Non-Western music: traditional & "classical" books

1037 books were found.

Depression Folk: Grassroots Music and Left-Wing Politics in 1930s America

Depression Folk: Grassroots Music and Left-Wing Politics...

Author: Ronald D. Cohen
ISBN: 9781469630465
Format: Hardback
$261.36

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Depression Folk: Grassroots Music and Left-Wing Politics in 1930s America

Depression Folk: Grassroots Music and Left-Wing Politics...

Author: Ronald D. Cohen
ISBN: 9781469628813
Format: Paperback
$85.80

While music lovers and music historians alike understand that folkmusic played an increasingly pivotal role in American...  Read More >>

Songbooks for Kalimba Am+G: Lamells tuning g4 c5 c4 a4 a3 f4 e4 e5 b4

Songbooks for Kalimba Am+G: Lamells tuning g4 c5 c4...

Author: Ondrej Sarek
ISBN: 9781539541387
Format: Paperback
$29.44

The are in the book songs without text. Check out samples from books: http: //osos.sweb.cz/Preview-Anglo-concertina.pdf...  Read More >>

It's Our Music Too: The Black Experience in Classical Music

It's Our Music Too: The Black Experience in Classical...

Author: Earl Ofari Hutchinson
ISBN: 9780692781876
Format: Paperback
$26.27

A Skeptics Journey Through the Yoga Experience takes a hard and personal look at the history, myths, controversies,...  Read More >>

Prince of Purple Rain

Prince of Purple Rain

Author: Therlee Gipson
ISBN: 9781539490142
Format: Paperback
$52.80

Introduction Prince Rogers Nelson(June 7, 1958 - April 21, 2016) was an African American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist,...  Read More >>

Music as Intangible Cultural Heritage: Policy, Ideology, and Practice in the Preservation of East Asian Traditions

Music as Intangible Cultural Heritage: Policy, Ideology,...

Author: Keith Howard
ISBN: 9781138245464
Format: Paperback
$114.00

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The Minqar-i Musiqar: Hazrat Inayat Khan's Classic 1912 Work on Indian Musical Theory and Practice

The Minqar-i Musiqar: Hazrat Inayat Khan's Classic 1912...

Author: Hazrat Inayat Khan ,  Allyn Miner
ISBN: 9781941810187
Format: Paperback
$89.76

The Minqār-i Mūsīqār is of rare interest both for its contents and its distinguished author, Hazrat Inayat Khan....  Read More >>

JMI Performing Repertoire Book volume-II.: JMI shakuhachi

JMI Performing Repertoire Book volume-II.: JMI shakuhachi...

Author: Masayuki Koga
ISBN: 9781537140254
Format: Paperback
$105.47

This is music for shakuhachi (Japanese bamboo flute)in Kinko-notation. written by Masayuki Koga. Previous book of...  Read More >>

Musical Performance in the Diaspora

Musical Performance in the Diaspora

Author: Tina K Ramnarine (Royal Holloway University of London, UK)
ISBN: 9781138994300
Format: Paperback
$94.99

This book examines the place of musical performance in diasporic experience and in diasporic politics. It illustrates...  Read More >>

Heartbeat, Warble, and the Electric Powwow: American Indian Music

Heartbeat, Warble, and the Electric Powwow: American...

Author: Craig Harris
ISBN: 9780806151687
Format: Paperback
$65.87

Despite centuries of suppression and oppression, American Indian music survives today as a profound cultural force....  Read More >>

Opening Doors To Tradition

Opening Doors To Tradition

Author: Reena Kaur
ISBN: 9781527203907
Format: Paperback
$55.31

Reena Kaur is an internationally recognised and established star of Ladies Sangeet. With decades of performances...  Read More >>

Music Club Programs from All Nations, Giving an Historic Outline of Each National School of Music, with Questions for Study, and a Series of Programs for the Use of Clubs and Other Organizations

Music Club Programs from All Nations, Giving an Historic...

Author: Arthur Elson
ISBN: 9781355171607
Format: Hardback
$65.87

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization...  Read More >>

Intimate Letters: Leos Janáček to Kamila Stösslová

Intimate Letters: Leos Janáček to Kamila Stösslová

Author: Leos Janácek ,  John Tyrrell
ISBN: 9780691636924
Format: Hardback
$260.00

These are the letters of a great love story. In 1917, the Czech composer Leos Janacek met Kamila Stosslova while...  Read More >>

Qupai in Chinese Music: Melodic Models in Form and Practice

Qupai in Chinese Music: Melodic Models in Form and Practice...

Author: Alan R Thrasher
ISBN: 9781138936249
Format: Hardback
$326.00

This book explores qupai, melodic models upon which most traditional Chinese instrumental (and some vocal) music...  Read More >>

African American Spirituals - For the Native American Flute

African American Spirituals - For the Native American...

Author: Raymond Wells
ISBN: 9781533276711
Format: Paperback
$63.23

Easy to learn and play - no need to read music - each note has a flute symbol -showing you where to place your fingers...  Read More >>

The Encyclopedia of World Rhythms, Vol. 1

The Encyclopedia of World Rhythms, Vol. 1

Author: Martin Wolf Murphy ,  Dale Lynn Pearsall
ISBN: 9781943333011
Format: Paperback
$105.47

This volume is designed to assist you in taking your exploration of rhythm further, and advancing faster! The precision...  Read More >>

Jalsa – Indian Women and Their Journeys from the Salon to the Studio

Jalsa – Indian Women and Their Journeys from the Salon...

Author: Vidya Shah
ISBN: 9789382381778
Format: Hardback
$85.50

Jalsa takes the reader through the journeys of women performers in India from the salon to the studio. It attempts...  Read More >>

Ora de Despertar: Original Ladino Songs For Children

Ora de Despertar: Original Ladino Songs For Children...

Author: Sarah Aroeste
ISBN: 9781523943562
Format: Paperback
$34.29

Ora de Despertar, or Time to Wake Up, is a songbook of all-original Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) children's songs - the...  Read More >>

Piping Hot!: Tales of a Wandering Bagpiper

Piping Hot!: Tales of a Wandering Bagpiper

Author: Susan Hadley Planck
ISBN: 9780990876922
Format: Paperback
$32.21

Bagpiping through exotic places such as China, Japan, and South America, Susan Hadley Planck humorously describes...  Read More >>

Folk-Songs of the South: Collected Under the Auspices of the West Virginia Folk-Lore Society

Folk-Songs of the South: Collected Under the Auspices...

Author: John Harrington Cox ,  Alan Jabbour
ISBN: 9781943665143
Format: Paperback
$65.97

Presents a collection of ballads and folk-songs from West Virginia. First published in 1925, this resource includes...  Read More >>

Hip-Hop within and without the Academy

Hip-Hop within and without the Academy

Author: Karen Snell ,  Johan Soederman
ISBN: 9780739197523
Format: Paperback
$107.00

Hip-hop's historical nature as a mouthpiece for marginalized peoples provides a platform for its universal-appeal...  Read More >>

Russian Songs and Lyrics: Being Faithful Translations of Selections from Some of the Best Russian Poets, Pushkin, Lermontof, Nadson, Nekrasov, Tolstoi, Tyoutchev, Maikov, Lebedev, Fet, K. R., Klushnikov, Anatole, Kremlev, Myatlev, Etc.

Russian Songs and Lyrics: Being Faithful Translations...

Author: John Pollen
ISBN: 9781347522998
Format: Hardback
$65.87

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization...  Read More >>

Mississippi Fiddle Tunes and Songs from the 1930s

Mississippi Fiddle Tunes and Songs from the 1930s

Author: Harry Bolick ,  Stephen T. Austin
ISBN: 9781496804013
Format: Hardback
$290.40

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Balkan Fascination: Creating an Alternative Music Culture in America

Balkan Fascination: Creating an Alternative Music Culture...

Author: Mirjana Lausevic (Professor of Ethnomusicology, Professor of Ethnomusicology, University of Minnesota)
ISBN: 9780190269425
Format: Paperback
$70.95

In Balkan Fascination, ethnomusicologist Mirjana Lausevic, a native of the Balkans, investigates this remarkable...  Read More >>

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