Non-Western music: traditional & "classical" books

1037 books were found.

Creative Economies of Culture in South Asia: Craftspeople and Performers

Creative Economies of Culture in South Asia: Craftspeople...

Author: Anna Morcom (Department of Ethnomusicology UCLA, U.S.A.) ,  Neelam Raina (Middlesex University, London, UK)
ISBN: 9781138492172
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book explores crafts and performing arts of South Asia through a focus on labour and livelihood and will contribute...  Read More >>

Martial Sound: Drumming Empowerment in Diasporic Chinese Kung Fu and Lion Dance

Martial Sound: Drumming Empowerment in Diasporic Chinese...

Author: Colin P. McGuire (External Research Associate, External Research Associate, York University)
ISBN: 9780197775936
Format: Hardback
$181.95

Martial Sound examines the performance and function of music in the martial arts traditions of Chinese Canadians....  Read More >>

Bandish as Text: Re-reading Khayal Compositions by ‘Sadarang’ and ‘Adarang’

Bandish as Text: Re-reading Khayal Compositions by ‘Sadarang’...

Author: Barnashree Khasnobis
ISBN: 9781032902692
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book provides a socio-cultural analysis of khayal bandishes composed by Ne’mat Khan ‘Sadarang’ and Feroze Khan...  Read More >>

Music, Encounter, Togetherness

Music, Encounter, Togetherness

Author: Nicholas Cook (1684 Professor Emeritus, 1684 Professor Emeritus, University of Cambridge)
ISBN: 9780197663981
Format: Hardback
$210.95

Modern Western musical thought tends to represent music as a thing--a pattern, a structure, even an organism--than...  Read More >>

Pop Convergence: Musical Multimedia in Manila

Pop Convergence: Musical Multimedia in Manila

Author: James Gabrillo (Assistant Professor of Music, Assistant Professor of Music, The University of Texas at Austin)
ISBN: 9780197665114
Format: Hardback
$229.95

What do the power rock band Aegis, multimedia superstar Vice Ganda, queer zombie film Zombadings, and glocalized...  Read More >>

Lutes and Marginality in Pre-Modern China: Art History, Archaeology, and Music Iconography

Lutes and Marginality in Pre-Modern China: Art History,...

Author: Ingrid Maren Furniss
ISBN: 9781032309118
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Lutes and Marginality in Pre-Modern China traces the complex history of lutes as they moved from the far west into...  Read More >>

Asian Sound Cultures: Voice, Noise, Sound, Technology

Asian Sound Cultures: Voice, Noise, Sound, Technology...

Author: Iris Haukamp ,  Christin Hoene
ISBN: 9780367698973
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book examines the meanings, uses, and agency of voice, noise, sound, and sound technologies across Asia.  Read More >>

New Mansions For Music: Performance, Pedagogy and Criticism

New Mansions For Music: Performance, Pedagogy and Criticism...

Author: Lakshmi Subramanian
ISBN: 9781032652832
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book looks at one of the most ancient classical musical traditions of India, the Karnatik music system. It...  Read More >>

The Mariachi Voice

The Mariachi Voice

Author: Juanita Ulloa (Operachi Singer, Professor of Voice, Operachi Singer, Professor of Voice, Private Vocal Studio & Laney Community College)
ISBN: 9780190846244
Format: Hardback
$181.95

The Mariachi Voice is a practical resource for all educational program directors, voice professors, historians,...  Read More >>

Musical Modernism in Global Perspective: Entangled Histories on a Shared Planet

Musical Modernism in Global Perspective: Entangled Histories...

Author: Björn Heile (University of Glasgow)
ISBN: 9781009491709
Format: Hardback
$232.88

In a series of historical and analytical case studies from different parts of the world, this first study of the...  Read More >>

Archaic Instruments in Modern West Java: Bamboo Murmurs

Archaic Instruments in Modern West Java: Bamboo Murmurs...

Author: Henry Spiller
ISBN: 9781032299358
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Archaic Bamboo Instruments explores how current residents of Bandung, Indonesia, have (re-) adopted bamboo musical...  Read More >>

Decolonising and Indigenising Music Education: First Peoples Leading Research and Practice

Decolonising and Indigenising Music Education: First...

Author: Te Oti Rakena ,  Clare Hall
ISBN: 9781032265766
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This co-edited volume provides a forum for Indigenous scholars at the intersection of music and education. Authors...  Read More >>

Music, Mind, and Language in Chinese Poetry and Performance: The Voice Extended

Music, Mind, and Language in Chinese Poetry and Performance:...

Author: Casey Schoenberger (Lecturer in Transnational Asian Studies, Lecturer in Transnational Asian Studies, Rice University)
ISBN: 9780198886211
Format: Hardback
$188.95

This innovative study introduces the rhythms, melodies, language, and organization of traditional Chinese poetry...  Read More >>

Sonic Ruins of Modernity: Judeo-Spanish Folksongs Today

Sonic Ruins of Modernity: Judeo-Spanish Folksongs Today...

Author: Edwin Seroussi
ISBN: 9781032276540
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Sonic Ruins of Modernity shows how social, cultural, and cognitive phenomena interact in the making and distribution...  Read More >>

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