World music books

1273 books were found.

Paul Simon: An American Tune

Paul Simon: An American Tune

Author: Cornel Bonca
ISBN: 9780810895409
Format: Paperback
$63.99

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Women Musicians of Zimbabwe Diary

Women Musicians of Zimbabwe Diary

Author: Joyce Jenje Makwenda
ISBN: 9780797454859
Format: Paperback
$49.16

THE WOMEN MUSICIANS OF ZIMBABWE DIARY chronicles the journey of women musicians from 1930's.  Read More >>

Popular Music in World Perspective

Popular Music in World Perspective

Author: Simone Krüger
ISBN: 9780745651767
Format: Paperback
$43.96

This book is about understanding culture and society through contemporary world popular music. It brings together...  Read More >>

Popular Music in World Perspective

Popular Music in World Perspective

Author: Simone Krüger
ISBN: 9780745651750
Format: Hardback
$142.31

This book is about understanding culture and society through contemporary world popular music. It brings together...  Read More >>

Dawn Songs

Dawn Songs

Author: Peter Riley
ISBN: 9781848615458
Format: Paperback
$33.00

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Caetano Veloso’s A Foreign Sound

Caetano Veloso’s A Foreign Sound

Author: Associate Professor Barbara Browning (New York University, USA)
ISBN: 9781501319235
Format: Paperback
$35.99

What makes a song sound foreign? What makes it sound “American,” or Brazilian? Caetano Veloso’s 2004 American songbook...  Read More >>

Thirty Years of Musical Life in London; With Mote Than One Hundred Illustrations from Photographs

Thirty Years of Musical Life in London; With Mote Than...

Author: Hermann Klein
ISBN: 9781375879958
Format: Paperback
$46.45

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization...  Read More >>

Popular World Music

Popular World Music

Author: Andrew Shahriari (Kent State University, USA)
ISBN: 9781138684478
Format: Paperback
$162.00

Popular World Music, Second Edition introduces students to popular music genres and artists from around the world....  Read More >>

Popular World Music

Popular World Music

Author: Andrew Shahriari (Kent State University, USA)
ISBN: 9781138684461
Format: Hardback
$326.00

Popular World Music, Second Edition introduces students to popular music genres and artists from around the world....  Read More >>

Schooling New Media: Music, Language, and Technology in Children's Culture

Schooling New Media: Music, Language, and Technology...

Author: Tyler Bickford (Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh)
ISBN: 9780190654146
Format: Hardback
$360.00

Schooling New Media examines how transformations in music technologies influence the way children, their peers,...  Read More >>

Nessiah: David Orlowsky Trio

Nessiah: David Orlowsky Trio

Author: David Orlowsky ,  David Orlowsky Trio
ISBN: 9783892211143
Format: Paperback
$68.51

This collection of 14 pieces from the David Orlowsky Trio CD of the same name merges elements of chamber music and...  Read More >>

Melancholic Modalities: Affect, Islam, and Turkish Classical Musicians

Melancholic Modalities: Affect, Islam, and Turkish Classical...

Author: Denise Gill (Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology, Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology, Washington University in St. Louis.)
ISBN: 9780190495015
Format: Paperback
$61.95

Denise Gill analyzes how the melancholies intentionally cultivated by Turkish classical musicians, typically dismissed...  Read More >>

Melancholic Modalities: Affect, Islam, and Turkish Classical Musicians

Melancholic Modalities: Affect, Islam, and Turkish Classical...

Author: Denise Gill (Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology, Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology, Washington University in St. Louis.)
ISBN: 9780190495008
Format: Hardback
$360.00

Denise Gill analyzes how the melancholies intentionally cultivated by Turkish classical musicians, typically dismissed...  Read More >>

College Music Curricula for a New Century

College Music Curricula for a New Century

Author: Robin D. Moore (Professor, Professor, The University of Texas at Austin)
ISBN: 9780190658397
Format: Hardback
$381.00

College Music Curricula for a New Century considers what a more inclusive and socially engaged curriculum of musical...  Read More >>

Making Aboriginal Men and Music in Central Australia

Making Aboriginal Men and Music in Central Australia...

Author: Ase Ottosson
ISBN: 9781350040113
Format: Paperback
$77.99

This detailed ethnographic study explores the intercultural crafting of contemporary forms of Aboriginal manhood...  Read More >>

My Festival Romance: By Thomas Brooman CBE Co-Founder of Womad

My Festival Romance: By Thomas Brooman CBE Co-Founder...

Author: Thomas Brooman
ISBN: 9781910089583
Format: Paperback
$31.05

In his autobiography, Womad co-founder Thomas Brooman explores the musical influences of his childhood; reveals...  Read More >>

Musicscapes: The Multiple Emotions of Indian Music

Musicscapes: The Multiple Emotions of Indian Music

Author: Shobha Deepak Singh
ISBN: 9789351941682
Format: Hardback
$155.25

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Wells Fargo Watch Out!: The Case for Heavy Music: Rock and Revolution in 70's Zimbabwe

Wells Fargo Watch Out!: The Case for Heavy Music: Rock...

Author: Eothen Alapatt ,  Matthew Schechmeister
ISBN: 9781584236573
Format: Hardback
$38.50

Matthew Shechmeister tells the story of Wells Fargo, drawing on interviews with the band's remaining members and...  Read More >>

The Transformation of Black Music: The rhythms, the songs, and the ships of the African Diaspora

The Transformation of Black Music: The rhythms, the...

Author: Sam Floyd (Professor for Center for Black Music Research, Professor for Center for Black Music Research, Columbia College) ,  Melanie Zeck (Managing Editor, Managing Editor, Black Music Research Journal)
ISBN: 9780195307245
Format: Hardback
$182.16

Powerful and embracive, The Transformation of Black Music explores the full spectrum of black musics over the past...  Read More >>

Images of The Apocalypse in African American Blues and Spirituals: Destruction in this Land

Images of The Apocalypse in African American Blues and...

Author: Tomasz Basiuk ,  Małgorzata Ziółek-Sowińska
ISBN: 9783631681312
Format: Hardback
$133.64

This book explores the recurrence of Apocalyptic motifs and imagery in blues and spirituals recorded by blues musicians....  Read More >>

The Great Woman Singer: Gender and Voice in Puerto Rican Music

The Great Woman Singer: Gender and Voice in Puerto Rican...

Author: Licia Fiol-Matta
ISBN: 9780822362937
Format: Paperback
$76.43

Using a theoretical framework built on Lacan and Foucault, Licia Fiol-Matta traces the careers of four iconic female...  Read More >>

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