Non-Western music: traditional & "classical" books

Material Cultures of Music Notation brings together a collection of essays that explore an essential question in...  Read More >>

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This book advances the study of Chinese folk songs through theoretical innovation in literature-based folk songs...  Read More >>

An indispensable study of the music of Altai-Sayan peoples Based on more than twenty years of collaborative research,...  Read More >>

In the middle of the twentieth century, transnational networks sparked a range of cultural projects focused on collecting...  Read More >>

In Music and Citizenship, author Martin Stokes challenges the conventional understanding of citizenship in terms...  Read More >>

This book introduces readers to the historical, performative, and cultural context of pansori, a traditional Korean...  Read More >>

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Examines the music of Iran in its historical and social contexts from the Timurid period up until the end of the...  Read More >>

This ethnographic research project examines the generation of post-tariqa Tasavvuf (Sufism: a spiritual practice...  Read More >>

"Sounds, Ecologies, Musics poses exciting challenges and provides fresh opportunities for scholars, scientists,...  Read More >>

This book explores the ‘folk’ performance genre of Kobigaan, a dialogic song-theatre form in which performers verse-duel,...  Read More >>

World Music CONCISE: A Global Journey, Third Edition, explores the diversity of musical expression around the world,...  Read More >>

World Music CONCISE: A Global Journey, Third Edition, explores the diversity of musical expression around the world,...  Read More >>

Focusing on the Cornish Music and Dance Revival, it investigates the revivalists’ claims about Cornwall’s cultural...  Read More >>

This book explores queer potentialities in the tribal folktales of India. It elucidates the queer elements in the...  Read More >>

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Rocking in the Free World explains how Americans came to believe they had learned the truth about rock 'n' roll,...  Read More >>

Music as Ethics offers a comparative ethnography of four musical communities in Virginia: a monastery, an intentional...  Read More >>

"""Explores the role sonic innovations in the African diaspora play in articulating methodologies for living the...  Read More >>

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Written by one of the best-known academic writers on African music, On African Music is a collection of seven essays...  Read More >>