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Enlightenment Orpheus
by Vanessa Agnew  Publisher Comments The Enlightenment saw a critical engagement with the ancient idea that music carries certain powers - it heals and pacifies, civilizes and educates. Yet this interest in musical utility seems to conflict with larger notions of aesthetic autonomy that...
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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...
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World Music : Global Journey -with 2 CDS (06 Edition)
by Terry Miller Publisher Comments audio-clips and additional resources can be found at www.routledge-ny.com/textbooks/worldmusic. INCLUDES TWO CDs Two color throughout; two 4-color...
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Power of Black Music (95 Edition)
by Samuel A. Floyd 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,...
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Mariachi Music in America: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture Includes CD (Global Music)
by Daniel Sheehy Publisher Comments Mariachi Music in America 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...
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The Study of Ethnomusicology: Thirty-One Issues and Concepts
by Bruno Nettl About the Author Bruno Nettl is professor emeritus of music and anthropology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. An internationally renowned musicologist, he is both a founder and past president of the Society for Ethnomusicology and the author of many...
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Where Rivers and Mountains Sing : Sound, Music, and Nomadism in Tuva and Beyond (06 Edition)
by Theodore Craig Levin Synopsis The lives and music of Tuvan throat-singers, including Huun-Huur-Tu, and other nomadic musicians from inner Asia....
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Conjunto
by John Dyer Publisher Comments Conjunto has been called Chicano roots music. Born when South Texas Tejanos adopted the button accordion from German settlers in the 1800s, this vibrant folk music mixes the accordion, bajo sexto guitar, bass, and drums to play lively, danceable versions...
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Traveling Spirit Masters: Moroccan Gnawa Trance and Music in the Global Marketplace (Music Culture)
by Deborah Kapchan Publisher Comments A group of ritual musicians and former slaves brought from sub-Saharan Africa to Morocco, the Gnawa heal those they believe to be possessed, using incense, music, and trance. But their practice is hardly of only local interest: the Gnawa have long...
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Performing Democracy: Bulgarian Music and Musicians in Transition (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology)
by Donna A. Buchanan Publisher Comments The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 signaled the onset of tumultuous political, economic, and social reforms throughout Eastern Europe. In Czechoslovakia, Poland, and the Soviet Union these changes were linked to the activities and philosophies of...
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Music and Musicians in Crete: Performance and Ethnography in a Mediterranean Island Society
by Kevin Dawe Book News Annotation Every time Dawe (ethnomusicology, U. of Leeds) returned to Crete to continue the fieldwork for the doctoral dissertation (no date or institution cited) on which this study is based, he found the music and its environment changed. So the result is not...
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Souled America (05 Edition)
by Phinney Synopsis From Jim Crow to Eminem, white culture has been transformed by black music. To be so influenced by the boundless imagination of a race brought to America in chains sets up a fascinating irony, and Souled American, an ambitious and comprehensive look at...
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African Stars: Studies in Black South African Performance (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology)
by Veit Erlmann Publisher Comments In recent years black South African music and dance have become ever more popular in the West, where they are now widely celebrated as expressions of opposition to discrimination and repression. Less well known is the rich history of these arts, which...
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Ethnomusicology: A Contemporary Reader
by Jennifer C. (edt) Post Synopsis Ethnomusicology: A Contemporary Reader is designed to supplement a textbook for an introductory course in ethnomusicology. It offers a cross section of the best new writing in the field from the last 15-20 years. Many instructors supplement textbook...
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Lion and the Jewel (63 Edition)
by Wole Soyinka Publisher Comments A companion to Oxford's The Unpublished Opinions of the Warren Court, this book contains the draft opinions that were prepared by the Justices in the cases included, as well as a short historical preface of each case and an analysis of the legal events...
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Native American Music in Eastern North America: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture with CD (Audio)
by Beverley Diamond Publisher Comments Native American Music in Eastern North America is one of many 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...
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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....
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The Chrysanthemum and the Song: Music, Memory, and Identity in the South American Japanese Diaspora (New World Diasporas)
by Dale A. Olsen Publisher Comments Music helps form and nurture ethnic identity for large populations of people of Japanese descent in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Peru, and Paraguay. In a story never before told, Dale Olsen offers a musical history and ethnography of this vibrant Asian...
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The A-Z of African Love Songs
by Jan Knappert Synopsis Representative of the variety of exuberant, melancholic, and joyous love songs in Africa, this book covers an oral poetic history that stretches back to 2000 BC. Including over 150 examples from numerous areas of Africa, the book opens with an...
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World Musics in Context: A Comprehensive Survey of the World's Major Musical Cultures
by Peter Fletcher Publisher Comments World Musics in Context is a wide-ranging survey of musics of the world, in their historical and social contexts, from ancient times to the present day. Ethnomusicologist Peter Fletcher begins by describing aspects of musical style and function in...
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