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  • Consilience

    Learning About Ourselves by Applying Indigenous Traditions to Western Music and Technology

    Edited by Ann-Perry Witmer, Jess Mingee, Bernhard D. Scully ...
    Series series Synthesis Collection of Technology (R0)
    This series of essays, written by scholars and practitioners of engineering and music after visits to indigenous communities in Bolivia and Sierra Leone, illustrate the experiences, conversations, and insights that arose from consilient research. As the authors and contributors dive more deeply into each other’s Western traditions of expertise, a surprising commonality emerges between music and ... Read more

    $161.99 USD

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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 USD

  • Performance

    by Diana Taylor ...
    "Performance" has multiple and often overlapping meanings that signify a wide variety of social behaviors. In this invitation to reflect on the power of performance, Diana Taylor explores many of its uses and iterations: artistic, economic, sexual, political, and technological performance; the performance of everyday life; and the gendered, sexed, and racialized performance of bodies. This book ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Art as Social Action

    An Introduction to the Principles and Practices of Teaching Social Practice Art

    Edited by Gregory Sholette, Chloë Bass, Social Practice Queens ...
    "Art as Social Action . . . is an essential guide to deepening social art practices and teaching them to students." —Laura Raicovich, president and executive director, Queens MuseumArt as Social Action is both a general introduction to and an illustrated, practical textbook for the field of social practice, an art medium that has been gaining popularity in the public sphere. With content arranged ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Say Anything to Anyone, Anywhere

    5 Keys To Successful Cross-Cultural Communication

    by Gayle Cotton ...
    The five steps to successful selling, negotiating, and managing multi-culturallySay Anything to Anyone, Anywhere gives readers five simple key guidelines to create rapport and organize strategies for success across different cultures. This book teaches to be proactive, not reactive, in your cross-cultural communications and shows how to use simple rapport tools to create trust with the cultures ... Read more

    $14.00 USD

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  • Arts for Change

    Teaching Outside the Frame

    by Beverly Naidus ...
    Beverly Naidus shares her passion and strategies for teaching socially engaged art, offering, as well, a short history of the field and the candid views of more than thirty colleagues.A provocative, personal look at the motivations and challenges of teaching socially engaged arts, Arts for Change overturns conventional arts pedagogy with an activist's passion for creating art that matters.How can ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Music and Globalization

    Critical Encounters

    Edited by Bob W. White ...
    Series series Tracking Globalization
    "World music" emerged as a commercial and musical category in the 1980s, but in some sense music has always been global. Through the metaphor of encounters, Music and Globalization explores the dynamics that enable or hinder cross-cultural communication through music. In the stories told by the contributors, we meet well-known players such as David Byrne, Peter Gabriel, Sting, Ry Cooder, Fela Kuti ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Exercises for Rebel Artists

    Radical Performance Pedagogy

    by Guillermo Gómez Peña, Roberto Sifuentes ...
    In Exercises for Rebel Artists, Guillermo Gomez-Pena and Roberto Sifuentes use their extensive teaching and performance experience with La Pocha Nostra to help students and practitioners to create ‘border art’.Designed to take readers right into the heart of radical performance, the authors use a series of crucial practical exercises, honed in workshops worldwide, to help create challenging ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • The Routledge Companion to the Study of Local Musicking

    Edited by Suzel A. Reily, Katherine Brucher ...
    Series series Routledge Music Companions
    WINNER OF THE 2019 SOCIETY OF ETHNOMUSICLOGY ELLEN KOSKOFF PRIZE FOR EDITED COLLECTIONSThe Routledge Companion to the Study of Local Musicking provides a reference to how, cross-culturally, musicking constructs locality and how locality is constructed by the musicking that takes place within it, that is, how people engage with ideas of community and place through music. The term "musicking" has ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Performing Ethnomusicology

    Teaching and Representation in World Music Ensembles

    Edited by Ted Solis ...
    Performing Ethnomusicology is the first book to deal exclusively with creating, teaching, and contextualizing academic world music performing ensembles. Considering the formidable theoretical, ethical, and practical issues that confront ethnomusicologists who direct such ensembles, the sixteen essays in this volume discuss problems of public performance and the pragmatics of pedagogy and learning ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Community Music Today

    Community Music Today highlights community music workers who constantly improvise and reinvent to lead through music and other expressive media. It answers the perennial question “What is community music?” through a broad, international palette of contextual shades, hues, tones, and colors. With over fifty musician/educators participating, the book explores community music in global contexts, ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Playing for Their Lives

    The Global El Sistema Movement for Social Change Through Music

    by Eric Booth, Tricia Tunstall ...
    An eye-opening view of the unprecedented global spread of El Sistema—intensive music education that disrupts the cycles of poverty.In some of the bleakest corners of the world, an unprecedented movement is taking root. From the favelas of Brazil to the Maori villages in New Zealand, from occupied Palestine to South Central Los Angeles, musicians with strong social consciences are founding ... Read more

    $19.99 USD