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  • Reconfiguring Myth and Narrative in Contemporary Opera

    Osvaldo Golijov, Kaija Saariaho, John Adams, and Tan Dun

    by Yayoi Uno Everett ...
    Series series
    Yayoi Uno Everett focuses on four operas that helped shape the careers of the composers Osvaldo Golijov, Kaija Saariaho, John Adams, and Tan Dun, which represent a unique encounter of music and production through what Everett calls "multimodal narrative." Aspects of production design, the mechanics of stagecraft, and their interaction with music and sung texts contribute significantly to the ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Locating East Asia in Western Art Music

    Edited by Yayoi Uno Everett, Frederick Lau ...
    Series series Music / Culture
    The traditional musics of China, Japan and Korea have been an important source of inspiration for many Western composers. Some, like Chou Wen-chung and John Cage, have moved beyond superficial borrowing of "Eastern" musical elements in earnest attempts to understand non-Western principles of composition. At the same time, many Asian composers, often trained in the West or in Western music ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

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  • Ethnomusicology

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Timothy Rice ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Ethnomusicologists believe that all humans, not just those we call musicians, are musical, and that musicality is one of the essential touchstones of the human experience. This insight raises big questions about the nature of music and the nature of humankind, and ethnomusicologists argue that to properly address these questions, we must study music in all its geographical and historical diversity ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Audio Culture, Revised Edition

    Readings in Modern Music

    Edited by Daniel Warner, Professor Christoph Cox ...
    The groundbreaking Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music (Continuum; September 2004; paperback original) maps the aural and discursive terrain of vanguard music today. Rather than offering a history of contemporary music, Audio Culture traces the genealogy of current musical practices and theoretical concerns, drawing lines of connection between recent musical production and earlier moments of ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • Overtone Singing

    Harmonic Dimensions of the Human Voice

    by Mark Van Tongeren ...
    An indispensable guide to a deeper understanding of the nature of the human voice and its harmonic possibilities from East to West.Overtone Singing is the most comprehensive book ever written on the hidden harmonies of the human voice. Ethnomusicologist and vocalist Mark van Tongeren offers fascinating insights into the timeless and universal aspects of sound and vibration. Grounded in the author ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge History of World Music

    Edited by Philip V. Bohlman ...
    Series series The Cambridge History of Music
    Scholars have long known that world music was not merely the globalized product of modern media, but rather that it connected religions, cultures, languages and nations throughout world history. The chapters in this History take readers to foundational historical moments – in Europe, Oceania, China, India, the Muslim world, North and South America – in search of the connections provided by a truly ... Read more

    $59.99 CAD

  • Yellow Music

    Media Culture and Colonial Modernity in the Chinese Jazz Age

    by Andrew F. Jones ...
    Yellow Music is the first history of the emergence of Chinese popular music and urban media culture in early-twentieth-century China. Andrew F. Jones focuses on the affinities between "yellow” or “pornographic" music—as critics derisively referred to the "decadent" fusion of American jazz, Hollywood film music, and Chinese folk forms—and the anticolonial mass music that challenged its commercial ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • John Cage

    by Rob Haskins ...
    Series Book 43 - RB-Critical Lives
    American writer, composer, artist, and philosopher John Cage (1912–92) is best known for his experimental composition 4’33,” a musical score in which the performer does not play an instrument during the duration of the piece. The purpose, Cage said, was for the audience to listen to the sounds of the environment around them while the piece was performed. Groundbreaking pieces such as 4’33”, as ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Opera in a Multicultural World

    Coloniality, Culture, Performance

    Edited by Mary Ingraham, Joseph So, Roy Moodley ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Music
    Through historical and contemporary examples, this book critically explores the relevance and expressions of multicultural representation in western European operatic genres in the modern world. It reveals their approaches to reflecting identity, transmitting meaning, and inspiring creation, as well as the ambiguities and contradictions that occur across the time and place(s) of their performance. ... Read more

    $102.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Composition

    Edited by Toby Young ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Music
    There are as many ways of creating music as there are composers in the world, with a vast array of possible methods and practices. This book provides essential critical and practical tools for composers as they try to navigate this complex landscape, whilst also offering provocations for practitioners discovering their own voices and solidifying their place in their musical communities. Designed ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Following the Elephant

    Ethnomusicologists Contemplate Their Discipline

    by Bruno Nettl, Ethnomusicology, Charlotte J. Frisbie, Mieczylaw Kolinski, Gerhard Kubik, George List, Alan P Merriam, David Pruett, Adelaida Reyes, Timothy Rice0, Jesse D Ruskin1, Kay Shelemay2, Gabriel Solis3, Jeff Todd Titon4, J. Lawrence Witzleben5, Deborah Wong6 ...
    Series series Common Threads
    In Following the Elephant, Bruno Nettl edits articles drawn from fifty years of the pioneering journal Ethnomusicology. The roster of acclaimed scholars hail from across generations, using other works in the collection as launching points for dialogues on the history and accomplishments of the field. Nettl divides the collection into three sections. In the first, authors survey ethnomusicology ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • The Way of the Pipa

    Structure and Imagery in Chinese Lute Music

    by Myers ...
    Series series World Music
    “Over the centuries a repertoire of solo pipa pieces has developed and this study focuses on those found in the Hua collection, which encompasses the pieces in the repertoire of the Hua family, and was printed, using the wooden block technique, in 1819. Among the works are many ancient melodies which were handed down through oral tradition. Myers discusses the history and development of the ... Read more

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