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The Big Drum Ritual of Carriacou: Praisesongs in Rememory of Flight

The Big Drum Ritual of Carriacou: Praisesongs in Rememory...

Author: Lorna McDaniel
ISBN: 9780813081441
Format: Paperback
$50.60

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Chidzimbahwe Philosophies of Sound: An Ethics of a Humble and Intimate Custodianship

Chidzimbahwe Philosophies of Sound: An Ethics of a Humble...

Author: Masimba Hwati
ISBN: 9783032195500
Format: Hardback
$158.37

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Mediterranean Musicscapes in Contemporary Spain: From Mosaic to Net

Mediterranean Musicscapes in Contemporary Spain: From...

Author: Kiko Mora (Professor in the Department of Communication and Social Psychology, University of Alicante, Spain)
ISBN: 9798765102152
Format: Paperback
$59.99

This volume focuses on the musicscapes that contest, critique, and rethink Mediterraneidad (Mediterraneaness) in...  Read More >>

Minimalist Music

Minimalist Music

Author: George Grella, Jr. (Independent Scholar, USA)
ISBN: 9798765123447
Format: Paperback
$29.99

Looks critically into the music's past, shows how the genre thrives across styles, and points the way toward minimalism's...  Read More >>

Won't Back Down: Heartland Rock and the Fight for America

Won't Back Down: Heartland Rock and the Fight for America...

Author: Erin Osmon
ISBN: 9781324051374
Format: Hardback
$52.95

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Next Level Lyric Writing: Advanced Lyric Techniques for Songwriters

Next Level Lyric Writing: Advanced Lyric Techniques...

Author: Marty Dodson ,  Bill O'Hanlon
ISBN: 9798317826956
Format: Paperback
$29.99

Hit songwriter Marty Dodson, with multiple #1 and charting songs recorded by artists in genres as diverse as country,...  Read More >>

Wild Sound

Wild Sound

Author: Michael Pigott (Associate Professor of Video Art and Digital Media, University of Warwick, UK)
ISBN: 9781501350900
Format: Paperback
$46.99

An exploration of ""wild sound,"" the cinematic term for sound not synchronized with an image, bringing concepts...  Read More >>

Voicing Britannia: Opera, Gender, and Jews, 1760-1830

Voicing Britannia: Opera, Gender, and Jews, 1760-1830...

Author: Uri Erman (Lecturer, Lecturer, Shalem College, Jerusalem)
ISBN: 9780197784044
Format: Hardback
$194.95

According to a widely held view in eighteenth-century Britain, Britons were inherently unmusical. Through a detailed...  Read More >>

Wild Sound

Wild Sound

Author: Michael Pigott (Associate Professor of Video Art and Digital Media, University of Warwick, UK)
ISBN: 9781501350917
Format: Hardback
$144.00

An exploration of ""wild sound,"" the cinematic term for sound not synchronized with an image, bringing concepts...  Read More >>

Out of the depths: The first collection of Holocaust songs

Out of the depths: The first collection of Holocaust...

Author: Joseph Toltz ,  Anna Boucher
ISBN: 9781526165671
Format: Hardback
$59.99

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The Sound Philosophy

The Sound Philosophy

Author: Curse Mackey ,  Cliff Hensley
ISBN: 9798993793450
Format: Hardback
$89.76

A practical system shaped through an audit of lived experience. A field manual for musicians and other independent...  Read More >>

Music in World Literature: From Tolstoy to Manga

Music in World Literature: From Tolstoy to Manga

Author: Julia Titus ,  David Racker
ISBN: 9783032139993
Format: Hardback
$284.60

Music in World Literature: From Tolstoy to Manga examines the relationship between music and literary works within...  Read More >>

Traders, Chanters and Mystics: The Networked Afterlives of North African Torah Scrolls

Traders, Chanters and Mystics: The Networked Afterlives...

Author: Ilana Webster-Kogen
ISBN: 9780819502315
Format: Paperback
$65.87

Interdisciplinary ethnography of Torah scrolls as ritual objects and subjects_x000D_ _x000D_ For Jews all over the...  Read More >>

The Lullaby’s Outline: Anthropology of a (Not Quite) Universal Practice

The Lullaby’s Outline: Anthropology of a (Not Quite)...

Author: Stéphane Aubinet
ISBN: 9781041129820
Format: Hardback
$375.19

This book offers an anthropological exploration of the lullaby, a type of music found in nearly all human societies....  Read More >>

How Black Music Took Over the World

How Black Music Took Over the World

Author: Melvin Gibbs
ISBN: 9781399433280
Format: Hardback
$46.99

An exploration of the vibrant world that underlies Black musical creation, blending memoir, cultural history and...  Read More >>

Smart Technologies for Sustainable Development Goals: Gender Equality

Smart Technologies for Sustainable Development Goals:...

Author: A. Jose Anand (KCG College of Technology, India) ,  Saravanan Krishnan (Anna Uni. Regional Campus)
ISBN: 9781041116929
Format: Hardback
$271.69

This edited volume explores the transformative role of emerging technologies in advancing SDG 5— Gender Equality....  Read More >>

Echoes of Translation: Audibility and Relationality in Indian Jewish Women's Songs

Echoes of Translation: Audibility and Relationality...

Author: Anna C. Schultz (Associate Professor of Music and the Humanities, Associate Professor of Music and the Humanities, University of Chicago)
ISBN: 9780190626921
Format: Paperback
$64.95

The Bene Israel are a Jewish community from western India who, over centuries, developed a distinctive identity...  Read More >>

Rolling Stone and the Rise of Hip Capitalism: How a Magazine Born in the 1960s Changed America

Rolling Stone and the Rise of Hip Capitalism: How a...

Author: Charles L. Ponce de Leon
ISBN: 9781469694399
Format: Hardback
$69.99

In its early years, Rolling Stone stood out on the magazine rack: an iconoclastic bimonthly aimed at young Americans,...  Read More >>

Unpredictable Encounters: Reconsidering Russian Music

Unpredictable Encounters: Reconsidering Russian Music...

Author: Pauline Fairclough ,  Peter J. Schmelz
ISBN: 9780253075437
Format: Paperback
$116.00

Music has always been profoundly transnational, transcending language barriers and crossing borders in ways that...  Read More >>

Public and Private Modes of Musical Discourse: Haydn's London Symphonies and Late String Quartets

Public and Private Modes of Musical Discourse: Haydn's...

Author: Lauri Suurpää
ISBN: 9780253075277
Format: Paperback
$92.99

Public and Private Modes of Musical Discourse brings a new contribution to discussions on the difference between...  Read More >>

The Composer’s Toolkit

The Composer’s Toolkit

Author: Christopher Tarrant ,  Natalie Wild
ISBN: 9780571543519
Format: Paperback
$49.14

What makes a melody memorable? Why do some pieces seem to unfold perfectly, as if by design? The Composer’s Toolkit...  Read More >>

Physics of Musical Instruments Applied to Instrument Making

Physics of Musical Instruments Applied to Instrument...

Author: Jean-Pierre Dalmont ,  José Antunes
ISBN: 9783032168993
Format: Hardback
$465.72

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the knowledge of musical instrument physics and its practical application...  Read More >>

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