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  • The Songs of Blind Folk: African American Musicians and the Cultures of Blindness by Rowden, Terry
    Terry Rowden

    The Songs of Blind Folk: African American Musicians and the Cultures of Blindness

    "Rowden has wedded ethnomusicology and disability studies to offer a fresh approach to the study of African American popular music. The Songs of Blind Folk undermines many of the defining mythologies and tropes of blind musicians, including the perception that they are successful because...
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  • Representing African Music: Postcolonial Notes, Queries, Positions by Agawu, Kofi
    Kofi Agawu

    Representing African Music: Postcolonial Notes, Queries, Positions

    The aim of this book is to stimulate debate by offering a critique of discourse about African music. Who writes about African music, how, and why? What assumptions and prejudices influence the presentation of ethnographic data? Even the term "African music" suggests there is...
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  • The Music of Africa by Nketia, J. H. Kwabena
    J. H. Kwabena Nketia

    The Music of Africa

    Author: J. H. Kwabena NketiaISBN-10: 0393092496ISBN-13: 9780393092493Publisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/17/1974Pages: 228Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.77lbsSize: 8.19h x 5.39w x 0.87d
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  • Rites, Rights and Rhythms: A Genealogy of Musical Meaning in Colombia's Black Pacific by Birenbaum Quintero, Michael
    Michael Birenbaum Quintero

    Rites, Rights and Rhythms: A Genealogy of Musical Meaning in Colombia's Black Pacific

    Colombia has the largest black population in the Spanish-speaking world, but Afro-Colombians have long remained at the nation's margins. Their recent irruption into the political, social, and cultural spheres is tied to appeals to cultural difference, dramatized by the traditional music of Colombia's majority-black...
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  • Bollywood Sounds: The Cosmopolitan Mediations of Hindi Film Song by Beaster-Jones, Jayson
    Jayson Beaster-Jones

    Bollywood Sounds: The Cosmopolitan Mediations of Hindi Film Song

    Bollywood Sounds focuses on the songs of Indian films in their historical, social, commercial, and cinematic contexts. Author Jayson Beaster-Jones takes readers through the highly collaborative compositional process, highlighting the contributions of film directors, music directors (composers), lyricists, musicians, and singers in song production....
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  • Music in Mexico: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture [With CD (Audio)] [With CD (Audio)] by Madrid, Alejandro L.
    Alejandro L. Madrid

    Music in Mexico: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture [With CD (Audio)] [With CD (Audio)]

    The complex legacy of Mexico's ethnic past and geographic location have shaped the country and its culture. In Music in Mexico, Alejandro L. Madrid uses extensive fieldwork, interviews with performers, eyewitness accounts of performances, and vivid illustrations to guide students through modern-day music practices....
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  • Unfinished Business: Michael Jackson, Detroit, and the Figural Economy of American Deindustrialization by Hamera, Judith
    Judith Hamera

    Unfinished Business: Michael Jackson, Detroit, and the Figural Economy of American Deindustrialization

    How does structural economic change look and feel? How are such changes normalized? Who represents hope? Who are the cautionary tales? Unfinished Business argues that U.S. deindustrialization cannot be understood apart from issues of race, and specifically apart from images of, and works by...
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  • Music in Ireland: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture [With CDROM] by Hast, Dorothea E.
    Dorothea E. Hast

    Music in Ireland: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture [With CDROM]

    Music in Ireland 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...
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  • The Latin Tinge: The Impact of Latin American Music on the United States by Roberts, John Storm
    John Storm Roberts

    The Latin Tinge: The Impact of Latin American Music on the United States

    The Tejano superstar Selena and the tango revival both in the dance clubs and on Broadway are only the most obvious symptoms of how central Latin music is to American musical life. Latino rap has brought a musical revolution, while Latin and Brazilian jazz...
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  • In Hip Hop Time: Music, Memory, and Social Change in Urban Senegal by Appert, Catherine M.
    Catherine M. Appert

    In Hip Hop Time: Music, Memory, and Social Change in Urban Senegal

    In the twenty-first century, Senegalese hip hop--"Rap Galsen"--has reverberated throughout the world as an exemplar of hip hop resistance in its mobilization against government corruption during a series of tumultuous presidential elections. Yet Senegalese hip hop's story goes beyond resistance; it is a story...
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  • Public Ethnomusicology, Education, Archives, & Commerce: An Oxford Handbook of Applied Ethnomusicology, Volume 3 by Pettan, Svanibor
    Svanibor Pettan

    Public Ethnomusicology, Education, Archives, & Commerce: An Oxford Handbook of Applied Ethnomusicology, Volume 3

    The seven ethnomusicologists who contributed to this volume discuss the role and impact of applied ethnomusicology in a variety of public and private sectors, including the commercial music industry, archives and collections, public folklore programs, and music education programs at public schools. Public Ethnomusicology,...
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  • Theory, Method, Sustainability, and Conflict: An Oxford Handbook of Applied Ethnomusicology, Volume 1 by Pettan, Svanibor
    Svanibor Pettan

    Theory, Method, Sustainability, and Conflict: An Oxford Handbook of Applied Ethnomusicology, Volume 1

    The nine ethnomusicologists who contributed to this volume, balanced in age and gender and hailing from a diverse array of countries, share the goal of stimulating further development in the field of ethnomusicology. By theorizing applied ethnomusicology, offering histories, and detailing practical examples, they...
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  • Country Music: A Cultural and Stylistic History by Neal, Jocelyn R.
    Jocelyn R. Neal

    Country Music: A Cultural and Stylistic History

    Written by an experienced teacher and renowned scholar of the genre, Country Music: A Cultural and Stylistic History, Second Edition, offers a chronological narrative that explains country music's origins, development, and meaning from the first commercial recordings of the 1920s up to the present....
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  • Black Women and Music: More Than the Blues by Hayes, Eileen M.
    Eileen M. Hayes

    Black Women and Music: More Than the Blues

    This collection is the first interdisciplinary volume to examine black women's negotiation of race and gender in African American music. Contributors address black women's activity in musical arenas that pre- and postdate the emergence of the vaudeville blues singers of the 1920s. Throughout, the...
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