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  • Music as Ethics

    Stories from Virginia

    by Andrew McGraw ...
    Series series AMERICAN MUSICSPHERES SERIES
    Music as Ethics offers a comparative ethnography of the relationship of music to ethics in four communities in Virginia, covering a wide range of demographic contexts and musical repertoires. Holy Cross Monastery in Berryville is a small community of fifteen Trappist monks who follow the rule of St. Benedict, composed in the early sixth century. Twin Oaks in Louisa is a ninety-member intentional ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD

  • Sounding Out the State of Indonesian Music

    Edited by Andrew McGraw, Christopher J. Miller ...
    Series series Cornell Modern Indonesia Project
    Sounding Out the State of Indonesian Music showcases the breadth and complexity of the music of Indonesia. By bringing together chapters on the merging of Batak musical preferences and popular music aesthetics; the vernacular cosmopolitanism of a Balinese rock band; the burgeoning underground noise scene; the growing interest in kroncong in the United States; and what is included and excluded on ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • The Historic Kentucky Kitchen

    Traditional Recipes for Today's Cook

    by Deirdre A. Scaggs, Andrew W. McGraw ...
    Over 100 old-time recipes "authentic enough that one can easily cook like grandma (or her ma). A must for every kitchen and a nostalgic delight" ( Louisville Courier-Journal).Kitchens aren't just a place to prepare food—they're cornerstones of the home and family. Just as memories are passed down through stories shared around the stove, recipes preserve traditions and customs for future ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Edited by Maznah Mohamad, Syed Muhd Khairudin Aljunied ...
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  • Women, the Recited Qur'an, and Islamic Music in Indonesia

    by Anne Rasmussen ...
    Women, the Recited Qur'an, and Islamic Music in Contemporary Indonesia takes readers to the heart of religious musical praxis in Indonesia, home to the largest Muslim population in the world. Anne K. Rasmussen explores a rich public soundscape, where women recite the divine texts of the Qur'an, and where an extraordinary diversity of Arab-influenced Islamic musical styles and genres, also ... Read more

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  • The Body

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Chris Shilling ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The human body is thought of conventionally as a biological entity, with its longevity, morbidity, size and even appearance determined by genetic factors immune to the influence of society or culture. Since the mid-1980s, however, there has been a rising awareness of how our bodies, and our perception of them, are influenced by the social, cultural and material contexts in which humans live. ... Read more

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  • Folk Music

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Mark Slobin ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    This VSI offers readers something no other introduction to folk music does: a cross-cultural, comparative approach, a survey of the basic issues as they have unfolded over time, and specific examples from widely differing sites of how folk musicians themselves, as well as corporations, non-governmental organizations, and governments have made full use of the available resources, older and newer ... Read more

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  • The King of Bangkok

    by Claudio Sopranzetti, Sara Fabbri, Chiara Natalucci ...
    Series series ethnoGRAPHIC
    The English translation of this bestselling graphic novel tells the story of Nok, an old blind man who sells lottery tickets in Bangkok, as he decides to leave the city and return to his native village.Through reflections on contemporary Bangkok and flashbacks to his past, Nok reconstructs a journey through the slums of migrant workers, the rice fields of Isaan, the tourist villages of Ko Pha Ngan ... Read more

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  • Against Fairness

    by Stephen T. Asma ...
    "Mr. Asma offers a rightly critical diagnosis of our obsession with egalitarianism." — The Wall Street JournalIn our zealous pursuit of fairness, we have banished our urges to like one person more than another, one thing over another, hiding them away as dirty secrets of our humanity. In Against Fairness, polymath philosopher Stephen T. Asma drags them triumphantly back into the light. Through ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Balinese Gamelan Music

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    by Michael Tenzer ...
    With extensive photographs and an audio CD, this guide to Balinese music showcases the history, culture and art of the gamelan ceremony.Bali has developed and nourished an astonishing variety of musical ensembles—called gamelan—comprising dozens of instruments mainly made of bronze or bamboo, and organized into groups with as many as 30 to 40 players. In Balinese Gamelan Music, Michael Tenzer, a ... Read more

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  • Talk of Love

    How Culture Matters

    by Ann Swidler ...
    Talk of love surrounds us, and romance is a constant concern of popular culture. Ann Swidler's Talk of Love is an attempt to discover how people find and sustain real love in the midst of that talk, and how that culture of love shapes their expectations and behavior in the process. To this end, Swidler conducted extensive interviews with Middle Americans and wound up offering us something more ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Punk Ethnography

    Artists & Scholars Listen to Sublime Frequencies

    Edited by Michael E. Veal, E. Tammy Kim ...
    Series series Music / Culture
    This ground-breaking case study examines record production as ethnographic work. Since its founding in 2003, Seattle-based record label Sublime Frequencies has produced world music recordings that have been received as radical, sometimes problematic critiques of the practices of sound ethnography. Founded by punk rocker brothers Alan and Richard Bishop, along with filmmaker Hisham Mayet, the label ... Read more

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