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  • Music Scenes and Migrations: Space and Transnationalism in Brazil, Portugal and the Atlantic by Treece, David
    David Treece

    Music Scenes and Migrations: Space and Transnationalism in Brazil, Portugal and the Atlantic

    'Music Scenes and Migrations' brings together new work from Brazilian and European scholars around the themes of musical place and transnationalism across the Atlantic triangle connecting Brazil, Africa and Europe. Moving beyond now-contested models for conceptualizing international musical relations and hierarchies of powers and...
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  • Decentering the Nation: Music, Mexicanidad, and Globalization by Ramos-Kittrell, Jesús A.
    Jes俍 A. Ramos-Kittrell

    Decentering the Nation: Music, Mexicanidad, and Globalization

    winner of the 2021 Ellen Koskoff Edited Volume PrizeThis book considers how global capitalism has upset the symbolic economy of "Mexican" cultural discourse. It focuses on the cultural processes through which people contest ideas about race, gender, and sexuality; reframe ideas of memory, history,...
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  • African Drum Music - Kpanlogo by Zabana, Kongo
    Kongo Zabana

    African Drum Music - Kpanlogo

    In African drum ensembles, a musician establishes a time line which establishes the points of entry for the different instruments. So the player must know the role of the particular instrument in the totality, and also the rhythm or rhythms assigned to it and...
    $35.20
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  • Highlife Music in West Africa by Oti, Sonny
    Sonny Oti

    Highlife Music in West Africa

    A posthumous publication, the book is an excursion into the origins and development of Highlife music in West Africa. Although highlife music belongs to the entertainment genre, it is essentially an urban music. Its dynamism does not lie in the aesthetics of its form...
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  • Developing and Applying Assessments in the Music Classroom by Parkes, Kelly A.
    Kelly A. Parkes

    Developing and Applying Assessments in the Music Classroom

    Developing and Applying Assessments in the Music Classroom addresses the challenges faced by today's K-12 educators and future music educators who are expected to utilize and incorporate assessment data as a hallmark of student learning and reflection of effective teaching. Highlighting best practices while...
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  • Music as Atmosphere: Collective Feelings and Affective Sounds by Riedel, Friedlind
    Friedlind Riedel

    Music as Atmosphere: Collective Feelings and Affective Sounds

    This book explores the atmospheric dimensions of music and sound. With multidisciplinary insights from music studies, sound studies, philosophy and media studies, chapters investigate music and sound as shared environmental feelings.This book probes into cutting edge conceptual issues at the forefront of contemporary discussions...
    $140.00
    $140.00
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  • The Musical Gift: Sonic Generosity in Post-War Sri Lanka by Sykes, Jim
    Jim Sykes

    The Musical Gift: Sonic Generosity in Post-War Sri Lanka

    The Musical Gift tells Sri Lanka's music history as a story of giving between humans and nonhumans, and between populations defined by difference. Author Jim Sykes argues that in the recent past, the genres we recognize today as Sri Lanka's esteemed traditional musics were...
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  • 18 popular Czech Minuet for G/C diatonic accordion by Sarek, Ondrej
    Ondrej Sarek

    18 popular Czech Minuet for G/C diatonic accordion

    I chose 18 popular Minuet from different musical folk songbooks. More often, the name of this dance was misspelled as "Minet". These dances are an example of how people in the village managed to modify what they heard from the nobility. They preserved the...
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  • The Garifuna Music Reader by Greene, Oliver N.
    Oliver N. Greene

    The Garifuna Music Reader

    The Garifuna Music Reader is the first text to provide scholarly research of all the principal genres of music and music-related rituals of the Garifuna people of Belize and, by similarities in practice and tradition, those of Central America and the United States. This...
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  • Musical Encounters at the 1889 Paris World's Fair by Fauser, Annegret
    Annegret Fauser

    Musical Encounters at the 1889 Paris World's Fair

    Musical Encounters at the 1889 Paris World's Fair explores the ways in which music was used, appropriated, exhibited, listened to, and written about during the six months of the 1889 Exposition Universelle in Paris, thereby revealing the role and the sociopolitical uses of music...
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  • Bachata: A Social History of a Dominican Popular Music by Pacini, Deborah
    Deborah Pacini

    Bachata: A Social History of a Dominican Popular Music

    Like rap in the United States, bachata began as a music of the poor and dispossessed. Originating in the shantytowns of the Dominican Republic, it reflects the social and economic dislocation of the poorest Dominicans.Author: Deborah PaciniISBN-10: 1566393000ISBN-13: 9781566393003Publisher: Temple University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/06/1995Pages:...
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  • Cajun and Zydeco Dance Music in Northern California: Modern Pleasures in a Postmodern World by DeWitt, Mark F.
    Mark F. DeWitt

    Cajun and Zydeco Dance Music in Northern California: Modern Pleasures in a Postmodern World

    How Louisiana transplants and new players have generated a thriving music and dance scene far from the South Queen Ida. Danny Poullard. Documentary filmmaker Les Blank. Chris Strachwitz and Arhoolie Records. These are names that are familiar to many fans of Cajun music and...
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  • Rumba on the River: A History of the Popular Music of the Two Congos by Stewart, Gary
    Gary Stewart

    Rumba on the River: A History of the Popular Music of the Two Congos

    There had always been music along the banks of the Congo River--lutes and drums, the myriad instruments handed down from ancestors. But when Joseph Kabasele and his African Jazz went chop for chop with O.K. Jazz and Bantous de la Capitale, music in Africa...
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  • The Petrie Collection of the Ancient Music of Ireland by Petrie, George
    George Petrie

    The Petrie Collection of the Ancient Music of Ireland

    First published in 1855, George Petrie's "The Petrie Collection of the Ancient Music of Ireland", is widely regarded as one of the most important nineteenth-century collections of traditional Irish music. It contains nearly two hundred melodies collected by Petrie as well as song texts...
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  • The Americana Songbook by Hal Leonard Corp
    Hal Leonard Corp

    The Americana Songbook

    (Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook). 45 roots favorites in arrangements for piano, voice and guitar. Includes: Broken Halos (Chris Stapleton) * Copperhead Road (Steve Earle) * Hurricane (The Band of Heathens) * If I Had a Boat (Lyle Lovett) * If We Were Vampires (Jason Isbell and...
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  • Louisiana's Zydeco by Broussard, Sherry T.
    Sherry T. Broussard

    Louisiana's Zydeco

    The bayou sings and the trees sway with the untold stories of many unsung heroes, including Louisiana's amazing Zydeco musicians. The music is an extraordinary blend of the accordion, the bass and electric guitars, the drums, the rub or scrub board, and other instruments....
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  • The Journey of the Sitar in Indian Classical Music: Origin, History, and Playing Styles by Lata, Swarn
    Swarn Lata

    The Journey of the Sitar in Indian Classical Music: Origin, History, and Playing Styles

    Since the thirteenth century, the sitar-a stringed, plucked instrument of India-has transformed into an instrument beloved by millions in its country of origin as well as all over the world. The Journey of the Sitar in Indian Classical Music details the origin, history, and...
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  • Depression Folk: Grassroots Music and Left-Wing Politics in 1930s America by Cohen, Ronald D.
    Ronald D. Cohen

    Depression Folk: Grassroots Music and Left-Wing Politics in 1930s America

    While music lovers and music historians alike understand that folk music played an increasingly pivotal role in American labor and politics during the economic and social tumult of the Great Depression, how did this relationship come to be? Ronald D. Cohen sheds new light...
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  • Steel Drums and Steelbands: A History by Smith, Angela
    Angela Smith

    Steel Drums and Steelbands: A History

    Steel Drums and Steelbands: A History is a vivid account of the events that led to the "accidental" invention of the steel drum: the only acoustic musical instrument invented in the 20th century. Angela Smith walks readers through the evolution of the steel drum...
    $53.00
    $53.00
    $53.00
  • Markos Vamvakaris: The Man and the Bouzouki. Autobiography by Minogue, Noonie
    Noonie Minogue

    Markos Vamvakaris: The Man and the Bouzouki. Autobiography

    Markos Vamvakaris, born in 1905 in Syros was a pioneer of rebetiko, the urban folk music of Greece. The bouzouki was a disreputable instrument but he paved its path to glory. He spent many years, first as a stevedore in the port of Piraeus...
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  • Confronting Silence: Selected Writings by Takemitsu, Toru
    Toru Takemitsu

    Confronting Silence: Selected Writings

    In these writings, available here in English for the first time, the distinguished Japanese composer Toru Takemitsu reflects on his contemporaries, including John Cage, Olivier Messiaen, and Merce Cunningham; on nature, which has profoundly influenced his composition; on film and painting; on relationships between...
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  • Celtic Music: Third Ear: The Essential Listening Companion by Mathieson, Kenny
    Kenny Mathieson

    Celtic Music: Third Ear: The Essential Listening Companion

    This comprehensive guidebook covers all that is Celtic in music today, through essays exploring solo artists, bands, singers, and players of specialized instruments, such as harps, pipes, fiddles, drums, squeezeboxes, whistles, mandolins and more. Performers profiled range from the rock-influenced group Clannad, to Welsh...
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  • White Face, Black Mask: Africaneity and the Early Social History of Popular Music in Brazil by Davis, Darien J.
    Darien J. Davis

    White Face, Black Mask: Africaneity and the Early Social History of Popular Music in Brazil

    Although African influences undeniably pervade the popular music of Brazil, until now few books have examined the role of Blackness--what author Dari駭 Davis calls "Africaneity"--in the creation and development of twentieth-century Brazilian musical traditions. This innovative, accessible work offers a fascinating look at Brazilian...
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  • Yellow Music: Media Culture and Colonial Modernity in the Chinese Jazz Age by Jones, Andrew F.
    Andrew F. Jones

    Yellow Music: Media Culture and Colonial Modernity in the Chinese Jazz Age

    Yellow Music is the first history of the emergence of Chinese popular music and urban media culture in early-twentieth-century China. Andrew F. Jones focuses on the affinities between "yellow" or "pornographic" music-as critics derisively referred to the "decadent" fusion of American jazz, Hollywood film...
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  • Intonations: A Social History of Music and Nation in Luanda, Angola, from 1945 to Recent Times by Moorman, Marissa J.
    Marissa J. Moorman

    Intonations: A Social History of Music and Nation in Luanda, Angola, from 1945 to Recent Times

    Intonations tells the story of how Angola's urban residents in the late colonial period (roughly 1945-74) used music to talk back to their colonial oppressors and, more importantly, to define what it meant to be Angolan and what they hoped to gain from independence....
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  • Singing Cowboys and Musical Mountaineers by Malone, Bill C.
    Bill C. Malone

    Singing Cowboys and Musical Mountaineers

    In this slim, lively book our foremost historian of country music recalls the lost worlds of pioneering fiddlers and pickers, balladeers and yodelers. As he looks at "hillbilly" music's pre-commercial era and its early popular growth through radio and recordings, Bill C. Malone shows...
    $23.95
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  • Slave Songs of the Georgia Sea Islands by Parrish, Lydia
    Lydia Parrish

    Slave Songs of the Georgia Sea Islands

    A valuable collection of folk music and lore from the Gullah culture, Slave Songs of the Georgia Sea Islands preserves the rich traditions of slave descendants on the barrier islands of Georgia by interweaving their music with descriptions of their language, religious and social...
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  • Been Here and Gone by Ramsey, Frederic
    Frederic Ramsey

    Been Here and Gone

    This volume documents Frederic Ramsey Jr.'s journeys through the 1950s South, where he traveled in search of what might still remain of an original, authentic African American musical tradition. In these photographs, songs, interviews, and narratives, Ramsey portrays farmers, railroad workers, housewives, children, church...
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  • Playing It Dangerously: Tambura Bands, Race, and Affective Block in Croatia and Its Intimates by Macmillen, Ian
    Ian Macmillen

    Playing It Dangerously: Tambura Bands, Race, and Affective Block in Croatia and Its Intimates

    A study of race, gender, religion, and affect in postwar Croatian musicPlaying It Dangerously questions what happens when feelings attached to popular music conflict with expressions of the dominant socio-cultural order, and how this tension enters into the politics of popular culture at various...
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  • Music in Cuba by Carpentier, Alejo
    Alejo Carpentier

    Music in Cuba

    Originally published in 1946 and never before available in English, Music in Cuba is not only the best and most extensive study of Cuban musical history, it is a work of literature. Drawing on such primary documents as church circulars and musical scores, Carpentier...
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  • The Musical Tradition of the Eastern European Synagogue: Volume 3a: The Sabbath Eve Service by Kalib, Sholom
    Sholom Kalib

    The Musical Tradition of the Eastern European Synagogue: Volume 3a: The Sabbath Eve Service

    The Sabbath Eve Service, a three-book set, is to date the most comprehensive annotated anthology of authentic musical liturgy of the Eastern European synagogue Friday night Shabbat service. Part of a projected five-volume set, this series is dedicated to the preservation of the legacy...
    $150.00
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    $150.00
  • Heaven Was Detroit: From Jazz to Hip-Hop and Beyond by Liebler, M. L.
    M. L. Liebler

    Heaven Was Detroit: From Jazz to Hip-Hop and Beyond

    A comprehensive collection of essays on the long history of Detroit music by some of America's best-known music writers. Heaven Was Detroit: From Jazz to Hip Hop and Beyond is the first of its kind to capture the full spectrum of Detroit popular music...
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  • Mountaineer Jamboree-Pa by Tribe, Ivan M.
    Ivan M. Tribe

    Mountaineer Jamboree-Pa

    Jamboree To many country music fans the word conjures up memories of Saturday nights around the family radio listening to live broadcasts from that haven of hillbilly music, West Virginia. From 1926 through the 1950s, as Ivan Tribe shows in his lively history, country...
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  • The Steelband Movement: The Forging of a National Art in Trinidad and Tobago by Stuempfle, Stephen
    Stephen Stuempfle

    The Steelband Movement: The Forging of a National Art in Trinidad and Tobago

    The Steelband Movement examines the dramatic transformation of pan from a Carnival street music into a national art and symbol in Trinidad and Tobago. By focusing on pan as a cultural process, Stephen Stuempfle demonstrates how the struggles and achievements of the steelband movement...
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  • The Conscience of the Folk Revival: The Writings of Israel Izzy Young by Barretta, Scott
    Scott Barretta

    The Conscience of the Folk Revival: The Writings of Israel "Izzy" Young

    The Conscience of the Folk Revival: The Writings of Israel "Izzy" Young collects Young's writing, from his regular "Frets and Frails" column for Sing Out! Magazine (1959-1969) to his commentaries on such contentious issues as copyright and commercialism. A key collection of primary sources...
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    $121.00
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  • A New Anthology of Art Songs by African American Composers [With 2 CDs] by Simmons, Margaret R.
    Margaret R. Simmons

    A New Anthology of Art Songs by African American Composers [With 2 CDs]

    A diverse repertoire of art songs for piano and voiceThe art song--a delicate and inspiring blend of mu­sic and poetry--has been performed by singers and pianists and appreciated by audiences around the world for more than two hundred years. While collec­tions of art songs...
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  • Burst of Breath: Indigenous Ritual Wind Instruments in Lowland South America by Vivian, Robert
    Jonathan David Hill

    Burst of Breath: Indigenous Ritual Wind Instruments in Lowland South America

    The first in-depth, comparative, and interdisciplinary study of indigenous Amazonian musical cultures, Burst of Breath showcases new research on the dynamic range of ritual power and social significance of various wind instruments--including flutes, trumpets, clarinets, and whistles--played in sacred rituals and ceremonies in Lowland...
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  • Love That Latin Beat by Hal Leonard Corp
    Hal Leonard Corp

    Love That Latin Beat

    (E-Z Play Today). 20 songs, including: Amapola * Besame Mucho * The Breeze and I * The Girl from Ipanema * The Look of Love * Mambo Jambo * Meditation * Never on Sunday * Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars * What a Diff'rence...
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  • Lift Every Voice: The History of African American Music by Peretti, Burton W.
    Burton W. Peretti

    Lift Every Voice: The History of African American Music

    Lift Every Voice traces the roots of black music in Africa and slavery and its evolution in the United States from the end of slavery to the present day. The music's creators, consumers, and distributors are all part of the story. Musical genres such...
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  • Zarzuela!: Baritone by Hal Leonard Corp
    Hal Leonard Corp

    Zarzuela!: Baritone

    (Music Sales America). Songs from the Zarzuela for Baritone with piano accompaniment, including notes on the dramatic context of each song and English literal translations by Christopher Webber. This unique collection presents celebrated songs from Zarzula, the popular Spanish tradition of music theatre which...
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  • Enya - Shepherd Moons by Enya
    Enya

    Enya - Shepherd Moons

    (Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook). Afer Ventus * Angeles * Book of Days * Caribbean Blue * Ebudae * Evacuee * How Can I Keep From Singing * Lothlorien * Marble Halls * No Holly For Miss Quinn * Samointe (D'aodh Agus Do Mhaire) * Shepherd...
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  • Music of the High Medieval Era by McWilliams, John Daniel
    John Daniel McWilliams

    Music of the High Medieval Era

    This collection of scores is based on The Resounding Project's first album, Music of the High Medieval Era Performed on Period Instruments. The Resounding Project researches and reconstructs early musical instruments and uses them to recreate authentic early music. The work uses the period...
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  • Teton Sioux Music by Densmore, Frances
    Frances Densmore

    Teton Sioux Music

    Teton Sioux Music is a comprehensive book on the traditional music of the Teton Sioux tribe, written by Frances Densmore. The book provides a detailed account of the music, songs, and dances of the Sioux people, with a focus on the Teton Sioux sub-group....
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  • Teton Sioux Music by Densmore, Frances
    Frances Densmore

    Teton Sioux Music

    Teton Sioux Music is a book written by Frances Densmore, which provides a comprehensive study of the music and culture of the Teton Sioux people. The book is based on the author's extensive fieldwork and research conducted among the Sioux tribes in the early...
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  • Opera in a Multicultural World: Coloniality, Culture, Performance by Ingraham, Mary
    Mary Ingraham

    Opera in a Multicultural World: Coloniality, Culture, Performance

    Through historical and contemporary examples, this book critically explores the relevance and expressions of multicultural representation in western European operatic genres in the modern world. It reveals their approaches to reflecting identity, transmitting meaning, and inspiring creation, as well as the ambiguities and contradictions...
    $200.00
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  • Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music: America Changed Through Music by Hair, Ross
    Ross Hair

    Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music: America Changed Through Music

    Released in 1952, the Anthology of American Folk Music was the singular vision of the enigmatic artist, musicologist, and collector Harry Smith (1923-1991). A collection of eighty-four commercial recordings of American vernacular and folk music originally issued between 1927 and 1932, the Anthology featured...
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    $56.95
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  • Music in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity by Smith, John Arthur
    John Arthur Smith

    Music in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity

    In Music in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity, John Arthur Smith presents the first full-length study of music among the ancient Israelites, the ancient Jews and the early Christians in the Mediterranean lands during the period from 1000 BCE to 400 CE. He considers...
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  • The Cambridge Companion to Jewish Music by Walden, Joshua S.
    Joshua S. Walden

    The Cambridge Companion to Jewish Music

    The term 'Jewish music' has conveyed complex and diverse meanings for people around the world across hundreds of years. This accessible and comprehensive Companion is a key resource for students, scholars, and everyone with an interest in the global history of Jewish music. Leading...
    $95.00
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  • Tears of Longing: Nostalgia and the Nation in Japanese Popular Song by Yano, Christine R.
    Christine R. Yano

    Tears of Longing: Nostalgia and the Nation in Japanese Popular Song

    Enka, a sentimental ballad genre, epitomizes for many the nihonjin no kokoro (heart/soul of Japanese). To older members of the Japanese public, who constitute enka's primary audience, this music--of parted lovers, long unseen rural hometowns, and self-sacrificing mothers--evokes a direct connection to the traditional...
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  • In Spirit and in Truth: The Music of African American Worship by Costen, Melva Wilson
    Melva Wilson Costen

    In Spirit and in Truth: The Music of African American Worship

    Melva Wilson Costen examines various genres of music used in African American worship and current practices and emerging trends in music ministry in African American churches. In addition, she explores the use of global songs by African American congregations and provides suggestions to worship...
    $47.00
    $47.00
    $47.00

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