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Musicians in Transit: Argentina and the Globalization of Popular Music

Musicians in Transit: Argentina and the Globalization...

Author: Matthew B. Karush
ISBN: 9780822362364
Format: Paperback
$73.79

In Musicians in Transit Matthew B. Karush examines the careers of seven major twentieth-century Argentine popular...  Read More >>

Musicians in Transit: Argentina and the Globalization of Popular Music

Musicians in Transit: Argentina and the Globalization...

Author: Matthew B. Karush
ISBN: 9780822362166
Format: Hardback
$271.79

In Musicians in Transit Matthew B. Karush examines the careers of seven major twentieth-century Argentine popular...  Read More >>

Flamenco Improvisation Volume 3: Modal Improvisation and Melodic Construction in the Flamenco Environment

Flamenco Improvisation Volume 3: Modal Improvisation...

Author: Enrique Vargas
ISBN: 9781883217983
Format: Spiral bound
$113.82

The definitive, comprehensive explanation of both the harmonic and melodic aspects of flamenco! Flamenco Improvisation...  Read More >>

Flamenco Improvisation Volume 2: Modal Improvisation and Melodic Construction in the Flamenco Environment

Flamenco Improvisation Volume 2: Modal Improvisation...

Author: Enrique Vargas
ISBN: 9781883217976
Format: Spiral bound
$108.65

The definitive, comprehensive explanation of both the harmonic and melodic aspects of flamenco! Flamenco Improvisation...  Read More >>

Made in Hungary: Studies in Popular Music

Made in Hungary: Studies in Popular Music

Author: Emília Barna ,  Tamás Tófalvy
ISBN: 9781138915879
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Made in Hungary: Studies in Popular Music serves as a comprehensive and thorough introduction to the history, sociology,...  Read More >>

Esquisse D'Une Histoire Du Gout Musical En France Au Xviiie Siecle (Classic Reprint)

Esquisse D'Une Histoire Du Gout Musical En France Au...

Author: Louis Striffling
ISBN: 9781334568510
Format: Paperback
$35.82

Excerpt from Esquisse d'une Histoire du Gout Musical en France au Xviiie Siecle Or la necessite de la synthese s'impose...  Read More >>

Music in Seventeenth-Century Naples: Francesco Provenzale (1624-1704)

Music in Seventeenth-Century Naples: Francesco Provenzale...

Author: Dinko Fabris
ISBN: 9781138258754
Format: Paperback
$114.00

Dinko Fabris here presents an examination of the life and work of 17th-century composer Francesco Provenzale by...  Read More >>

French Music Since Berlioz

French Music Since Berlioz

Author: Caroline Potter ,  Caroline Potter
ISBN: 9781138273450
Format: Paperback
$114.00

French Music Since Berlioz explores key developments in French classical music during the nineteenth and twentieth...  Read More >>

Music and Metaphor in Nineteenth-Century British Musicology

Music and Metaphor in Nineteenth-Century British Musicology...

Author: Bennett Zon
ISBN: 9781138263338
Format: Paperback
$105.00

Critical writing about music and music history in nineteenth-century Britain was permeated with metaphor and analogy....  Read More >>

Rasa: Affect and Intuition in Javanese Musical Aesthetics

Rasa: Affect and Intuition in Javanese Musical Aesthetics...

Author: Marc Benamou (Assistant Professor of Music, Assistant Professor of Music, Earlham College)
ISBN: 9780190628451
Format: Paperback
$82.95

Rasa is the most thorough treatment to date of this all-important concept at the heart of Javanese aesthetics. Rasa...  Read More >>

Bhimsen Joshi, My Father

Bhimsen Joshi, My Father

Author: Raghavendra Bhimsen Joshi ,  Shirish Chindhade (Principal, Principal, M.U. College of Commerce, Pimpri, Pune)
ISBN: 9780199467112
Format: Paperback
$41.95

Pandit Bhimsen Joshi, a Hindustani classical music legend, mesmerized audiences with his soulful renditions. His...  Read More >>

Hawaiian Ukulele

Hawaiian Ukulele

Author: Michael Preston
ISBN: 9781939487759
Format: Paperback
$15.71

Brochure-type, saddle stitched softcover how-to books for playing the ukulele. Compiled by Michael Preston, author...  Read More >>

Cherubino's Leap: In Search of the Enlightenment Moment

Cherubino's Leap: In Search of the Enlightenment Moment...

Author: Richard Kramer
ISBN: 9780226377896
Format: Hardback
$79.95

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Learn the Hawaiian Ukulele

Learn the Hawaiian Ukulele

Author: Michael Preston
ISBN: 9781939487742
Format: Paperback
$15.71

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Music and Institutions in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Music and Institutions in Nineteenth-Century Britain...

Author: Paul Rodmell
ISBN: 9781138268234
Format: Paperback
$96.99

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The Early Tudor Court and International Musical Relations

The Early Tudor Court and International Musical Relations...

Author: Theodor Dumitrescu
ISBN: 9781138265042
Format: Paperback
$105.00

Treats the matter of musical relations between England and continental Europe during the first decades of the Tudor...  Read More >>

Identity and Locality in Early European Music, 1028–1740

Identity and Locality in Early European Music, 1028–1740...

Author: Jason Stoessel
ISBN: 9781138265783
Format: Paperback
$114.00

A collection of chapters invited from some of the leading music researchers that consider the meanings and roles...  Read More >>

Making New Zealand's Pop Renaissance: State, Markets, Musicians

Making New Zealand's Pop Renaissance: State, Markets,...

Author: Michael Scott
ISBN: 9781138261785
Format: Paperback
$105.00

Michael Scott argues that New Zealand's pop music renaissance of the early 2000s was supported by state policies....  Read More >>

Aspects of British Music of the 1990s

Aspects of British Music of the 1990s

Author: Peter O'Hagan
ISBN: 9781138258419
Format: Paperback
$105.00

This title is the product of a conference held at the University of Surrey, Roehampton, in 1999, which brought together...  Read More >>

Her Majestic Voice: South Indian Female Playback Singers and Stardom, 1945-1955

Her Majestic Voice: South Indian Female Playback Singers...

Author: Kiranmayi Indraganti (, Teaches film at Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Bangalore.)
ISBN: 9780199463565
Format: Hardback
$67.25

This work brings to light the previously uncharted history of female playback singers in the South-Indian (Telugu)...  Read More >>

Settling Scores: German Music, Denazification, and the Americans, 1945-1953

Settling Scores: German Music, Denazification, and the...

Author: David Monod
ISBN: 9781469634043
Format: Paperback
$112.20

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