Non-Western music: traditional & "classical" books

A ground-breaking history of the American folk music revival  Read More >>

Using the BeatBox Notation that simply and visually communicates the correct tone and handing for all drums, this...  Read More >>

Ma'luf, which literally means 'familiar' or 'customary,' bears the auditory traces of music brought to North Africa...  Read More >>

Looking at musical globalization and vocal music, this collection of essays studies the complex relationship between...  Read More >>

The complex legacy of Mexico's ethnic past and geographic location have shaped the country and its culture. In Music...  Read More >>

This work represents the first comparative study of the folk revival movement in Anglophone Canada and the United...  Read More >>

When considering the role music played in the major totalitarian regimes of the century it is music's usefulness...  Read More >>

The musical tradition of Ma'luf is believed to have come to North Africa with Muslim and Jewish refugees escaping...  Read More >>

Shostakovich's music is often described as being dynamic, energetic. But what is meant by 'energy' in music? After...  Read More >>

This collection of essays, documented by an international and interdisciplinary array of scholars, represents the...  Read More >>

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To date there has been a significant gap in existing knowledge about the social history of music in Britain from...  Read More >>

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Japanese folk performing arts incorporate a body of entertainments that range from the ritual to the secular. They...  Read More >>

Contemporaries at the Royal College of Music, Elisabeth Lutyens (1906 1983), Elizabeth Maconchy (1907 1994) and...  Read More >>

William Sweetland was a Bath organ builder who flourished from c.1847 to 1902 during which time he built about 300...  Read More >>

John Arthur Smith presents the first full-length study of music among the ancient Israelites, the ancient Jews and...  Read More >>

Dr Pippa Drummond argues that festivals represented the most significant cultural events in provincial England during...  Read More >>

Published between 1882 and 1898, this definitive collection compiles all the extant ballads with all known variants...  Read More >>

This definitive 19th-century collection compiles all the extant ballads with all known variants and features Child's...  Read More >>

This 19th-century collection compiles all the extant ballads with all known variants and features Child's commentaries....  Read More >>

Folk-Songs of the South: Collected Under the Auspices of the West Virginia Folk-Lore Society is a collection...  Read More >>

A vibrant introduction to a quintessential American art form, Country Music: A Cultural and Stylistic History is...  Read More >>