terms. In this book, Nicholas Hammond takes a sonic approach to this remarkable age, opening our ears to the myriad ways in which sound revealed the complex acoustic...
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  • Music for the Revolution: Musicians and Power in Early Soviet Russia by Nelson, Amy
    Amy Nelson

    Music for the Revolution: Musicians and Power in Early Soviet Russia

    Mention twentieth-century Russian music, and the names of three "giants"--Igor Stravinsky, Sergei Prokofiev, and Dmitrii Shostakovich--immediately come to mind. Yet during the turbulent decade following the Bolshevik Revolution, Stravinsky and Prokofiev lived abroad and Shostakovich was just finishing his conservatory training. While the fame...
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  • Re-Envisioning Past Musical Cultures: Ethnomusicology in the Study of Gregorian Chant by Jeffery, Peter
    Peter Jeffery

    Re-Envisioning Past Musical Cultures: Ethnomusicology in the Study of Gregorian Chant

    Studying Gregorian chant presents many problems to the researcher because its most important stages of development were not recorded in writing. From the sixth to the tenth century, this form of music existed only in song as medieval musicians relied on their memories and...
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  • Kwaito's Promise: Music and the Aesthetics of Freedom in South Africa by Steingo, Gavin
    Gavin Steingo

    Kwaito's Promise: Music and the Aesthetics of Freedom in South Africa

    In mid-1990s South Africa, apartheid ended, Nelson Mandela was elected president, and the country's urban black youth developed kwaito--a form of electronic music (redolent of North American house) that came to represent the post-struggle generation. In this book, Gavin Steingo examines kwaito as it...
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  • The Voice of Egypt: Umm Kulthum, Arabic Song, and Egyptian Society in the Twentieth Century Volume 1997 by Danielson, Virginia
    Virginia Danielson

    The Voice of Egypt: Umm Kulthum, Arabic Song, and Egyptian Society in the Twentieth Century Volume 1997

    Umm Kulthum, the "voice of Egypt," was the most celebrated musical performer of the century in the Arab world. More than twenty years after her death, her devoted audience, drawn from all strata of Arab society, still numbers in the millions. Thanks to her...
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  • Music and German National Identity by Applegate, Celia
    Celia Applegate

    Music and German National Identity

    Is it merely a coincidence that the three "Bs" of classical music--Bach, Beethoven, Brahms--are all German composers? Why do concert halls all over the world feature mostly the works of German and Austrian composers as their standard repertoire? Over the past three centuries, supporters...
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