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  • Babylon East

    Performing Dancehall, Roots Reggae, and Rastafari in Japan

    de Marvin Sterling ...
    An important center of dancehall reggae performance, sound clashes are contests between rival sound systems: groups of emcees, tune selectors, and sound engineers. In World Clash 1999, held in Brooklyn, Mighty Crown, a Japanese sound system and the only non-Jamaican competitor, stunned the international dancehall community by winning the event. In 2002, the Japanese dancer Junko Kudo became the ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

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  • Steppin' Razor: The Life of Peter Tosh

    de John Masouri ...
    The very first biography of Peter Tosh, rude boy, founder member of The Wailers and a compelling recording artist in his own right.Tosh was Jamaicas most controversial reggae star. A fiery advocate of Rastafari and African nationalism as well as the legalisation of marijuana, his uncompromising political stance won him a reputation as Jamaicas Malcolm X.Now revered second only to Bob Marley among ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Global Reggae

    de Carolyn Cooper ...
    This collection of illuminating essays highlight the "globalization" of reggae - its global dispersal and adaptation in diverse local contexts of consumption and transformation. ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Living the Hiplife

    Celebrity and Entrepreneurship in Ghanaian Popular Music

    de Jesse Weaver Shipley ...
    Hiplife is a popular music genre in Ghana that mixes hip-hop beatmaking and rap with highlife music, proverbial speech, and Akan storytelling. In the 1990s, young Ghanaian musicians were drawn to hip-hop's dual ethos of black masculine empowerment and capitalist success. They made their underground sound mainstream by infusing carefree bravado with traditional respectful oratory and familiar ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Urban Blues

    de Charles Keil ...
    Charles Keil examines the expressive role of blues bands and performers and stresses the intense interaction between performer and audience. Profiling bluesmen Bobby Bland and B. B. King, Keil argues that they are symbols for the black community, embodying important attitudes and roles—success, strong egos, and close ties to the community. While writing Urban Blues in the mid-1960s, Keil ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Facing the Music

    Shaping Music Education from a Global Perspective

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $40.99 USD

  • Pieces of the Musical World: Sounds and Cultures

    de Rachel Harris, Rowan Pease ...
    Pieces of the Musical World: Sounds and Cultures is a fieldwork-based ethnomusicology textbook that introduces a series of musical worlds each through a single "piece." It focuses on a musical sound or object that provides a springboard from which to tell a story about a particular geographic region, introducing key aspects of the cultures in which it is embedded, contexts of performance, the ... Leer más

    $98.99 USD

  • Folk Songs Hawaii Sings

    A Collection of Songs from Polynesia and Asia for Piano and Voice

    de John M. Kelly Jr ...
    Folk Songs Hawaii Sings is a sparkling compilation of melodies from the islands of Polynesia together with a variety of folk songs that countless Asian people have brought with them to their new home in the Hawaiian Islands.In one sense it is a musical picture of the renowned harmonious blend of people who reside in Hawaii today; in another, it is a colorful record of ties with the Eastern world ... Leer más

    $5.99 USD

  • Musical Performance in the Diaspora

    Edición de Tina K Ramnarine ...
    This book illustrates how ethnographic investigation of musical performances might contribute to the analysis of diaspora. It embraces diverse examples such as 'mourning and cultures of survival' amongst Aboriginal and Jewish communities in Australia, remembering a Kazakh 'homeland' in Western Mongolia, celebrating Diwali in New Zealand and the circulation of musical performances in Mozambique, ... Leer más

    $69.99 USD

  • The Culture of AIDS in Africa

    Hope and Healing Through Music and the Arts

    Edición de Gregory Barz, Judah M. Cohen ...
    The Culture of AIDS in Africa enters into the many worlds of expression brought forth across this vast continent by the ravaging presence of HIV/AIDS. Africans and non-Africans, physicians and social scientists, journalists and documentarians share here a common and essential interest in understanding creative expression in crushing and uncertain times. They investigate and engage the social ... Leer más

    $50.99 USD

  • Angola in the Black Cultural Expressions of Brazil

    de Gerhard Kubik ...
    The transplantation of African musical cultures to the Americas was a multi-track and multi-time process. In the past many historical studies of African diaspora music, dance and other aspects of expressive culture concentrated on events in the Americas. What happened before the American trauma and simultaneously in Africa was often looked at unhistorically. In this book, world-renowned ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Musical Intimacies and Indigenous Imaginaries

    Aboriginal Music and Dance in Public Performance

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD