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  • Fela: This Bitch Of a Life

    by Carlos Moore ...
    African superstar composer singer and musician as well as mystic and political activist Nigerian Fela Kuti born in 1938 was controversy personified. He was swept to international celebrity on a wave of scandal and flamboyance and when he died of AIDS in 1997 more than a million people attended his funeral. But what was he really like this man who could as easily arouse violent hostility as he ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Dvorak's Prophecy: And the Vexed Fate of Black Classical Music

    **A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2021A provocative interpretation of why classical music in America "stayed white"—how it got to be that way and what can be done about it.**In 1893 the composer Antonín Dvorák prophesied a “great and noble school” of American classical music based on the “negro melodies” he had excitedly discovered since arriving in the United States a year before. But ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Chances and Choices

    Exploring the Impact of Music Education

    In Chances and Choices, Stephanie Pittssurveys the aims and impact of formative musical experiences, evaluating the extent to which music education of various kinds provides a foundation for lifelong involvement and interest in music. Pitts draws upon rich qualitative data from her own extensive original study of over 100 adults with an active interest in music in the UK and Italy to address ... Read more

    $37.99 USD

  • 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 only challenge consecutive governments in Nigeria, but his rebellious Afrobeat lyrics facilitate a philosophical subtext that enriches the ... Read more

    $97.99 USD $32.99 USD

  • Black, Blanc, Beur

    Rap Music and Hip-Hop Culture in the Francophone World

    Edited by Alain-Philippe Durand ...
    Rap music was born in America in the early 1980s. Over the last decade it has not only grown in popularity within the United States, with rap music soaring to the top of the music charts, but it has also influenced other cultures around the world. Black, Blanc, Beur is about the emergence and growing notoriety of rap music and hip-hop culture in the French-speaking world (France, Quebec, and ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Kpop Why?

    by UK Jung ...
    <Kpop Why?> -Stories behind k-pop news -Answers to questions about k-pop idols -Written by an experienced k-pop journalist Are you a k-pop lover? Well, don’t you want to know stories behind k-pop news then? Welcome to the real world of k-pop. <Kpop Why?> contains various unknown stories about k-pop stars. The author, who has been working as a k-pop journalist since 2010 gives you answers to ... Read more

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  • Compton Street Legend: Notorious Keffe D’s Street-Level Accounts of Tupac and Biggie Murders, Death Row Origins, Suge Knight, Puffy Combs, and Crooked Cops

    The infamous Suge Knight, former Death Row Records CEO, and Keffe D are the only living eyewitnesses to the deadly confrontation on the Las Vegas strip between the occupants of our two vehicles. A violent confrontation that led to the deaths of two of Hip-Hop's biggest stars (Tupac Shakur & Christopher 'Notorious B.I.G.' Wallace) and changed Hip-Hop history forever.There's a strict code on the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Listen to Bob Marley

    The Man, the Music, the Revolution

    by Bob Marley ...
    An inspiring collection of poems, meditations, and lyrics by one of the world’s most revered musical legendsBob Marley’s music defined a movement and forever changed a nation. Known worldwide for their message of peace and unity, Marley’s songs—from “One Love” to “Redemption Song” to “Three Little Birds”—have touched millions of lives. This collection is the best of Bob Marley presented in three ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Learn To Play The Shinobue

    This book will help you learn how to play the Shinobue. It has many exercises and songs that are designed to help you study and understand the fundamentals of playing the Fue. The exercises can be adjusted to the skill level of your playing ability.  Included in the book are Japanese folk songs as well as original compositions written by Marco  Lienhard. The etudes will help you work on improving ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Interactive Composition

    Strategies Using Ableton Live and Max for Live

    Interactive Composition empowers readers with all of the practical skills and insights they need to compose and perform electronic popular music in a variety of popular styles. The book begins by introducing all of the tools involved in creating interactive compositions through the software Ableton Live and Max for Live. The following chapters then put the tools to use by both describing ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Pop Goes Korea

    Behind the Revolution in Movies, Music and Internet Culture (2nd Edition)

    Today, most everyone has heard of South Korean pop culture. The flashy, exciting world of K-pop, like BTS, Exo, Twice and 2NE1 (and, yes, Psy's "Gangnam Style"). Hit movies like Oldboy, Train to Busan, and The Host. Addicting TV dramas like Jewel in the Palace, My Love From the Star, and Descendants of the Sun.But how did this happen? How did South Korea come from nowhere in the 1990s to become ... Read more

    $4.00 USD

  • Quiero Tocar el Saxofon

    by Victor Barba ...
    Quiero Tocar El Saxofon, del reconocido autor Victor M. Barba es de verdad un libro muy bueno para aprender a tocar el saxofon, porque viene muy bien explicado y facil de entender. Ya sea que quieras tocar tu solo, on en una banda escolar, o en un grupo nortelo, con este libro podras aprender lo basico para tocar tus canciones favoritas en el sax. Desde la primera nota hasta una cancion completa, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Learn Raga Dhanashri in 60 Minutes (Exotic Guitar Scales for Solo Guitar)

    About the eBook Series (Exotic Guitar Scales for Solo Guitar):If you are a creative guitarist and are seeking to expand your musical horizons, then you will love playing Indian Ragas.Ragas are millennia-old musical constructs that originated in Indian music. They are widely used in Indian and Asian music, and were first introduced to Western audiences in the 1950s and 1960s by Ravi Shankar and the ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Trad Nation

    Gender, Sexuality, and Race in Irish Traditional Music

    by Tes Slominski ...
    Series series Music / Culture
    Just how "Irish" is traditional Irish music? Trad Nation combines ethnography, oral history, and archival research to challenge the longstanding practice of using ethnic nationalism as a framework for understanding vernacular music traditions. Tes Slominski argues that ethnic nationalism hinders this music's development today in an increasingly multiethnic Ireland and in the transnational Irish ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Indian Blues

    American Indians and the Politics of Music, 1879–1934

    Series Book 3 - New Directions in Native American Studies Series
    From the late nineteenth century through the 1920s, the U.S. government sought to control practices of music on reservations and in Indian boarding schools. At the same time, Native singers, dancers, and musicians created new opportunities through musical performance to resist and manipulate those same policy initiatives. Why did the practice of music generate fear among government officials and ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • 101+ Music Jokes

    101+ Funny Music & Musician JokesDid you know that laughing can have positive physical and mental effects on the body? Laughter can lower blood pressure, lighten tense situations, and help you bond with friends and family. Jokes, humor, and comedy come in many forms. Whether it is a few funny jokes, a silly joke book, or a funny movie, we can all benefit from the positive effects of comedy and ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, Vol. 1

    The rich field of English balladry was virgin territory before Francis James Child entered it. The few published ballad editions that existed were unreliable, filled with unacknowledged editorial changes and distortions of the original manuscripts. Professor Child compiled all the extant ballads with all known variants, and made them available for the first time — together with his invaluable ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Musical Human

    A History of Life on Earth – A BBC Radio 4 'Book of the Week'

    "Michael Spitzer has pulled off the impossible: a Guns, Germs and Steel for music." --Daniel LevitinA colossal history spanning cultures, time, and space to explore the vibrant relationship between music and the human species.165 million years ago saw the birth of rhythm.66 million years ago was the first melody.40 thousand years ago Homo sapiens<... ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, Vol. 2

    Published between 1882 and 1898, this definitive collection compiles all the extant ballads with all known variants and features the Child's commentary for each work. Volume II includes Parts III & IV of the original set — ballads 54–113:"Sir Patrick Spens," "Johnie Scot," "Child Maurice," "Fair Margaret and Sweet William," more. ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Music Sound

    A guide for music: compositions, events, forms, genres, groups, history, industry, instruments, language, live music, musicians, songs, musicology, techniques, terminology , theory, music video.Music is a human activity which involves structured and audible sounds, which is used for artistic or aesthetic, entertainment, or ceremonial purposes.The traditional or classical European aspects of music ... Read more

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  • Resounding Afro Asia

    Interracial Music and the Politics of Collaboration

    Series series American Musicspheres
    Cultural hybridity is a celebrated hallmark of U.S. American music and identity. Yet hybrid music is all too often marked -and marketed - under a single racial label. Resounding Afro Asia examines music projects that counter this convention; these projects instead foreground racial mixture in players, audiences, and sound in the very face of the ghettoizing culture industry. Giving voice to four ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Hip-Hop Japan

    Rap and the Paths of Cultural Globalization

    by Ian Condry ...
    In this lively ethnography Ian Condry interprets Japan’s vibrant hip-hop scene, explaining how a music and culture that originated halfway around the world is appropriated and remade in Tokyo clubs and recording studios. Illuminating different aspects of Japanese hip-hop, Condry chronicles how self-described “yellow B-Boys” express their devotion to “black culture,” how they combine the figure of ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Easy DADGAD Celtic Guitar

    by Rob MacKillop ...
    This book contains thirty of the most requested Celtic session tunes, arranged for DADGAD tuning. Accompanying audio is available as an online download, which includes performances by Rob MacKillop. To assist playing these tunes, a technique primer and specific exercises are included. With the use of a capo you will be able to play these tunes in their traditional keys. The tunes can be played ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • No Regrets

    The Life of Edith Piaf

    by Carolyn Burke ...
    “Sympathetic . . . captivating . . . highly effective.” —Graham Robb, New York Review of Books “Concise and gracefully written. . . . Burke surveys all [Piaf's] mayhem with thoughtfulness and respect.” —James Gavin, New York Times Book Review The iconic French singer comes to life in this enthralling, definitive biography, which captures Edith Piaf's immense charisma along with the time and place ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus