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Price: $95.95
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Sale: $44.00
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Manufacturer: Schirmer
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Jeff Todd Titon::Linda Fujie::David Locke::David P. McAllester::David B. B. Reck
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Publisher: Schirmer
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Edition: 2
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Dewey Decimal Number: 780.9
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Publication Date: 2004-07-27
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Reading Level: 368
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Description: No background or training in music? No problem. This shorter version of WORLDS OF MUSIC: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE MUSIC OF THE WORLD'S PEOPLES is written to make music accessible. Using the case-study approach, the text presents in-depth explorations of music of several cultures from around the world. The authors all ethnomusicologists working in their fields of expertise base their discussions of music-cultures on their own fieldwork and give you a true sense of both the music and culture that created it. Two CDs accompany every copy of the book and cover a wide range of music-cultures, including authentic recordings from the authors' fieldwork. Leading off is the long-standing jewel in the Worlds of Music crown - James Koetting's magnificent recording of postal workers canceling stamps at the University of Ghana post office. A Western-sounding hymn tune performed against African rhythms, this piece, more that any other, lets you hear contrasting music-cultures.
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Price: $60.05
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Sale: $48.76
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Manufacturer: Routledge
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Terry E. Miller::Andrew Shahriari
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Publisher: Routledge
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 780.9
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Publication Date: 2005-11-29
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Reading Level: 472
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Description: · "This is the best organized, concise, clear classroom book that I have encountered for this type of course." --Cleveland State University
· "Well-written, lots of detail, helpful side-bar material and fine maps. Miller and Shahriari write with admirable authority and enthusiasm." --Texas Christian University
· "Treats the student readers as intelligent beings with wide-ranging intellectual interests." --New York University
· Includes 2 audio CDs of examples
· Two color throughout with two four-color inserts; original photos and maps
World Music: A Global Journey introduces students to the diversity of musical expression around the world. Written for those with no background in music notation or theory, the book is modeled on a series of guided trips around the musical world. Written in layperson's language, with ample illustrations including maps, photographs, and musical examples, this book introduces an entire world of music to students. For those taking a single semester survey course, the professor can choose to select areas highlighted in the text; others taking a more comprehensive two-semester course will find ample material here for an entire year of study.
Beyond its engaging text, the book is two color throughout with two four color inserts. There are many photographs-taken by the authors and other leading ethnomusicologists-illustrating musicians, places, musical instruments, and performances. The design includes icons that make finding definitions, key examples, and related text easy. The book is packaged with three CDs, giving full versions of many of the musical examples highlighted in the text.
The text has been thoroughly reviewed and classroom tested in the US and abroad, and the authors have incorporated many features based on these reviews. World Music: A Global Journey sets a new standard for introductory texts in ethnomusicology/world music.
A supporting website, including photos, audio-clips and additional resources can be found at www.routledge-ny.com/textbooks/worldmusic.
INCLUDES TWO CDs
Two color throughout; two 4-color inserts
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Price: $90.95
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Sale: $80.58
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Manufacturer: Schirmer
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Jeff Todd Titon::Timothy J. Cooley::David Locke::David P. McAllester::Anne K. Rasmussen
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Publisher: Schirmer
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Edition: 5
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Dewey Decimal Number: 781.6
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Publication Date: 2008-02-12
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Reading Level: 560
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Description: The bestselling WORLDS OF MUSIC, now in its fifth edition, provides authoritative, accessible coverage of the world's music cultures. Based on the authors' fieldwork and expertise, this text presents in-depth explorations of several music cultures from around the world, with new chapters on China, Eastern Europe and the Arab world. The student-friendly, case-study approach and music-culture focus gives students a true sense of both the music and the culture that created it. Additionally, a high-quality 4-CD set (purchased separately) contains a variety of recordings from multiple sources, including the authors' own fieldwork, other ethnomusicologists' field research, and commercial releases.
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Price: $13.00
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Sale: $6.30
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Manufacturer: Harper Perennial
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Leroi Jones
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Publisher: Harper Perennial
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 780.8996073
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Publication Date: 1999-02-03
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Reading Level: 256
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Description: "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 Negro represents, or is symbolic of, something in and about the nature of American culture, this certainly should be revealed by his characteristic music." So says Amiri Baraka in the Introduction to Blues People, his classic work on the place of jazz and blues in American social, musical, economic, and cultural history. From the music of African slaves in the United States through the music scene of the 1960's, Baraka traces the influence of what he calls "negro music" on white America -- not only in the context of music and pop culture but also in terms of the values and perspectives passed on through the music. In tracing the music, he brilliantly illuminates the influence of African Americans on American culture and history.
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Price: $29.95
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Sale: $24.68
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Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Gregory F. Barz::Timothy J. Cooley
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Edition: 2
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Dewey Decimal Number: 780.89
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Publication Date: 2008-09-09
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Reading Level: 352
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Description: Ethnomusicological fieldwork has significantly changed since the end of the the 20th century. Ethnomusicology is in a critical moment that requires new perspecitves on fieldwork - perspectives that are not addressed in the standard guides to ethnomusicological or anthropological method. The focus in ethnomusicological writing and teaching has traditionally centered around analyses and ethnographic representations of musical cultures, rather than on the personal world of understanding, experience, knowing, and doing fieldwork. Shadows in the Field deliberately shifts the focus of ethnomusicology and of ethnography in general from representation (text) to experience (fieldwork). The "new fieldwork" moves beyond mere data collection and has become a defining characteristic of ethnomusicology that engages the scholar in meaningful human contexts.
In this new edition of Shadows in the Field, renowned ethnomusicologists explore the roles they themselves act out while performing fieldwork and pose significant questions for the field: What are the new directions in ethnomusicological fieldwork? Where does fieldwork of "the past" fit into these theories? And above all, what do we see when we acknowledge the shadows we cast in the field?
The second edition of Shadows in the Field includes updates of all existing chapters, a new preface by Bruno Nettl, and seven new chapters addressing critical issues and concerns that have become increasingly relevant since the first edition.
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Price: $55.00
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Sale: $47.88
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Manufacturer: W. W. Norton
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Kay Kaufman Shelemay
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Publisher: W. W. Norton
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Edition: 2
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Dewey Decimal Number: 780.9
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Publication Date: 2006-06-12
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Reading Level: 471
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Description: W. W. Norton proudly presents Soundscapes, the first textbook to organize the study of music the way most people encounter it—by the roles it plays in their lives and communities. Through a series of illuminating case studies, students learn the fundamentals of music by exploring the social and cultural settings of different "soundscapes"—that is, musical traditions—from around the world, all of which either migrated to or originated in North America. The text embraces the diverse musical identities, tastes, and sound worlds present in our society and encourages students to participate in the soundscapes that surround them.
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Price: $30.00
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Sale: $19.80
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Manufacturer: SAF Publishing Ltd
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: David Keenan
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Publisher: SAF Publishing Ltd
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Edition: 2
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Dewey Decimal Number: 790
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Publication Date: 2008-10-01
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Reading Level: 320
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Description: "A sumptuous, high-art production, astonishing photographs. An essential book, a magnet to attract new listeners with its compelling field of gravity."-Record Collector David Keenan's book miraculously weaves the history of Coil, Current 93, and Nurse with Wound into one fascinating narrative. Working almost entirely outside the framework of the music industry, all three bands have courted controversy, experimented with the fringes of danger and the occult, and have sold millions of records. Based on several years of exclusive interviews and unprecedented access to all three bands' personal archives, England's Hidden Reverse is a unique document of England's cultural underbelly.
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Price: $25.00
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Sale: $22.50
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Manufacturer: University of Illinois Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Bruno Nettl
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Publisher: University of Illinois Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 780.89
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Publication Date: 2005-12-30
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Reading Level: 528
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Description: A landmark in ethnomusicology, expanded and revised
The first edition of this book, The Study of Ethnomusicology: Twenty_Nine Issues and Concepts, has become a classic in the field. This revised edition, written twenty-two years after the original, continues the tradition of providing engagingly written analysis that offers the most comprehensive discussion of the field available anywhere. This book looks at the field of ethnomusicology--defined as the study of the world's musics from a comparative perspective, and the study of all music from an anthropological perspective--as a field of research. Nettl selects thirty-one concepts and issues that have been the subjects of continuing debate by ethnomusicologists, and he adds four entirely new chapters and thoroughly updates the text to reflect new developments and concerns in the field. Each chapter looks at its subject historically and goes on to make its points with case studies, many taken from Nettl’s own field experience. Drawing extensively on his field research in the Middle East, Western urban settings, and North American Indian societies, as well as on a critical survey of the available literature, Nettl advances our understanding of both the diversity and universality of the world's music. This revised edition’s four new chapters deal with the doing and writing of musical ethnography, the scholarly study of instruments, aspects of women's music and women in music, and the ethnomusicologist's study of his or her own culture. |
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Price: $21.95
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Sale: $6.99
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Manufacturer: Wesleyan
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Tricia Rose
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Publisher: Wesleyan
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Edition: 1st
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Dewey Decimal Number: 782.42164
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Publication Date: 1994-05-15
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Reading Level: 257
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Description: From its beginnings in hip hop culture, the dense rhythms and aggressive lyrics of rap music have made it a provocative fixture on the American cultural landscape. In Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America, Tricia Rose, described by the New York Times as a "hip hop theorist," takes a comprehensive look at the lyrics, music, cultures, themes, and styles of this highly rhythmic, rhymed storytelling and grapples with the most salient issues and debates that surround it.
Assistant Professor of Africana Studies and History at New York University, Tricia Rose sorts through rap's multiple voices by exploring its underlying urban cultural politics, particularly the influential New York City rap scene, and discusses rap as a unique musical form in which traditional African-based oral traditions fuse with cutting-edge music technologies. Next she takes up rap's racial politics, its sharp criticisms of the police and the government, and the responses of those institutions. Finally, she explores the complex sexual politics of rap, including questions of misogyny, sexual domination, and female rappers' critiques of men.
But these debates do not overshadow rappers' own words and thoughts. Rose also closely examines the lyrics and videos for songs by artists such as Public Enemy, KRS-One, Salt N' Pepa, MC Lyte, and L. L. Cool J. and draws on candid interviews with Queen Latifah, music producer Eric "Vietnam" Sadler, dancer Crazy Legs, and others to paint the full range of rap's political and aesthetic spectrum. In the end, Rose observes, rap music remains a vibrant force with its own aesthetic, "a noisy and powerful element of contemporary American popular culture which continues to draw a great deal of attention to itself."
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Price: $19.95
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Sale: $13.05
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Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Wole Soyinka
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Dewey Decimal Number: 780
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Publication Date: 1966-12-31
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Reading Level: 72
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Description: This is one of the best-known plays by Africa's major dramatist, Wole Soyinka. It is set in the Yoruba village of Ilunjinle. The main characters are Sidi (the Jewel), 'a true village belle' and Baroka (the Lion), the crafty and powerful Bale of the village, Lakunle, the young teacher, influenced by western ways, and Sadiku, the eldest of Baroka's wives. How the Lion hunts the Jewel is the theme of this ribald comedy.
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