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Contingent Encounters: Improvisation in Music and Everyday Life

Contingent Encounters: Improvisation in Music and Everyday...

Author: Dan DiPiero
ISBN: 9780472039197
Format: Paperback
$92.27

Investigates the relationship between improvisation in music and in everyday life  Read More >>

Encounters in Ethnomusicology: Essays in Honor of Philip V. Bohlman

Encounters in Ethnomusicology: Essays in Honor of Philip...

Author: Lit Verlag
ISBN: 9783643914118
Format: Paperback
$90.56

Philip V. Bohlman's impact on the scope and meaning of ethnomusicology is difficult to overstate. His influence...  Read More >>

The Politics of Vibration: Music As a Cosmopolitical Practice

The Politics of Vibration: Music As a Cosmopolitical...

Author: Marcus Boon
ISBN: 9781478015765
Format: Hardback
$263.87

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Contingent Encounters: Improvisation in Music and Everyday Life

Contingent Encounters: Improvisation in Music and Everyday...

Author: Dan DiPiero
ISBN: 9780472133154
Format: Hardback
$211.20

Investigates the relationship between improvisation in music and in everyday life  Read More >>

Tegan and Sara: Modern Heartthrobs

Tegan and Sara: Modern Heartthrobs

Author: Melody Lau
ISBN: 9781778430046
Format: Paperback
$31.02

A guide to the music and multifaceted career of Canadian artists and songwriters Tegan and Sara. Through interviews...  Read More >>

For the Sake of the Song: Essays on Townes Van Zandt

For the Sake of the Song: Essays on Townes Van Zandt...

Author: Anne Norton Holbrook ,  Dan Beller-McKenna
ISBN: 9781574418590
Format: Hardback
$76.99

Presents ten essays on Townes Van Zandt from a variety of approaches. Contributors examine his legacy; his use of...  Read More >>

Irish American Civil War Songs: Identity, Loyalty, and Nationhood

Irish American Civil War Songs: Identity, Loyalty, and...

Author: Catherine V. Bateson
ISBN: 9780807177938
Format: Hardback
$132.00

Provides the first in-depth exploration of Irish Americans’ use of balladry to portray and comment on virtually...  Read More >>

An Academic Biography of Liu Ching-chih: A Man of “a Pure Heart”

An Academic Biography of Liu Ching-chih: A Man of “a...

Author: Yongyan Li
ISBN: 9781626430839
Format: Hardback
$290.40

A multi-faceted biography of Liu Ching-chih, a Hong Kong scholar and musician.  Read More >>

Slade in 1979 and 1980

Slade in 1979 and 1980

Author: Tony Charles
ISBN: 9798354828258
Format: Paperback
$31.05

SLADE IN 1979 AND 1980 The continuing story of four musical men from the Black Country. Noddy Holder, the voice....  Read More >>

This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You

This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love...

Author: Susan Rogers (Berklee College of Music) ,  Ogi Ogas (Boston University)
ISBN: 9780393541250
Format: Hardback
$76.43

One of the Next Big Idea Club's Favorite Nonfiction Books A Behavioral Scientist Notable Book of 2022 A legendary...  Read More >>

Through the Mist and the Madness: An Analytical Thesis on the First Three Metallica Albums

Through the Mist and the Madness: An Analytical Thesis...

Author: Jerome Reuter
ISBN: 9798354143696
Format: Paperback
$21.45

Not just one of the most influential metal bands to emerge from the 1980s, but still one of the most popular bands...  Read More >>

Musical Images at the Court of Alfonso I d'Este: Patronage and Self-Representation in Early Sixteenth-Century Ferrara

Musical Images at the Court of Alfonso I d'Este: Patronage...

Author: Gaia Prignano
ISBN: 9782503599984
Format: Paperback
$298.32

Alfonso I d'Este ruled Ferrara from 1505 to 1534. His passionate patronage raised the arts and music to unprecedented...  Read More >>

Singer-Songwriters of the 1970s: 150+ Profiles

Singer-Songwriters of the 1970s: 150+ Profiles

Author: Robert McParland
ISBN: 9781476686615
Format: Paperback
$48.40

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Wasn't That a Mighty Day: African American Blues and Gospel Songs on Disaster

Wasn't That a Mighty Day: African American Blues and...

Author: Luigi Monge ,  David Evans
ISBN: 9781496841766
Format: Paperback
$116.00

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Well of Souls: Uncovering the Banjo's Hidden History

Well of Souls: Uncovering the Banjo's Hidden History...

Author: Kristina R Gaddy ,  Chanté McCormick
ISBN: 9798212284578
Format: Audio
$110.85

An illuminating history of the banjo, revealing its origins at the crossroads of slavery, religion and music  Read More >>

Well of Souls: Uncovering the Banjo's Hidden History

Well of Souls: Uncovering the Banjo's Hidden History...

Author: Kristina R Gaddy ,  Chanté McCormick
ISBN: 9798212284585
Format: Audio
$124.05

An illuminating history of the banjo, revealing its origins at the crossroads of slavery, religion and music  Read More >>

Great God A'Mighty! The Dixie Hummingbirds: Celebrating the Rise of Soul Gospel Music

Great God A'Mighty! The Dixie Hummingbirds: Celebrating...

Author: Jerry Zolten (Professor of Communication Arts & Sciences and Integrative Arts, Professor of Communication Arts & Sciences and Integrative Arts, Pennsylvania State University)
ISBN: 9780190071493
Format: Hardback
$105.57

In Great God A'Mighty! The Dixie Hummingbirds, author Jerry Zolten portrays one of the most influential gospel groups...  Read More >>

Music in Black American Life, 1945-2020: A University of Illinois Press Anthology

Music in Black American Life, 1945-2020: A University...

Author: Laurie Matheson ,  Tammy L. Kernodle
ISBN: 9780252086663
Format: Paperback
$60.99

This second volume of Music in Black American Life offers research and analysis that originally appeared in the...  Read More >>

Music in Black American Life, 1600-1945: A University of Illinois Press Anthology

Music in Black American Life, 1600-1945: A University...

Author: Laurie Matheson ,  Sandra Jean Graham
ISBN: 9780252086656
Format: Paperback
$60.99

This first volume of Music in Black American Life collects research and analysis that originally appeared in the...  Read More >>

Wasn’t That a Mighty Day: African American Blues and Gospel Songs on Disaster

Wasn’t That a Mighty Day: African American Blues and...

Author: Luigi Monge ,  David Evans
ISBN: 9781496841698
Format: Hardback
$309.00

Takes a comprehensive look at sacred and secular disaster songs, shining a spotlight on their historical and cultural...  Read More >>

de la Cacophonie a la Musique: La Perception Du Son Dans Les Societes Antiques

de la Cacophonie a la Musique: La Perception Du Son...

Author: Sibylle Emerit ,  Sylvain Perrot
ISBN: 9782724708462
Format: Hardback
$229.68

Did the men and women of antiquity hear as we do? Which sonorities were particularly significant to them? These...  Read More >>

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