World music books

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"""Providing a reading of Al-raohail, this book is the first in English examining the work of Nass el-Ghiwane, the...  Read More >>

The late Jan Fairley was a key figure in making world music a significant topic for popular music studies and this...  Read More >>

Written by a scholar and activist in the center of the current public policy debate in the Democratic Republic of...  Read More >>

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This anthology addresses the modern musical culture of interwar Osaka and its surrounding Hanshin region. It is...  Read More >>

The Minqār-i Mūsīqār is of rare interest both for its contents and its distinguished author, Hazrat Inayat Khan....  Read More >>

The early-Republican era (1923-1938) was a major period of musical and cultural change in Turkey. Representing more...  Read More >>

Whether carried by emigrants and exiles, or distributed by commercial networks, Irish traditional music is one of...  Read More >>

Through a transnational, comparative and multi-level approach to the relationship between youth, migration, and...  Read More >>

This edited volume examines manele (sg. manea), an urban Romanian song-dance ethnopop genre that combines local...  Read More >>

In one of the first ethnographies of contemporary studio music production, author Eliot Bates investigates the emergence...  Read More >>

In one of the first ethnographies of contemporary studio music production, author Eliot Bates investigates the emergence...  Read More >>

All that anyone knew was his name - Rodriguez - and the fact that he had killed himself on stage after reading his...  Read More >>

Why is music from the past significant today and how has it been transformed to suit new values and agendas? This...  Read More >>

In a tradition extending from the medieval era up through the middle of the 19th century, visually disabled Japanese...  Read More >>

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In mid-1990s South Africa, apartheid ended, Nelson Mandela was elected president, and the country’s urban black...  Read More >>

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In a tradition extending from the medieval era up through the middle of the 19th century, visually disabled Japanese...  Read More >>

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

In The Tango Orchestra: Fundamental Concepts and Techniques, Peralta shares the knowledge he has gained from more...  Read More >>

The Oxford Handbook of Music and World Christianities investigates music's role in everyday practice and social...  Read More >>