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Heavy Metal in Baghdad: The Story of Acrassicauda by Andy Capper Publisher Comments The inspirational story of Acrassicauda, an Iraqi heavy metal band, whose members' struggle to stay alive as their country fell into bloody insurgency echoes the unspoken hopes of an entire generation of young Iraqis. Born out of a basement rehearsal... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $11.95 Sale - Trade Paper 
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New Directions in Native American Studies #3: Indian Blues: American Indians and the Politics of Music, 1890-1934 by John William Troutman Synopsis Explores the relationship between Native musical practices and federal Indian policy... (read more) Your price: $44.50 New - Hardcover
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Deep Listeners: Music, Emotion and Trancing by Judith O. Becker Publisher Comments A fascinating thesis and a timely synthesis.... Becker urges the reader to view certain arcane cultural rituals as being in the mainstream of spiritual development and argues that the resulting trance-like states may relate to the basic fabric of... (read more) Your price: $27.25 New - Trade Paper
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Polkabilly: How the Goose Island Ramblers Redefined American Folk Music (American Musicspheres) by James Leary Publisher Comments A freewheeling blend of continental European folk music and the songs, tunes, and dances of Anglo and Celtic immigrants, polkabilly has enthralled American musicians and dancers since the mid-19th century. From West Virginia coal camps and east Texas... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price: $16.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Digging: The Afro-American Soul of American Classical Music by Amiri Baraka Synopsis "As a commentator on American music, and African American music in particular, Baraka occupies a unique niche. His intelligence, critical sense, passion, strong political stances, involvement with musicians and in the musical world, as well as in his... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $18.95 Used - Hardcover
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Those That Fly Without Wings: Music and Dance in a Chilean Immigrant Community Synopsis Those that Fly without Wings is a study concentrating on the practice of music and dance within a Chilean immigrant community in Oslo. It is a qualitative and interpretive account of how music activity plays a part in the negotiation and construction of... (read more) Your price: $29.00 New - Trade Paper
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Music in North India - With CD (04 Edition) by George E. Ruckert Publisher Comments Music in North India is one of several case-study volumes that can be used along with Thinking Musically, the core book in the Global Music Series. Thinking Musically incorporates music from many diverse cultures and establishes the framework for... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $19.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Where Rivers and Mountains Sing: Sound, Music, and Nomadism in Tuva and Beyond with CD (Audio) and DVD by Theodore Craig Levin Publisher Comments Ted Levin gives us a vivid picture of music in inner Asia today -- both the ancient traditions and the way they're rubbing up against the modern world.... After reading this immensely readable and thought-provoking book, you'll never listen to throat... (read more) Your price: $35.00 New - Hardcover
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Sound Kapital: Beijing's Music Underground by Matthew (pht) Neiderhauser Publisher Comments China exists today in a liminal realm, caught between the socialist idealism of old and a calamitous drive for wealth spurned by recent free-market reforms. This seemingly unbridgeable gap tears at the country's social fabric while provoking younger... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Hardcover
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Blues People: Negro Music in White America by Leroi Jones Publisher Comments "The path the slave took to 'citizenship' is what I want to look at. And I make my analogy through the slave citizen's music -- through the music that is most closely associated with him: blues and a later, but parallel development, jazz... [If] the... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $5.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Ocean of Sound: Aether Talk, Ambient Sound and Imaginary Worlds by David Toop Publisher Comments Ocean of Soundbegins in 1889 at the Paris Exposition when Debussy first heard Javanese music performed. A culture absorbed in perfume, light and ambient sound developed in response to the intangibility of 20th century communications. David Toop traces... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Power of Black Music: Interpreting Its History from Africa to the United States by Samuel A. Floyd, Jr. Publisher Comments When Jimi Hendrix transfixed the crowds of Woodstock with his gripping version of "The Star Spangled Banner," he was building on a foundation reaching back, in part, to the revolutionary guitar playing of Howlin' Wolf and the other great Chicago bluesmen,... (read more) Your price: $74.25 New - Hardcover
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Latin Beat : Rhythms and Roots of Latin Music From Bossa Nova To Salsa and Beyond (03 Edition) by Ed Morales Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [353]-354) and index.... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Sounding Indigenous: Authenticity in Bolivian Music Performance by Michelle Bigenho Publisher Comments Sounding Indigenous explores the relations between music, people, and places through analysis of Bolivian music performances: by a non-governmentalorganization involved in musical activities, by a music performing ensemble,and by the people living in two... (read more) Your price: $44.75 New - Trade Paper
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Focus: Irish Traditional Music by Sean Williams Synopsis Focus: Irish Traditional Music is an introduction to the instrumental and vocal traditions of the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, as well as Irish music in the context of the Irish diaspora. The accompanying CD presents both traditional and... (read more) Your price: $53.50 New - Trade Paper
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The Cultural Study of Music: A Critical Introduction by Martin (edt) Clayton Publisher Comments Increasingly, music is being studied as it relates to specific cultures-not only by ethnomusicologists, but by traditional musicologists as well. Drawing on writers from music, anthropology, sociology, and the related fields, the book both defines the... (read more) Your price: $45.75 New - Trade Paper
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Azerbaijani Women Poet-minstrels by Anna C. Oldfield Book News Annotation Oldfield (comparative literature and Asian studies, Hamilton College) provides a study of Azerbaijani women ashiqs and their participation and contributions to the poet-minstrel tradition in their country. Her analysis is based on interviews, field... (read more) Your price: $127.25 New - Hardcover
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The No-Nonsense Guide to World Music (No-Nonsense Guides) by Louise Gray Publisher Comments "World music" is an awkward phrase. Used to describe the hugely multifaceted nature of a range of typically non-English-language popular music from the world over, it's a tag that throws up as many problems as it does solutions. Louise Gray's The No... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Lion and the Jewel (63 Edition) by Wole Soyinka Publisher Comments This is one of the best-known plays by Africa's major dramatist, Wole Soyinka. How the Lion hunts the Jewel is the theme of this ribald comedy.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $15.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Performance in World Music Series #5: The Music of Santeria: Traditional Rhythms of the Bata Drums with CD (Audio) by John Amira Synopsis Revised edition of the only book to describe in detail the music and cultural context of Santeria bata drumming.... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Trade Paper
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