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  • "The Voice of Egypt"

    Umm Kulthum, Arabic Song, and Egyptian Society in the Twentieth Century

    Series Book 1997 - Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology
    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 skillful and pioneering use of mass media, her songs still permeate the international airwaves. In the first English-language biography of Umm ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • "To Everything There is a Season"

    Pete Seeger and the Power of Song

    Series series New Narratives in American History
    Author or coauthor of such legendary songs as "If I Had a Hammer," "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" and "Turn, Turn, Turn," Pete Seeger is the most influential folk singer in the history of the United States. In "To Everything There Is a Season": Pete Seeger and the Power of Song, Allan Winkler describes how Seeger applied his musical talents to improve conditions for less fortunate people ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • "Todos na produção"

    Sons que vazam das paredes, reverberam da escola de samba, fanfarra, rappers nas esquinas. Toques, cânticos, cães, carros, sons que parecem "brotar" das ruas e vibrar as entranhas: tum tch, tum tch, tum tch, tum tch... Esta etnografia acompanha como a dimensão sônica de um conjunto habitacional da Região Metropolitana de Porto Alegre dinamiza o cotidiano urbano popular de moradores, através de ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • (White)Washing Our Sins Away

    American Mainline Churches, Music, Power, and Diversity

    What if simply changing musical styles could resurrect social power and religious vitality? By the early 1990s, Christianity was losing ground nationally, and mainline Protestants were trending even Whiter and older than America's overall demographic trajectory. The churches knew they needed to diversify. Yet, many mainline churches focused their energies on the so-called Worship Wars, intense ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • 24 Bars to Kill

    Hip Hop, Aspiration, and Japan's Social Margins

    Series Book 14 - Dance and Performance Studies
    The most clearly identifiable and popular form of Japanese hip-hop, “ghetto” or “gangsta” music has much in common with its corresponding American subgenres, including its portrayal of life on the margins, confrontational style, and aspirational “rags-to-riches” narratives. Contrary to depictions of an ethnically and economically homogeneous Japan, gangsta J-hop gives voice to the suffering, ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • A boghe a boghe

    Ricerche sulla poesia cantata in Sardegna

    by Paolo Bravi ...
    Series series Pósidos
    Il volume raccoglie una serie di studi su diverse espressioni di poesia sarda cantata realizzati dall’Autore nell’arco di tempo che va dal 2000 al 2012. I campi e i generi indagati – con diversi metodi di indagine, livelli di approfondimento e finalità – sono vari: la poesia improvvisata dell’area campidanese, i canti per l’infanzia, i canti religiosi, il canto a chitarra, ecc.In ognuno di questi ... Read more

    $7.99 USD $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Embolada De Alagoinha

    A Embolada é uma forma de canto e poesia que há mais de um século permeia a vida de inúmeros artistas da cidade de Alagoinha, situada no Agreste Central de Pernambuco. O Escritor, Músico e Pesquisador Aparecido Galindo, estuda nesta obra as origens, influências e principais expoentes desta Manifestação Cultural. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Guru’s Journey

    Pandit Chitresh Das and Indian Classical Dance in Diaspora

    by Sarah Morelli ...
    Series series Music in American Life
    An important modern exponent of Asian dance, Pandit Chitresh Das brought kathak to the United States in 1970. The North Indian classical dance has since become an important art form within the greater Indian diaspora. Yet its adoption outside of India raises questions about what happens to artistic practices when we separate them from their broader cultural contexts.A Guru's Journey provides an ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • A Historical Research of Chinese Folk Songs

    This book advances the study of Chinese folk songs through theoretical innovation in literature-based folk songs and methodological innovation in multidisciplinary cross-interaction. It describes the historical development of folk songs, makes an in-depth study of the intersection and integration of folk songs with other literature and art, as well as the relationship with merchants, folk customs ... Read more

    $120.99 USD

  • A History of Music and Singing in Wales - A Collection of Historical Articles on the Origins and Character of Welsh Music

    by Various ...
    This book contains classic material dating back to the 1900s and before. The content has been carefully selected for its interest and relevance to a modern audience. Carefully selecting the best articles from our collection we have compiled a series of historical and informative publications on the subject of Welsh history. The titles in this range include "A History of Religion in Wales" "The ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Language of Song

    Journeys in the Musical World of the African Diaspora

    In A Language of Song, Samuel Charters—one of the pioneering collectors of African American music—writes of a trip to West Africa where he found “a gathering of cultures and a continuing history that lay behind the flood of musical expression [he] encountered everywhere . . . from Brazil to Cuba, to Trinidad, to New Orleans, to the Bahamas, to dance halls of west Louisiana and the great churches ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • A música e os músicos em tempos de intolerância:

    o holocausto

    by Silvia Lerner ...
    Este livro dá voz àqueles que, apesar de reclusos nos guetos e prisioneiros nos campos de concentração, resistiram à violência nazista. Através do imenso repertório analisado pela autora, fica evidente que - em situações de crises emocional e física - a música emergiu como instrumento de enfrentamento, alimentando sonhos de liberdade e de uma vida regada com amor. Enquanto prisioneiros condenados ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A música no candomblé

    etnomusicologia no Ilê Axé Opô Aganjú, Bahia

    Translated by Raul Oliveira ...
    Este livro de Angela Lühning é um testemunho de uma época que apresenta importantes aspectos relativos ao funcionamento do candomblé da nação nagô-ketu, religião presente nas diversas regiões do país. Ponto principal são as intrínsecas relações entre o repertório cantado nas cerimônias públicas e suas funções rituais. Realizadas no final dos anos 1980, as análises de cunho etnomusicológico ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • A New and Concise History of Rock and R&B through the Early 1990s

    by Eric Charry ...
    This concise yet lively textbook explores the history and significance of American popular music from Tin Pan Alley to Public Enemy.Ethnomusicologist Eric Charry provides a strong foundation for understanding how music, the music industry, and American culture intersect. His innovative teaching style presents the material in a dynamic format suitable for general education courses in music. The ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Pure Solar World

    Sun Ra and the Birth of Afrofuturism

    Series series Discovering America
    “Youngquist brings considerable skills to the life and work of the legendary but underappreciated and often misunderstood composer, keyboardist, and poet.” —PopMattersSun Ra said he came from Saturn. Known on earth for his inventive music and extravagant stage shows, he pioneered free-form improvisation in an ensemble setting with the devoted band he called the “Arkestra.” Sun Ra took jazz from ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Queerly Joyful Noise

    Choral Musicking for Social Justice

    2018 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleHonorable Mention, 2019 Herndon Book Prize - (SEM-GST)A Queerly Joyful Noise examines how choral singing can be both personally transformative and politically impactful. As they blend their different voices to create something beautiful, LGBTIQ singers stand together and make themselves heard. Comparing queer choral performances to the uses of group singing ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • A Respectable Spell

    Transformations of Samba in Rio de Janeiro

    A landmark in Brazilian music scholarship, A Respectable Spell introduces English-speaking readers to the rich history of samba from its nineteenth century origins to its emergence as a distinctive genre in the 1930s. Merging storytelling with theory, Carlos Sandroni profiles performers, composers, and others while analyzing the complex ideologies their music can communicate in their lyrics and ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • A Song to Save the Salish Sea

    Musical Performance as Environmental Activism

    by Mark Pedelty ...
    On the coast of Washington and British Columbia sit the misty forests and towering mountains of Cascadia. With archipelagos surrounding its shores and tidal surges of the Salish Sea trundling through the interior, this bioregion has long attracted loggers, fishing fleets, and land developers, each generation seeking successively harder to reach resources as old-growth stands, salmon stocks, and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • A Spiral Way

    How the Phonograph Changed Ethnography

    by Erika Brady ...
    Association of Recorded Sound Collections Awards for ExcellenceBest Research in the General History of Recorded Sound (2000)The invention of the cylinder phonograph at the end of the nineteenth century opened up a new world for cultural research. Indeed, Edison's talking machine became one of the basic tools of anthropology. It not only equipped researchers with the means of preserving folk songs ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • A Transatlantic History of Haitian Vodou

    Rasin Figuier, Rasin Bwa Kayiman, and the Rada and Gede Rites

    Connecting four centuries of political, social, and religious history with fieldwork and language documentation, A Transatlantic History of Haitian Vodou analyzes Haitian Vodou’s African origins, transmission to Saint-Domingue, and promulgation through song in contemporary Haiti.Split into two sections, the African chapters focus on history, economics, and culture in Dahomey, Allada, and Hueda ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • A Way of Music Education

    Classic Chinese Wisdoms

    Moving back through Dewey, Heidegger, Nietzsche, and Rousseau, the lineage of Western music education finds its origins in Plato and Pythagoras. Yet theories not rooted in the ancient Greek tradition are all but absent. A Way of Music Education provides a much-needed intervention, integrating ancient Chinese thought into the canon of music education in a structured, systematized, and philosophical ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Aaron Copland: The Freedom of Music

    Quando pensiamo all'America, musicalmente parlando, la nostra mente ci rimanda subito al jazz, al sax, alla musica dei sobborghi. Non saremmo, però, capaci di dare una chiara immagine di essa, di individuarne la precisa nascita, un musicista grazie al quale essa sia diventata identificativa della Grande Mela. Ho cercato a lungo e la ricerca mi ha portato ad Aaron Copland. Studiando la vita ... Read more

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  • Abidjan USA

    Music, Dance, and Mobility in the Lives of Four Ivorian Immigrants

    Series series African Expressive Cultures
    “Studies of four musicians . . . and a broader discussion about diaspora and migration provides an important study of African music in the United States.” —Alex Perullo, author of Live from Dar es SalaamDaniel B. Reed integrates individual stories with the study of performance to understand the forces of diaspora and mobility in the lives of musicians, dancers, and mask performers originally from ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Accordion Revolution: A People’s History of the Accordion in North America from the Industrial Revolution to Rock and Roll

    by Bruce Triggs ...
    Before the dawn of rock ’n’ roll, the accordion ranked among North America’s most popular instruments. Nearly every ethnicity on the continent played the squeezebox— Irish, Scottish, French, German, Eastern European, Jewish, and Latino. The instrument packed barn dances, jazz clubs, and recital halls. It was heard in cantinas on the Mexican frontier, Creole string bands in New Orleans, and Inuit ... Read more

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