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Price: $60.95
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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: $25.95
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Sale: $22.16
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Manufacturer: Temple University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: David F. Garcia
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Publisher: Temple University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 781.64092
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Publication Date: 2006-06-28
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Reading Level: 224
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Description: Arsenio Rodriguez, composer and musical innovator, made an indelible impact on a broad range of musical styles from the Caribbean and Latin America to West and Central Africa. The son montuno style that he created and his innovative conjunto ensemble inspired other Cuban musicians and played a key role in the development of salsa, yet Arsenio achieved only intermittent commercial success. Drawing on the testimony of family, musicians, dancers, and other contemporaries, David Garcia traces Arsenio's early career in Cuba, his influence on Cuban and Latin popular music in the 1940s, his struggle for recognition at the height of mambo-mania in the 1950s, and his importance to Puerto Rican and Cuban communities in New York City, Chicago, and Los Angeles. Garcia shows how matters of race, class, and identity as well as the transnational Latin music industry shaped Arsenio's music and career.
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Price: $45.00
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Sale: $45.00
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Manufacturer: Harmonie Park Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Emanuel Rubin
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Publisher: Harmonie Park Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 780.89924
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Publication Date: 2006-06-01
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Reading Level: 420
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Description: Music in Jewish History and Culture surveys the broad sweep of music among Jews of widely diverse communities, from Biblical times to the modern day. Each chapter focuses on a different Jewish cultural epoch, and, against the background of its principal historical and cultural traits, explores the music and the way it functioned in that society. Proceeding more or less chronologically, the fifteen chapters cover a variety of Jewish musical expressions. Topics considered include performance practices of the ancient Temple, the relationship of Jewish and early Christian music, cantillation, Jewish music in the worlds of medieval Islam and Christianity, Yiddish and Ladino folk music, growth and development of the synagogue liturgy, cantorial song in Europe and the United States, Yiddish theater in Europe and North America, klezmer, Jews in the concert world of the past two centuries, music of the Holocaust, American synagogue music, and music in modern Israel. A unique feature of the book is its carefully placed historical interludes, while illustrations, charts, and a glossary of technical terms supplement the text. The book has been planned to function both as a college text and an informative guide for the lay reader.
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Price: $24.95
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Sale: $14.25
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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: George E. Ruckert
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Dewey Decimal Number: 780.954
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Publication Date: 2003-12-11
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Reading Level: 112
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Description: 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 exploring the practice of music around the world. It sets the stage for an array of case-study volumes, each of which focuses on a single area of the world. Each case study uses the contemporary musical situation as a point of departure, covering historical information and traditions as they relate to the present. Visit www.oup.com/us/globalmusic for a list of case studies in the Global Music Series. The website also includes instructional materials to accompany each study.
North India is home to a wealth of musical traditions composed of many different styles, genres, and practices. Music in North India provides a representative overview of this music, discussing rhythm and drumming traditions, song composition and performance styles, and melodic and rhythmic instruments. Drawing on his experience as a sarod player, vocalist, and music teacher, author George Ruckert incorporates numerous musical exercises to demonstrate important concepts. The book ranges from the chants of the ancient Vedas to modern devotional singing and from the serious and meditative rendering of raga to the concert-hall excitement of the modern sitar, sarod, and tabla. It is framed around three major topics: the devotional component of North Indian music, the idea of fixity and spontaneity in the various styles of Indian music, and the importance of the verbal syllable to the expression of the musical aesthetic in North India. Featuring vivid eyewitness accounts of performances and descriptions of interviews with performers, Music in North India examines the form, structure, and expression of North Indian music while also illuminating its profound religious and cultural significance. A 70-minute CD containing examples of the music discussed in the text is packaged with the book.
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Price: $28.95
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Sale: $25.06
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Manufacturer: Temple University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Patricia Tang
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Publisher: Temple University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 786.91629632140663
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Publication Date: 2007-01-28
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Reading Level: 224
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Description: "Masters of the Sabar" is the first book to examine the music and culture of Wolof griot percussionists, masters of the vibrant sabar drumming tradition. Based on extensive field research in Senegal, this book is a biographical study of several generations of percussionists in a Wolof griot (gewel) family, exploring and documenting their learning processes, repertories, and performance contexts-from life-cycle ceremonies to sporting events and political meetings. Patricia Tang examines the rich history and changing repertories of sabar drumming, including dance rhythms and bakks, musical phrases derived from spoken words. She notes the recent shift towards creating new bakks which are rhythmically more complex and highlight the virtuosity and musical skill of the percussionist. She also considers the burgeoning popular music genre called mbalax. The compact disc that accompanies the book includes examples of the standard sabar repertory, as well as bakks composed and performed by Lamine Toure and his family drum troupe.
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Price: $24.95
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Sale: $24.12
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Manufacturer: Indiana University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: Indiana University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 780.82
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Publication Date: 2006-06-24
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Reading Level: 423
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Description: Whether referred to as mermaid, usalka, mami wata, or by some other name, and whether considered an imaginary being or merely a person with extraordinary abilities, the siren is the remarkable creature that has inspired music and its representations from ancient Greece to present-day Africa and Latin America. This book, co-edited by a historical musicologist and an ethnomusicologist, brings together leading scholars and some talented newcomers in classics, music, media studies, literature, and cultural studies to consider the siren and her multifaceted relationships to music across human time and geography.
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Price: $55.00
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Sale: $33.94
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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: $44.95
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Sale: $31.47
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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: Henry Spiller
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Publisher: Routledge
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 780.9598
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Publication Date: 2008-03-31
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Reading Level: 302
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Description: Gamelan: The Traditional Sounds of Indonesia is an introduction to the familiar music from Southeast Asia's largest country—both as sound and cultural phenomenon. An archipelago of 17,000 islands, Indonesia is a melting pot of Hindu, Buddhist, Islamic, Portuguese, Dutch, and British influences. Despite this diversity, it has forged a national culture, one in which music plays a significant role. Gamelan music, in particular, teaches us much about Indonesian values and modern-day life. Gamelan provides an introduction to present-day Javanese, Balinese, Cirebonese, and Sundanese gamelan (gong chime orchestra) music through ethnic, social, cultural, and global perspectives. Deemphasizing potentially intimidating technical discussions of scales and models, this unique work focuses on the approaches to composing and playing gamelan music and how they relate to cultural and personal values.
This book is designed for courses specifically on Southeast Asian music and the gamelan tradition in Java and Bali. It provides a detailed overview of musical traditions in the region with attention to the salient aspects of the music's cultural context. The book includes maps, pedagogy and an audio CD with musical examples.
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Price: $24.95
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Sale: $14.99
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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: Ruth M. Stone
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Dewey Decimal Number: 780.966
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Publication Date: 2004-08-05
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Reading Level: 128
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Description: Music in West Africa 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 practice of music around the world. It sets the stage for an array of case-study volumes, each of which focuses on a single area of the world. Each case study uses the contemporary musical situation as a point of departure, covering historical information and traditions as they relate to the present. Visit www.oup.com/us/globalmusic for a list of case studies in the Global Music Series. The website also includes instructional materials to accompany each study.
Music in West Africa presents fundamental style concepts of West African music using a focused case study of performance in Liberia, West Africa, among the Kpelle people. The book discusses the diversity, motifs, and structure of West African music within the larger patterns of the region's culture, highlighting those aspects of Kpelle music that are common to many other West African traditions. It also describes how music and dance in West Africa are tied to the fabric of everyday social and political life.
Kpelle musicians value musical performance where multiple performers each contribute aspects of sound that fit together in elaborate ways. Drawing upon her extensive fieldwork and research, author Ruth Stone--who was raised in the Bong County region of Liberia--centers on key stylistic elements that Kpelle performers articulate and emphasize: faceting or breaking music into smaller parts, layering tone colors, part-counterpart relationships in musical structures, and time and polyrhythm. She explores fascinating parallels to these analytic themes in the textiles and masks of related arts and in broader cultural practices such as greeting sequences.
Music in West Africa is enhanced by eyewitness accounts of local performances, interviews with key performers, and vivid illustrations. Packaged with a 70-minute CD containing examples of the music discussed in the book, it features guided listening and hands-on activities that encourage readers to engage actively and critically with the music.
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Price: $39.95
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Sale: $23.75
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Manufacturer: Indiana University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Jeremy Norris
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Publisher: Indiana University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 784.2620947
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Publication Date: 1994-06
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Reading Level: 232
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Description: Jeremy Norris traces the progress of the Russian piano concerto, which was at first inspired by a handful of dilettante concerto-style works and fantasias labeled "for fortepiano or harpsichord." Most early Russian piano concertos reflected stylistic features of Western European music, and several show evidence of plagiarism. Russian composers encountered problems of structural organization, a factor that prevented several, including Taneyev and Balakirev, from completing some of their works. Norris shows that even Tchaikovsky was not always able to solve problems of structure. Anton Rubinstein's five concertos offered substantial artistry; and the most successful works of the century - Tchaikovsky's "Concerto No. 1" in B-flat minor, Rimsky-Korsakov's "Concerto" in C-sharp minor, and Balakirev's in "E-flat" - drew their inspiration from Russian folk song and Orthodox chant. Although the Russian piano concerto had inauspicious beginnings, its development during the nineteenth century laid superb artistic foundations for the monumental concertos of the twentieth century. Insights gained here will help performers and teachers to understand later developments in concerto writing.
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