World music books

1273 books were found.

A Symphony of Flavors: Food and Music in Concert

A Symphony of Flavors: Food and Music in Concert

Author: Edmundo Murray ,  Edmundo Murray
ISBN: 9781443877268
Format: Hardback
$216.35

Sound and taste conjugate a special relationship, and they are often presented and represented together. The linkage...  Read More >>

Performing al-Andalus: Music and Nostalgia across the Mediterranean

Performing al-Andalus: Music and Nostalgia across the...

Author: Jonathan Holt Shannon
ISBN: 9780253017628
Format: Paperback
$28.95

Performing al-Andalus explores three musical cultures that claim a connection to the music of medieval Iberia, the...  Read More >>

Performing al-Andalus: Music and Nostalgia across the Mediterranean

Performing al-Andalus: Music and Nostalgia across the...

Author: Jonathan Holt Shannon
ISBN: 9780253017567
Format: Hardback
$142.95

Performing al-Andalus explores three musical cultures that claim a connection to the music of medieval Iberia, the...  Read More >>

Loose Leaf for World Music with Connect Access Card

Loose Leaf for World Music with Connect Access Card...

Author: Professor Michael B Bakan (Florida State University)
ISBN: 9781259814556
Format: Mixed media product
$454.95

From jeliya to cha cha cha, Shandong to sean nos, and the Beatles and beleganjur to Bollywood and belly dance, the...  Read More >>

Songs of the Empty Place: The Memorial Poetry of the Foi of the Southern Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea

Songs of the Empty Place: The Memorial Poetry of the...

Author: James F. Weiner ,  Don Niles
ISBN: 9781925022223
Format: Paperback
$43.00

For 31 months between 1979 and 1995, James F. Weiner conducted anthropological research amongst the Foi people in...  Read More >>

Spinning Mambo into Salsa: Caribbean Dance in Global Commerce

Spinning Mambo into Salsa: Caribbean Dance in Global...

Author: Juliet McMains (Associate Professor of Dance, Associate Professor of Dance, University of Washington, Seattle, WA)
ISBN: 9780199324637
Format: Hardback
$413.00

This history of salsa dance in New York, Los Angeles, and Miami tells the story of how commercialized salsa in the...  Read More >>

Bamako Sounds: The Afropolitan Ethics of Malian Music

Bamako Sounds: The Afropolitan Ethics of Malian Music...

Author: Ryan Thomas Skinner
ISBN: 9780816693504
Format: Paperback
$37.99

""Sponsored by the Quadrant Global Cultures group ... and by the Institute for Global Studies at the University...  Read More >>

Lion Songs: Thomas Mapfumo and the Music That Made Zimbabwe

Lion Songs: Thomas Mapfumo and the Music That Made Zimbabwe...

Author: Banning Eyre
ISBN: 9780822359081
Format: Hardback
$113.39

In Lion Songs Banning Eyre tells the story of Zimbabwean singer, composer and bandleader Thomas Mapfumo who, like...  Read More >>

Encyclopedia of National Anthems

Encyclopedia of National Anthems

Author: Xing Hang
ISBN: 9781442250383
Format: Paperback
$170.95

From Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, this book presents an up-to-date collection of national anthems from the 200 sovereign...  Read More >>

Fela

Fela

Author: John Collins ,  Banning Eyre
ISBN: 9780819575395
Format: Paperback
$65.87

An intimate portrait of the Afrobeat legend  Read More >>

Chilean New Song: The Political Power of Music, 1960s - 1973

Chilean New Song: The Political Power of Music, 1960s...

Author: J Patrice McSherry
ISBN: 9781439911525
Format: Paperback
$121.31

Chilean New Song (la Nueva Canción chilena) entranced and uplifted a country that struggled for social change during...  Read More >>

Chilean New Song: The Political Power of Music, 1960s - 1973

Chilean New Song: The Political Power of Music, 1960s...

Author: J Patrice McSherry
ISBN: 9781439911518
Format: Hardback
$260.04

Chilean New Song (la Nueva Canción chilena) entranced and uplifted a country that struggled for social change during...  Read More >>

The Musical Rhetoric of the Polish Baroque: The Musical Rhetoric of the Polish Baroque

The Musical Rhetoric of the Polish Baroque: The Musical...

Author: Tomasz Jasinski
ISBN: 9783653027242
Format: Electronic book text
$240.11

The works of old Polish masters exhibit many ingenious and beautiful solutions in musical oration, which will appeal...  Read More >>

El Camino: Spanish March, Score & Parts

El Camino: Spanish March, Score & Parts

Author: Ryan Meeboer
ISBN: 9781771572187
Format: Paperback
$39.60

Includes brief introductory note in English and composer biography.  Read More >>

Chilean New Song

Chilean New Song

Author: J Patrice McSherry
ISBN: 9781439911532
Format: Electronic book text
$257.40

Chilean New Song ( la Nueva Cancion chilena ) entranced and uplifted a country that struggled for social change...  Read More >>

An Introduction to the Study of National Music Comprising Researches Into Popular Songs - Scholar's Choice Edition

An Introduction to the Study of National Music Comprising...

Author: Carl Engel
ISBN: 9781298127556
Format: Paperback
$54.31

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

Steel Drum Minus 1 Play-Along: Arrangements with Recorded Steel Band Accompaniment, Book & CD

Steel Drum Minus 1 Play-Along: Arrangements with Recorded...

Author: Jeff Moore (Muir Analytics, USA)
ISBN: 9781470626051
Format: Paperback
$39.57

This book and CD set includes traditional calypso and pop classics with virtual steel band backing tracks and...  Read More >>

From Timbuktu to the Mississippi Delta: How West African Standards of Aesthetics Shaped the Music of the Delta Blues

From Timbuktu to the Mississippi Delta: How West African...

Author: Pascal Bokar Thiam
ISBN: 9781634871051
Format: Paperback
$99.00

Explores how West African standards of aesthetics and sociocultural traits have moved into mainstream American culture...  Read More >>

The Music of the Netherlands Antilles: Why Eleven Antilleans Knelt before Chopin's Heart

The Music of the Netherlands Antilles: Why Eleven Antilleans...

Author: Jan Brokken ,  Scott Rollins
ISBN: 9781628461855
Format: Hardback
$290.40

An exploration of an overlooked Caribbean musical tradition and the European, African, and New World influences...  Read More >>

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