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  • Sonic Overload

    Alfred Schnittke, Valentin Silvestrov, and Polystylism in the Late USSR

    Sonic Overload offers a new, music-centered cultural history of the late Soviet Union. It focuses on polystylism in music as a response to the information overload swamping listeners in the Soviet Union during its final decades. It traces the ways in which leading composers Alfred Schnittke and Valentin Silvestrov initially embraced popular sources before ultimately rejecting them. Polystylism ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

  • Charley Patton

    Expanded Edition

    by John Fahey ...
    Series series Dover Books On Music: Folk Songs
    The Father of the Delta Blues, Charley Patton (1891–1934) was born and raised around Mississippi's cotton plantations. During the 1920s, he was the first of the region's great stars, performing for packed houses throughout the South and making popular recordings in New York City. His music — ranging from blues and ballads to ragtime and gospel — is distinctive for his gravelly, high-energy singing ... Read more

    $12.95 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

  • Blood, Fire, Death

    The Swedish Metal Story

    Series series Extreme Metal
    The emergence of death metal in the beginning of the 90’s changed the metal scene forever. Many of the seminal bands came from Sweden. Why did this small mild-mannered country become the hotbed for such aggressive and extreme music? Blood, Fire, Death explores the bands, individuals and phenomena which have propelled the scene forward and still does to this day. The book investigates the politics, ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Multivocality

    Singing on the Borders of Identity

    Multivocality frames vocality as a way to investigate the voice in music, as a concept encompassing all the implications with which voice is inscribed-the negotiation of sound and Self, individual and culture, medium and meaning, ontology and embodiment. Like identity, vocality is fluid and constructed continually; even the most iconic of singers do not simply exercise a static voice throughout a ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Wired for Music

    A Search for Health and Joy Through the Science of Sound

    “Beautifully written… a riveting account of how melodies and rhythms connect us, and help us deal with alienation and anxiety.”—Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, author of The Body Keeps the ScoreIn this captivating blend of science and memoir, a health journalist and former cellist explores music as a source of health, resilience, connection, and joy.Music isn’t just background noise or a series of ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Holy Hip Hop in the City of Angels

    Series Book 19 - Music of the African Diaspora
    A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program for monographs. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.In the 1990s, Los Angeles was home to numerous radical social and environmental eruptions. In the face of several major earthquakes and floods, riots and economic insecurity, police brutality and mass incarceration, ... Read more

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  • Modernizing Composition

    Sinhala Song, Poetry, and Politics in Twentieth-Century Sri Lanka

    by Garrett Field ...
    Series series South Asia Across the Disciplines
    A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.The study of South Asian music falls under the purview of ethnomusicology, whereas that of South Asian literature falls under South Asian studies. As a consequence of this academic separation, scholars rarely take notice of ... Read more

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  • 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

  • The Race of Sound

    Listening, Timbre, and Vocality in African American Music

    Series series Refiguring American Music
    In The Race of Sound Nina Sun Eidsheim traces the ways in which sonic attributes that might seem natural, such as the voice and its qualities, are socially produced. Eidsheim illustrates how listeners measure race through sound and locate racial subjectivities in vocal timbre—the color or tone of a voice. Eidsheim examines singers Marian Anderson, Billie Holiday, and Jimmy Scott as well as the ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • 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

  • Bluegrass, Newgrass, Old-Time, and Americana Music

    by Craig Harris ...
    A colorful and comprehensive history of bluegrass and old-time Appalachian music from its legendary roots to today’s Grammy-winning stars.With simple instrumentation—banjo, guitar, and base—a great variety of musical traditions converged to create the “old-timey” music of Appalachia. Over time, that mountain sound evolved into numerous genres and subgenres that continue to thrive today. Now ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sounds of Crossing

    Music, Migration, and the Aural Poetics of Huapango Arribeño

    Series series Refiguring American Music
    In Sounds of Crossing Alex E. Chávez explores the contemporary politics of Mexican migrant cultural expression manifest in the sounds and poetics of huapango arribeño, a musical genre originating from north-central Mexico. Following the resonance of huapango's improvisational performance within the lives of audiences, musicians, and himself—from New Year's festivities in the highlands of ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Together, Somehow

    Music, Affect, and Intimacy on the Dancefloor

    In Together, Somehow, Luis Manuel Garcia-Mispireta examines how people find ways to get along and share a dancefloor, a vibe, and a sound. Drawing on time spent in the minimal techno and house music subscenes in Chicago, Paris, and Berlin as the first decade of the new millennium came to a close, Garcia-Mispireta explains this bonding in terms of what he calls stranger-intimacy: the kind of warmth ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Stomp and Swerve

    American Music Gets Hot, 18431924

    The early decades of American popular music-Stephen Foster, Scott Joplin, John Philip Sousa, Enrico Caruso-are, for most listeners, the dark ages. It wasn’t until the mid-1920s that the full spectrum of this music-black and white, urban and rural, sophisticated and crude-made it onto records for all to hear. This book brings a forgotten music, hot music, to life by describing how it became the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Deep River

    Music and Memory in Harlem Renaissance Thought

    Series series New Americanists
    “The American Negro,” Arthur Schomburg wrote in 1925, “must remake his past in order to make his future.” Many Harlem Renaissance figures agreed that reframing the black folk inheritance could play a major role in imagining a new future of racial equality and artistic freedom. In Deep River Paul Allen Anderson focuses on the role of African American folk music in the Renaissance aesthetic and in ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Sound Play

    Video Games and the Musical Imagination

    by William Cheng ...
    Series series Oxford Music / Media
    Video games open portals to fantastical worlds where imaginative play and enchantment prevail. These virtual settings afford us considerable freedom to act out with relative impunity. Or do they? Sound Play explores the aesthetic, ethical, and sociopolitical stakes of people's creative engagements with gaming's audio phenomena-from sonorous violence to synthesized operas, from democratic music ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • The Bakersfield Sound

    How a Generation of Displaced Okies Revolutionized American Music

    An immersive look at the country music sub-genre, from its 1950s origins to its heyday to the twenty-first century.In California’s Central Valley, two thousand miles away from Nashville’s country hit machine, the hard edge of the Bakersfield Sound transformed American music during the later half of the twentieth century. Fueled by the steel twang of electric guitars, explosive drumming, and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cool Town

    How Athens, Georgia, Launched Alternative Music and Changed American Culture

    Series series A Ferris and Ferris Book
    In the summer of 1978, the B-52's conquered the New York underground. A year later, the band's self-titled debut album burst onto the Billboard charts, capturing the imagination of fans and music critics worldwide. The fact that the group had formed in the sleepy southern college town of Athens, Georgia, only increased the fascination. Soon, more Athens bands followed the B-52's into the vanguard ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Jazz in China

    From Dance Hall Music to Individual Freedom of Expression

    by Eugene Marlow ...
    Finalist for the 2019 Jazz Journalists Association Book of the Year About Jazz, Jazz Awards for Journalism"Is there jazz in China?" This is the question that sent author Eugene Marlow on his quest to uncover the history of jazz in China. Marlow traces China's introduction to jazz in the early 1920s, its interruption by Chinese leadership under Mao in 1949, and its rejuvenation in the early 1980s ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Chronicling Stankonia

    The Rise of the Hip-Hop South

    This vibrant book pulses with the beats of a new American South, probing the ways music, literature, and film have remixed southern identities for a post–civil rights generation. For scholar and critic Regina N. Bradley, Outkast's work is the touchstone, a blend of funk, gospel, and hip-hop developed in conjunction with the work of other culture creators—including T.I., Kiese Laymon, and Jesmyn ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Intimate Distance

    Andean Music in Japan

    What does it mean to play "someone else’s music"? Intimate Distance delves into this question through a focus on Bolivian musicians who tour Japan playing Andean music and Japanese audiences, who often go beyond fandom to take up these musical forms as hobbyists and even as professional musicians. Michelle Bigenho conducted part of her ethnographic research while performing with Bolivian musicians ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Ethnomusicology: A Very Short Introduction

    by Timothy Rice ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Ethnomusicologists believe that all humans, not just those we call musicians, are musical, and that musicality is one of the essential touchstones of the human experience. This insight raises big questions about the nature of music and the nature of humankind, and ethnomusicologists argue that to properly address these questions, we must study music in all its geographical and historical diversity ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • 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