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  • Music and the Forms of Life by Kramer, Lawrence
    Lawrence Kramer

    Music and the Forms of Life

    Inventors in the age of the Enlightenment created lifelike androids capable of playing music on real instruments. Music and the Forms of Life examines the link between such simulated life and music, which began in the era's scientific literature and extended into a series...
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  • Living Genres in Late Modernity: American Music of the Long 1970s by Kronengold, Charles
    Charles Kronengold

    Living Genres in Late Modernity: American Music of the Long 1970s

    Living Genres in Late Modernity rehears the American 1970s through the workings of its musical genres. Exploring stylistic developments from the late 1960s through the early 1980s, including soul, funk, disco, pop, the nocturne, and the concerto, Charles Kronengold treats genres as unstable constellations...
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  • Living Genres in Late Modernity: American Music of the Long 1970s by Kronengold, Charles
    Charles Kronengold

    Living Genres in Late Modernity: American Music of the Long 1970s

    Living Genres in Late Modernity rehears the American 1970s through the workings of its musical genres. Exploring stylistic developments from the late 1960s through the early 1980s, including soul, funk, disco, pop, the nocturne, and the concerto, Charles Kronengold treats genres as unstable constellations...
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  • Music and Consciousness 2: Worlds, Practices, Modalities by Herbert, Ruth
    Ruth Herbert

    Music and Consciousness 2: Worlds, Practices, Modalities

    Consciousness has been described as one of the most mysterious things in the universe. Scientists, philosophers, and commentators from a whole range of disciplines can't seem to agree on what it is, generating a sizeable field of contemporary research known as consciousness studies. Following...
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  • Meet Me in the Bathroom: Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001-2011 by Goodman, Lizzy
    Lizzy Goodman

    Meet Me in the Bathroom: Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001-2011

    Joining the ranks of the classics Please Kill Me, Our Band Could Be Your Life, and Can't Stop Won't Stop, an intriguing oral history of the post-9/11 decline of the old-guard music industry and rebirth of the New York rock scene, led by a...
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  • Muse Sick: A Music Manifesto in Fifty-Nine Notes by Brennan, Ian
    Ian Brennan

    Muse Sick: A Music Manifesto in Fifty-Nine Notes

    Grammy-winning music producer, Ian Brennan's seventh book, Muse-Sick: a music manifesto in fifty-nine notes, acts as a primer on how mass production and commercialization have corrupted the arts. Broken down into a series of core points and actions plans, Muse-Sick is a concise and...
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  • Music's Spell: Poems about Music and Musicians by Fragos, Emily
    Emily Fragos

    Music's Spell: Poems about Music and Musicians

    Music may be the universal language that needs no words--the "language where all language ends," as Rilke put it--but that has not stopped poets from ancient times to the present from trying to represent it in verse. Here are Rumi and Shakespeare, Elizabeth Bishop...
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  • Music Therapy: An Introduction with Case Studies for Mental Illness Recovery by Zotti, Alfredo
    Alfredo Zotti

    Music Therapy: An Introduction with Case Studies for Mental Illness Recovery

    Alfredo Zotti, a professional musician and bipolar survivor with a university degree in social anthropology and three years study of psychology, provides an introduction to music theory with specific case studies of applications for Alzheimer's, bipolar disorder, autism spectrum disorder (ASD), schizophrenia, anxiety, depression...
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  • Meet Me in the Bathroom: Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001-2011 by Goodman, Lizzy
    Lizzy Goodman

    Meet Me in the Bathroom: Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001-2011

    Named a Best Book of 2017 by NPR and GQJoining the ranks of the classics Please Kill Me, Our Band Could Be Your Life, and Can't Stop Won't Stop, an intriguing oral history of the post-9/11 decline of the old-guard music industry and rebirth...
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  • Monolithic Undertow: In Search of Sonic Oblivion by Sword, Harry
    Harry Sword

    Monolithic Undertow: In Search of Sonic Oblivion

    "An inspired and intuitive navigation of the drone continuum . . . with a compass firmly set to new and enlightening psychedelic truths"-- BECK In 1977 Sniffin' Glue verbalised the musical zeitgeist with their infamous 'this is a chord; this is another; now form...
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  • Music as Care: Artistry in the Hospital Environment: CMS Emerging Fields in Music by Hoover, Sarah Adams
    Sarah Adams Hoover

    Music as Care: Artistry in the Hospital Environment: CMS Emerging Fields in Music

    This book provides an overview of professional musicians working within the healthcare system and explores programs that bring music into the environment of the hospital. Far from being onstage, musicians in the hospital provide musical engagement for patients and healthcare providers focused on life-and-death...
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  • Music Therapy: An Introduction with Case Studies for Mental Illness Recovery by Zotti, Alfredo
    Alfredo Zotti

    Music Therapy: An Introduction with Case Studies for Mental Illness Recovery

    Alfredo Zotti, a professional musician and bipolar survivor with a university degree in social anthropology and three years study of psychology, provides an introduction to music theory with specific case studies of applications for Alzheimer's, bipolar disorder, autism spectrum disorder (ASD), schizophrenia, anxiety, depression...
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  • Morton Feldman: Friendship and Mourning in the New York Avant-Garde by Dohoney, Ryan
    Ryan Dohoney

    Morton Feldman: Friendship and Mourning in the New York Avant-Garde

    Morton Feldman: Friendship and Mourning in the New York Avant-Garde documents the collaborations and conflicts essential to the history of the post-war avant-garde. It offers a study of composer Morton Feldman's associations and friendships with artists like John Cage, Jackson Pollock, Philip Guston, Frank...
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  • Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Miles Davis: A Twentieth-Century Transnational Biography by Lefkovitz, Aaron
    Aaron Lefkovitz

    Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Miles Davis: A Twentieth-Century Transnational Biography

    This book examines Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Miles Davis as distinctively global symbols of threatening and nonthreatening black masculinity. It centers them in debates over U.S. cultural exceptionalism, noting how they have been part of the definition of jazz as a jingoistic and...
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  • Mixtape Nostalgia: Culture, Memory, and Representation by Burns, Jehnie I.
    Jehnie I. Burns

    Mixtape Nostalgia: Culture, Memory, and Representation

    Mixtape Nostalgia: Culture, Memory, and Representation tells the story of the mixtape from its history in 1970s bootlegging to its resurgence as an icon of nostalgic analog technology. Burns looks at the history of the mixtape from the early 1980s and the rise of...
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  • Love Dances: Loss and Mourning in Intercultural Collaboration by Kwan, Sansan
    Sansan Kwan

    Love Dances: Loss and Mourning in Intercultural Collaboration

    Love Dances: Loss and Mourning in Intercultural Collaboration explores global relationality within the realm ofintercultural collaboration in contemporary dance. Author SanSan Kwan looks specifically at duets, focusing on "East" "West" pairings, and how dance artists from different cultural and movement backgrounds -Asia, the Asian...
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  • Massive Attack: Out of the Comfort Zone by Chemam, Melissa
    Melissa Chemam

    Massive Attack: Out of the Comfort Zone

    Author Melissa Chemam's in-depth study of the influences that led to the formation of the Wild Bunch and then Massive Attack looks into Bristol's past to explore how the city helped shape one of the most successful and innovative musical movements of the last...
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  • Made in Ireland: Studies in Popular Music by Mangaoang, Áine
    ﾁine Mangaoang

    Made in Ireland: Studies in Popular Music

    Made in Ireland: Studies in Popular Music serves as a comprehensive and thorough introduction to the history, sociology and musicology of 20th- and 21st-century Irish popular music. The volume consists of essays by leading scholars in the field and covers the major figures, styles...
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  • Music and Musicians in the Medieval Islamicate World: A Social History by Nielson, Lisa
    Lisa Nielson

    Music and Musicians in the Medieval Islamicate World: A Social History

    During the early medieval Islamicate period (800-1400 CE), discourses concerned with music and musicians were wide-ranging and contentious, and expressed in works on music theory and philosophy as well as literature and poetry. But in spite of attempts by influential scholars and political leaders...
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  • Music and Social Justice: A Guide for Elementary Educators by Benedict, Cathy
    Cathy Benedict

    Music and Social Justice: A Guide for Elementary Educators

    In this book author Cathy Benedict challenges and reframes traditional ways of addressing many of the topics we have come to think of as social justice. Offering practical suggestions for helping both teachers and students think philosophically (and thus critically) about the world around...
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  • Media Narratives in Popular Music by Anderton, Chris
    Chris Anderton

    Media Narratives in Popular Music

    The historical significance of music-makers, music scenes, and music genres has long been mediated through academic and popular press publications such as magazines, films, and television documentaries. Media Narratives in Popular Music examines these various publications and questions how and why they are constructed....
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  • Modes of Communication in Stravinsky's Works: Sign and Expression by Dahl, Per
    Per Dahl

    Modes of Communication in Stravinsky's Works: Sign and Expression

    Igor Stravinsky left behind a complex heritage of music and ideas. There are many examples of discrepancies between his literate statements about music and musicians and his musical compositions and activity. Per Dahl presents a model of communication that unveils a clear and logical...
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  • Metaphysical Graffiti: Rock 'n' Roll and the Meaning of Life by Kaufman, Seth
    Seth Kaufman

    Metaphysical Graffiti: Rock 'n' Roll and the Meaning of Life

    A provocative, entertaining but ultimately serious examination of rock's most essential questions: Beatles or Stones? Which is the best air guitar to play? Does Rush suck? And what is the meaning of Billy Joel? Metaphysical Graffiti is a book for music fans, humor fans,...
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  • Music as an Art by Scruton, Roger
    Roger Scruton

    Music as an Art

    As Scruton argues in this book, in earlier times, our musical culture had secure foundations in the church, the concert hall and the home; in the ceremonies and celebrations of ordinary life, religion and manners. Yet we no longer live in that world. Fewer...
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  • Metaphysical Graffiti: Deep Cuts in the Philosophy of Rock by Auxier, Randall E.
    Randall E. Auxier

    Metaphysical Graffiti: Deep Cuts in the Philosophy of Rock

    Metaphysical Graffiti explores the philosophical themes prevalent in the music of the classic rock era. Each chapter is a detailed study of a classic rock performer or ensemble, applying insights from philosophers ancient and modern. It will appeal to an audience that was inspired...
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  • Make Arts for a Better Life: A Guide for Working with Communities by Van Buren, Kathleen
    Kathleen Van Buren

    Make Arts for a Better Life: A Guide for Working with Communities

    Make Arts for a Better Life: A Guide for Working with Communities provides a ground-breaking model for arts advocacy. Drawing upon methods and theories from disciplines such as ethnomusicology, anthropology, folklore, community development, and communication studies, the Guide presents an in-depth approach to researching...
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  • Finding the Singing Spruce: Musical Instrument Makers and Appalachia's Mountain Forests by Waugh-Quasebarth, Jasper
    Jasper Waugh-Quasebarth

    Finding the Singing Spruce: Musical Instrument Makers and Appalachia's Mountain Forests

    Environment, craft, and meaning in the work of Appalachian instrument makers. How can the craft of musical instrument making help reconnect people to place and reenchant work in Appalachia? How does the sonic search for musical tone change relationships with trees and forests? Following...
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  • Hungry Listening: Resonant Theory for Indigenous Sound Studies by Robinson, Dylan
    Dylan Robinson

    Hungry Listening: Resonant Theory for Indigenous Sound Studies

    WInner of the Best First Book from the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association Winner of the Labriola Center American Indian National Book Award Winner of the Ann Saddlemyer Award from the Canadian Association for Theatre Research Reimagining how we understand and write about...
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  • Jamming the Classroom: Musical Improvisation and Pedagogical Practice by Heble, Ajay
    Ajay Heble

    Jamming the Classroom: Musical Improvisation and Pedagogical Practice

    Drawing on a mix of collaborative autoethnography, secondary literature, interviews with leading improvisers, and personal anecdotal material, Jamming the Classroom discusses the pedagogy of musical improvisation as a vehicle for teaching, learning, and enacting social justice. Heble and Stewart write that to "jam the...
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  • Jamming the Classroom: Musical Improvisation and Pedagogical Practice by Heble, Ajay
    Ajay Heble

    Jamming the Classroom: Musical Improvisation and Pedagogical Practice

    Drawing on a mix of collaborative autoethnography, secondary literature, interviews with leading improvisers, and personal anecdotal material, Jamming the Classroom discusses the pedagogy of musical improvisation as a vehicle for teaching, learning, and enacting social justice. Heble and Stewart write that to "jam the...
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  • Key Constellations: Interpreting Tonality in Film Volume 4 by Motazedian, Táhirih
    T疉irih Motazedian

    Key Constellations: Interpreting Tonality in Film Volume 4

    Key is one of the simplest building blocks of music and is among the foundational properties of a work's musical identity--so why isn't it a standard parameter in discussing film music? Key Constellations: Interpreting Tonality in Film is the first book to investigate film...
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  • Richard Wolf

    In Tune: Music as the Bridge to Mindfulness

    In our noisy world, music is the key to inner silenceRichard Wolf first tried Zen meditation in his teens, but no matter in what posture or for how long he sat, transcendence proved stubbornly out of reach. It was only years later that he...
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  • I'm Not Like Everybody Else: Biopolitics, Neoliberalism, and American Popular Music by Nealon, Jeffrey T.
    Jeffrey T. Nealon

    I'm Not Like Everybody Else: Biopolitics, Neoliberalism, and American Popular Music

    Despite the presence of the Flaming Lips in a commercial for a copier and Iggy Pop's music in luxury cruise advertisements, Jeffrey T. Nealon argues that popular music has not exactly been co-opted in the American capitalist present. Contemporary neoliberal capitalism has, in fact,...
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  • Laughter in the Dark: Egypt to the Tune of Change by El Rashidi, Yasmine
    Yasmine El Rashidi

    Laughter in the Dark: Egypt to the Tune of Change

    What can hip-hop tell us about Egypt today? A decade ago, millions of Egyptians took to the streets in a people-led revolution that captivated the world's attention and sent ripples across the Middle East. But the so-called "Arab Spring" quickly faded, and a return...
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  • Hands of Doom by Holloway, Jack
    Jack Holloway

    Hands of Doom

    ""The world today is such a wicked place,"" Black Sabbath declared in 1969, when they recorded their debut album, set against a backdrop of war, assassinations, social unrest, and disillusionment. Cries for justice from the Civil Rights Movement, and for peace and love from...
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  • Feminism and Gender Politics in Mediated Popular Music by Werner, Ann
    Ann Werner

    Feminism and Gender Politics in Mediated Popular Music

    What does it mean, in a polarized political climate, that feminism is popular in mainstream popular music during the 2010s? Engaging with feminist theory and previous research about gender and music, this book investigates the meaning of current trends relating to gender, feminism and...
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  • Heavy Music Mothers: Extreme Identities, Narrative Disruptions by Turley, Julie
    Julie Turley

    Heavy Music Mothers: Extreme Identities, Narrative Disruptions

    Heavy Music Mothers explores women and heavy music and how women have historically engaged with musicking as mothers. With a focus on original interviews with contemporary rock and metal mothers, this is the first scholarly study that contextualizes the challenges and contributions of mothers...
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  • Fela Anikulapo-Kuti: Afrobeat, Rebellion, and Philosophy by Afolayan, Adeshina
    Adeshina Afolayan

    Fela Anikulapo-Kuti: Afrobeat, Rebellion, and Philosophy

    Fela Anikulapo Kuti was the Afrobeat music maestro whose life and time provide the lens through which we can outline the postcolonial trajectory of the Nigerian state as well as the dynamics of most other African states. Through the Afrobeat music, Fela did not...
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  • Hands of Doom by Holloway, Jack
    Jack Holloway

    Hands of Doom

    ""The world today is such a wicked place,"" Black Sabbath declared in 1969, when they recorded their debut album, set against a backdrop of war, assassinations, social unrest, and disillusionment. Cries for justice from the Civil Rights Movement, and for peace and love from...
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  • Going for a Song: A Chronicle of the UK Record Shop by Cartwright, Garth
    Garth Cartwright

    Going for a Song: A Chronicle of the UK Record Shop

    Author Garth Cartwright has travelled the length and breadth of the UK, conducting more than 100 interviews with some of the icons of the record shop trade and the wider music industry, including Martin Mills (Beggars Banquet), Geoff Travis (Rough Trade), Andy Gray (Andy's...
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  • Focal Impulse Theory: Musical Expression, Meter, and the Body by Ito, John Paul
    John Paul Ito

    Focal Impulse Theory: Musical Expression, Meter, and the Body

    Music is surrounded by movement, from the arching back of the guitarist to the violinist swaying with each bow stroke. To John Paul Ito, these actions are not just a visual display; rather, they reveal what it really means for musicians to move with...
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  • How We Used Saint Etienne to Live by Alwakeel, Ramzy
    Ramzy Alwakeel

    How We Used Saint Etienne to Live

    The essential guide to veteran British indie favourites Saint Etienne -- the story of how they made music out of memories, and how we made memories out of them. Do you remember how we used to live? British indie favourites Saint Etienne do. But...
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  • Improvisation in Music and Philosophical Hermeneutics by McAuliffe, Sam
    Sam McAuliffe

    Improvisation in Music and Philosophical Hermeneutics

    In the first book to examine the overlooked relationship between musical improvisation and philosophical hermeneutics, Sam McAuliffe asks: what exactly is improvisation? And how does it relate to our being-in-the-world? Improvisation in Music and Philosophical Hermeneutics answers these questions by investigating the underlying structure...
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  • Knowledge and Music Education: A Social Realist Account by McPhail, Graham J.
    Graham J. McPhail

    Knowledge and Music Education: A Social Realist Account

    Knowledge and Music Education: A Social Realist Account explores current challenges for music education in relation to wider philosophical and political debates, and seeks to find a way forward for the field by rethinking the nature and value of epistemic knowledge in the wake...
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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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  • Kaleidophonic Modernity: Transatlantic Sound, Technology, and Literature by Brehm, Brett
    Brett Brehm

    Kaleidophonic Modernity: Transatlantic Sound, Technology, and Literature

    What stories remain hidden behind one of the most significant inventions of the nineteenth century? Kaleidophonic Modernity reexamines the development of mechanical sound recording technology by charting the orbits of writers, scientists, and artists in France and the United States. Working between comparative literature,...
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  • Kaleidophonic Modernity: Transatlantic Sound, Technology, and Literature by Brehm, Brett
    Brett Brehm

    Kaleidophonic Modernity: Transatlantic Sound, Technology, and Literature

    What stories remain hidden behind one of the most significant inventions of the nineteenth century? Kaleidophonic Modernity reexamines the development of mechanical sound recording technology by charting the orbits of writers, scientists, and artists in France and the United States. Working between comparative literature,...
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  • Japan Fluxus by Galliano, Luciana
    Luciana Galliano

    Japan Fluxus

    Fluxus was a pivotal movement in redefining art's role and the artist's identity in the contemporary world, so that its aesthetics - as well as many of its gimmicks - have become so deeply embedded in our social setting that we now no longer...
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  • Japan Fluxus by Galliano, Luciana
    Luciana Galliano

    Japan Fluxus

    Fluxus was a pivotal movement in redefining art's role and the artist's identity in the contemporary world, so that its aesthetics - as well as many of its gimmicks - have become so deeply embedded in our social setting that we now no longer...
    $111.00
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  • Jazz: A Beginner's Guide by Nicholson, Stuart
    Stuart Nicholson

    Jazz: A Beginner's Guide

    This definitive guide includes a unique chapter-by-chapter playlist for the reader. Jazz: A Beginner's Guide is a lively and highly accessible introduction to a global musical phenomenon. Award-winning music journalist and author Stuart Nicholson takes the reader on an entertaining journey from jazz's early...
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