Non-Western music: traditional & "classical" books

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Music and Society in Lowland Scotland in the Eighteenth Century

Music and Society in Lowland Scotland in the Eighteenth...
Author: David Johnson ISBN: 9781841830490 Format: Paperback	$39.95
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Irish Melodies (1852)

Irish Melodies (1852)
Author: Thomas Moore ISBN: 9780766173347 Format: Paperback	$73.79
To which is added a biographical sketch. Though an edition of the poetry of the Irish Melodies, separate from the... Read More >>

Representing African Music: Postcolonial Notes, Queries, Positions

Representing African Music: Postcolonial Notes, Queries,...
Author: Kofi Agawu ISBN: 9780415943895 Format: Hardback	$305.00
Who writes about African music, how, and why? What assumptions and prejudices influence the presentation of ethnographic... Read More >>

Trompeta: Chappott'n, Chocolate, and Afro-Cuban Trumpet Style

Trompeta: Chappott'n, Chocolate, and Afro-Cuban Trumpet...
Author: Rick Davies ISBN: 9780810846807 Format: Paperback	$85.95
Afro-Cuban music evolved into one of the great musical traditions of the 20th century. This volume provides a comprehensive... Read More >>

Huju: Traditional Opera in Modern Shanghai

Huju: Traditional Opera in Modern Shanghai
Author: Jonathan P. J. Stock (, Lecturer in Music, University of Sheffield) ISBN: 9780197262733 Format: Hardback	$151.95
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Sonq Dynasty Musical Sources and Their Interpretation

Sonq Dynasty Musical Sources and Their Interpretation...
Author: Rulan Chao Pian ISBN: 9789629960629 Format: Hardback	$84.48
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Xylophone Tradition Uganda

Xylophone Tradition Uganda
Author: Anderson ISBN: 9780521267250 Format: Hardback	$118.80
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Sonq Dynasty Musical Sources and Their Interpretation

Sonq Dynasty Musical Sources and Their Interpretation...
Author: Rulan Chao Pian ISBN: 9789629960995 Format: Paperback	$60.72
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Voices from the Straw Mat: Toward an Ethnography of Korean Story Singing

Voices from the Straw Mat: Toward an Ethnography of...
Author: Chan E. Park ISBN: 9780824825119 Format: Hardback	$134.64
From its humble """"straw mat"""" origins to its paradoxical status as a national treasure, """"p'ansori"""" has... Read More >>

Musical Notations of the Orient: Notational Systems of Continental East, South, and Central Asia

Musical Notations of the Orient: Notational Systems...
Author: Walter Kaufmann ISBN: 9780253386601 Format: Hardback	$118.67
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Traditional Scottish Fiddling: A Player's Guide to Regional Styles, Bowing Techniques, Repertoire and Dances: Containing Over 220 Tunes

Traditional Scottish Fiddling: A Player's Guide to Regional...
Author: Christine Martin ISBN: 9781871931389 Format: Mixed media product	$60.59
(Music Sales America). A player's comprehensive guide to Scottish regional styles of fiddle playing and the bowing... Read More >>

Sound of Africa!: Making Music Zulu in a South African Studio

Sound of Africa!: Making Music Zulu in a South African...
Author: Louise Meintjes ISBN: 9780822330141 Format: Paperback	$68.51
Gives an account of the production of a mbaqanga album in a recording studio in Johannesburg. This work analyzes... Read More >>

Sound of Africa!: Making Music Zulu in a South African Studio

Sound of Africa!: Making Music Zulu in a South African...
Author: Louise Meintjes ISBN: 9780822330271 Format: Hardback	$250.67
Gives an account of the production of a mbaqanga album in a recording studio in Johannesburg. This work analyzes... Read More >>

Getting into Latin Jazz Guitar

Getting into Latin Jazz Guitar
Author: John Zaradin ISBN: 9780786667369 Format: Paperback	$52.77
This book is a guide to some of the techniques needed for getting into latin jazz guitar. Read More >>

Music in the Mind: The Concepts of Music and Musician in Afghanistan

Music in the Mind: The Concepts of Music and Musician...
Author: Hiromi Lorraine Sakata , Margaret Mills ISBN: 9781588340900 Format: Hardback	$92.27
Through case studies in the city of Herat (western Afghanistan), the remote provincial capital Faizabad (northeastern... Read More >>

Songs of a Kaumatua: As Sung by Kino Hughes (hardback with CD)

Songs of a Kaumatua: As Sung by Kino Hughes (hardback...
Author: Margaret Orbell , Mervyn McLean ISBN: 9781869402587 Format: Paperback	$158.27
This is a meticulous record of Tuhoe songs, as performed by Kino Hughes, with music and translations. The text of... Read More >>

Yogaku: Japanese Music in the 20th Century

Yogaku: Japanese Music in the 20th Century
Author: Luciana Galliano , Martin Mayes ISBN: 9780810843257 Format: Hardback	$159.95
A discussion of a century of music in Japan, detailing the music that was inspired by Western music after the Meiji... Read More >>

Bhajan: Mantras of Mercy

Bhajan: Mantras of Mercy
Author: Swami B. B. Tirtha , Swami B. V. Tripurari ISBN: 9781886069831 Format: Hardback	$52.67
Synopsis coming soon....... Read More >>

Breaking the Sound Barrier: An Argument for Mainstream Literary Music

Breaking the Sound Barrier: An Argument for Mainstream...
Author: John H Winsor ISBN: 9780595249985 Format: Paperback	$39.47
Arguments about musical aesthetics often degenerate into shouting matches that end in stalemate. In Breaking the... Read More >>

Sāmaveda Samhitā of the Kauthuma School: With Padapāṭha and the commentaries of Madhava, Bharatasvāmin and Sayaṇa: Uttarārcika

Sāmaveda Samhitā of the Kauthuma School: With Padapāṭha...
Author: B. R. Sharma ISBN: 9780674009356 Format: Hardback	$165.95
The Sāmaveda contains the earliest tradition of music from India. It presents largely Rigvedic textual material... Read More >>

From Kokopelli's to Electric Warriors: The Native American Culture of Music

From Kokopelli's to Electric Warriors: The Native American...
Author: Sandra Hale Schulman ISBN: 9781403347695 Format: Paperback	$38.28
From the red earth of the reservation to the glitter of the Grammys(, the heartfelt music of Native America is getting... Read More >>

From Kokopelli's to Electric Warriors: The Native American Culture of Music

From Kokopelli's to Electric Warriors: The Native American...
Author: Sandra Hale Schulman ISBN: 9781403347701 Format: Hardback	$67.19
From the red earth of the reservation to the glitter of the Grammys, (the heartfelt music of Native America is getting... Read More >>

The Classical Guitar: A Complete History

The Classical Guitar: A Complete History
Author: John Morrish ISBN: 9780879307257 Format: Paperback	$79.07
A complete history of the classical guitar. This new and updated paperback follows the tremendous success of the... Read More >>

Performing the Nation: Swahili Music and Cultural Politics in Tanzania

Performing the Nation: Swahili Music and Cultural Politics...
Author: Kelly Askew (University of Michigan) ISBN: 9780226029801 Format: Hardback	$203.95
Since its founding in 1964 Tanzania has used music, dance and other cultural productions as ways of imagining and... Read More >>

Performing the Nation: Swahili Music and Cultural Politics in Tanzania

Performing the Nation: Swahili Music and Cultural Politics...
Author: Kelly Askew (University of Michigan) ISBN: 9780226029818 Format: Hardback	$87.95
Since its founding in 1964 Tanzania has used music, dance and other cultural productions as ways of imagining and... Read More >>

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