Non-Western music: traditional & "classical" books

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From the author's INTRODUCTION. The Chinese have the reputation of being a strange people, with a peculiar language,...  Read More >>

Bollywood Sounds surveys seventy years of Hindi film song as a cosmopolitan and overwhelmingly popular music of...  Read More >>

Bollywood Sounds surveys seventy years of Hindi film song as a cosmopolitan and overwhelmingly popular music of...  Read More >>

What you didn't know about the Chinese New Year Is IN THIS BOOK! The Chinese New Year is certainly an interesting...  Read More >>

Play of a Fiddle gives voice to people who steadfastly hold to and build on the folk traditions of their ancestors....  Read More >>

This is a new release of the original 1925 edition.  Read More >>

Musik hat in den 145 Jahren seit Aufnahme der diplomatischen Beziehungen zwischen Japan und Osterreich stets eine...  Read More >>

This study seeks to understand the effects that Western-inspired modernity has had on the nature of cultural tradition...  Read More >>

From work songs to skiffle, from the Weavers in Greenwich Village to Burl Ives on the BBC, this book offers a wide-ranging...  Read More >>

Presents a transatlantic history of folk's midcentury resurgence that juxtaposes the related but distinct revivals...  Read More >>

Queen Liliuokalani left two major legacies. The first, her lands have benefited the Hawaiian people through the...  Read More >>

Queen Liliuokalani left two major legacies. The first, her lands have benefited the Hawaiian people through the...  Read More >>

Through an analysis both broad and deep of primary and secondary sources, ethnography, iconography and current performance...  Read More >>

From the PREFACE At the suggestion of friends (especially my old friend Mr. Edward Cazalet, President of the Anglo-Russian...  Read More >>

Folk music is more than an idealized reminder of a simper past. It reveals a great deal about present-day understandings...  Read More >>

As a platform for communicating the issues of marginalized peoples, hip-hop remains a universal, relevant art form....  Read More >>

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During the century of British rule of the Indian subcontinent known as the British Raj, the rulers felt the significant...  Read More >>

So thus did both these nobles dye, Whose courage none could staine; An English archer then perceiv'd The noble erle...  Read More >>

If you think that you know the soul truth about James Brown, think again! Inside the Godfather is a history changing...  Read More >>

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When the socialist politician Salvador Allende dramatically won Chile's presidential election in 1970, a powerful...  Read More >>

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A useful and thorough piece of work. -The Times Extremely valuable. Mr. Torr's treatise will be highly valued...  Read More >>