Global or regional music styles Books
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Songs of Earth
Book SynopsisProvides a contemporary guide to understanding and exploring Cantometrics, the system developed by Lomax and Victor Grauer for analysing the formal elements of music related to human geography and sociocultural patterning.
£26.06
Cognella, Inc Global Popular Music
Book SynopsisThe anthology Global Popular Music features readings that examine the commonalities and differences among different popular music traditions in the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Europe. The text explores the ways in which each tradition developed, evolved, eventually disseminated, and how they gained global reach.The book begins with an introduction to global and popular music and answers the all-important question: what is pop? The readings that follow include both material evidence and historical narrative to provide students with greater awareness of how popular music has evolved throughout different cultures. The selections explore various musical traditions, including the blues, samba-reggae, mariachi, afro-pop, bhangra, K-pop, and rap, among other styles of music, all written by renowned and revered musicologists in the field.Compelling and complex in nature, Global Popular Music is an excellent supplementary resource for courses in world music, as well as any course that examines popular music in a global context.
£109.60
University Press of Mississippi Rare Birds: Conversations with Legends of Jazz and Classical Music
Book SynopsisRare Birds is a collection of conversations with world-class jazz musicians and classical composers, featuring luminaries Philip Glass, Charles Lloyd, Abdullah Ibrahim, Steve Reich, Eugene Friesen, and Sathima Bea Benjamin. These in-depth, candid interviews focus not only on the music but also on the artists. The six interviews, conducted by poet and author Thomas Rain Crowe and musician Nan Watkins, delve into the creative process, individual as well as global perspectives on the arts, the human condition, and various personal issues that are addressed in the music itself. These cutting-edge artists have singular ideas about what it means to be a composer and musician.An important addition to the documentation of modern jazz musicians and composers, Rare Birds will appeal to anyone who is interested in jazz music or the contemporary classical canon.
£27.96
University Press of Mississippi The Berimbau: Soul of Brazilian Music
Book SynopsisThe Brazilian berimbau, a musical bow, is most commonly associated with the energetic martial art/dance/game of capoeira. This study explores the berimbau's stature from the 1950s to the present in diverse musical genres including bossa nova, samba-reggae, MPB (Popular Brazilian Music), electronic dance music, Brazilian art music, and more. Berimbau music spans oral and recorded historical traditions, connects Latin America to Africa, juxtaposes the sacred and profane, and unites nationally constructed notions of Brazilian identity across seemingly impenetrable barriers.The Berimbau: Soul of Brazilian Music is the first work that considers the berimbau beyond the context of capoeira, and explores the bow's emergence as a national symbol. Throughout, this book engages and analyzes intersections of musical traditions in the Black Atlantic, North American popular music, and the rise of global jazz. This book is an accessible introduction to Brazilian music for musicians, Latin American scholars, capoeira practitioners, and other people who are interested in Brazil's music and culture.
£31.46
University Press of Mississippi The Music of the Netherlands Antilles: Why Eleven Antilleans Knelt before Chopin's Heart
Book SynopsisThe Music of the Netherlands Antilles: Why Eleven Antilleans Knelt before Chopin's Heart is not your usual musical scholarship. In October 1999, eleven Antilleans attended the service held to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Frédéric Chopin's death. This service, held in the Warsaw church where the composer's heart is kept in an urn, was an opportunity for these Antilleans to express their debt of gratitude to Chopin, whose influence is central to Antillean music history. Press coverage of this event caused Dutch novelist and author Jan Brokken (b. 1949) to start writing this book, based on notes he took while living on Curaçao from 1993 to 2002.Anyone hoping to discover an overlooked chapter of Caribbean music and music history will be amply rewarded with this Dutch-Caribbean perspective on the pan-Caribbean process of creolization. On Curaçao, the history and legacy of slavery shaped culture and music, affecting all the New World. Brokken's portraits of prominent Dutch Antillean composers are interspersed with cultural and music history. He puts the Dutch Caribbean's contributions into a broader context by also examining the nineteenth-century works by pianist Louis Moreau Gottschalk from New Orleans and Manuel Saumell from Cuba. Brokken explores the African component of Dutch Antillean music--examining the history of the rhythm and music known as tambú as well as American jazz pianist Chick Corea's fascination with the tumba rhythm from Curaçao. The book ends with a discussion of how recent Dutch Caribbean adaptations of European dance forms have shifted from a classical approach to contemporary forms of Latin jazz.
£81.75
Boydell & Brewer Ltd Songs for Cabo Verde: Norberto Tavares's Musical
Book SynopsisChronicles the work of Norberto Tavares, a Cabo Verdean musician and humanitarian who served as the conscience of his island nation during the transition from Portuguese colony to democratic republic. Based on twenty years of collaborative fieldwork, Songs for Cabo Verde: Norberto Tavares's Musical Visions for a New Republic focuses on the musician Norberto Tavares but also tells a larger story about postcolonial nation building, musical activism, and diaspora life within the Lusophone sphere. It follows the parallel trajectories of Cabo Verdean independence and Tavares's musical career over four decades (1975-2010). Tavares lived and worked in Cabo Verde, Portugal, and the United States, where he died in New Bedford, Massachusetts at age fifty-four. Tavares's music serves as a lens through which we can view Cabo Verde's transition from a Portuguese colony to an independent, democratic nation, one that was shaped in part through the musician's persistent humanitarian messages.Table of ContentsIntroduction Son of Santa Catarina: Norberto Tavares's Early Years (1956-1973) Cabo Verde and Its Traditions in Context Revolutions and Transformations (1973-1975) Volta Pa Fonti: A Return to the Source for Musical Inspiration and Grounding (1976-1979) Starting Again in American (1979-1988) Playing My Culture. (1988-) Opening the Door to Democracy: Norberto Tavares Goes Home (1990) Changing Scenes in New England (1991-1999) The Final Years (2000-2010) Epilogue: The Legacy of Norberto Tavares
£89.25
Reaktion Books Brazilian Jive From Samba to Bossa and Rap Reverb
Book SynopsisBrazilian Jive uncovers the genius of Brazilian song, both as a sophisticated, articulate art form crafted out of the dialogue between music and language and as a powerfully eloquent expression of the country's social and political history.
£18.75
Boydell & Brewer Ltd Parry to Finzi: Twenty English Song-Composers
Book SynopsisThe works of twenty composers from the golden age of English romantic song, major figures - Parry, Stanford, Vaughan Williams, Quilter, Ireland, Gurney, Warlock and Finzi - studied alongside the lesser-known. Constantly illuminating. JOHN STEANE, GRAMOPHONE The composers in this book represent the outstanding songwriters from what we can now see as the golden age of English romantic song. As well as the major figures - Parry, Stanford, Vaughan Williams, Quilter, Ireland, Gurney, Warlock and Finzi - there are chapters on lesser-known composers, such as Denis Browne and Charles Orr. Detailed consideration is given to three songwriters who have sufferedunaccountable neglect, Arthur Somervell, Armstrong Gibbs and Herbert Howells, and there are chapters on Elgar, Delius and Holst, whose reputations were made in other fields but whose contribution to English song is nevertheless important. Also taking their rightful places in the book are Frank Bridge, Arnold Bax, George Butterworth and E.J. Moeran. Each chapter begins with a discussion of its composer's song-output and of the poets and poetry he sets, and goes on to give an account of the influences on him and the hallmarks of his style; the songs are then discussed in detail, focusing on the major works. The text is illustrated with musical examples and there is a comprehensive bibliography and index. TREVOR HOLD was a composer and poet who wrote extensively on English song. His setting of Laurie Lee's 'Day of these Days' won the English Poetry and Song Society/English Music Society 2002 GoldenJubilee Song Competition. He died in January 2004.Trade ReviewHold brings a composer's sensibility to his task, notably in his analytical discussion, and fully understands the nature of the marriage effected, and the difficulties involved, in the song-composer's art of blending poetry with music. He is a real companion on his reader's journey of discovery... The text [is] unfailingly readable and astute in judgement. * JOHN TALBOT, BRITISH MUSIC SOCIETY NEWSLETTER *First-class...one of the most important treatises on the subject yet written...[Hold] writes superbly, urbanely and - more important - carefully...Highly recommended. * THE SINGER *Constantly illuminating. * JOHN STEANE, GRAMOPHONE *This deeply considered, beautifully produced book...will be the standard work on the subject for the foreseeable future. * MUSIC & VISION *
£26.99
Ediciones Andantes Elza Soares - Trayectória Musical
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Oxford University Press, USA DIFFERENT VOICE A DIFFERENT SONG P Reclaiming Community Through The Natural Voice And World Song
Trade Review"A Different Voice, A Different Song is valuable for how it reveals a complex set of circumstances and motivations...This is one of the very few publications that deal exclusively with singing in all its complexity and beauty. Scholars of musicology, social studies, and cultural anthropology will find this book a provocative account of singing practice, and an inspiration for further research into music making, political action and aesthetic sensibility."--Yearbook for Traditional MusicTable of ContentsContents ; List of illustrations ; About the companion website ; List of illustrations on the companion website ; List of video tracks on the companion website ; Acknowledgements ; Introduction ; 1 The Natural Voice, Community Choirs and World Song: Setting the Scene ; Singing for Water ; The Bigger Picture: Definitions and Perspectives ; Singing in the Spotlight ; Research Contexts: Surveying the Literature ; Voice and Voicework ; Singing and Choirs ; Community Music and Community Music Therapy ; Ethnomusicology and World Musics in Education ; Musical Tourism ; Digging Deeper: Themes, Issues and Concepts ; Networks, Scenes and Movements ; Global Flows, Cosmopolitan Cultures and Transnational Connections ; World Music, Cultural Appropriation and Intercultural Engagement ; The Politics of Participation and the Art of Celebration ; Dancing in the Streets ; 2 In Search of the Natural Voice ; The Original Instrument ; Frankie Armstrong and the Natural Voice Practitioners' Network ; The NVPN Philosophy and Concepts of Music in Society ; The Giving Voice Project, Theatrical Roots and the Natural Voice in Performance ; Kristin Linklater and Michele George ; Alfred Wolfsohn and Roy Hart ; Jerzy Grotowski and W?odzimierz Staniewski ; Giving Voice as Culture and Community ; A Meeting of Worlds: Giving Voice and the Natural Voice Network ; The Natural Voice in Perspective ; 3 Natural Voice Practitioners and their Journeys: Histories and Connections ; A Gathering of the Natural Voice Clan ; The Roads that Lead to the Natural Voice ; Frankie's Singing Journey ; Meetings with Voice Practitioners: Contexts and Continuities ; Musical Lives ; The Folk Connection ; The Political Connection ; The Theatre Connection ; The Classical Connection ; The Community Music Connection ; The Therapy Connection ; The Circle Dance, Summer Camp and Alternative Community Connection ; The World Music Connection ; The NVPN as Community of Practice ; 4 From Principles to Practice: The Culture of Natural Voice Choirs and Workshops ; If You Can Talk, You Can Sing ; Working with the Voice ; Preparing to Sing: The Function of Warm-up Exercises ; Arriving and Tuning In ; Voice, Body, Breath, Mind ; Paving the Way for Singing in Style ; How Times Have Changed ; The Aural Method: Teaching and Learning by Ear ; Repertoire: Songs from the Oral Tradition ; Resources for Teachers ; Expanding Horizons ; Of Learning and Living ; 5 Singing the Songs of Others ; A World of Song ; The Attraction of Songs from Elsewhere ; Entering New Sound Worlds ; Entering the Lives of Others ; Deeper Resonances: Lost Pasts and Present Yearnings ; The Politics of Unintelligibility ; Songs from Taize ; Text and Meaning in the Vernacular ; Vocables in Georgian Song ; Ours or Theirs? Of Boundaries and Crossings ; 6 Performing the Other: Appropriations and Transformations ; Framing Intercultural Encounters ; The African American Continuum and Gospel's Global Journeys ; Back to Africa ; Songs and Dances from South Africa ; Songs of the Aka and Baka ; Balkan Bridges ; Gifts from Georgia ; Authenticity, Alterity and Possession ; 7 Singing Communities: The World of Community Choirs ; Singing in the Streets ; Choirs, Choirs Everywhere ; Choirs in the British Media ; Amateur Choirs in Britain: Social and Political Legacies ; International Perspectives: Building Bridges through Song ; Locating the Community Choir: Worlds within Worlds ; The Choir in the Community and the Community in the Choir ; Singing, Health and Happiness ; The Place of Performance ; Opening Doors ; 8 Scenes from the Global Village: Singing Camps and Travels ; The Singing Village ; Reclaiming Paradise: Of Fields, Festivals and Foreign Shores ; Tapping into the Festival Current ; Theorising Travel and Tourism ; A Village in a Field: The Unicorn Natural Voice Camp ; The Unicorn Experience ; The Unicorn Repertoire ; The Unicorn Community ; Choirs on the Move ; The Village on the Move: Village Harmony's Overseas Camps ; Village Harmony in Corsica ; Village Harmony in Bosnia ; Village Harmony and other Travels in Georgia ; Of Refashioning Identities and Living Differently ; 9 The Voice of the Future ; Gathering the Threads ; Fallacies and Other Truths ; A Quiet Revolution ; A River of Music ; Appendix: NVPN Philosophy and Working Principles ; References ; Index
£39.49
Taylor & Francis Ltd Trends in World Music Analysis
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£128.25
Taylor & Francis Global Glam and Popular Music Style and Spectacle from the 1970s to the 2000s Routledge Studies in Popular Music
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£39.99
Taylor & Francis Music Difference and the Residue of Race
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£137.75
Cambridge University Press Native American Song at the Frontiers of Early Modern Music 17 New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism Series Number 17
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£85.72
Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Rhythm
Book SynopsisOne of the defining aspects of music is that it exists in time. From clapping to dancing, toe-tapping to head-nodding, the responses of musicians and listeners alike capture the immediacy and significance of the musical beat. This Companion explores the richness of musical time through a variety of perspectives, surveying influential writings on the topic, incorporating the perspectives of listeners, analysts, composers, and performers, and considering the subject across a range of genres and cultures. It includes chapters on music perception, visualizing rhythmic notation, composers'' writings on rhythm, rhythm in jazz, rock, and hip-hop. Taking a global approach, chapters also explore rhythmic styles in the music of India, Africa, Bali, Latin America and the Caribbean, and Indigenous music of North and South America. Readers will gain an understanding of musicians'' approaches to performing complex rhythms of contemporary music, and revealing insights into the likely future of rhythTrade Review'The importance of this collection for music scholarship lies not only in the subject matter - rhythm has long been ignored by traditional music studies - but in the fact that fully half the volume is devoted to music other than the Western European classical canon … Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty; professionals.' M. Dineen, ChoiceTable of ContentsIntroduction Russell Hartenberger and Ryan McClelland; I. Overview of rhythm: 1. Rhythm in Western music: Concepts and literature Ryan McClelland; 2. Perception of rhythm Daniel Cameron and Jessica Grahn; II. Performing rhythm: 3. Visualizing the rhythms of performance Alan Dodson; 4. A percussionist understands rhythm Steven Schick; 5. A different kind of virtuosity Russell Hartenberger; 6. Conducting rhythm David Robertson; III. Composing with rhythm: 7. Expressive rhythm and meter in the German Lied Harald Krebs; 8. Rhythm in post-tonal music: a modernist primer Gretchen Horlacher; 9. The concept of rhythm: composers in their own words Adam Sliwinski; IV. Rhythm in jazz and popular music: 10. Jazz rhythm: the challenge of “swing” Matthew W. Butterfield; 11. Rhythmic influence in the rock revolution Trevor de Clercq; 12. Rhythm in contemporary rap music Mitchell Ohriner; V. Rhythm in global musics: 13. The musical rhythm of Agbadza songs David Locke; 14. Rhythmic thought and practice in the Indian subcontinent James Kippen; 15. The draw of Balinese rhythm Leslie Tilley; 16. Rhythmic structures in Latin American and Caribbean music Peter Manuel; 17. Indigenous rhythm and dance in North and South America Kristina F. Nielsen; VI. Epilogue: 18. The future of rhythm Nick Collins; Select bibliography; Index.
£25.64
Oxford University Press Music in the Hispanic Caribbean
£107.71
The University of Chicago Press Pungmul South Korean Drumming and Dance Chicago
Book SynopsisIntroduces Korean drumming and dance to the English-speaking world. This title offers detailed descriptions of its instrumentation, dance formations, costuming, actors, teaching lineages, and the complexities of training. It is suitable for those interested in ethnomusicology, world music, anthropology, sociology, and Asian studies.
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press Nationalists Cosmopolitans Popular Music in
Book SynopsisThis work focuses on the development of a unique style of music - combining the electric guitar with indigenous Shona music - that emerged in Zimbabwe during the 1980s. Turino examines this emergence of cosmopolitan culture among the black middle classes, and how it influenced politics.
£80.00
Hal Leonard Corporation Luis Miguel
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£21.59
Michigan State University Press White Face Black Mask Africaneity and the Early
Book SynopsisLooks at Brazilian music from the 1920s to the 1950s. Whether he's talking with samba musicians, watching classic movie musicals, or listening to recordings made more than half a century ago, the author explores how the historical forces of race, class, and gender colluded in the development and export of Afro-Brazilian culture.Trade Review"A thoughtful and lucid book original and unique. Davis underscores the celebration of Afro-Brazilian music by whites and the complex and asymmetric interactions in musical production between blacks and whites in Brazil. - Jonas Zoninsein, James Madison College at Michigan State University"
£24.26
UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Press Barrio Harmonics
Book SynopsisThis collection explores Chicano, Mexican, and Cuban musical forms and styles and their transformation in the United States. Employing musical, historical, and sociocultural analyses, Loza addresses issues such as marginality, identity, intercultural conflict and aesthetics, reinterpretation, postnationalism, and mestizajethe mixing of race and culturein the production and reception of Chicano/Latino music. Barrio Harmonics opens with a comprehensive overview that begins with music in the US Southwest in the seventeenth century and ends with the Grammy Awards for Latin American music in the first decade of the twenty-first century. In the following chapters, Loza discusses artists whose music ranges from sones, rancheros, and corridos to Latin jazz, R & B, and rock and roll. Among those he considers in depth are Pancho Sánchez, Lalo Guerrero, Tito Puente, and Los Lobos. He also surveys the contributions of scores of other individuals and groups who have shaped the current contour of Ch
£15.19
Willis Music Company Play Piano Again
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£14.39
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Dona Ivone Laras Sorriso Negro
Book SynopsisMore than simply a paragon of Brazilian samba, Dona (Lady) Ivone Lara's 1981 Sorriso Negro (translated to Black Smile) is an album deeply embedded in the political and social tensions of its time. Released less than two years after the Brazilian military dictatorship approved the Lei de Anistia (the Opening that put Brazil on a path toward democratic governance), Sorriso Negro reflects the seminal shifts occurring within Brazilian society as former exiles reinforced notions of civil rights and feminist thought in a nation under the iron hand of a military dictatorship that had been in place since 1964. By looking at one of the most important samba albums ever recorded (and one that also happened to be authored by a black woman), Mila Burns explores the pathbreaking career of Dona Ivone Lara, tracing the ways in which she navigated the tense gender and race relations of the samba universe to ultimately conquer the masculine world of samba composers.33 1/3 Global<Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Part 1 Women and Samba A Sereia Guiomar De Braços Com a Felicidade Alguém Me Avisou Homemade Samba Meu Fim de Carnaval Não Foi Ruim and Nunca Mais First Steps The Rise of Feminism Part 2 Faces Names Os Cinco Bailes da História do Rio Adeus de um Poeta Me Deixa Ficar Unhas Tendência Part 3 Sorriso Negro One Smile for Two Samba and Dictatorship Silencing a Movement The Black Movement of the 1970s Axé de Ianga Afterword Notes Bibliography Index
£21.36
Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation Pop Anthology Book 1
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£17.09
Willis Music Company Sacred Stories and Songs: Early to Later
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£9.89
Boosey & Hawkes Inc O mysterium ineffabile
£6.19
Boosey & Hawkes, London Stabat Mater
Book SynopsisKim André Arnesen's Stabat Mater breathes new life into the 13th-century Latin hymn, which portrays the Virgin Mary's suffering at the crucifixion of her son, Jesus Christ. Amongst the traditional stanzas are two movements setting contemporary poems: Euan Tait's A Mother's Prayer, which was commissioned for this work, and a moving poem written by a child hospitalised with cancer. Arnesen's characteristic rich harmonies and memorable melodic lines combine to create a powerful and emotional major new work.This vocal score, which includes accompaniment for organ, can also be used for performing the version of Stabat Mater with chamber orchestra accompaniment available on hire from Boosey & Hawkes. A version for mixed voices (SATB) is also available.Kim André Arnesen is one of the most frequently performed composers from Norway today. He grew up in Trondheim where he was a chorister in the Nidaros Cathedral Boys'' Choir, later being educated at the Music Conservatory in Trondheim. As a com
£12.34
Four Courts Press Ltd Elizabeth Cronin. Irish Traditional Singer: The
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£39.62
Schott Music Ltd Irish Fiddle Tunes: 62 Traditional Pieces for
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£19.71
Schott Music Ltd Argentinian Tango and Folk Tunes for Flute: 41 Traditional Pieces
£16.99
Schott Music Ltd Chinese Violin Solos: A Collection of Music for
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Schott Music Ltd Chinese Flute Solos: 15 Traditional and
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Schott Music Ltd Klezmer Piano Collection: 22 Tunes from the
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£17.50
Bohlau Verlag Diverging Ontologies in Music for Dancing:
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£80.20
Austrian Academy of Sciences Press Recordings from Prisoner-Of-War Camps, World War
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£29.00
Schott Musik International GmbH & Co KG OrffSchulwerk Handbook Principles of Elemental
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Schott Musik International GmbH & Co KG New Klezmer Tunes: 16 Pieces for Violin
Book SynopsisRousing klezmer pieces newly composed! Inspired by old klezmer melodies, Joachim Johow has written 16 new tunes for violon, reenacting scenes from life in a Jewish town, such as ''Am Morgen in der Gasse'' [On the Street in the Morning], ''Auf dem Jahrmarkt'' [At the Fair], ''Schlittenfahrt'' [Sleigh Ride], ''Tanz der Großeltern'' [Dance of the Grandparents], ''Am Abend'' [In the Evening].With notated piano accompaniment and additional harmonic symbols as well as an additional bass part (for download) which allow for a variety of instrumentations. The audio MP3 pack contains both full and playback versions.Instrumentation:violin and piano
£17.50
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial El emprendedor: 10 pasos para empezar o potenciar
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Willis Music Company Solos for the Sanctuary Preludes and Postludes
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