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Faber & Faber Whites Can Dance Too
Book Synopsis'Fizzes with energy.' GUARDIAN'Insistent and propulsive and unforgettable.' MAAZA MENGISTE'A hugely original, lyrical odyssey.' JOHNY PITTSHours before performing at one of Europe's most iconic music festivals, Kalaf is detained on suspicion of being an illegal immigrant.
£9.49
Faber Music Ltd Masterworks from Lisbon
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£6.95
Faber Music Ltd Play Latin Piano
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsEso Beso (Sherman); Wave (Jobim); La Paloma (Yradier); La Cucaracha (Trade.); Mexican Hat Dance (Trad); Copacabana (Manilow); Cuban Serenade (Kember); Hanbanera (Bizet); This Masquerade (Russell); La Cumparsita (Rodriguez); Desafinado (Jobim); Meester Tango (Kember)
£11.69
Faber Music Ltd La Guitarra Flamenca
Book SynopsisContains a series of six lessons with music tablature and standard notation presented on two DVDs, featuring the pieces Solea, Rasgueo, Compas, Alzapua, Bulerias Al Golpe and many more. This title explains and demonstrates the techniques and rhythmic forms of flamenco guitar playing, designed for players from beginners to advanced.
£27.00
Faber Music Ltd Hamba Lulu
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£4.32
Faber Music Ltd Si Njay Njay Njay
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£4.32
Faber Music Ltd Siyahamba
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£4.32
Faber Music Ltd Thuma Mina
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£4.29
Faber Music Ltd We are children of the world
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£5.45
Faber Music Chinese Tunes for Trumpet
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£12.14
Hal Leonard Corporation Luis Miguel
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£20.39
ALFRED PUBLISHING CO.(UK)LTD SOUNDS OF SPAIN 1
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Lexington Books Salsa and Its Transnational Moves
Book SynopsisSalsa and Its Transnational Moves presents a critical analysis of salsa dancing in Quebec, Canada. Pulling from such varied fields as anthropology, cultural studies, gender studies, and popular music studies, Pietrobruno examines the local and transnational dimensions underlying the dissemination of salsa within a North American metropolis.Trade ReviewThis splendid book captures salsa dancing as both a global phenomenon, carried throughout the world by migrants and media technologies, and as a local practice, rooted deeply in the distinct cultures of different cities. Pietrobruno deftly combines richethnographic observation with a well-researched account of salsa's origins, development and ongoing transformations. The book moves towards a compelling engagement with dance's place in a world of digital communications and within what Pietrobruno callsvirtual migrations. This is a genuinely interdisciplinary book, one which will interest scholars of dance, diasporic cultural practice, media and popular music... -- William Straw, professor of communication studies, McGill UniversityThis splendid book captures salsa dancing as both a global phenomenon, carried throughout the world by migrants and media technologies, and as a local practice, rooted deeply in the distinct cultures of different cities. Pietrobruno deftly combines rich ethnographic observation with a well-researched account of salsa's origins, development and ongoing transformations. The book moves towards a compelling engagement with dance's place in a world of digital communications and within what Pietrobruno calls "virtual migrations." This is a genuinely interdisciplinary book, one which will interest scholars of dance, diasporic cultural practice, media and popular music. -- William Straw, professor of communication studies, McGill UniversityTable of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction: Toward the Global Chapter 2 Beyond Caribbean Roots Chapter 3 Transnational Identities and Multicultural Connections Chapter 4 Staking Claims Chapter 5 The Couple in Dance Chapter 6 Commodifying the Gendered Embrace Chapter 7 Conclusion: Virtual Migrations
£85.50
Lexington Books Salsa and Its Transnational Moves
Book SynopsisSalsa and Its Transnational Moves presents a critical analysis of salsa dancing in Quebec, Canada. Pulling from such varied fields as anthropology, cultural studies, gender studies, and popular music studies, Pietrobruno examines the local and transnational dimensions underlying the dissemination of salsa within a North American metropolis.Trade ReviewThis splendid book captures salsa dancing as both a global phenomenon, carried throughout the world by migrants and media technologies, and as a local practice, rooted deeply in the distinct cultures of different cities. Pietrobruno deftly combines richethnographic observation with a well-researched account of salsa's origins, development and ongoing transformations. The book moves towards a compelling engagement with dance's place in a world of digital communications and within what Pietrobruno callsvirtual migrations. This is a genuinely interdisciplinary book, one which will interest scholars of dance, diasporic cultural practice, media and popular music... -- William Straw, professor of communication studies, McGill UniversityThis splendid book captures salsa dancing as both a global phenomenon, carried throughout the world by migrants and media technologies, and as a local practice, rooted deeply in the distinct cultures of different cities. Pietrobruno deftly combines rich ethnographic observation with a well-researched account of salsa's origins, development and ongoing transformations. The book moves towards a compelling engagement with dance's place in a world of digital communications and within what Pietrobruno calls "virtual migrations." This is a genuinely interdisciplinary book, one which will interest scholars of dance, diasporic cultural practice, media and popular music. -- William Straw, professor of communication studies, McGill UniversityTable of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction: Toward the Global Chapter 2 Beyond Caribbean Roots Chapter 3 Transnational Identities and Multicultural Connections Chapter 4 Staking Claims Chapter 5 The Couple in Dance Chapter 6 Commodifying the Gendered Embrace Chapter 7 Conclusion: Virtual Migrations
£41.40
Lexington Books CavailleColls Monumental Organ Project for Saint
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewIn Mr. Ebrecht’s book we have the first exhaustively researched and documented account of a plan to build the world’s largest organ in the world’s most famous church. There is also a plethora of historic and relative information regarding organ builders, organists, venues, composers, and dignitaries in several countries during the mid-late 19th century. This book should be in every academic library, and anyone involved in teaching, studying, or simply learning about pipe organs will find it a fascinating as well as a significant read. -- Frederick Swann, University Organist and Artist Teacher of Organ, University of RedlandsRonald Ebrecht’s book about the Cavaillé Coll Organ Project in Rome is a must for every pipe organ enthusiast, organ player, organ builder, and everyone interested in this monumental building. The story behind the vision of one of the greatest organ builders of the world, who conducted an organ project for one of the greatest church buildings of the world, gives insight to a previously unknown dimension. -- Philipp C.A. Klais, organbuilder and president of Orgelbau Klais, Bonn GermanyThis is a very well-researched book about a spectacular and unfortunately not realized organ project. Illustrating the historical context, Ebrecht makes the reader understand the path to this terrific project and the reasons why it did not happen. An excellent reading that tells us a fascinating story of a genius organ builder and his time. -- Stefan Stürzer, Managing Director, Glatter-Götz OrgelbauTable of ContentsForeword Preface Introduction Chapter I - An Auspicious Début, a Difficult Era Chapter II - One Hundred Stops, Saint-Sulpice, Paris' Greatest Organ Chapter III - Willis' One Hundred Eleven Stops, and Cavaillé-Coll's Septet of Secular Organs Chapter IV - The Rome Project and Book Chapter V - The Scene: How Developments in France Impacted Italy, and the Organs in Rome Chapter VI - The Vedette: the Model, Its Evaluation and Exhibition Chapter VII - The Jubilee Chapter VIII - Others Build Ever Bigger; Cavaillé-Coll's Final Gloies and Impoverished Death Bibliography Index
£93.10
Rlpg/Galleys Song and Social Change in Latin America
Book SynopsisSong & Social Change in Latin America offers seven essays from a diverse group of scholars on the topic of music as a reflection of the many social-political upheavals throughout Latin America from the 20th century to the present. Topics covered include: the Tropicália movement in Brazil, the Nueva Canción in Central America, Rock in Mexico, Argentina, Chile and Peru, the Vallenato in Colombia, Trova in Cuba, and urban music of Puerto Rico in the mid-20th century. The collection also includes five interviews from prominent and up-and-coming musicians Ruben Blades, Roy Brown, Habana Abierta, Ana Tijoux, and Mare representing a variety of musical genres and political issues in Central America, the Caribbean, South America, and Mexico.Trade Review[This book] is a must-read for all those interested in building an emancipatory politics of the twenty first century. It opens a poetics of possibility which shines new light on the importance of taking seriously the cultural, the popular and the everyday in social change and political transformation. The collection takes us on a journey that crosses geographical, cultural, political and epistemological borders. . . .[The book's] playful use of form, combining traditional scholarly analysis of song with six interviews with musicians . . . contributes to its ability to stimulate the critical imagination and to open emancipatory horizons. The thirteen unique contributions highlight some of the generic ways in which song-poetry facilitates social change. . . .This volume is to be actively and tenderly explored. Through an embodied act of reading we can become active interlocutors with the text, listening to the traditions discussed. Through savouring the text in this way, we enter a dialogue of knowledges that engages our head, heart, body and imagination. Song and Social Change in Latin America transgresses borders. For this reason it is a gem. * Bulletin of Latin American Research *Like a patchwork quilt, the book offers its readers insights into a variety of historical situations and geographical locations, all characterized by similar, though by no means identical, political circumstances. It shows readers a mosaic of various ways in which music has been deployed to chronicle, contest, and transform historical developments in Latin America between 1950 and 2000.... Given its wide-ranging disciplinary scope, accessible presentation, and the absence of unduly technical musical analysis, this book has the potential to appeal to a broad readership. It will be of interest to historians as a guide to ways of appreciating more deeply the role of music in the making and changing of history; to scholars of popular music and ethnomusicologists interested in the specific impact and role of music in its respective social and geographical context; to literary and Spanish studies scholars and even to religious studies scholars, given that some of the contributors have also incorporated analyses of religion and theological movements in the region into their discussion.... This volume underlines the benefits of academic interaction across disciplinary boundaries. Historians, ethnomusicologists, and literary and cultural studies scholars stand to benefit greatly from the deeper understanding of historical and social contexts that greater engagement with music could facilitate. * H-Net: Humanities and Social Science Reviews Online *Song and Social Change in Latin America, edited by Lauren Shaw, is an accessible, interdisciplinary collection. * Latin American Research Review *With a light hand, Lauren Shaw and the contributors to her edited collection, Song and Social Change in Latin America, wonderfully interpret the importance of song in postwar Latin American history, linking it to experiences of work, family, protest, and migration. The collection, which includes interviews with a number of musicians, reads like a poem or the liner notes to the soundtrack of a generation that took to heart Emma Goldman’s insistence that to be a revolutionary meant to affirm ‘life and joy’ though music and dance. -- Greg Grandin, New York UniversityThis volume presents useful documentation and perspectives on an important dimension of modern Latin American culture. Through song texts, scholarly interpretations, and revealing interviews with articulate artists, it provides much insight into an important chapter in the cultural history of the Americas, from Argentina to the Bronx. -- Peter L. Manuel, John Jay College and the Graduate Center, CUNYTable of ContentsIntroduction Lauren Shaw Part I: Music and Agency Chapter 1: Singing the City, Documenting Modernization: Cortijo y su combo and the Insertion of the Urban in 1950s Puerto Rican Culture Carmelo Esterrich Chapter 2: Shattering Myths: Brazil: Brazil’s Tropicália Movement John R. Baldwin and Phillip J. Chidester Chapter 3: The Mockingbird Still Calls for Arlen: Central American Songs of Rebellion, 1970-2010 Juan Carlos Ureña Chapter 4: Social Denunciation of the Politics of Fear: Rock Music through the Eighties in Argentina, Chile and Peru Lisette Balabarca Chapter 5: The Politics of Language, Class, and Nation in Mexico’s Rock en español Movement Ignacio Corona Chapter 6: Witnessing Forced Internal Displacement in Colombia Through Vallenato Music Diana Rodríguez Quevedo Chapter 7: Rich Poetry: Cuban Voices of Possibility Lauren Shaw Part II: Conversations on Music and Social Change Ruben Blades, New York City Habana Abierta, Madrid Roy Brown, Mayagüez, Ana Tijoux, Boston Mare Advertencia Lirika, Oaxaca via Skype
£72.90
Rlpg/Galleys CavailleColls Monumental Organ Project for Saint
Book SynopsisAristide Cavaillé-Coll (1811-1899) is often referred to as the greatest organ builder of all time. The pipe-organ, being the most complicated musical instrument mechanically and tonally, as well as the most expensive, adds significantly to that world''s greatest designation. The talents required to be such a person range far from music-making to advanced physics, architecture, and engineering. That, plus the obvious knack to raise vast sums of money. Cavaillé-Coll''s Monumental Organ Project for Saint Peter''s, Rome: Bigger Than Them All, by Ronald Ebrecht, is the story of the quest to build the largest-ever mechanical-action organ in the biggest church at the time. Cavaillé-Coll''s model for that organ and the book he wrote outlining his proposal are the core of Ebrecht''s discussion. Cavaillé-Coll bestrode a century as well as an art-form. His century complicated the project with the most intricate, intractable problems. Saint-Peter''s Square, now a part of the Vatican City State, Trade ReviewIn Mr. Ebrecht’s book we have the first exhaustively researched and documented account of a plan to build the world’s largest organ in the world’s most famous church. There is also a plethora of historic and relative information regarding organ builders, organists, venues, composers, and dignitaries in several countries during the mid-late 19th century. This book should be in every academic library, and anyone involved in teaching, studying, or simply learning about pipe organs will find it a fascinating as well as a significant read. -- Frederick Swann, University Organist and Artist Teacher of Organ, University of RedlandsRonald Ebrecht’s book about the Cavaillé Coll Organ Project in Rome is a must for every pipe organ enthusiast, organ player, organ builder, and everyone interested in this monumental building. The story behind the vision of one of the greatest organ builders of the world, who conducted an organ project for one of the greatest church buildings of the world, gives insight to a previously unknown dimension. -- Philipp C.A. Klais, organbuilder and president of Orgelbau Klais, Bonn GermanyThis is a very well-researched book about a spectacular and unfortunately not realized organ project. Illustrating the historical context, Ebrecht makes the reader understand the path to this terrific project and the reasons why it did not happen. An excellent reading that tells us a fascinating story of a genius organ builder and his time. -- Stefan Stürzer, Managing Director, Glatter-Götz OrgelbauTable of ContentsForeword Preface Introduction Chapter I - An Auspicious Début, a Difficult Era Chapter II - One Hundred Stops, Saint-Sulpice, Paris' Greatest Organ Chapter III - Willis' One Hundred Eleven Stops, and Cavaillé-Coll's Septet of Secular Organs Chapter IV - The Rome Project and Book Chapter V - The Scene: How Developments in France Impacted Italy, and the Organs in Rome Chapter VI - The Vedette: the Model, Its Evaluation and Exhibition Chapter VII - The Jubilee Chapter VIII - Others Build Ever Bigger; Cavaillé-Coll's Final Gloies and Impoverished Death Bibliography Index
£41.40
Alfred UK Technic is Fun International Edition Book 1
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£7.55
Alfred Music Supernatural Rhythm Grooves
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£31.12
Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc Bob Marley and the Wailers
Book SynopsisBob Marley and the Wailers documents the band’s crucial role in establishing reggae’s global popularity, with socially conscious lyrics that made Marley a symbol of pride and justice. Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION CHAPTER 1: Beginnings: 1945–1962 CHAPTER 2: The Studio One Ska Years: 1963–1966 CHAPTER 3: From Rock Steady to Reggae: 1967–1971 CHAPTER 4: The International Breakthrough: 1972–1974 CHAPTER 5: The First Third-World Superstar: 1975–1979 CHAPTER 6: The Final Years: 1980–1981 EPILOGUE: Legacy SELECTED DISCOGRAPHY BIBLIOGRAPHY AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS
£18.70
Stanford University Press Soundtrack of the Revolution
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Nahid Siamdoust's beautiful writing paints a vivid portrait of the struggles over popular music in the Islamic Republic and brings to life some of the most unique and colorful characters in Iranian society today. An instant classic that will launch conversations on Iran and contemporary popular music globally." -- Mark LeVine * author of Heavy Metal Islam *"Nahid Siamdoust's Soundtrack of the Revolution is a groundbreaking study of a potent cultural register in post-revolutionary Iran. For both the casual reader and the aficionado, Siamdoust's pioneering insights are revelatory." -- Hamid Dabashi * author of Iran: A People Interrupted *"Music is the language of liberation. Nahid Siamdoust, who knows all the players and has taken personal risks to tell this story, has written a lovely tribute to the courage and creativity of Iran's musicians. This is a book that, like Iran itself, is filled with hope and sadness—and the universal human desire for freedom." -- Joe Klein * Time Magazine *"Siamdoust manages to capture valuable qualities about the practice of popular music in Iran in depth, while also covering a broad period. This is a premium resource for students and researchers at the intersection of popular music and politics. Overall, it is an eye-opening and enjoyable work." -- Amin Hashemi * Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication *Table of ContentsContents and Abstracts1The Politics of Music chapter abstractThis chapter provides the historical and political context for an understanding of the issue of music in post-revolutionary Iran. It narrates the process of the Islamization of Iranian politics after the revolution and the problematic of music within Islamic tradition, and posits music as an alternative public sphere. It also provides short overviews of the history of Persian music, music education in Iran, as well as government regulations on music and female musicians, in particular. 2The Nightingale Rebels chapter abstractChapter Two offers insight into the status of music in the immediate years before the revolution and goes on to highlight the trajectory of Iran's preeminent vocalist of Persian classical music, Mohammad Reza Shajarian. It delves into discussions about Persian art music versus popular music, pop music in Shah-era Iran, evolving forms of poetic protest in twentieth-century Iran, and the important role of radio both for Persian classical music as well as for the making of Shajarian. 3The Musical Guide: Mohammad Reza Shajarian chapter abstractThis chapter follows Mohammad Reza Shajarian's trajectory from a "revolutionary" singer and one of the most prominent voices of the Chavosh group—at the onset of the 1979 revolution—to a vocalist whose "popular" politics are increasingly at odds with those of the new state. It provides the necessary background for an understanding of evolutions in state policy and media technology before returning to a closer look at Shajarian's carefully charted repertoire of resistance. As he breaks into open opposition to state policy following the 2009 Green Uprising, he is increasingly portrayed as a lowly entertainer and traitor by hardline state media. 4Revolution and Ruptures chapter abstractChapter Four examines the approach of the new state and its leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to music, and to cultural policymaking more generally. Initially Khomeini had pronounced music forbidden, but what did he mean by "music," and how did "music" come to be permitted eventually? What Islamic traditions have Islamic Republic officials abided by for their understanding of music's permissibility? This chapter also examines the musical fare on state media during the revolution's first decade, and provides an in-depth look at the official structures that regulate music in the Islamic Republic. 5Opening the Floodgates to Pop Music: Alireza Assar chapter abstractThis chapter tells the as yet untold story of the creation of state-approved pop music in Islamic Iran, as shared by the officials and musicians at the center of its making. Pop music, once banned because the new state perceived it as representing the cultural promiscuity of Shah-era Iran, was greenlighted and broadcast from within conservative state media toward the end of the 1990s, following President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani's reconstruction period. This chapter presents the musicians that spearheaded this process. It highlights the work of one of the most popular stars among post-revolutionary Iran's first generation of pop singers, Alireza Assar, and argues that his projection of an alternative religiosity in contradistinction to the state's dogmatic Islam attracted Iran's post-1980–88 war youth. 6The Rebirth of Independent Music chapter abstractChapter Six examines the rebirth of independent music in post-revolutionary Iran, which flourished during the terms of reformist President Mohammad Khatami and his government's more liberal music policy. The chapter narrates the beginnings of rock and fusion music starting in the late 1980s and onward to Iran's "first" semi-public underground rock concert, as well as the importance of the webzine Tehranavenue in bringing to light Iran's active underground music scene. The chapter follows the trajectory of the musician Mohsen Namjoo in delineating these processes. 7Purposefully Fālsh: Mohsen Namjoo chapter abstractThis chapter is a study of the coming of age of the alternative musician Mohsen Namjoo, and his struggles to emerge as a musician under politically repressive circumstances. It narrates his cultivation of a discourse of absurdist nihilism, which finds great resonance with a community of post-ideological cynics, as well as his rhetorical and musical iconoclasm. It traces his arc from a student struggling to make it as a musician in Iran to his emigration and self-stated decision to break his "self-censorship" following the 2009 unrest. 8Going Underground chapter abstractChapter Eight proceeds in the book's chronological treatment of music in post-revolutionary Iran to discuss the changes in cultural policy from the more liberal government of Mohammad Khatami to that of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. This transition coincided with a period of great technological transformation around 2005, when the impact of new media was changing the face of music production, distribution, and consumption in Iran. It then goes on to describe discussions of the category of underground music, how it is defined and categorized internally, and the government's reckoning with this new reality. 9Rap-e Farsi: Hichkas chapter abstractThis chapter delves deeper into the underground music scene by foregrounding one of its best-known performers, Soroush Lashkary, aka Hichkas. It discusses categorizations of Rap-e Farsi and the coming of age of Hichkas, the "Godfather of Rap-e Farsi," from a middle-class kid in Tehran to a household name. The chapter also analyzes the generational differences between Namjoo and Hichkas, and how these differences are reflected in their music. It further explores the music of Hichkas, which draws on an old Iranian honor ethic to find traction with its listeners. 10The Music of Politics chapter abstractChapter Ten narrates developments in music during the 2009 Green Uprising, and draws comparisons to musical trajectories at the time of the 1979 revolution, as discussed in Chapters One and Two. It also discusses the election of President Hassan Rouhani as a continuation of the political sentiments of the Green Movement, and proceeds to narrate more recent musical developments. The chapter then offers some conclusions on the bigger questions in the book about expressions of joy, freedom, and political repression.
£91.80
Tuttle Publishing Balinese Dance Drama Music
Book SynopsisDiscover the richness and beauty of Bali's many performing art forms. This book is a lavishly illustrated introduction to the most popular forms of traditional performing arts in Baliamong the most intricate and spectacular musical and theatrical performances found anywhere. Ideal reading for visitors to the island, as well as anyone interested in Balinese culture, this book presents the history and form of each performancewith 250 watercolor illustrations and full-color photos to aid in identification. Introductory sections discuss how the performing arts are learned in Bali and the basic religious and cultural tenets expressed through the arts. Subsequent chapters describe each form, including Gamelan Gong Keybar, Gambuh, Legong Keraton, Baris, Wayang Kulit and many more!Chapters include:What is Gamelan?Women in Non-Traditional RolesThe Stories in Balinese TheatreSacred and Ceremonial DancesAnd many more!Expert authors I Wayan Dibya and Rucina Ballinger discuss how the performing
£14.99
Scarecrow Press Russian Folk Songs Musical Genres and History
Book SynopsisThis historical survey of the Russian folk musical tradition provides educators with authentic material for integration into practical work, a classificational survey, and discussion of musical genres and categories relating the folk songs to their social and historical contexts.Trade ReviewRussian Folk Songs: Musical Genres and History by composer, concert pianist and choral conductor Vadim Prokhorov...is a scholarly, college-level analysis written to introduce educators in particular to the diversity and rich cultural lore of Russian folk music. The history of Russian folk songs are discussed at length, as well as detailed musical analysis, and sample songs in full musical notation, presented both in the original Russian and translated into English. Russian Folk Songs is a superbly presented study and deftly written academic reference to a grand, ethnic, and enduring musical tradition.Russian Folk Songs is a superbly presented study and deftly written academic reference to a grand, ethnic, and enduring musical tradition. * The Bookwatch *Prokhorov's attractive and valuable book provides a collection of songs for study and performance along with interesting accompanying text...a thoroughly usable book. * CHOICE *Table of ContentsChapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Acknowledgments Chapter 3 Guide to Transliteration and Pronunciation Chapter 4 Introduction Chapter 5 1 Calendar Songs Chapter 6 2 Lyric Songs Chapter 7 3 Work Songs Chapter 8 4 Bylinas (Epic Songs) Chapter 9 5 Historical Songs Chapter 10 6 Urban Songs Chapter 11 Glossary of Russian Words Chapter 12 Selected Bibliography Chapter 13 Subject and Name Index Chapter 14 Song Index Chapter 15 About the Author
£75.60
Scarecrow Press Alejandro Garcia Caturla A Cuban Composer in the
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£105.30
Scarecrow Press Black Blanc Beur
Book SynopsisRap music was born in America in the early 1980s. Over the last decade it has not only grown in popularity within the United States, with rap music soaring to the top of the music charts, but it has also influenced other cultures around the world. Black, Blanc, Beur is about the emergence and growing notoriety of rap music and hip-hop culture in the French-speaking world (France, Quebec, and Western Africa). It provides an introduction to many forms of expression of hip-hop cultures (rap music, hip-hop dance, and graffiti/tagging). Since its arrival in France, rap music experienced immediate and ever-growing success, going from an underground sound to becoming the second largest market in the world after the United States. Just as American rap crossed borders, French rap influenced artists in the rest of the Francophone world. In addition to a foreword by Adam Krims, a noted rap authority, this volume has contributions by some of the most renowned hip-hop scholars on both sides of theTrade ReviewThe first book in English devoted entirely to Francophone rap, and as such aims at filling an important gap…the wide range of relevant approaches used in most of the essays, as well as the variety of issues discussed by their authors are worth, I think, an attentive reading. * Notes: Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association *A valuable addition to the growing body of academic literature in English on non-Anglophone hip-hop outside the USA. * European Journal Of Communication *This interdisciplinary volume should make the field of French/francophone hip-hop more accessible to Anglophone readers, particularly those who may wish to embark upon comparative studies of hip-hop culture around the world. * Modern and Contemporary France *...a very useful work for future research on the ethnology of hip-hop. * Anthropologie Et Sociétés, Vol. 30, No. 2 (2006) *...for those among us who enjoy teaching popular music in our French classes to increase student vocabulary, improve student pronunciation, and introduce students to contemporary Francophone culture, Black, Blanc, Beur provides the essential background information for the instructor. Black, Blanc, Beur does an excellent job of introducing the uninitiated into the world of Francophone rap music from an interdisciplinary angle....particularly noteworthy is the explanation by Durand in his introduction on the volume's title. * The French Review *Table of ContentsChapter 1 Foreword: Francophone Hip-Hop as a Colonial Urban Geography Chapter 2 Acknowledgments Chapter 3 Introduction Chapter 4 Two Decades of Rap in France: Emergence, Developments, Prospects Chapter 5 Musical Dimensions and Ways of Expressing Identity in French Rap: The Groups from Marseilles Chapter 6 Common Partitions. Musical Commonplaces Chapter 7 'Why Are We Waiting to Start the Fire?' French Gangsta Rap and the Critique of State Capitalism Chapter 8 Rap and the Combinatorial Logistics of Rogues Chapter 9 Social Stakes and New Musical Styles: Rap and Hip-Hop Cultures Chapter 10 Tags and Murals in France: A City's Face or Natural Landscape? Chapter 11 Hip-Hop Dance: Emergence of a Popular Art Form in France Chapter 12 Rap in Libreville, Gabon. An Urban Sociolinguistic Space Chapter 13 The Cultural Paradox of Rap Made in Quebec Chapter 14 Index Chapter 15 About the Editor Chapter 16 About the Contributors
£38.70
Scarecrow Press The Zarzuela Companion
Book SynopsisThis guide to zarzuela's most popular and romantic works has chapters devoted to major Spanish zarzuela composers, writers and singers. Complete synopses of all 60 works selected are delivered at the level of detail necessary for non-Spanish speakers to follow with ease.Trade ReviewIt certainly deserves to succeed, not only because the aim is praiseworthy but also because it is intelligently conceived and carried out with erudition blended with literary skill. This is a marvelously useful and user-friendly compendium that is undoubtedly going to help spread the gospel of zarzuela in the English-speaking world. * Opera Now *Superbly informative. Webber's knowledge is encyclopaedic, his passion for the genre infectious, and his skill as a proselytiser impressive. Highly recommended..... * Time Out *My praise for it is immeasurable. To quote Ira Gershwin, 'Who could ask for anything more?' Gracias, Senor Webber, for this superb, much-needed volume!!!!! * Opera *Splendid...Everywhere the author's wit and erudition enhance the comprehensive information. One must hope that this superlative book...will find a home with all who love La Zarzuela. * American Record Collector *Recommended. All readers interested in cultural studies and world theater and music. * CHOICE *Webber can convey his enthusiasm in eloquent prose...Throughout, Webber mixes approachability with good scholarship...No existing lover of zarzuela should be without the book, and the hope must be that it helps the genre to achieve the appreciation in English-speaking countries that its wonderful music deserves. * Teaching History: A Journal of Methods *Superbly informative. Webber's knowledge is encyclopaedic, his passion for the genre infectious, and his skill as a proselytiser impressive. Highly recommended. * Time Out *My praise for it is immeasurable. To quote Ira Gershwin, 'Who could ask for anything more?' Gracias, Senor Webber, for this superb, much-needed volume! * Opera *Christopher Webber is much to be applauded for the range and nature of his achievement....an indispensable guide which deserves great success. -- Robert Matthew-WalkerWebber's excellent survey of zarzuelas concentrates on 60 works written since 1850 out of 10,000 possibilities. He begins with a brief history (6 pages) from the baroque to the twentieth century....Highly recommended to introduce a little-known genre of musical theater. * The Opera Journal *
£93.60
Scarecrow Press Latin American Classical Composers A Biographical
Book SynopsisContains biographical data on hundreds of composers from Latin America: dates of birth and death, information on their background and training, a selective listing of their works, and sources for further study, with an index of composers by country.Trade ReviewReview of previous edition: ...opens up the realm of usual discourse concerning classical and contemporary music to include those who are not Euroamerican..... * Ethnomusicology *This is an important addition to the body of material that is available on Latin American composers and a valuable research tool for those interested in the classical music of Latin America. * American Reference Books Annual *Review of previous edition: One learns a lot by reading these entries...fills a gap in musicological studies and will be indispensable to music students and scholars in general..... * Notes: Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association *This dictionary will continue to be a valuable resource for basic information on composers associated with Latin America. * CHOICE *Review of previous edition: ...a useful reference source. As interest in Latin American history and culture continues to grow, it will be important to have this and other up-to-date reference sources. * CHOICE *Review of previous edition: "...a useful reference source. As interest in Latin American history and culture continues to grow, it will be important to have this and other up-to-date reference sources." * CHOICE *Review of previous edition: ...opens up the realm of usual discourse concerning classical and contemporary music to include those who are not Euroamerican. * Ethnomusicology *Review of previous edition: One learns a lot by reading these entries...fills a gap in musicological studies and will be indispensable to music students and scholars in general. * Notes: Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association *Table of ContentsChapter 1 Foreword Chapter 2 Preface to the first edition Chapter 3 Preface to the second edition Chapter 4 Acknowledgments Chapter 5 Guidelines for Use Chapter 6 General Abbreviations Chapter 7 Sources Chapter 8 The Dictionary A-Z Chapter 9 Composers by Country Chapter 10 Additional Bibliography Chapter 11 About the Editors
£110.70
Scarecrow Press Music in Imperial Rio de Janeiro European Culture
Book SynopsisThis resource is an interesting look at how European culture, particularly European music, related to the social and cultural experiences of the residents of ninteenth-century Rio de Janeiro. The focus is on how Cariocas (residents of Rio de Janeiro) responded to and often imitated different musical styles imported from Europe. After introducing the local musical setting and showing how musical life in imperial Rio de Janeiro reflected Parisian models, the author discusses the importation of operatic repertory, the use of German classical music as the basis of an elite social class, the role of European music in Brazilian theater, and finally, the emergence of a national music. Overall, this study reveals European music as a powerful force in the internal processes of political, cultural, social, and ethnic negotiations during the 19th century government of Emperor Pedro II. Musicologists, Latin American historians, and anyone with an interest in urban studies will find much of interest in this book.Trade ReviewThe process of reconstructing a distant past, be it diachronically or synchronically, is like panning for gold dust in a pile of sand: the task is painstaking, but the result can be highly rewarding. Such is the case with the research for this volume...Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates and above. * CHOICE *...an excellent guide... * Luso-Brazilian Review, (Translation) *Magaldi...is primarily concerned with how residents in 19th-century Rio de Janeiro received, perceived, selected, used, and imitated different musical styles imported from Europe, especially from Paris. She focuses on the musical preferences of the local elite — those who held political and financial power, were involved directly or indirectly with making decisions, and were the local cultural managers. * Reference and Research Book News *
£64.80
Scarecrow Press Music and Displacement Diasporas Mobilities and
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewLevi (Royal Holloway, Univ. of London, UK) and Scheding (Univ. of Southampton, UK) present essays that explore issues and questions brought about by the unwilling, sometimes violent, dislocation of people or peoples. Music lends itself to such study, perhaps because of its temporal, ephemeral nature. Ethnomusicology has long been the domain for studying the Other but primarily as related to location. Many of the essays in this book turn the tables on that Otherness, locating it not in a geographical place but instead in the displaced person or persons, who become that Other in dislocation. Though the issues the book raises originate in a music context, they reveal a great deal about migration, dislocation, and acculturation. The editors include considerations of the effect of the Nazi stigmatization and exile of Jews, the struggle of displaced philosopher Theodore Adorno to define German-ness and his subsequent renunciation of the absolute, the equating of the mind/body dichotomy with the contrast of music (mental) and dance (physical), and "displacement" of a musical work through arrangements for other instruments. This collection raises timely questions not previously examined, questions relevant to the study of music and to the study of an increasingly mobile, diverse, 21st-century society. Highly recommended. * CHOICE *The book offers a useful investigation of some of the various techniques by which scholars might consider the significant effects of displacement in the history of music....The contrasting tales of displacement and scope of methodological approaches introduced in Samson’s essay serve appropriately as a suggestive conclusion to a book that promises to introduce readers to this important and growing field of musicological inquiry. * Notes: Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association *Eric Levi and Florian Scheding have delivered a significant contribution to the burgeoning literature on the relationship of music to place and displacement, particularly with regard to the exiled composer. Published in the Europea: Ethnomusicologies and Modernities series by Scarecrow Press, the book is salutary because it juxtaposes authors with a broad range of expertise. ... [T]his book presents timely and insightful topics that need to be addressed. . . it will no doubt become standard reading for many of us. * CAML Review *[M]any of the themes introduced by this book deserve to be at the very heart of contemporary musicology. * Music & Letters *
£102.00
Scarecrow Press Music and Displacement Diasporas Mobilities and
Book SynopsisThe grand narratives of European music history are informed by the dichotomy of placements and displacements. Yet musicology has thus far largely ignored the phenomenon of displacement and underestimated its significance for musical landscapes and music history. Music and Displacement: Diasporas, Mobilities, and Dislocations in Europe and Beyond constitutes a pioneering volume that aims to fill this gap as it explores the interactions between music and displacement in theoretical and practical terms. Contributions by distinguished international scholars address the theme through a wide range of case studies, incorporating art, popular, folk, and jazz music and interacting with areas, such as gender and post-colonial studies, critical theory, migration, and diaspora. The book is structured in three stagessilence, acculturation, and theorythat move from silence to sound and from displacement to placement. The range of subject matter within these sections is deliberately hybrid and mirrors the eclectic nature of displacement itself, with case studies exploring Nazi Anti-Semitism in musical displacement; musical life in the Jewish community of Palestine; Mahler, Jewishness, and Jazz; the Irish Diaspora in England; and German Exile studies, among others. Featuring articles from such scholars as Ruth F. Davis, Sean Campbell, Jim Samson, Sydney Hutchinson, and Europea series co-editor Philip V. Bohlman, the volume exerts an appeal reaching beyond music and musicology to embrace all areas in the humanities concerned with notions of displacement, migration, and diaspora.Trade ReviewLevi (Royal Holloway, Univ. of London, UK) and Scheding (Univ. of Southampton, UK) present essays that explore issues and questions brought about by the unwilling, sometimes violent, dislocation of people or peoples. Music lends itself to such study, perhaps because of its temporal, ephemeral nature. Ethnomusicology has long been the domain for studying the Other but primarily as related to location. Many of the essays in this book turn the tables on that Otherness, locating it not in a geographical place but instead in the displaced person or persons, who become that Other in dislocation. Though the issues the book raises originate in a music context, they reveal a great deal about migration, dislocation, and acculturation. The editors include considerations of the effect of the Nazi stigmatization and exile of Jews, the struggle of displaced philosopher Theodore Adorno to define German-ness and his subsequent renunciation of the absolute, the equating of the mind/body dichotomy with the contrast of music (mental) and dance (physical), and "displacement" of a musical work through arrangements for other instruments. This collection raises timely questions not previously examined, questions relevant to the study of music and to the study of an increasingly mobile, diverse, 21st-century society. Highly recommended. * CHOICE *The book offers a useful investigation of some of the various techniques by which scholars might consider the significant effects of displacement in the history of music....The contrasting tales of displacement and scope of methodological approaches introduced in Samson’s essay serve appropriately as a suggestive conclusion to a book that promises to introduce readers to this important and growing field of musicological inquiry. * Notes: Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association *Eric Levi and Florian Scheding have delivered a significant contribution to the burgeoning literature on the relationship of music to place and displacement, particularly with regard to the exiled composer. Published in the Europea: Ethnomusicologies and Modernities series by Scarecrow Press, the book is salutary because it juxtaposes authors with a broad range of expertise. ... [T]his book presents timely and insightful topics that need to be addressed. . . it will no doubt become standard reading for many of us. * CAML Review *[M]any of the themes introduced by this book deserve to be at the very heart of contemporary musicology. * Music & Letters *
£63.00
Scarecrow Press Encyclopedia of National Anthems
Book SynopsisFrom Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, this book presents an up-to-date collection of national anthems from the 200 sovereign countries in the world, providing music sheets arranged for piano, lyrics in the original language, and an English translation.Trade ReviewThis revision to the 2003 edition is based upon a greater number and variety of sources than the earlier work, with the aim of providing more accurate content. It incorporates information on alterations to political regimes occurring over the last decade, as such changes have transformed national identities and, in turn, national anthems. Anthems of international organizations and countries of, for example, the former Soviet Union, are also included. Each entry, under five pages, now includes maps, flags, national demographics, and brief anthem histories. As before, lyrics appear in the nation’s dominant language, Latinized; then in the native alphabet; and, finally, in English translation. Sheet music, uniting melody and lyrics, closes each entry. The written material offers enlightening national sketches. * Library Journal *Xing Hang (history, Brandeis Univ.) has expanded the second edition (1st ed., CH, May'04, 41-5040) of this encyclopedia considerably. Several large categories of anthems are represented: international organizations and movements; members and observers of the United Nations; non-UN entities; and extinct states....The volume is arranged by country, and the newly added works in non-Latin script make available even more music. A fact box displays information about a specific country, along with a map and flag. The text section provides information about the composers and lyricists, and discusses the adoption of the anthem. Translations of foreign lyrics are included....Detailed endnotes are included. Summing Up: Recommended. General readers. * CHOICE *Gr 9 Up–Updating the 2003 edition, this work reflects intervening changes in nations and anthems and provides improved sheet music and historical coverage. Entries include information on most of the sovereign countries of the world and feature a black-and-white or color map of the nation and its flag; a box detailing basic data such as the official languages, GDP, and holidays; at least a paragraph of background; the lyrics of the anthem in the native language and in English; and sheet music. Entries are arranged in sections covering “International Organizations and Movements,” “United National Members and Observers,” “Non-United Nation Entities,” and “Extinct States”; and within those, alphabetically by country. This set will help students researching countries and cultures. * School Library Journal *This encyclopedia serves as a quick and useful source for nearly 200 national songs. * American Reference Books Annual *
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Scarecrow Press The Popular Music and Entertainment Culture of
Book SynopsisDuring the second half of the 20th century, the Caribbean island of Barbados emerged as a key player in the creation and nurturing of Caribbean popular music. And, yet, despite its vital role in the popularization of tuk music, the rise of spouge, and the Barbadian contribution to and transformation of other Carribean music traditions, there is still relatively little sustained critical literature that discusses the various strands of the island's music culture. Curwen Best's The Popular Music and Entertainment Culture of Barbados provides this long overdue survey of the development of Barbadian popular music and entertainment culture by focusing on pivotal phenomena, artists and movements in the evolution of Barbadian popular music and culture. Best concentrates, in particular, on transformations since 1980 and 2000 respectively, each of which marked the ushering in of new opportunities and challenges to the creation and dissemination of Barbadian popular music. His study considers thTrade ReviewProfessor Best's research skillfully weaves the paradoxes of resistance and subjection as the warf and weft of a musical tapestry begun in the slavery period, but undergoing renovation in the digital era. . . .Pathways also offers a valuable and long overdue survey of twentieth-century social, economic, and technological developments. . . .Historians and scholars will certainly appreciate the enormous detail and research found in the historical background. Musicians can appreciate the intimate understanding the author has of both the cultural and technical nuances of Barbados and Caribbean music. Cultural enthusiasts will particularly enjoy the insightful observations of people and artists from a variety of islands involved in the growing Caribbean music industry. * Caribbean Studies *Table of ContentsContents Introduction Chapter 1 Tuk Chapter 2 Bridges and Tracks Chapter 3 Root Notes and Departures Chapter 4 Staying and Crossing Over Chapter 5 Low Frequencies Chapter 6 Criticism. Culture Chapter 7 The New Folk. Breaking with the Past Chapter 8 The Culture Industry. Your Party or Mine? Chapter 9 The Digital Nation Chapter 10 Music Technology. Hard and Soft Options Bibliography
£88.20
Scarecrow Press Cuban Flute Style
Book SynopsisRichard Egües and José Fajardo are universally regarded as the leading exponents of charanga flute playing, an improvisatory style that crystallized in 1950s Cuba with the rise of the mambo and the chachachá. Despite the commercial success of their recordings with Orquesta Aragón and Fajardo y sus Estrellas and their influence not only on Cuban flute players but also on other Latin dance musicians, no in-depth analytical study of their flute solos exists.In Cuban Flute Style: Interpretation and Improvisation, Sue Millermusic historian, charanga flute player, and former student of Richard Egüesexamines the early-twentieth-century decorative style of flute playing in the Cuban danzón and its links with the later soloistic style of the 1950s as exemplified by Fajardo and Egües. Transcriptions and analyses of recorded performances demonstrate the characteristic elements of the style as well as the styles of individual players. A combination of musicological analysis and ethnomusicological Trade ReviewLet me begin by saying that Sue Miller's Cuban Flute Style is an extraordinarily comprehensive oeuvre, with respect to both the history and the technique of charanga flute playing. In addition, her book is realized with a broad as well as a thoughtful understanding of the entire tradition on which this style of music is based. ... i read the entire book with rapt attention and avid interest. In fact, at times I was motivated io move perhaps a little more quickly through the text than I ought to have because I would find myself falling under the allure of the next chapter. But such enthusiasm was hardly premature because there is so much to revisit in this book. It will serve as a vital source of reference to flautists, all over the world' for years to come - and not just for those interested in charanga. * Pan: The Journal of the British Flute Society *[F]or all the academic and anthropological research work done in the past 60+ years in the Latin Music field, very few have been successful in conveying the essence of their subject matter. Sue Miller’s remarkable book does not only succeed in its comprehensive approach to introduce and educate both performing flutists and academicians to this wonderful music and its history, she captivates the reader through her passion, love and commitment to the genre. . . .Sue Miller deserves the highest praise for a work of the highest caliber. . . .I declare that Cuban Flute Style is brilliant and without precedent. The research work is thorough and meticulous. The historical narrative of the flute styles and its protagonists is comprehensive, consistent and most importantly, respectful of the music’s tradition and filled with palpable affection. Her improvisation transcriptions and music samples from a wide selection of recordings (most of them commercially released) are accurate and accessible. . . .Sue Miller has created a work that celebrates and guarantees the perpetuation of Charanga and its Cuban Flute Style Tradition for many generations to come. Its historical, cultural, and pedagogical value cannot be overstated. * ARSC Journal *
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Rutgers University Press Thieving ThreeFingered Jack Transatlantic Tales
Book SynopsisBotkin has compiled and analyzed plays, novels, and folklore about Three-Fingered Jack in order to show how the story of this hero-villain has evolved as it traveled from the Caribbean to England and the United States, returning to Jamaica as a tale of heroic resistance.Trade Review"Finally, the study of Obi for which we’ve been waiting: one that moves across not just historical periods but also language, culture, and media. In Thieving Three-Fingered Jack, Frances Botkin gives us an extraordinary study for understanding transatlantic literary relations. Few figures possess the necessary power to illuminate a region or an era, but Jack Mansong — especially in Professor Botkin’s hands — proves such a vehicle." -- Michael Gamer * associate professor of English, University of Pennsylvania *"With its seamless blending of disciplinary methods, Thieving Three-Fingered Jack explains how a fugitive slave became a transatlantic legend. Botkin moves transhistorically and transnationally to describe how Jack became a fictional and theatrical icon. In the process, she highlights the many insights made possible when folklore and literary studies converge." -- Daphne Lamothe * author of Inventing the New Negro: Narrative, Culture, and Ethnography *"[Thieving Three-Fingered Jack: Transatlantic Tales of a Jamaican Outlaw] discusses plays and songs written about Jack Mansong, an escaped slave turned bandit who came to be revered as a freedom fighter in Jamaica for his attacks on colonial planters." * Chronicle *Forthcoming African American Studies Titles, 2018: A list of the latest and soon-to-be-released publications through October 2018. * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Representing Three-Fingered Jack 1. Divide and Conquer: Three-Fingered Jack and the Maroons 2. "Jack Is a MAN" Prose Obis, 1800-1870 3. Staging Obi: Three-Fingered Jack in London and New York 4. Being Jack Mansong: Ira Aldridge and Three-Fingered Jack 5. After Emancipatio: Masquerade and Miscegenation 6. Mansong: No Longer "Nearly Everybody Wite" Epilogue: "The Baddest Man Around" Acknowledgments Notes Works Cited Index
£27.90
Rutgers University Press Thieving ThreeFingered Jack Transatlantic Tales
Book SynopsisBotkin has compiled and analyzed plays, novels, and folklore about Three-Fingered Jack in order to show how the story of this hero-villain has evolved as it traveled from the Caribbean to England and the United States, returning to Jamaica as a tale of heroic resistance.Trade Review"Finally, the study of Obi for which we’ve been waiting: one that moves across not just historical periods but also language, culture, and media. In Thieving Three-Fingered Jack, Frances Botkin gives us an extraordinary study for understanding transatlantic literary relations. Few figures possess the necessary power to illuminate a region or an era, but Jack Mansong — especially in Professor Botkin’s hands — proves such a vehicle." -- Michael Gamer * associate professor of English, University of Pennsylvania *"With its seamless blending of disciplinary methods, Thieving Three-Fingered Jack explains how a fugitive slave became a transatlantic legend. Botkin moves transhistorically and transnationally to describe how Jack became a fictional and theatrical icon. In the process, she highlights the many insights made possible when folklore and literary studies converge." -- Daphne Lamothe * author of Inventing the New Negro: Narrative, Culture, and Ethnography *"[Thieving Three-Fingered Jack: Transatlantic Tales of a Jamaican Outlaw] discusses plays and songs written about Jack Mansong, an escaped slave turned bandit who came to be revered as a freedom fighter in Jamaica for his attacks on colonial planters." * Chronicle *Forthcoming African American Studies Titles, 2018: A list of the latest and soon-to-be-released publications through October 2018. * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Representing Three-Fingered Jack 1. Divide and Conquer: Three-Fingered Jack and the Maroons 2. "Jack Is a MAN" Prose Obis, 1800-1870 3. Staging Obi: Three-Fingered Jack in London and New York 4. Being Jack Mansong: Ira Aldridge and Three-Fingered Jack 5. After Emancipatio: Masquerade and Miscegenation 6. Mansong: No Longer "Nearly Everybody Wite" Epilogue: "The Baddest Man Around" Acknowledgments Notes Works Cited Index
£105.40
Wesleyan University Press The Land Is Sung
Book SynopsisEngaging with justice and environmental ethics, education and indigenous knowledge systems, musical and linguistic analysis, and the ethics of recording practice, Pooley's analysis draws on genres of music and dance recorded in the midlands and borderlands of South Africa, and in Johannesburg's inner city.
£18.95
Wesleyan University Press Sounds of Other Shores
Book SynopsisA study of transoceanic musical appropriation and Swahili ethnic subjectivity on the Kenyan coastSounds of Other Shores takes an ethnographic ear to the history of transoceanic stylistic appropriation in the Swahili taarab music of the Kenyan coast.
£70.50
Duke University Press Reggaeton
Book SynopsisThis collection offers the first critical assessment of the music and culture of reggaeton, a popular genre that blends reggae and rap, Spanish-language lyrics, and Latin-Caribbean aesthetics.Trade Review“Reggaeton is a truly important contribution to our understanding of the most pervasive and perhaps most misunderstood Latin musical genre at the turn of the 21st century. The blend of academic and journalistic writings with artistic statements, interviews and visual art offers the reader an extraordinary window into the complex landscape of reggaeton. . . . Raquel Z. Rivera, Wayne Marshall, and Deborah Pacini Hernadez have established the foundation for the rich and productive academic conversation that the genre will still generate.” - Alejandro L. Madrid, Dancecult“This collection of essays is the first attempt to critically engage with the phenomenon, and wisely hedges its bets with a broad collection of writings—earnest academic appraisals are effectively offset by punchy location reportage from Latin America, Q&As with major protagonists and landmark magazine pieces from the music’s early days. . . . [A] largely informative and sometimes exhilarating survey of a multinational phenomenon.” - Derek Walmsley, The Wire“Reggaeton is an excellent collection which itself occasions many surprises. Overall the book is structured in much the same way as its subject (reggaeton), as a series of overlapping, interconnected and often contradictory layers. . . . This book is a tour de force of criticism and analysis which is relevant not only to the study of reggaeton but to the study of popular music in general.” - Cameron White, Transforming Cultures“The admirable book Reggaeton . . . invites us to carefully ‘read’ this extraordinary musical and social phenomenon of our times. . . . The authors in this volume extensively document the crossing of geographic, racial, ethnic and linguistic borders. . . . As the essays in this book skillfully demonstrate, the ‘reggaeton nation’ constantly moves between numerous countries and cities, between Spanish and English, between Caribbean and African American rhythms.” (Translated from the Spanish) - Jorge Duany, El Nuevo Día“I cannot overstate how critically important this volume is. It captures the synergies of a musical and cultural movement that few have seriously grappled with, even as the sounds and styles of reggaeton have dominated the air space of so many urban locales.”—Mark Anthony Neal, author of Soul Babies: Black Popular Culture and the Post-Soul Aesthetic“It’s about time academia dared to include reggaeton. This might mean that we’re finally understanding that all of us are los de atrás (the ones behind): our country, Puerto Rico, and the whole Caribbean. I hope people support this book so it can be translated into Spanish, and kids in Puerto Rico and Latin America can read it. Because we Caribbean people, even if we don’t want to, even if we don’t like it, even if it hurts, we come from behind . . . and there’s a value to that. There’s a beauty to being los de atrás.”—Residente, frontman of the Grammy and Latin Grammy award-winning duo Calle 13“The kinetic contributions in Reggaeton melt false borders—ones wrapped like straitjackets around peoples, knowledges, and cultures—and move the crowd. More than an exciting, exhaustive treatment of this vital musical culture, this anthology is a fine blueprint for engaged cultural scholarship right now.”—Jeff Chang, author of Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation“This anthology opens a chapter in hip-hop history that brings it all back home, back to our transnational Afro-Spanish-speaking countries and diasporas and ’hoods where young people are going through their hip-hop ecstasies and traumas, but in their own language, and in their own unique and hitherto-unknown style.”—Juan Flores, author of From Bomba to Hip-Hop: Puerto Rican Culture and Latino Identity, from the foreword to Reggaeton“Reggaeton is a truly important contribution to our understanding of the most pervasive and perhaps most misunderstood Latin musical genre at the turn of the 21st century. The blend of academic and journalistic writings with artistic statements, interviews and visual art offers the reader an extraordinary window into the complex landscape of reggaeton. . . . Raquel Z. Rivera, Wayne Marshall, and Deborah Pacini Hernadez have established the foundation for the rich and productive academic conversation that the genre will still generate.” -- Alejandro L. Madrid * Dancecult *“Reggaeton is an excellent collection which itself occasions many surprises. Overall the book is structured in much the same way as its subject (reggaeton), as a series of overlapping, interconnected and often contradictory layers. . . . This book is a tour de force of criticism and analysis which is relevant not only to the study of reggaeton but to the study of popular music in general.” -- Cameron White * Transforming Cultures *“The admirable book Reggaeton . . . invites us to carefully ‘read’ this extraordinary musical and social phenomenon of our times. . . . The authors in this volume extensively document the crossing of geographic, racial, ethnic and linguistic borders. . . . As the essays in this book skillfully demonstrate, the ‘reggaeton nation’ constantly moves between numerous countries and cities, between Spanish and English, between Caribbean and African American rhythms.” (Translated from the Spanish) -- Jorge Duany * El Nuevo Día *“This collection of essays is the first attempt to critically engage with the phenomenon, and wisely hedges its bets with a broad collection of writings—earnest academic appraisals are effectively offset by punchy location reportage from Latin America, Q&As with major protagonists and landmark magazine pieces from the music’s early days. . . . [A] largely informative and sometimes exhilarating survey of a multinational phenomenon.” -- Derek Walmsley * The Wire *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations vii Foreword: What's all the noise about? / Juan Flores ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction: Reggaeton's Socio-Sonic Circuitry / Wayne Marshall, Raquel Z. Rivera, and Deborah Pacini Hernandez 1 Part I. Mapping Reggaeton From Música Negra to Reggaeton Latino: The Cultural Politics of Nation, Migration, and Commercialization / Wayne Marshall 19 Part II. The Panamanian Connection Placing Panama in the Reggaeton Narrative: Editor's Notes / Wayne Marshall 77 Reggae in Panama: Bien Tough / Christoph Twickel 81 The Panamanian Origins of Reggae in Español: Seeing History through "Los Ojos Café" of Renato / Interview by Ifeoma C. K. Nwankwo 89 Muévelo (Move It!): From Panama to New York and Back Again, the Story of El General / Interview by Christoph Twickel 99 Part III. (Trans)Local Studies and Ethnographies Policing Morality, Mano Dura Stylee: The Case of Underground Rap and Reggae in Puerto Rico in the Mid-1990s / Raquel Z. Rivera 111 Dominicans in the Mix: Reflections on Dominican Identity, Race, and Reggaeton / Deborah Pacini Hernandezq 135 The Politics of Dancing: Reggaetón and Rap in Havana / Geoff Baker 165 You Got Your Reggaetón in my Hip-Hop: Crunkiao and "Spanish Music" in the Miami Urban Scene / Jose Davila 200 Part IV. Visualizing Reggaeton Visualizing Reggaeton: Editors' Notes / Wayne Marshall and Raquel Z. Rivera 215 Images by Miguel Luciano 218 Images by Carolina Caycedo 221 Images by Kacho López 222 Part V. Gendering Reggaeton (W)rapped in Foil: Glory at Twelve Words a Minute / Félix Jiménez 229 A Man Lives Here: Reggaeton's Hypermasculine Resident / Alfredo Nieves Moreno 252 How to Make Love with Your Clothes On: Dancing Regeton, Gender, and Sexuality in Cuba / Jan Fairley 280 Part VI. Reggaeton's Poetics, Politics, and Aesthetics Chamaco's Corner / Gallego (José Raúl González) 297 Salon Philosophers: Ivy Queen and Surprise Guests Take Reggaetón Aside / Alexandra T. Vazquez 300 From Hip-Hop to Reggaeton: Is There Only a Step? / Welmo Romero Joseph 312 Black Pride / Tego Calderón 324 Poetry of Filth: The (Post) Reggaetonic Lyrics of Calle 13 / Frances Negrón-Muntaner 327 Bibliography: Selected Sources for Reading Reggaeton 341 Index 345
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Kjos (Neil A.) Music Co ,U.S. Santa Fe Suite Seven Bagatelles for Piano
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£7.67
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"
£22.91
Suzuki Method International El Arte De Tocar El Saxofon The Art of Saxophone
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£16.10
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Celtic Music Third Ear The Essential Listening
Book SynopsisCELTIC MUSIC
£13.49
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
£550.72
Frogchart Press Field Guide to the Irish Music Session
£6.97
Sounds and Colours Sounds and Colours Argentina Latin American
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£11.35
Fourthwall Books Marilyn Nance Last Day in Lagos
Book SynopsisA focused study on a singular African American photographer, through an archival encounter with her documentation of the landmark FESTAC'77 festivalFrom January 15 to February 12, 1977, more than 15,000 artists, intellectuals and performers from 55 nations worldwide gathered in Lagos, Nigeria, for the Second World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture, also known as FESTAC'77. Taking place in the heyday of Nigeria's oil wealth and following the African continent's potent decade of decolonization, FESTAC'77 was the peak of Pan-Africanist expression. Among the musicians, writers, artists and cultural leaders in attendance were Ellsworth Ausby, Milford Graves, Fela Anikulapo Kuti, Samella Lewis, Audre Lorde, Winnie Owens, Miriam Makeba, Valerie Maynard, Queen Mother Moore and Sun Ra.While serving as the photographer for the US contingent of the North American delegation, Brooklyn-based photographer Marilyn Nance made more than 1,500 images throughout the course of the festivalone of the most comprehensive photographic accounts of FESTAC'77. Drawing from Nance's extensive archive, most of which has never before been published, Last Day in Lagos chronicles the exuberant intensity and sociopolitical significance of this extraordinary event.Over the course of five decades, Marilyn Nance (born 1953) has produced images of unique moments in the cultural history of the US and the African Diaspora. Nance is a two-time finalist for the W. Eugene Smith Award in Humanistic Photography. Her work is in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Modern Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and the Library of Congress, and has been published in The World History of Photography, History of Women in Photography and The Black Photographers Annual. She lives in New York.
£31.88
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.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to KPop
Book SynopsisUnique in showcasing both the front stage and back stage realities of the K-pop world, this book presents the K-pop phenomenon from many perspectives: as music industry, dance practices, talent management system, as a new media phenomenon, and as transnational community building efforts.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Korea's moment in the limelight Suk-Young Kim; Part I. Genealogies: 1. Sticking it to the man: early neoliberalism in Korean pop music Roald Maliangkay; 2. Itaewon class, Gangnam style and Yeouido star: the industrial revolution of Korean pop in the 1990s Hyunjoon Shin; Part II. Sounding out K-pop: 3. Finding the K in K-pop musically: a stylistic history Jung-Min Mina Lee; 4. Recording the soundscape of K-pop Hyewon Kim; Part III. Dancing to K-pop: 5. K-pop dance music video choreography Chuyun Oh; 6. Embodying K-pop hits through cover dance practices CedarBough T. Saeji; Part IV. The making of idols: 7. K-pop idols: media commodities, affective laborers and cultural capitalists Stephanie Choi; 8. From K-pop to Z-pop: the pan-Asian production, consumption and circulation of idols So-Rim Lee; Part V. The band that surprised the world: 9. BTS, transmedia and hip hop Kyung Hyun Kim; 10. The BTS phenomenon Suk-Young Kim and Youngdae Kim; 11. Transcultural fandom: BTS and ARMY Candace Epps-Robertson; Part VI. Circuits of K-pop flow: 12. K-pop and the participatory condition: vicarity, serial affect and 'real-life contents' Michelle Cho; 13. Idol shipping culture: exploring queer sexuality among fans of K-pop Thomas Baudinette; 14. Following the footsteps of BTS: the global rise of K-pop tourism Youjeong Oh.
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