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Music Around the World by Jessica Gates Fredricks Publisher Comments Music Around the World contains more than 30 lessons, with reproducible worksheets and ready-to-use movement activities. The movement activities are set to world music and include dancing, singing, drumming, miming, creative play and teacher-led... (read more) Your price: $19.25 New - Trade Paper 
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O'Neill's Music of Ireland (Fiddle) by Music Sales Corporation Publisher Comments Over 1,000 fiddle tunes! A newly revised and corrected collection of the dance music of Ireland. Jigs, reels, hornpipes, long dances, and marches, with an introduction to the history of Irish music and tips on playing with an authentic feeling.... (read more) Your price: $34.99 New - Trade Paper
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Musics of Many Cultures: An Introduction by Elizabeth May Publisher Comments Please note: this book was originally published with records. The edition available now does not include the records. We are hoping to make the original recordings available in some other way.... (read more) List Price $50.25 Your price: $17.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Honoring God and the City: Music at the Venetian Confraternities 1260-1806 by Jonathan Glixon Publisher Comments Honoring God and the City presents the first detailed history of musical activities at Venetian lay confraternities, societies that were crucial to the cultural and ceremonial life of Venice. Based on over two decades of research in Venetian archives... (read more) Your price: $44.50 New - Trade Paper
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Music in Spain During the Eighteenth Century by Malcolm Boyd Publisher Comments A volume of essays on Spanish music in the eighteenth-century.... (read more) Your price: $70.75 New - Trade Paper
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Global Pop, Local Language by Harris M. (edt) Berger Publisher Comments Cultural Studies -- Ethnomusicology Why would a punk band popular only in Indonesia cut songs in no other language than English? If you're rapping in Tanzania and Malawi, where hip hop has a growing audience, what do you rhyme in? Swahili? Chichewa... (read more) Your price: $27.25 New - Trade Paper
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Songs of Power and Prayer in the Columbia Plateau: The Jesuit, the Medicine Man, and the Indian Hymn Singer by Chad Hamill Publisher Comments Songs of Power and Prayer in the Columbia Plateau explores the role of song as a transformative force in the twentieth century, tracing a cultural, spiritual, and musical encounter that upended notions of indigeneity and the rules of engagement for... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $15.50 Used - Hardcover
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Secular Devotion: Afro-Latin Music and Imperial Jazz by Timothy Brennan Publisher Comments Popular music in the Americas, from jazz, Cuban and Latin salsa to disco and rap, is overwhelmingly neo-African. Created in the midst of war and military invasion, and filtered through a Western worldview, these musical forms are completely modern in... (read more) Your price: $38.50 New - Trade Paper
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Europea: Ethnomusicologies and Modernities #12: What Makes Music European: Looking Beyond Sound by Marcello Sorce Keller Publisher Comments We seldom consider how much we mistakenly presume in hewing to definitions of music that differ dramatically from the standpoint of other cultures. In What Makes Music European, Marcello Sorce Keller examines the limitations of accepted wisdom about the... (read more) Your price: $93.50 New - Hardcover
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Music to Die for: The International Guide to Today's Extreme Music Scene by Mick Mercer Synopsis Since Mick Mercer's acclaimed last book 21st Century Goth was published in 2002, the MySpace internet phenomenon has helped fuel a worldwide explosion of related music. But as well as adding countries to the musical map, the post-Goth scene has resulted... (read more) Your price: $26.95 New - Trade Paper
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Such Freedom, If Only Musical Unofficial Soviet Music During the Thaw by Peter John Schmelz Publisher Comments Following Stalin's death in 1953, during the period now known as the Thaw, Nikita Khrushchev opened up greater freedoms in cultural and intellectual life. A broad group of intellectuals and artists in Soviet Russia were able to take advantage of this... (read more) Your price: $76.25 New - Hardcover
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Princes Amongst Men: Journeys with Gypsy Musicians by Garth Cartwright Publisher Comments "It's a feverish travelogue. . . .The enthusiasm is completely infectious."—Chicago Reader "Princes Amongst Men is steeped in history, culture, and the foundations of Roma musical heritage."—The Bookwatch "Insightful, energized, and empathetic.... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Mass Market
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Secular Devotion: Afro-Latin Music and Imperial Jazz by Timothy Brennan Publisher Comments Popular music in the Americas, from jazz, Cuban and Latin salsa to disco and rap, is overwhelmingly neo-African. Created in the midst of war and military invasion, and filtered through a Western worldview, these musical forms are completely modern in... (read more) Your price: $127.25 New - Hardcover
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Honoring God and the City: Music at the Venetian Confraternities, 1260-1806 by Jonathan Glixon Publisher Comments This is the first detailed history of musical activities at Venetian lay confraternities. Based on over two decades of research in Venetian archives, the book traces musical practices from the origins of the earliest confraternities in the mid-thirteenth... (read more) Your price: $172.50 New - Hardcover
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A Guide to the Latin American Art Song Repertoire: An Annotated Catalog of Twentieth-Century Art Songs for Voice and Piano (Indiana Repertoire Guides) by Maya Hoover Synopsis A reference guide to the vast array of art song literature and composers from Latin America, this book introduces the music of Latin America from a singer's perspective and provides a basis for research into the songs of this richly musical area of the... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $25.75 New - Trade Paper
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Fela: This Bitch of a Life by Carlos Moore Publisher Comments African superstar, composer, singer, and musician, as well as mystic and political activist, Nigerian Fela Kuti, born in 1938, was controversy personified. He was swept to international celebrity on a wave of scandal and flamboyance, and when he died of... (read more) Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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Albanian Traditional Music: An Introduction, with Sheet Music and Lyrics for 48 Songs by Spiro J. Shetuni Publisher Comments "This book examines the distinct musical culture of southeastern Europe, both monophonic and polyphonic, by delineating its four main musical dialects: Gheg, Tosk, Lab and Urban. The origins, fundamental features, musical styles and genres of the four... (read more) Your price: $65.25 New - Trade Paper
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Five Operas and a Symphony: Word and Music in Russian Culture by B. Gasparov Publisher Comments In this eagerly anticipated book, Boris Gasparov gazes through the lens of music to find an unusual perspective on Russian cultural and literary history. He discusses six major works of Russian music from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, showing... (read more) Your price: $52.00 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Focus: Music of Northeast Brazil by Larry Crook Publisher Comments Focus: Music of Northeast Brazil examines the historical and contemporary manifestations of the music of Brazil, a country with a musical landscape that is layered with complexity and diversity. Based on the author's field research during the past twenty... (read more) Your price: $61.75 New - Trade Paper
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Very Short Introductions #65: World Music by Philip Vilas Bohlman Publisher Comments World Music draws readers into a remarkable range of historical encounters, in which music had the power to evoke the exotic and to give voice to the voiceless. In the course of the volume's eight chapters the reader witnesses music's involvement in the... (read more) Your price: $11.95 New - Trade Paper
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