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Displaying records 91 through 100 of 816 |
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Price: $22.95
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Sale: $13.69
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Manufacturer: Amadeus Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Habib Hassan Touma
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Publisher: Amadeus Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 781
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Publication Date: 2003-03-01
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Reading Level: 260
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Description: Encompassing a history of more than 2000 years, the music of the Arabs is unique among the world's various musical cultures. This book presents an overview of Arabic music throughout history and examines the artistic output of contemporary musicians, covering secular and sacred, instrumental and vocal, improvised and composed music. Typical musical structures are elucidated, and a detailed bibliography, a discography (mainly covering the last 50 years) and a guide to the Arabic alphabet for English speakers are also provided. The paperback edition (00331635) includes a CD of seven traditional Arabic pieces performed by contemporary Arab musicians.
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Price: $39.95
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Sale: $35.59
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Manufacturer: Berg Publishers
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: Berg Publishers
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Dewey Decimal Number: 780.89
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Publication Date: 1997-05-01
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Reading Level: 212
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Description: This book examines the significance of music in the construction of identities and ethnicities, and suggests ways to understand music as social practice. The authors focus on the role of music in the construction of national and regional identities; the media and 'postmodern identity'; concepts of authenticity; aesthetics; meaning; performance; 'world music'; and the use of music as a focus for discursive evocations of 'place'. The chapters tackle a wide range of subjects including 16th century etiquette, Celtic music and Chopin. The volume will be of interest to social anthropologists, and those working in the fields of cultural studies, politics, gender studies, musicology and folklore.
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Price: $42.60
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Sale: $37.99
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Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Ruth Stone
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Publisher: Prentice Hall
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 780.89
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Publication Date: 2007-08-11
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Reading Level: 256
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Description: Theory for Ethnomusicology explores the underpinnings of various approaches to the study of world music. The text analyzes differences and commonalities in these orientations. It also explores how ethnomusicologists use these theories in ethnographic research.
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Manufacturer: Longman Higher Education
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Barry Schrader
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Publisher: Longman Higher Education
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Publication Date: 1982-04
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Reading Level: 250
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Price: $15.95
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Sale: $13.69
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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: Mark Slobin
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Publisher: Wesleyan
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Edition: 1st
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Dewey Decimal Number: 780.89
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Publication Date: 1993-04-15
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Reading Level: 139
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Description: The study of subcultural musics, what Mark Slobin calls "small musics in big systems," is characterized by a tremendously expanding search for cultural identity within multiethnic societies that are increasingly caught up in global cultural flow. Subcultural Sounds is the first critical attempt to explore the dynamics of this process in Europe and America, the heartland of music production and bellwether for global culture. By combining interpretation with concrete analysis, Slobin works toward a comparative approach for understanding the "micromusics" of Euro-America.
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Price: $30.00
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Sale: $27.94
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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: Dena J. Epstein
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Publisher: University of Illinois Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 781
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Publication Date: 2003-08-12
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Reading Level: 464
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Description: This title is awarded both the Chicago Folklore Prize and the Simkins Prize of the Southern Historical Association. From the plaintive tunes of woe sung by exiled kings and queens of Africa to the spirited work songs and "shouts" of freedmen, in "Sinful Tunes and Spirituals" Dena J. Epstein traces the course of early black folk music in all its guises. This classic work is being reissued with a new author's preface on the silver anniversary of its original publication.
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Price: $39.00
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Sale: $28.00
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Manufacturer: The MIT Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: The MIT Press
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Edition: New edition
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Dewey Decimal Number: 780
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Publication Date: 2001-09-01
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Reading Level: 512
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Description: What biological and cognitive forces have shaped humankind's musical behavior and the rich global repertoire of musical structures? What is music for, and why does every human culture have it? What are the universal features of music and musical behavior across cultures? In this groundbreaking book, musicologists, biologists, anthropologists, archaeologists, psychologists, neuroscientists, ethologists, and linguists come together for the first time to examine these and related issues. The book can be viewed as representing the birth of evolutionary biomusicology—the study of which will contribute greatly to our understanding of the evolutionary precursors of human music, the evolution of the hominid vocal tract, localization of brain function, the structure of acoustic-communication signals, symbolic gesture, emotional manipulation through sound, self-expression, creativity, the human affinity for the spiritual, and the human attachment to music itself.
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Simha Arom, Derek Bickerton, Steven Brown, Ellen Dissanayake, Dean Falk, David W. Frayer, Walter Freeman, Thomas Geissmann, Marc D. Hauser, Michel Imberty, Harry Jerison, Drago Kunej, François-Bernard Mâche, Peter Marler, Björn Merker, Geoffrey Miller, Jean Molino, Bruno Nettl, Chris Nicolay, Katharine Payne, Bruce Richman, Peter J. B. Slater, Peter Todd, Sandra Trehub, Ivan Turk, Maria Ujhelyi, Nils L. Wallin, Carol Whaling.
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Manufacturer: Da Capo Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Stephen Davis
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Publisher: Da Capo Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 781.64
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Publication Date: 1992-08-21
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Reading Level: 224
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Description: Reggae—vulcanizing, restrained, irresistible—is more than the national music of Jamaica: It is a social force that fills the complete cultural needs of the people it serves. Everyone in Jamaica, from the prime minister in his gardens to the Rastafarian elders in Trench Town, listens to the latest reggae songs for an immediate line on the political and spiritual pulse of the island. Reggae Bloodlines, originally published in 1977 and here updated with a new afterword, was the first book to tell the story of the music of the Jamaican people and their spiritual nationality, the Brotherhood of Rastafari. It includes interviews with reggae’s master musicians—Bob Marley, Jimmy Cliff, Toots Hibbert, Big Youth, Peter Tosh, Agugstus Pablo, Max Romeo—and Prime Minister Michael Manley; reportage on Jamaican politics; and it sorties into the nation’s lush interior in search of the ganja fields of Kali Mountain and the legendary Maroon enclaves, still inhabited by the descendants of slave warriors. Reggae Bloodlines is not an encyclopedia of Jamaican style, nor a critical appraisal of its music—it is a definitive portrait of a struggling nation and its musical heritage at the crucial turning point of decolonization. Packed with hundreds of astonishing photographs, Reggae Bloodlines captures the restless rhythm of reggae culture like no book before or since.
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Price: $25.00
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Sale: $21.83
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Manufacturer: University Press of Mississippi
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
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Dewey Decimal Number: 781.640976399
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Publication Date: 2008-02-01
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Reading Level: 358
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Description: To borrow words from Stan \"The Record Man\" Lewis, Shreveport, Louisiana, is one of this nation\'s most important \"regional-sound cities.\" Its musical distinctiveness has been shaped by individuals and ensembles, record label and radio station owners, announcers and disc jockeys, club owners and sound engineers, music journalists and musicians. The area\'s output cannot be described by a single genre or style. Rather, its music is a kaleidoscope of country, blues, R&B, rockabilly, and rock. Shreveport Sounds in Black and White presents that evolution in a collection of scholarly and popular writing that covers institutions and people who nurtured the musical life of the city and surroundings. The contributions of icons like Leadbelly and Hank Williams, and such lesser-known names as Taylor-Griggs Melody Makers and Eddie Giles come to light. New writing explores the famed Louisiana Hay-ride, musicians Jimmie Davis and Dale Hawkins, local disc jockey \"Dandy Don\" Logan, and KWKH studio sound engineer Bob Sullivan. With glimpses into the lives of original creators, Shreveport Sounds in Black and White reveals the mix that emerges from the ongoing interaction between the city\'s black and white musicians. Kip Lornell teaches in the music department at the George Washington University. His research in American vernacular music has resulted in the publication of numerous articles and nine previous books, including Introducing American Folk Music and The Life and Legend of Leadbelly (with Charles Wolfe). Tracey E. W. Laird is associate professor of music at Agnes Scott College and the author of Louisiana Hayride: Radio and Roots Music Along the Red River.
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Price: $30.00
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Sale: $20.00
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Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press
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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: University Of Chicago Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 782.4216292405691
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Publication Date: 1998-12-01
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Reading Level: 310
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Description: When Jews left Aleppo, Syria, in the early twentieth century and established communities abroad, they carried with them a repertory of songs (pizmonim) with sacred Hebrew texts set to melodies borrowed from the popular Middle Eastern Arab musical tradition. Let Jasmine Rain Down tells the story of the pizmonim as they have continued to be composed, performed, and transformed through the present day; it is thus an innovative ethnography of an important Judeo-Arabic musical tradition and a probing contribution to studies of the link between collective memory and popular culture.
Shelemay views the intersection of music, individual remembrances, and collective memory through the pizmonim. Reconstructing a century of pizmon history in America based on research in New York, Mexico, and Israel, she explains how verbal and musical memories are embedded in individual songs and how these songs perform both what has been remembered and what otherwise would have been forgotten. In confronting issues of identity and meaning in a postmodern world, Shelemay moves ethnomusicology into the domain of memory studies.
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