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  • Shaped by Japanese Music

    Kikuoka Hiroaki and Nagauta Shamisen in Tokyo

    de Jay Davis Keister ...
    Series series Current Research in Ethnomusicology: Outstanding Dissertations
    Shaped by Japanese Music is an in-depth analysis of the musical world of an individual performer, composer, and teacher. Using an ethnographic approach, this study situates musical analysis in the context of its creation, demonstrating that traditional Japanese music is hardly an archaic song form frozen in the present, but an active sociocultural system that has been reproduced in Japan from the ... Leer más

    $76.99 USD

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  • Tripping the World Fantastic

    A Journey Through the Music of Our Planet

    de Glenn Dixon ...
    Every culture on Earth has music. Every culture that's ever existed has had it, but we don't exactly know why. Music is not like food, shelter, or having opposable thumbs. We don't need it to live, and yet we can't seem to live without it. Glenn Dixon travels the globe exploring how and why people make music. From a tour of Bob Marley's house to sitar lessons in India, he experiences music around ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Groove Interrupted

    Loss, Renewal, and the Music of New Orleans

    de Keith Spera ...
    The recent history of New Orleans is fraught with tragedy and triumph. Both are reflected in the city's vibrant, idiosyncratic music community. In Keith Spera's intimately reported Groove Interrupted, Aaron Neville returns to New Orleans for the first time after Hurricane Katrina to bury his wife. Fats Domino improbably rambles around Manhattan to promote a post-Katrina tribute CD. Alex Chilton ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • On Repeat: How Music Plays the Mind

    How Music Plays the Mind

    de Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis ...
    What is it about the music you love that makes you want to hear it again? Why do we crave a "hook" that returns, again and again, within the same piece? And how does a song end up getting stuck in your head? Whether it's a motif repeated throughout a composition, a sample looped under an electronic dance beat, a passage replayed incessantly by a musician in a practice room-or an "earworm" ... Leer más

    $62.99 USD

  • Little Songs of Geisha

    Traditional Japanese Ko-Uta

    de Liza Dalby ...
    A fascinating look into the world of the Geisha through the 400-year-old art of Ko-Uta, the traditional song form sung to three-stringed shamisen music. It is a vivid evocation of the romanticism of feudal Japan.Traditional Japanese kouta are the musical embodiment of the geisha in the intoxicating "flower and willow world." Literally, these are "little songs" sung by a geisha who accompanies ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • Sound Play

    Video Games and the Musical Imagination

    de William Cheng ...
    Series series Oxford Music / Media
    Video games open portals to fantastical worlds where imaginative play and enchantment prevail. These virtual settings afford us considerable freedom to act out with relative impunity. Or do they? Sound Play explores the aesthetic, ethical, and sociopolitical stakes of people's creative engagements with gaming's audio phenomena-from sonorous violence to synthesized operas, from democratic music ... Leer más

    $34.99 USD

  • Singing for the Dead

    The Politics of Indigenous Revival in Mexico

    de Paja Faudree ...
    Singing for the Dead chronicles ethnic revival in Oaxaca, Mexico, where new forms of singing and writing in the local Mazatec indigenous language are producing powerful, transformative political effects. Paja Faudree argues for the inclusion of singing as a necessary component in the polarized debates about indigenous orality and literacy, and she considers how the coupling of literacy and song ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • New Orleans

    Creolization and all that Jazz

    de Berndt Ostendorf ...
    Ralph Ellison once wrote that the rules of performance in American culture are jazz-shaped. This book explores the Afro-creole core culture of New Orleans as the mainspring of this energizing music. Much of the cultural capital of the city is buried in a complex, tripartite racial history, which threatens the binary logic of North American racism with all sorts of sensual transgressions. Its jazz ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Local Scenes and Global Culture of Psytrance

    de Graham St. John ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Ethnomusicology
    This lively textual symposium offers a collection of formative research on the culture of global psytrance (psychedelic trance). As the first book to address the diverse transnationalism of this contemporary electronic dance music phenomenon, the collection hosts interdisciplinary research addressing psytrance as a product of intersecting local and global trajectories. Contributing to theories of ... Leer más

    $69.99 USD

  • Russian Folk Songs

    Musical Genres and History

    de Vadim Prokhorov ...
    "Russian folk songs are a living history of the Russian people, rich, vivid and truthful, revealing their entire life," wrote the great Russian writer Nikolai Gogol.Russian folk songs have always played an essential part in Russian life, culture, and music. They have played an important part in the work of many great Russian composers including Glinka, Rimsky-Korsakov, Borodin, Tchaikovsky, ... Leer más

    $68.99 USD

  • The Kaprálová Companion

    de Timothy Cheek, Judith Mabary, Jindriska Bártová, Michael Beckerman ...
    The Kaprálová Companion, edited by Karla Hartl and Erik Entwistle, is a collection of biographical and analytical essays on Czech composer Vítezslava Kaprálová [1915–1940]. Accompanied by an annotated catalog of works, annotated chronology of life events, bibliography, discography, and a list of published works, The Kaprálová Companion is an essential, comprehensive guide to the composer's life ... Leer más

    $105.99 USD

  • Queerness in Heavy Metal Music

    Metal Bent

    de Amber R. Clifford-Napoleone ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Popular Music
    While the growing field of scholarship on heavy metal music and its subcultures has produced excellent work on the sounds, scenes, and histories of heavy metal around the world, few works have included a study of gender and sexuality. This cutting-edge volume focuses on queer fans, performers, and spaces within the heavy metal sphere, and demonstrates the importance, pervasiveness, and subcultural ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD