World music books

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Games Children Sing . . . China

Games Children Sing . . . China

Author: Gloria Kiester
ISBN: 9780757941795
Format: Undefined
$79.07

These songs are favorites of Chinese children. They are songs children sang when the author visited schools from...  Read More >>

The Encyclopedia of Native Music: More Than a Century of Recordings from Wax Cylinder to the Internet

The Encyclopedia of Native Music: More Than a Century...

Author: Brian Wright-McLeod
ISBN: 9780816524471
Format: Hardback
$145.20

Want the word on Buffy Sainte-Marie? Looking for the best powwow recordings? Wondering what else Jim Pepper cut...  Read More >>

World Musics in Context: A Comprehensive Survey of the World's Major Musical Cultures

World Musics in Context: A Comprehensive Survey of the...

Author: Peter Fletcher ,  Laurence Picken (Fellow of the British Academy; Honorary Fellow, Fellow of the British Academy; Honorary Fellow, Jesus College, Cambridge)
ISBN: 9780195175073
Format: Paperback
$160.95

In part a compendium of information currently available, in part a dialectical examination of musical causation...  Read More >>

Polish Music Since Szymanowski

Polish Music Since Szymanowski

Author: Professor Adrian Thomas (Cardiff University, University of Wales)
ISBN: 9781280417153
Format: Electronic book text
$190.08

This book looks at Polish music since 1937 and its interaction with political and cultural turmoil. In Part I musical...  Read More >>

Musical Visitors to Britain

Musical Visitors to Britain

Author: Peter Gordon (University of London, UK) ,  David Gordon
ISBN: 9781281157614
Format: Electronic book text
$570.24

Useful for those with an interest in music history, this book paints a broad picture of musical life in Britain...  Read More >>

Wired for Sound

Wired for Sound

Author: Thomas Porcello ,  Paul D. Greene
ISBN: 9780819565174
Format: Paperback
$65.87

Ethnographically-grounded studies of technology in global music.  Read More >>

World Music: The Basics

World Music: The Basics

Author: Richard O Nidel
ISBN: 9780415968010
Format: Paperback
$57.95

An excellent introduction to the players, the music, and the styles that make world music on e of the most exciting...  Read More >>

Musical Visitors to Britain

Musical Visitors to Britain

Author: Peter Gordon ,  David Gordon
ISBN: 9786611157616
Format: Electronic book text
$950.40

Useful for those with an interest in music history, this book paints a broad picture of musical life in Britain...  Read More >>

Music in America: includes CD

Music in America: includes CD

Author: Adelaida Reyes (Professor of Music/Ethnomusicology, Professor of Music/Ethnomusicology, New Jersey City University)
ISBN: 9780195146677
Format: Mixed media product
$65.87

This volume is an overview of diverse traditions of the American musical landscape. Taking a holistic approach to...  Read More >>

Interpreting the Musical Past: Early Music in Nineteenth-Century France

Interpreting the Musical Past: Early Music in Nineteenth-Century...

Author: Katherine Ellis
ISBN: 9781280428319
Format: Electronic book text
$303.60

This study of the French early music revival gives us a vivid sense of how music's cultural meanings were contested...  Read More >>

Composer as Intellectual, The: Music and Ideology in France, 1914-1940

Composer as Intellectual, The: Music and Ideology in...

Author: Jane Fulcher
ISBN: 9781280428203
Format: Electronic book text
$263.74

In The Composer as Intellectual, musicologist Jane Fulcher reveals the extent to which leading French composers...  Read More >>

Two Men and Music: Nationalism in the Making of an Indian Classical Tradition

Two Men and Music: Nationalism in the Making of an Indian...

Author: Assistant Professor of History Janaki Bakhle (Columbia University)
ISBN: 9781280533945
Format: Electronic book text
$71.10

This is a provocative account of the development of modern national culture in India using classical music as a...  Read More >>

Music in Bali: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture

Music in Bali: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture...

Author: Lisa Gold
ISBN: 9780195141498
Format: Mixed media product
$96.95

This volume, appropriate for use in undergraduate, introductory courses on world music or ethnomusicology, introduces...  Read More >>

Five Operas and a Symphony: Word and Music in Russian Culture

Five Operas and a Symphony: Word and Music in Russian...

Author: Boris Gasparov
ISBN: 9781281731364
Format: Electronic book text
$126.72

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Bach in Berlin

Bach in Berlin

Author: Celia Applegate
ISBN: 9781322502830
Format: Electronic book text
$118.80

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Popular Music of the Olden Time a Collection of Ancient Songs, Ballads and Dance Tunes Illustrative of the National Music of England Part One

Popular Music of the Olden Time a Collection of Ancient...

Author: William Chappell
ISBN: 9781432618230
Format: Hardback
$131.87

1859. Volume 1 of 2. With short introductions to the different reigns and notices of the airs from writers of the...  Read More >>

Popular Music of the Olden Time a Collection of Ancient Songs, Ballads and Dance Tunes Illustrative of the National Music of England Part Two

Popular Music of the Olden Time a Collection of Ancient...

Author: William Chappell
ISBN: 9781432619664
Format: Hardback
$137.15

1859. Volume 2 of 2. With short introductions to the different reigns and notices of the airs from writers of the...  Read More >>

Die Soziale Isolation Der Neuen Musik: Zum Kolner Musikleben Nach 1945

Die Soziale Isolation Der Neuen Musik: Zum Kolner Musikleben...

Author: Michael Custodis
ISBN: 9783515083751
Format: Hardback
$190.08

Seit dem Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts ist die gesellschaftliche Position der neuen Musik am Rand des allgemeinen...  Read More >>

Guitar Atlas: India

Guitar Atlas: India

Author: Sanjay Mishra
ISBN: 9780739036006
Format: Undefined
$39.47

In 2006, Guitar Atlas: India and its author Sanjay Mishra were featured on NPR radio's Sanjay Mishra: A Cross-Cultural...  Read More >>

Guitar Atlas: Celtic

Guitar Atlas: Celtic

Author: David Ernst
ISBN: 9780739035986
Format: Undefined
$39.57

The Guitar Atlas series is your passport to a new world of music. Learn the rhythms and techniques of some of the...  Read More >>

Guitar Atlas Middle East

Guitar Atlas Middle East

Author: Jeff Peretz
ISBN: 9780739035993
Format: Undefined
$39.47

The Guitar Atlas series is your passport to a new world of music. Learn the characteristic rhythms and techniques...  Read More >>

Music in Japan: Book & CD

Music in Japan: Book & CD

Author: Bonnie C. Wade (Professor of Music, Professor of Music, University of California, Berkeley)
ISBN: 9780195144888
Format: Mixed media product
$138.95

Music in Japan: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture is one of the case study volumes in the Global Music Series....  Read More >>

The Songs of Wales

The Songs of Wales

Author: Brinley Richards
ISBN: 9781410217066
Format: Paperback
$44.85

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Music in Bali: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture

Music in Bali: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture...

Author: Lisa Gold
ISBN: 9780195141504
Format: Hardback
$131.87

This volume, appropriate for use in undergraduate, introductory courses on world music or ethnomusicology, introduces...  Read More >>

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