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  • Tango

    Sex and Rhythm of the City

    par Mike Gonzalez, Marianella Yanes ...
    Collections series Reverb
    Born on the unlit streets of Buenos Aires, tango was inspired by the music of European immigrants who crossed the ocean to Argentina, lured by the promise of a better life. In the capital’s marginal districts, it was embraced and shaped by young men who told tales of prostitutes, petty thieves and disappointed lovers through its music and movements. Chronicling the stories told through tango’s ... En savoir plus

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  • Focus: Music of South Africa

    par Carol A. Muller ...
    Collections series Focus on World Music Series
    Focus: Music of South Africa provides an in-depth look at the full spectrum of South African music, a musical culture that epitomizes the enormous ethnic, religious, linguistic, class, and gender diversity of the nation itself. Drawing on extensive field and archival research, as well as her own personal experiences, noted ethnomusicologist and South African native Carol A. Muller looks at how ... En savoir plus

    $119.99 CAD

  • Facing the Music

    Shaping Music Education from a Global Perspective

    par Huib Schippers ...
    Facing the Music investigates the practices and ideas that have grown from some five decades of cultural diversity in music education, developments in ethnomusicology, and the rise of 'world music'. Speaking from rich, hands-on experience of more than thirty years at various levels of music education (music in schools, community organizations and professional training courses), Huib Schippers ... En savoir plus

    $39.99 CAD

  • Nagauta

    The Heart of Kabuki Music

    par William P. Malm ...
    This study of Japanese music explore Nagauta or literally "long song"—the delicate and complex music that accompanies kabuki theater—in great detail.The Kabuki theater of Japan has achieved a growing reputation as one of the world's most brilliant achievements in the field of theater. And the number of studies made on the subject in the West has been considerable. Yet, in spite of the fact that so ... En savoir plus

    $3.99 CAD

  • The Artistry of Afro-Cuban Batá Drumming

    Aesthetics, Transmission, Bonding, and Creativity

    par Kenneth Schweitzer ...
    Collections series Caribbean Studies Series
    An iconic symbol and sound of the Lucum'/Santer'a religion, Afro-Cuban batá are talking drums that express the epic mythological narratives of the West African Yoruba deities known as orisha. By imitating aspects of speech and song, and by metaphorically referencing salient attributes of the deities, batá drummers facilitate the communal praising of orisha in a music ritual known as a toque de ... En savoir plus

    $56.99 CAD

  • Music and Media in the Arab World

    Modifié par Michael Frishkopf ...
    Since the turn of the twentieth century the dramatic rise of mass media has profoundly transformed music practices in the Arab world. Music has adapted to successive forms of media disseminationfrom phonograph cylinders to MP3seach subjected to the political and economic forces of its particular era and region. Carried by mass media, the broader culture of Arab music has been thoroughly ... En savoir plus

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  • Taarab Music in Zanzibar in the Twentieth Century

    A Story of ‘Old is Gold’ and Flying Spirits

    par Janet Topp Fargion ...
    Collections series SOAS Studies in Music
    The musical genre of taarab is played for entertainment at weddings and other festive occasions all along the Swahili Coast in East Africa. Taarab contains all the features of a typical 'Indian Ocean' music, combining influences from Egypt, the Arabian Peninsula, India and the West with local musical practices. In Taarab, Music in Zanzibar, Janet Topp Fargion traces the development of the genre in ... En savoir plus

    $109.99 CAD

  • Music Criticism and Music Critics in Early Francoist Spain

    par Eva Moreda Rodriguez ...
    Collections series Currents in Latin American and Iberian Music
    The early years of the Franco regime saw the formation of a strong governmental propaganda apparatus. Through expansive press laws that solidified state control over public and private media outlets alike, the Franco government directly influenced what information was made available to the public. While music critics and journalists were by no means free from government control and direction, ... En savoir plus

    $64.99 CAD

  • Dancing with Devtas: Drums, Power and Possession in the Music of Garhwal, North India

    par Andrew Alter ...
    Collections series SOAS Studies in Music
    In the Central Himalayan region of Garhwal, the gods (devtas) enjoy dancing. Musicians - whether ritual specialists or musical specialists - are therefore an indispensable part of most entertainment and religious events. In shamanistic ceremonies, their incantations, songs and drumming 'make' the gods possess their mediums. In other contexts, such as dramatic theatrical renditions of stories of ... En savoir plus

    $104.99 CAD

  • Sounding the Virtual: Gilles Deleuze and the Theory and Philosophy of Music

    par Nick Nesbitt ...
    It is the contention of the editors and contributors of this volume that the work carried out by Gilles Deleuze, where rigorously applied, has the potential to cut through much of the intellectual sedimentation that has settled in the fields of music studies. Deleuze is a vigorous critic of the Western intellectual tradition, calling for a 'philosophy of difference', and, despite its ambitions, he ... En savoir plus

    $119.99 CAD

  • Kika Kila

    How the Hawaiian Steel Guitar Changed the Sound of Modern Music

    par John W. Troutman ...
    Since the nineteenth century, the distinct tones of kīkā kila, the Hawaiian steel guitar, have defined the island sound. Here historian and steel guitarist John W. Troutman offers the instrument’s definitive history, from its discovery by a young Hawaiian royalist named Joseph Kekuku to its revolutionary influence on American and world music. During the early twentieth century, Hawaiian musicians ... En savoir plus

    $23.99 CAD

  • Musical Intimacies and Indigenous Imaginaries

    Aboriginal Music and Dance in Public Performance

    par Byron Dueck ...
    Musical Intimacies and Indigenous Imaginaries explores several styles performed in the vital aboriginal musical scene in the western Canadian province of Manitoba, focusing on fiddling, country music, Christian hymnody, and step dancing. In considering these genres and the contexts in which they are performed, author Byron Dueck outlines a compelling theory of musical publics, examines the complex ... En savoir plus

    $33.99 CAD