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  • Music in the Flesh: An Early Modern Musical Physiology by Varwig, Bettina
    Bettina Varwig

    Music in the Flesh: An Early Modern Musical Physiology

    A corporeal history of music-making in early modern Europe. Music in the Flesh reimagines the lived experiences of music-making subjects--composers, performers, listeners--in the long seventeenth century. There are countless historical testimonies of the powerful effects of music upon the early modern body; it is...
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  • Field Recordings from the Inside: Essays by Bonomo, Joe
    Joe Bonomo

    Field Recordings from the Inside: Essays

    Using as its epigraph and unifying principle Luc Sante's notion that "Every human being is an archeological site," Field Recordings from the Inside provides a deep and personal examination at the impact of music on our lives. Bonomo effortlessly moves between the personal and...
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  • The Land Is Sung: Zulu Performances and the Politics of Place by Pooley, Thomas M.
    Thomas M. Pooley

    The Land Is Sung: Zulu Performances and the Politics of Place

    Ethnography on the politics of land and belonging in post apartheid Zulu performancesWhat does it mean to belong? In The Land is Sung, musicologist Thomas M. Pooley shows how performances of song, dance, and praise poetry connect Zulu communities to their ancestral homes and...
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  • Desire in Chromatic Harmony: A Psychodynamic Exploration of Fin de Siècle Tonality by Smith, Kenneth M.
    Kenneth M. Smith

    Desire in Chromatic Harmony: A Psychodynamic Exploration of Fin de Si鐵le Tonality

    How does musical harmony engage listeners in relations of desire? Where does this desire come from? Author Kenneth Smith seeks to answer these questions by analyzing works from the turn of the twentieth- century that are both harmonically enriched and psychologically complex. Desire in...
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  • Listen: On Music, Sound and Us by Faber, Michel
    Michel Faber

    Listen: On Music, Sound and Us

    This book is, at its core, about music and the people who listen to it--your friends, your neighbors and you. A fresh approach toward our cultural and sensical relationship to sound, this melodic examination of the world of music explores two big questions: How...
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  • Inclusive Music Histories: Leading Change through Research and Pedagogy: CMS Emerging Fields in Music by Smith, Ayana O.
    Ayana O. Smith

    Inclusive Music Histories: Leading Change through Research and Pedagogy: CMS Emerging Fields in Music

    Inclusive Music Histories: Leading Change through Research and Pedagogy models effective practices for researchers and instructors striving either to reform music history curricula at large or update individual topics within their classes to be more inclusive. Confronting racial and other imbalances of Western music...
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  • British Invasion '64 - The Year That Changed Rock & Roll Forever by Popa, Gene
    Gene Popa

    British Invasion '64 - The Year That Changed Rock & Roll Forever

    "They've got their own groups. What are we going to give America that they don't already have?" - Paul McCartney" They give the teenagers something that thrills them, a vision. The boys and girls of this age are young men and women looking for...
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  • Musical Intimacy: Construction, Connection, and Engagement by Stiegler, Zack
    Zack Stiegler

    Musical Intimacy: Construction, Connection, and Engagement

    Discourse on popular music frequently describes artists' recordings and performances as "intimate." Yet that discourse often stops short of elucidating how a mass-produced commodity such as popular music is able to elicit feelings of intimacy with and among its audience. Through detailed analysis of...
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  • The Jíbaro and the Gaucho United in Music and Song by Sanchez Cruz, Anthony L.
    Anthony L. S疣chez Cruz

    The J?aro and the Gaucho United in Music and Song

    Originally published in the Spanish language in 2018, The J baro and the Gaucho United in Music and Song presents a precise and profound work that contains a plethora of credible documented resources concerning Puerto Rican and Argentine folk culture and music. Through detailed...
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  • White Musical Mythologies: Sonic Presence in Modernism by Mendelssohn, Edmund
    Edmund Mendelssohn

    White Musical Mythologies: Sonic Presence in Modernism

    In a narrative that extends from fin de si鐵le Paris to the 1960s, Edmund Mendelssohn examines modernist thinkers and composers who engaged with non-European and pre-modern cultures as they developed new conceptions of "pure sound." Pairing Erik Satie with Bergson, Edgard Var鑚e with Bataille,...
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  • White Musical Mythologies: Sonic Presence in Modernism by Mendelssohn, Edmund
    Edmund Mendelssohn

    White Musical Mythologies: Sonic Presence in Modernism

    In a narrative that extends from fin de si鐵le Paris to the 1960s, Edmund Mendelssohn examines modernist thinkers and composers who engaged with non-European and pre-modern cultures as they developed new conceptions of "pure sound." Pairing Erik Satie with Bergson, Edgard Var鑚e with Bataille,...
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  • The Self-Restorative Power of Music: A Psychological Perspective by Lachmann, Frank M.
    Frank M. Lachmann

    The Self-Restorative Power of Music: A Psychological Perspective

    This book explores how we can understand the place of music from a self psychological perspective, by investigating three journeys: the one we take when listening to music, the literal journey of the author from Nazi Germany to the United States, and the subjective...
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  • The Future of Songwriting by Hersh, Kristin
    Kristin Hersh

    The Future of Songwriting

    "An endlessly inventive mind and generosity of spirit that alone should give us hope." - The WireThrowing Muses frontwoman and critically acclaimed solo artist Kristin Hersh meditates on the future of her craft in this wry, existential and passionate addition to Melville House's new...
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  • Prophets of Love: The Unlikely Kinship of Leonard Cohen and the Apostle Paul Volume 15 by Anderson, Matthew R.
    Matthew R. Anderson

    Prophets of Love: The Unlikely Kinship of Leonard Cohen and the Apostle Paul Volume 15

    Leonard Cohen and the Apostle Paul might be imagined as brothers with wildly different characters but a strong family resemblance. Paul, the elder sibling, was awkward, abrasive, and zealous. Leonard, the successful younger brother, was a smooth-talking romantic, prone to addiction and depression. Paul...
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  • Song: A History in 12 Parts by Potter, John
    John Potter

    Song: A History in 12 Parts

    From one of our most innovative singers, a vibrant history of song stretching from Hildegard von Bingen and Benjamin Britten to Bjk "Songs can be intensely personal (whether you hear them or sing them) and none of us would choose the same twelve songs...
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  • My Song Is My Own: 100 Women's Songs by Henderson, Kathy
    Kathy Henderson

    My Song Is My Own: 100 Women's Songs

    A collection of powerful and evocative songs spanning five centuries, My Song is My Own takes the reader on a musical journey of courtship, desire and sexual relationships, marriage, motherhood and childhood, and work - paid and unpaid. The book reveals some of the...
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  • The Blue Series: The Story Behind the Color by Blackwell, Ben
    Ben Blackwell

    The Blue Series: The Story Behind the Color

    I love great books about records: ripping yarns about everything that happened on the way to my stereo, with no minutiae too small to matter. The Blue Series: The Story Behind the Coloris the tale, in depth, behind every Blue single. - David Fricke,...
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  • Timbre: Paradox, Materialism, Vibrational Aesthetics by Van Elferen, Isabella
    Isabella Van Elferen

    Timbre: Paradox, Materialism, Vibrational Aesthetics

    Timbre is among the most important and the most elusive aspects of music. Visceral and immediate in its sonic properties, yet also considered sublime and ineffable, timbre finds itself caught up in metaphors: tone "color", "wet" acoustics, or in Schoenberg's words, "the illusory stuff...
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  • Woodstock at 50: Anatomy of a Revolution by Prewett, Aidan
    Aidan Prewett

    Woodstock at 50: Anatomy of a Revolution

    As the 1960's drew to a close, the gathering at Woodstock defined a moment in history and redefined the world of music and politics over the course of a single weekend. From the Cuban Missile Crisis to the Vietnam war, Woodstock placed three days...
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  • Who'll Stop the Rain: Respect, Remembrance, and Reconciliation in Post-Vietnam America by Bradley, Doug
    Doug Bradley

    Who'll Stop the Rain: Respect, Remembrance, and Reconciliation in Post-Vietnam America

    In their 2015 award-winning book, We Gotta Get Out of This Place: The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War, Doug Bradley and Craig Werner placed popular music at the heart of the American experience in Vietnam. Over the next two years, they made more than...
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  • Shake the City: Experiments in Space and Time, Music and Crisis by Billet, Alexander
    Alexander Billet

    Shake the City: Experiments in Space and Time, Music and Crisis

    What is the relationship between music and radical social change? This book explores their confounding and exciting interrelations in original and engaging ways. Beginning with how capitalism and empire have progressively twisted and atomized our aurally aesthetic experiences over the past century, Alexander Billet...
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  • Sounds Like Titanic: A Memoir by Hindman, Jessica Chiccehitto
    Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman

    Sounds Like Titanic: A Memoir

    Sounds Like Titanic tells the unforgettable story of how Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman became a fake violinist. Struggling to pay her college tuition, Hindman accepts a dream position in an award-winning ensemble that brings ready money. But the ensemble is a sham. When the group...
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  • Theology and Protest Music by Harwell, Jonathan H.
    Jonathan H. Harwell

    Theology and Protest Music

    This interfaith collection of essays on theology in diverse genres of protest music examines Habakkuk, Brazilian eschatology, Black liberation, esoteric Islam in rap, heavy metal as anti-theology, Howard Thurman's relevance to jazz, Santer? drumming, Jay-Z, Funkadelic, Marvin Gaye, Sweet Honey in the Rock, and...
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  • Simple and Daring by Oshinsky, James
    James Oshinsky

    Simple and Daring

    Based on the pioneering improvisation workshops of the late cellist David Darling, Simple and Daring presents suggestions for teaching Social Music Improvisation to children and adults at all levels of ability and experience. There are specific ideas for incorporating improvisation into the common practices...
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  • The Ottava Method, Take Your Life Up An Octave by Muller, Corinna
    Corinna Muller

    The Ottava Method, Take Your Life Up An Octave

    The Ottava Method of self-coaching was created to help ANYONE achieve goals in a stepwise fashion. Ottava is an Italian musical term that means "octave" based on the 8 notes of a musical scale. To "8va" a written musical passage in a score means...
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  • Under the Table and Screaming: Twisted Branch Tea Bazaar by O'Hare, Erin
    Erin O'Hare

    Under the Table and Screaming Volume One: Twisted Branch Tea Bazaar

    Under the Table and Screaming is a multi-volume series exploring the history and legacy of the local music scene in Charlottesville, VA. From literally underground shows in DIY basements to the racially suppressed hip-hop scene to thriving roots music on woodsy back porches to...
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  • This Must Be the Place: Music, Community, and Vanished Space in New York City by Rifkin, Jesse
    Jesse Rifkin

    This Must Be the Place: Music, Community, and Vanished Spaces in New York City

    A fascinating history that examines how real estate, gentrification, community, and the highs and lows of New York City itself shaped the city's music scenes--from folk to house music--and how those scenes shaped the city.Take a walk through almost any neighborhood in Manhattan and...
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  • The Emancipation of Slaves through Music by Knowles Mba, Ph. D. Mathew
    Ph. D. Mathew Knowles Mba

    The Emancipation of Slaves through Music

    In The Emancipation of Slaves Through Music, music mogul Dr. Mathew Knowles presents a keen examination of the liberating effects of music on an oppressed people. By taking readers on the journey of its secret use during slavery up through its eventual commercialization in...
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  • The Birth of Breaking: Hip-Hop History from the Floor Up by Aprahamian, Serouj Midus
    Serouj Midus Aprahamian

    The Birth of Breaking: Hip-Hop History from the Floor Up

    The untold story of how breaking - one of the most widely practiced dance forms in the world today - began as a distinctly African American expression in the Bronx, New York, during the 1970s. Breaking is the first and most widely practiced hip-hop...
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  • Starboard Quest: Sailing the Sea of Sound to Explore Music's Connection to the Universe by Jager, Mark
    Mark Jager

    Starboard Quest: Sailing the Sea of Sound to Explore Music's Connection to the Universe

    Ancient sages spoke of secret music, purposely hidden from the ears of most mortals. Researchers say the enlightened philosopher, Pythagoras, could hear this music. He perceived it, even while in the immediate presence of those who couldn't.Pythagoras and others believed that all things were...
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  • Pearl Jam and Philosophy by Marino, Stefano
    Stefano Marino

    Pearl Jam and Philosophy

    The first scholarly discussion on the band, Pearl Jam and Philosophy examines both the songs (music and lyrics) and the activities (live performances, political commitments) of one of the most celebrated and charismatic rock bands of the last 30 years. The book investigates the...
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  • You Got The Gig, Here's How To Keep It: A Working Musician's Model For Success by Thomas, Andrew
    Andrew Thomas

    You Got The Gig, Here's How To Keep It: A Working Musician's Model For Success

    The music business doesn't come with a manual, so Andrew Blaze Thomas wrote one With over 20 years of experience as a professional drummer, Blaze has established rules for working musicians that illustrates how to acquire and maintain consistent work. You Got The Gig,...
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  • The Music of the Most Ancient Nations - Particularly of the Assyrians, Egyptians and Hebrews; With Special Reference to Recent Discoveries in Western by Engel, Carl
    Carl Engel

    The Music of the Most Ancient Nations - Particularly of the Assyrians, Egyptians and Hebrews; With Special Reference to Recent Discoveries in Western

    Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.Author: Carl EngelISBN-10: 1445589095ISBN-13: 9781445589091Publisher: Spaight...
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  • Musical Ecologies: Instrumental Music Ensembles Around the World by de Bruin, Leon R.
    Leon R. de Bruin

    Musical Ecologies: Instrumental Music Ensembles Around the World

    Community music around the world reflects the growing and diverse ways humans collectivise and express themselves in ways that articulate our cultural, social, and environmental complexity. Revisiting, redevising, and reimagining some of the field's approaches, ideologies, and contexts, this co-edited volume investigates beyond generalist...
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  • This Must Be the Place: How Music Can Make Your City Better by Shapiro, Shain
    Shain Shapiro

    This Must Be the Place: How Music Can Make Your City Better

    This Must Be the Place explores how music can make cities better. This Must Be the Place introduces and examines music's relationship to cities. Not the influence cities have on music, but the powerful impact music can have on how cities are developed, built,...
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  • Techniques of Hearing: History, Theory and Practices by Schillmeier, Michael
    Michael Schillmeier

    Techniques of Hearing: History, Theory and Practices

    Hearing, health, and technologies are entangled in multi-faceted ways. This edited volume addresses this complex relationship by arguing that modern hearing was and is increasingly linked to and mediated by technological innovations. By providing a set of original interdisciplinary investigations that shed new light...
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  • Ways & Sounds: Inquiries. Interconnections. Contours. by Brennan, Patrick
    Patrick Brennan

    Ways & Sounds: Inquiries. Interconnections. Contours.

    Arteidolia Press 2021 What transforms sounds into music? Composer & improviser patrick brennan asks us in this series of essays to put aside what we ordinarily think music is and to reimagine a more inclusive, relational framework, an ecology of composing.. When people, especially...
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  • Sonic Identity at the Margins by Love, Joanna
    Joanna Love

    Sonic Identity at the Margins

    Sonic Identity at the Margins convenes the interdisciplinary work of 17 academics, composers, and performers to examine sonic identity from the 19th century to the present. Recognizing the myriad aspects of identity formation, the authors in this volume adopt methodological approaches that range from...
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  • Soundstorm: Musings on the Madness of the Modern Music Ecosystem by Desai-Chowdhry, Saransh
    Saransh Desai-Chowdhry

    Soundstorm: Musings on the Madness of the Modern Music Ecosystem

    Music revenues are predicted to hit $131 billion by 2030 according to Goldman Sachs.Soundstorm analyzes the business and culture of the modern music ecosystem as it straddles unprecedented growth and unforeseen challenges in the ever-evolving digital age. Through a collection of essays, 22-year-old Saransh...
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  • The Emancipation of Slaves through Music by Knowles Ph. D., Mathew
    Mathew Knowles Ph. D.

    The Emancipation of Slaves through Music

    In The Emancipation of Slaves Through Music, music mogul Dr. Mathew Knowles presents a keen examination of the liberating effects of music on an oppressed people. By taking readers on the journey of its secret use during slavery up through its eventual commercialization in...
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  • Schiller and Music by Longyear, R. M.
    R. M. Longyear

    Schiller and Music

    In this first definitive study of Friedrich Schiller's relationship to music, R. M. Longyear discusses Schiller's personal, literary, and philosophical utilization of music as well as the influence of Schiller's works on composers from 1782 through the 1960s. Author: R. M. LongyearISBN-10: 1469657813ISBN-13: 9781469657813Publisher:...
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  • Reggaestories: Jamaican Musical Legends and Cultural Legacies by Hope, Donna P.
    Donna P. Hope

    Reggaestories: Jamaican Musical Legends and Cultural Legacies

    ReggaeStories provides a range of perspectives on the development of Jamaican popular music and culture, in particular reggae and dancehall, and opens the door to new debates on these music forms and their producers and creators. It moves through early musical debates and incendiary...
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  • We Were There: Austin Concert Crowds Shot from the Pit, 2007-2017 by Carson, Sandy
    Sandy Carson

    We Were There: Austin Concert Crowds Shot from the Pit, 2007-2017

    We Were There explores the symbiotic relationship between rock concert fans, the bands, and the photographer at music festivals. Sandy Carson's photographs candidly capture the true human experience of interacting with music.Sandy Carson is a Scottish photographer who has exhibited nationally and internationally, from...
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  • Singing for Our Lives: Stories from the Street Choirs by Writing Collective, Campaign Choirs
    Campaign Choirs Writing Collective

    Singing for Our Lives: Stories from the Street Choirs

    Exploring the role of street choirs in political culture, and based on oral histories from more than 40 members of UK street choirs, this book introduces this neglected world to a wider public, including activists and academics. The title is taken from a song...
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  • Rebel Musics, Volume 2: Human Rights, Resistant Sounds, and the Politics of Music Making by Fischlin, Daniel
    Daniel Fischlin

    Rebel Musics, Volume 2: Human Rights, Resistant Sounds, and the Politics of Music Making

    When it was first published in 2003, Rebel Musics sought to explore how musical activism resonates as resistance to the dominant culture, and how political action through music increases the potential for people to determine their own fate. If anything, these issues seem to...
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  • Popular Music and Automobiles by Duffett, Mark
    Mark Duffett

    Popular Music and Automobiles

    Particularly since the 1950s, cars and popular music have been constantly associated. As complementary goods and intertwined technologies, their relationship has become part of a widely shared experience-one that connects individuals and society, private worlds and public spheres. Popular Music and Automobiles aims to...
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  • StereoPravda: Politically Incorrect View On High End Audio by Kucherenko, Misha
    Misha Kucherenko

    StereoPravda: Politically Incorrect View On High End Audio

    This unique book is dedicated to what has been known since the 70s as the High End Audio industry (and, first and foremost, to the equipment that is at the frontline of humanity's pursuit of sonic Utopia) as well as to the dramatic story...
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  • This Is Not a Fighting Song by Holladay, Meredith
    Meredith Holladay

    This Is Not a Fighting Song

    It is through their music that the Indigo Girls build upon the theological idea of community-building and solidarity-forming, in order to tell the stories, to relate the authentic experience of human struggle and reconciliation, of human love and pain. Further, they work outward, convicted...
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  • The Life of Music in South India by Sankaran, T.
    T. Sankaran

    The Life of Music in South India

    An insider's eight-decade overview of South India's 20th century classical music cultureThis book offers an account of Carnatic music culture drawing on the knowledge of T. Sankaran, a musician raised in an illustrious non-Brahmin devadasi family, and his long affiliation with cultural institutions including...
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  • The Evolution of Chinese Popular Music: Modernization and Globalization, 1927 to the Present by Cheng, Ya-Hui
    Ya-Hui Cheng

    The Evolution of Chinese Popular Music: Modernization and Globalization, 1927 to the Present

    Ya-Hui Cheng examines the emergence of popular music genres - jazz, rock, and hip-hop - in Chinese society, covering the social underpinnings that shaped the development of popular music in China and Taiwan, from imperialism to westernization and from modernization to globalization. The political...
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