World music books

1282 books were found.

Composing the Party Line: Music and Politics in Early Cold War Poland and East Germany

Composing the Party Line: Music and Politics in Early...
Author: David G Tompkins ISBN: 9781306302395 Format: Electronic book text	$63.33
This book examines the exercise of power in the Stalinist music world as well as the ways in which composers and... Read More >>

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

Making New Zealand's Pop Renaissance: State, Markets,...
Author: Michael Scott , Professor Derek B. Scott ISBN: 9781409443353 Format: Hardback	$315.00
Michael Scott argues that New Zealand's pop music renaissance of the early 2000s was supported by state policies.... Read More >>

More Than Bollywood: Studies in Indian Popular Music

More Than Bollywood: Studies in Indian Popular Music...
Author: Gregory D. Booth (Professor of Anthroplogy, Professor of Anthroplogy, The University of Auckland) , Bradley Shope (Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology, Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology, Texas A&M University Corpus Christi) ISBN: 9780199928859 Format: Paperback	$87.95
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More Than Bollywood: Studies in Indian Popular Music

More Than Bollywood: Studies in Indian Popular Music...
Author: Gregory D. Booth (Professor of Anthroplogy, Professor of Anthroplogy, The University of Auckland) , Bradley Shope (Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology, Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology, Texas A&M University Corpus Christi) ISBN: 9780199928835 Format: Hardback	$261.95
This is the first book to tackle the diverse styles and multiple histories of popular musics in India. Fourteen... Read More >>

Radical Traditions: Reimagining Culture in Balinese Contemporary Music

Radical Traditions: Reimagining Culture in Balinese...
Author: Andrew Clay McGraw (Assistant Professor of Music / Ethnomusicologist, Assistant Professor of Music / Ethnomusicologist, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA, USA) ISBN: 9780199941407 Format: Hardback	$261.95
In Radical Traditions, author Andrew Clay McGraw shows how music kontemporer embodies the tensions between culture... Read More >>

The Cambridge History of World Music

The Cambridge History of World Music
Author: Philip V. Bohlman (University of Chicago) ISBN: 9780521868488 Format: Hardback	$411.41
In the twenty-first century, world music increasingly connects the diverse and multicultural experiences of musicians... Read More >>

Musical Intimacies and Indigenous Imaginaries: Aboriginal Music and Dance in Public Performance

Musical Intimacies and Indigenous Imaginaries: Aboriginal...
Author: Byron Dueck (Lecturer in Music, Lecturer in Music, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK) ISBN: 9780199747658 Format: Paperback	$75.95
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Danzón: Circum-Carribean Dialogues in Music and Dance

Danzón: Circum-Carribean Dialogues in Music and Dance...
Author: Alejandro L. Madrid (Associate Professor of Music, Associate Professor of Music, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY) , Robin D. Moore (Professor of Ethnomusicology, Professor of Ethnomusicology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX) ISBN: 9780199965823 Format: Paperback	$102.95
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Musical Intimacies and Indigenous Imaginaries: Aboriginal Music and Dance in Public Performance

Musical Intimacies and Indigenous Imaginaries: Aboriginal...
Author: Byron Dueck (Lecturer in Music, Lecturer in Music, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK) ISBN: 9780199747641 Format: Hardback	$228.95
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Danzón: Circum-Carribean Dialogues in Music and Dance

Danzón: Circum-Carribean Dialogues in Music and Dance...
Author: Alejandro L. Madrid (Associate Professor of Music, Associate Professor of Music, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY) , Robin D. Moore (Professor of Ethnomusicology, Professor of Ethnomusicology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX) ISBN: 9780199965809 Format: Hardback	$261.95
Initially branching out of the European contradance tradition, the danzón first emerged as a distinct form of music... Read More >>

Unusual Guitar Scales from Around the World: Exotic Guitar Riffs and Licks

Unusual Guitar Scales from Around the World: Exotic...
Author: Raif Justin Orheim ISBN: 9780989912907 Format: Paperback	$65.87
Travel the globe with your fingertips -- through 14 unique guitar scales from around the world -- an entertaining... Read More >>

Dāphā: Sacred Singing in a South Asian City: Music, Performance and Meaning in Bhaktapur, Nepal

Dāphā: Sacred Singing in a South Asian City: Music,...
Author: Richard Widdess , Professor Keith Howard ISBN: 9781409466017 Format: Hardback	$315.00
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Radical Traditions: Reimagining Culture in Balinese Contemporary Music

Radical Traditions: Reimagining Culture in Balinese...
Author: Andrew Clay McGraw (Assistant Professor of Music / Ethnomusicologist, Assistant Professor of Music / Ethnomusicologist, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA, USA) ISBN: 9780199941421 Format: Paperback	$70.95
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Voices from the Canefields: Folksongs from Japanese Immigrant Workers in Hawai'i

Voices from the Canefields: Folksongs from Japanese...
Author: Franklin Odo (Retired Director of Smithsonian Institution Asian Pacific American Program and Acting Chief of Library of Congress) ISBN: 9780199813032 Format: Hardback	$138.95
Holehole bushi, folk songs of Japanese workers in Hawaii's plantations, describe the experiences of this particular... Read More >>

Representing the Good Neighbor: Music, Difference, and the Pan American Dream

Representing the Good Neighbor: Music, Difference, and...
Author: Carol A. Hess (Professor, Department of Music, Professor, Department of Music, University of California, Davis) ISBN: 9780199919994 Format: Hardback	$100.95
In Representing the Good Neighbor, Carol A. Hess investigates the reception of Latin American art music in the US... Read More >>

Music and Identity in Ireland and Beyond

Music and Identity in Ireland and Beyond
Author: Mark Fitzgerald (?) ISBN: 9781306907835 Format: Undefined	$329.87
This interdisciplinary volume of essays contemplates whether music in Ireland can be regarded as one interrelated... Read More >>

Composing the Canon in the German Democratic Republic: Narratives of Nineteenth-Century Music

Composing the Canon in the German Democratic Republic:...
Author: Lecturer in Music Elaine Kelly (University of Edinburgh) ISBN: 9781322023298 Format: Electronic book text	$237.47
When the German Democratic Republic (GDR) was founded in 1949, its leaders did not position it as a new state. Instead,... Read More >>

Resonances of the Raj: India in the English Musical Imagination,1897-1947

Resonances of the Raj: India in the English Musical...
Author: Associate Professor of Music Nalini Ghuman (Mills College) ISBN: 9781306637732 Format: Electronic book text	$224.27
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World Music: A Global Journey, Concise Edition, eBook Pack: A Global Journey - eBook and MP3 Set Value Pack

World Music: A Global Journey, Concise Edition, eBook...
Author: Terry E Miller (Kent State University, USA) , Andrew Shahriari (Kent State University, USA) ISBN: 9781322058030 Format: Electronic book text	$554.27
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Music and Social Change in South Africa

Music and Social Change in South Africa
Author: Kathryn Olsen ISBN: 9781322221106 Format: Electronic book text	$170.28
Music and Social Change in South Africa looks at contemporary maskanda-a folk musical genre distinguished by fast... Read More >>

British Invasion

British Invasion
Author: Simon Philo ISBN: 9781322328485 Format: Electronic book text	$118.77
Before The Beatles landed on American shores in February 1964 only two British acts had topped the Billboard singles... Read More >>

The Globalization of Musics in Transit: Music Migration and Tourism

The Globalization of Musics in Transit: Music Migration...
Author: Simone Krüger (Liverpool John Moores University, UK) , Ruxandra Trandafoiu (Edge Hill University, UK) ISBN: 9780415640077 Format: Hardback	$315.00
A multidisciplinary book that studies for the first time together tourism and migration in relation to music globalization.... Read More >>

Experience and Meaning in Music Performance

Experience and Meaning in Music Performance
Author: Martin Clayton (Professor in Ethnomusicology, Professor in Ethnomusicology, Durham University, UK) , Byron Dueck (University Fellow in Music, University Fellow in Music, The Open University, UK) ISBN: 9780199811311 Format: Paperback	$75.95
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Experience and Meaning in Music Performance

Experience and Meaning in Music Performance
Author: Martin Clayton (Professor in Ethnomusicology, Professor in Ethnomusicology, Durham University, UK) , Byron Dueck (University Fellow in Music, University Fellow in Music, The Open University, UK) ISBN: 9780199811328 Format: Hardback	$261.95
How does the immediate experience of musical sound relate to processes of meaning construction and discursive mediation?... Read More >>

Cuban Flute Style: Interpretation and Improvisation

Cuban Flute Style: Interpretation and Improvisation...
Author: Sue Miller ISBN: 9780810884410 Format: Hardback	$151.95
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