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Music in Bali: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture with CD (Audio) (Global Music)
by Lisa Gold  Publisher Comments Music in Bali 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 exploring the...
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The Way of Taiko
by Heidi Varian Publisher Comments Taiko drumming is an ancient sacred practice in Japan, originally used to drive away pests from rice fields and then to call to the gods in thanks at harvest time. Today taiko in Japan, and especially in North America, has evolved into a form of mental...
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Musicians from a Different Shore: Asians and Asian Americans in Classical Music
by Mari Yoshihara Synopsis < div> In the first book to account for the growing prominence of Asians in the world of Western classical music, Mari Yoshihara grapples with the significance of this trend. This is a book about the about the origins of a social and cultural...
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Master Musicians of India: Hereditary Sarangi Players Speak
by Regula Qureshi Synopsis Beginning with Ravi Shankar and Ali Akbar Khan, Indian art music is renowned internationally for its improvised raga performance. This ancient tradition has for centuries been transmitted orally within the seclusion of hereditary families. Few such...
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Two Men and Music: Nationalism in the Making of an Indian Classical Tradition
by Janaki Bakhle Publisher Comments A provocative account of the development of modern national culture in India using classical music as a case study. Janaki Bakhle demonstrates how the emergence of an "Indian" cultural tradition reflected colonial and exclusionary practices, particularly...
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Music in Japan: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture with CDROM (Global Music)
by Bonnie C Wade Publisher Comments Music in Japan 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 exploring the...
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The Sound of the Ancestral Ship: Highland Music of West Java
by Sean Williams Publisher Comments This book examines the ways in which the urban aristocratic Sundanese of West Java recall the rural past of their ancestors through performances of the tembang Sunda ensemble (voice, zithers, and bamboo flute). This is the first book on Indonesian music...
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My Music, My Life
by Ravi Shankar Publisher Comments With stunning new photographs and a new final chapter detailing Ravi Shankar’s hope for the preservation of Indian classical music, this updated edition of My Music, My Life profiles an extraordinary man. In his own words, Shankar describes his...
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The Dawn of Indian Music in the West
by Peter Lavezzoli Synopsis Peter Lavezzoli, Buddhist and musician, has a rare ability to articulate the personal feeling of music, and simultaneously narrate a history. In his discussion on Indian music theory, he demystifies musical structures, foreign instruments, terminology...
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Music in South India : Karnatak Concert Tradition and Beyond - With CD (04 Edition)
by T. Viswanathan Publisher Comments Description Music in South India is a volume in the Global Music Series, edited by Bonnie Wade and Patricia Campbell. This volume, appropriate for use in undergraduate, introductory courses on world music or ethnomusicology, provides a vivid introduction...
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Mysticism of Sound and Music (96 Edition)
by Khan Synopsis Music, according to Sufi teaching, is really a small expression of the overwhelming and perfect harmony of the whole universe--and that is the secret of its amazing power to move us. The Indian Sufi master Hazrat Inayat Khan (1882-1927), the first...
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Music in North India - With CD (03 Edition)
by George E. Ruckert Publisher Comments Description Designed for undergraduates with little or no background in world music, Music in North India is one of several volumes that can be used along with Thinking Musically, the main book in the Global Music Series, in any introductory world music...
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The Dawn of Indian Music in the West
by Peter Lavezzoli Synopsis Peter Lavezzoli, Buddhist and musician, has a rare ability to articulate the personal feeling of music, and simultaneously narrate a history. In his discussion on Indian music theory, he demystifies musical structures, foreign instruments, terminology...
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Gamelan Gong Kebyar: The Art of Twentieth-Century Balinese Music with CD (Audio) (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology)
by Michael Tenzer Publisher Comments The Balinese gamelan, with its shimmering tones, breathless pace, and compelling musical language, has long captivated musicians, composers, artists, and travelers. Here, Michael Tenzer offers a comprehensive and durable study of this sophisticated...
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Music of Life
by Inayat Khan
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Balinese Music
by Michael Tenzer Description Includes bibliographical references (p. 138-139), discography (p. 129-131), and index....
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Variation in Central Javanese Gamelan Music: Dynamics of a Steady State
by R Anderson Sutton Description Includes bibliographical references (p. 278-288) and discography (p. 289)....
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Ustad Alauddin Khan: The Legend in Music
by Mobarak Hossain Khan
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Indian Music
by B Deva
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Music of India
by Peggy Holroyde
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