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  • Music Making Community by Perman, Tony
    Tony Perman

    Music Making Community

    Making music offers enormous possibilities--and faces significant limitations--in its power to generate belonging and advance social justice. Tony Perman and Stefan Fiol edit essays focused on the forms of interplay between music-making and community-making as mutually creative processes. Contributors in the first section look...
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  • Social Voices: The Cultural Politics of Singers Around the Globe by Gibbs, Levi S.
    Levi S. Gibbs

    Social Voices: The Cultural Politics of Singers Around the Globe

    Singers generating cultural identity from K-Pop to Beverly Sills Around the world and across time, singers and their songs stand at the crossroads of differing politics and perspectives. Levi S. Gibbs edits a collection built around the idea of listening as a political act...
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  • Playing the Harmonium Beginners Guide: Master the Art of Playing the Harmonium: A Step-by-Step Guide from Basics to Advanced Techniques by Harmse, Brenda
    Brenda Harmse

    Playing the Harmonium Beginners Guide: Master the Art of Playing the Harmonium: A Step-by-Step Guide from Basics to Advanced Techniques

    PLAYING THE HARMONIUM BEGINNERS GUIDE Unlock the Joy of Playing the Harmonium - Your Ultimate Step-by-Step Guide Have you ever dreamed of creating beautiful melodies on the harmonium but didn't know where to start? Look no further! [PLAYING THE HARMONIUM BEGINNERS GUIDE ] is...
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  • Rāgs Around the Clock by Clarke, David
    David Clarke

    Rāgs Around the Clock

    Rāgs Around the Clock is a rich and vibrant compendium for the discovery and study of North Indian classical music. The theory and practice of rāg are explored through two interlinked resources: a handbook of essays and analyses offering technical, historical, cultural and aesthetic...
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  • Janggu (How to Play): A Comprehensive Guide To Mastering The Korean Hourglass Drum: Methods, Rhythms, Maintenance, And Insights For Beginner by Molina, Etha
    Etha Molina

    Janggu (How to Play): A Comprehensive Guide To Mastering The Korean Hourglass Drum: Methods, Rhythms, Maintenance, And Insights For Beginner

    Are you ready to master the rhythmic heartbeat of traditional Korean music? Discover the art of playing the Janggu with expert guidance and comprehensive techniques in this definitive guide.Unlock the Secrets of the Janggu Ever wondered how to produce those mesmerizing beats that resonate...
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  • Transformismo: Performing Trans/Queer Cuba by Leslie Santana, M. Myrta
    M. Myrta Leslie Santana

    Transformismo: Performing Trans/Queer Cuba

    In Transformismo, M. Myrta Leslie Santana draws on years of embedded research within Cuban trans/queer communities to analyze how transformistas, or drag performers, understand their roles in the social transformation of the island. Once banned and censored in Cuba, drag performance is now a...
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  • Illustrated Sheet Music in the U.S., 1830-1930 by Leininger-Miller, Theresa
    Theresa Leininger-Miller

    Illustrated Sheet Music in the U.S., 1830-1930

    Illustrated sheet music was one of the most democratic forms of visual imagery in the U.S., owned by millions of Americans wooed by compelling lithographic covers, who displayed and performed compositions on home pianos. Advancements in printing technologies in the 19th century, together with...
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  • Debt and Redemption in the Blues: The Call for Justice by Simon, Julia
    Julia Simon

    Debt and Redemption in the Blues: The Call for Justice

    This volume explores concepts of freedom and bondage in the blues and argues that this genre of music explicitly calls for a reckoning while expressing faith in a secular justice to come. Placing blues music within its historical context of the post-Reconstruction South, Jim...
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  • Religious Sounds Beyond the Global North: Senses, Media and Power by Lorea, Carola
    Carola Lorea

    Religious Sounds Beyond the Global North: Senses, Media and Power

    What makes sounds "religious"? How are communities shaped by the things they hear, play, or listen to? This book foregrounds connections between sounds, bodies, and media in the private and public life of communities beyond the Global North, analyzing diverse configurations of the category...
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  • Music of Latin America and the Caribbean by Brill, Mark
    Mark Brill

    Music of Latin America and the Caribbean

    Music of Latin America and the Caribbean, Second Edition is a comprehensive textbook for undergraduate students, which covers all major facets of Latin American music, finding a balance between important themes and illustrative examples. This book is about enjoying the music itself and provides...
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  • Gamelan Girls: Gender, Childhood, and Politics in Balinese Music Ensembles by Downing, Sonja Lynn
    Sonja Lynn Downing

    Gamelan Girls: Gender, Childhood, and Politics in Balinese Music Ensembles

    In recent years, girls' and mixed-gender ensembles have challenged the tradition of male-dominated gamelan performance. The change heralds a fundamental shift in how Balinese think about gender roles and the gender behavior taught in children's music education. It also makes visible a national reorganization...
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  • IstimĀ': The Sound Way & Listening for God by Hussain, Ali
    Ali Hussain

    IstimĀ': The Sound Way & Listening for God

    The universe began with a movement of sound, as the Divine Creative Command Kun (Be!) reverberated with tarab (musical ecstasy) through all the levels of existence, beginning with the Divine Throne all the way to the heart of humanity. In this book, we explore...
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  • Music as Heritage: Historical and Ethnographic Perspectives by Norton, Barley
    Barley Norton

    Music as Heritage: Historical and Ethnographic Perspectives

    As economic, technological and cultural change gathers pace across the world, issues of music heritage and sustainability have become ever more pressing. Discourse on intangible cultural heritage has developed in complex ways in recent years, and musical practices have been transformed by safeguarding agendas....
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  • Fiddling Way Out Yonder: The Life and Music of Melvin Wine by Beisswenger, Drew
    Drew Beisswenger

    Fiddling Way Out Yonder: The Life and Music of Melvin Wine

    From a small mountain town in West Virginia, elder fiddler Melvin Wine has inspired musicians and music enthusiasts far beyond his homeplace. Music, community, and tradition influence all aspects of life in this rural region. Fiddling Way Out Yonder: The Life and Music of...
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  • Listen with the Ear of the Heart: Music and Monastery Life at Weston Priory by Guarino, Maria S.
    Maria S. Guarino

    Listen with the Ear of the Heart: Music and Monastery Life at Weston Priory

    A "contemplative" ethnographic study of a Benedictine monastery in Vermont known for its folk-inspired music. Far from being a long-silent echo of medieval religion, modern monastery music is instead a resounding, living illustration of the role of music in religious life. Benedictine monks gather...
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  • Hating Jazz: A History of Its Disparagement, Mockery, and Other Forms of Abuse by Berish, Andrew S.
    Andrew S. Berish

    Hating Jazz: A History of Its Disparagement, Mockery, and Other Forms of Abuse

    A deep dive into the meaning behind the hatred of jazz. A rock guitarist plays four notes in front of one thousand people, while a jazz guitarist plays one thousand notes in front of four people. You might laugh or groan at this jazz...
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  • Going Up the Country: Adventures in Blues Fieldwork in the 1960s by Bokelman, Marina
    Marina Bokelman

    Going Up the Country: Adventures in Blues Fieldwork in the 1960s

    At the height of the blues revival, Marina Bokelman and David Evans, young graduate students from California, made two trips to Louisiana and Mississippi and short trips in their home state to do fieldwork for their studies at UCLA. While there, they made recordings...
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  • Songs And Tales From The Dark Continent by Curtis, Natalie
    Natalie Curtis

    Songs And Tales From The Dark Continent

    Songs And Tales From The Dark Continent is a collection of traditional African folktales and songs compiled and retold by Natalie Curtis. The book features stories and songs from various regions of Africa, including West Africa, Central Africa, and South Africa. The tales and...
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  • The Beneventan Chant by Kelly, Thomas Forrest
    Thomas Forrest Kelly

    The Beneventan Chant

    From the High Middle Ages the dominance of Gregorian chant has obscured the fact that musical practice in early medieval Europe was far richer than has hitherto been recognized. Despite its historical importance, the "Gregorian" is not the most consistent and probably not the...
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  • Melancholic Modalities: Affect, Islam, and Turkish Classical Musicians by Gill, Denise
    Denise Gill

    Melancholic Modalities: Affect, Islam, and Turkish Classical Musicians

    Today, teachers and performers of Turkish classical music intentionally cultivate melancholies, despite these affects being typically dismissed as remnants of the Ottoman Empire. Melancholic Modalities is the first in-depth historical and ethnographic study of the practices socialized by musicians who enthusiastically teach and perform...
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  • Sonic Meditations by Oliveros, Pauline
    Pauline Oliveros

    Sonic Meditations

    Pauline Oliveros (1932-2016) Pauline Oliveros' life as a composer, performer and humanitarian was about opening her own and others' sensibilities to the universe and facets of sounds. Her career spanned fifty years of boundary dissolving music making. In the '50s she was part of...
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  • Hating Jazz: A History of Its Disparagement, Mockery, and Other Forms of Abuse by Berish, Andrew S.
    Andrew S. Berish

    Hating Jazz: A History of Its Disparagement, Mockery, and Other Forms of Abuse

    A deep dive into the meaning behind the hatred of jazz. A rock guitarist plays four notes in front of one thousand people, while a jazz guitarist plays one thousand notes in front of four people. You might laugh or groan at this jazz...
    $27.50
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  • Gagaku: The Cultural Impact of Japanese Ceremonial Music by Rambelli, Fabio
    Fabio Rambelli

    Gagaku: The Cultural Impact of Japanese Ceremonial Music

    Gagaku, the ceremonial music of the imperial court, Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines in Japan, was established in the early 8th century and has been continuously performed since then. Despite its importance in the cultural and religious history of Japan, this is the only...
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  • Journeys of Love: Kashmiris, Music, and the Poetics of Migration by Hodgson, Thomas
    Thomas Hodgson

    Journeys of Love: Kashmiris, Music, and the Poetics of Migration

    An empathetic and eye-opening portrait of Muslim migrants in England that debunks many misperceptions about their music and poetry. In Journeys of Love, ethnomusicologist Thomas Hodgson rejects the British media's and government's harmful portrayals of Pakistanis as a self-segregating group prohibited from making music,...
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  • Copyright Consciousness: Musical Creativity and Intellectual Property in Turkey by Fossum, Dave
    Dave Fossum

    Copyright Consciousness: Musical Creativity and Intellectual Property in Turkey

    How copyright shapes the nature, value, and meaning of musical creativityCopyright Consciousness explores the mutual influence of intellectual property law, musical creativity, and state cultural policy in Turkey's vibrant music industry. Drawing on ethnographic and archival data from the past five decades, this book...
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  • Copyright Consciousness: Musical Creativity and Intellectual Property in Turkey by Fossum, Dave
    Dave Fossum

    Copyright Consciousness: Musical Creativity and Intellectual Property in Turkey

    How copyright shapes the nature, value, and meaning of musical creativityCopyright Consciousness explores the mutual influence of intellectual property law, musical creativity, and state cultural policy in Turkey's vibrant music industry. Drawing on ethnographic and archival data from the past five decades, this book...
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  • Tango in Japan: Cosmopolitanism Beyond the West by Asaba, Yuiko
    Yuiko Asaba

    Tango in Japan: Cosmopolitanism Beyond the West

    Why do Japanese people love tango? Starting with this question, which the author frequently received while working as a tango violinist in Argentina, Tango in Japan reveals histories and ethnographies of tango in Japan dating back to its first introduction in the 1910s to...
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  • The Cambridge Companion to Music in Australia by Harris, Amanda
    Amanda Harris

    The Cambridge Companion to Music in Australia

    As a companion to 'music in Australia', rather than 'Australian music', this book acknowledges the complexity and contestation inherent in the term 'Australia', whilst placing the music of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people at its very heart. This companion emphasizes a diversity of...
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  • Lyrics of the Afro-American Spiritual: A Documentary Collection by Peters, Erskine
    Erskine Peters

    Lyrics of the Afro-American Spiritual: A Documentary Collection

    Under the rubric spirituals are subsumed sorrow songs, jubilee songs, shout songs, chants, homilies, mantras, affirmations, and collective, personal, and historical allegories. Their lyrics tell an impassioned story of an embattled people, while presenting a theology of salvation; in general, they encompass crucial aspects...
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  • Lions of the North: Sounds of the New Nordic Radical Nationalism by Teitelbaum, Benjamin R.
    Benjamin R. Teitelbaum

    Lions of the North: Sounds of the New Nordic Radical Nationalism

    Often labeled "neo-Nazis" or "right-wing extremists," radical nationalists in the Nordic countries have always relied on music to voice their opposition to immigration and multiculturalism. These actors shook political establishments throughout Sweden, Denmark, and Norway during the 1980s and 1990s by rallying around white...
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  • Tarab: Music, Ecstasy, Emotion, and Performance by Frishkopf, Michael
    Michael Frishkopf

    Tarab: Music, Ecstasy, Emotion, and Performance

    In Arab culture, at the ineffable point where music meets emotion, lies ṭarab. Often glossed as the ecstasy experienced and expressed when performing or listening to singing, instrumental works, and recitations of poetry, ṭarab is both a practice and an orienting concept central to...
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  • Fairouz and the Arab Diaspora: Music and Identity in the UK and Qatar by Issa, Dima
    Dima Issa

    Fairouz and the Arab Diaspora: Music and Identity in the UK and Qatar

    With a discography of over 1000 songs, 20 musicals and three motion pictures, the Lebanese singer and performer, Fairouz, is an artist of pan-Arab appeal, who has connected with listeners from diverse backgrounds and geographies for over four often tumultuous decades. In this book,...
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  • Singing the Himalayan Crossroads: Traditional Songs of Ladakh by Dinnerstein, No?
    No? Dinnerstein

    Singing the Himalayan Crossroads: Traditional Songs of Ladakh

    Singing the Himalayan Crossroads places the traditional song repertoires of the former Himalayan kingdom of Ladakh in both their historical and modern contexts. Although scholarly, it is aimed at a broad general audience, including people interested in ethnomusicology, Tibet, Buddhism, the Silk Road, or...
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  • The Resounding Revolution: Freedom Song After 1968 by Stacks, Stephen
    Stephen Stacks

    The Resounding Revolution: Freedom Song After 1968

    Far from being bounded by the timeframe of the 1960s, freedom song continues to evolve as a tool both of historical memory and of present activism. Stephen Stacks looks at how post-1968 freedom song helps us negotiate our present relationship to the era while...
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  • The Resounding Revolution: Freedom Song After 1968 by Stacks, Stephen
    Stephen Stacks

    The Resounding Revolution: Freedom Song After 1968

    Far from being bounded by the timeframe of the 1960s, freedom song continues to evolve as a tool both of historical memory and of present activism. Stephen Stacks looks at how post-1968 freedom song helps us negotiate our present relationship to the era while...
    $110.00
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  • Fiddling Is My Joy: The Fiddle in African American Culture by Djedje, Jacqueline Cogdell
    Jacqueline Cogdell Djedje

    Fiddling Is My Joy: The Fiddle in African American Culture

    In Fiddling Is My Joy, Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje examines the history of fiddling among African Americans from the seventeenth to the mid-twentieth century. Although music historians acknowledge a prominent African American fiddle tradition during the era of slavery, only recently have researchers begun to...
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  • Fiddling Is My Joy: The Fiddle in African American Culture by Djedje, Jacqueline Cogdell
    Jacqueline Cogdell Djedje

    Fiddling Is My Joy: The Fiddle in African American Culture

    In Fiddling Is My Joy, Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje examines the history of fiddling among African Americans from the seventeenth to the mid-twentieth century. Although music historians acknowledge a prominent African American fiddle tradition during the era of slavery, only recently have researchers begun to...
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  • Music in German Immigrant Theater: New York City, 1840-1940 [With CD (Audio)] by Koegel, John
    John Koegel

    Music in German Immigrant Theater: New York City, 1840-1940 [With CD (Audio)]

    A history -- the first ever -- of the abundant traditions of German-American musical theater in New York, and a treasure trove of songs and information. Nineteenth-century New York was, after Berlin and Vienna, the third largest German-populated city in the world. German-language musical...
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  • Wake the Town and Tell the People: Dancehall Culture in Jamaica by Stolzoff, Norman C.
    Norman C. Stolzoff

    Wake the Town and Tell the People: Dancehall Culture in Jamaica

    Jamaican dancehall has long been one of the most vital and influential cultural and artistic forces within contemporary global music. Wake the Town and Tell the People presents, for the first time, a lively, nuanced, and comprehensive view of this musical and cultural phenomenon:...
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  • Music as Social Life: The Politics of Participation [With CD] by Turino, Thomas
    Thomas Turino

    Music as Social Life: The Politics of Participation [With CD]

    People around the world and throughout history have used music to express their inner emotions, reach out to the divine, woo lovers, celebrate weddings, inspire political movements, and lull babies to sleep. In Music as Social Life, Thomas Turino explores why it is that...
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  • American Rap Scenes: An Analysis of 25 Locations by Pope, Lavar
    Lavar Pope

    American Rap Scenes: An Analysis of 25 Locations

    American Rap Scenes examines the history and legacy of rap music in 25 American cities through factors of geography, migration, movements, music, and technology. Providing area-centered analysis of a culture many see as monolithic, Lavar Pope highlights the unique histories of rap and hip-hop...
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  • American Rap Scenes: An Analysis of 25 Locations by Pope, Lavar
    Lavar Pope

    American Rap Scenes: An Analysis of 25 Locations

    American Rap Scenes examines the history and legacy of rap music in 25 American cities through factors of geography, migration, movements, music, and technology. Providing area-centered analysis of a culture many see as monolithic, Lavar Pope highlights the unique histories of rap music and...
    $100.00
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  • The Bloomsbury Handbook of Music and Art by Kraaz, Sarah Mahler
    Sarah Mahler Kraaz

    The Bloomsbury Handbook of Music and Art

    This volume brings together prominent scholars, artists, composers, and directors to present the latest interdisciplinary ideas and projects in the fields of art history, musicology and multi-media practice. Organized around ways of perceiving, experiencing and creating, the book outlines the state of the field...
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  • On Site, In Sound: Performance Geographies in Am?rica Latina by Dorr, Kirstie A.
    Kirstie A. Dorr

    On Site, In Sound: Performance Geographies in Am?rica Latina

    In On Site, In Sound Kirstie A. Dorr examines the spatiality of sound and the ways in which the sonic is bound up in perceptions and constructions of geographic space. Focusing on the hemispheric circulation of South American musical cultures, Dorr shows how sonic...
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  • Frankie McIntosh and the Art of the Soca Arranger by McIntosh, Frankie
    Frankie McIntosh

    Frankie McIntosh and the Art of the Soca Arranger

    Soca music, an offspring of older Trinidadian calypso, emerged in the late 1970s and is now recognized as one of the English-speaking Caribbean's most distinctive styles of popular vocal music. Frankie McIntosh and the Art of the Soca Arranger tells a story of Caribbean...
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  • An Introduction To Navaho Chant Practice: With An Account Of The Behaviors Observed In Four Chants by Kluckhohn, Clyde
    Clyde Kluckhohn

    An Introduction To Navaho Chant Practice: With An Account Of The Behaviors Observed In Four Chants

    ""An Introduction to Navaho Chant Practice"" is a book written by Clyde Kluckhohn that provides a comprehensive overview of Navajo chant ceremonies. The book is divided into two parts, the first of which introduces the reader to the Navajo culture and history, as well...
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  • The Power of Black Music: Interpreting Its History from Africa to the United States by Floyd, Samuel A., Jr.
    Samuel A. Jr. Floyd

    The Power of Black Music: Interpreting Its History from Africa to the United States

    When Jimi Hendrix transfixed the crowds of Woodstock with his gripping version of "The Star Spangled Banner," he was building on a foundation reaching back, in part, to the revolutionary guitar playing of Howlin' Wolf and the other great Chicago bluesmen, and to the...
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  • Homesick Blues: Politics, Protest, and Musical Storytelling in Modern Japan by Aalgaard, Scott W.
    Scott W. Aalgaard

    Homesick Blues: Politics, Protest, and Musical Storytelling in Modern Japan

    Homesick Blues explores how artists, fans, amateur practitioners, and others have used music to tell stories of everyday life in Japan from the late 1940s to 2018, a practice that author Scott Aalgaard calls "musical storytelling." At its core, musical storytelling is a political...
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  • A Guru's Journey: Pandit Chitresh Das and Indian Classical Dance in Diaspora by Morelli, Sarah
    Sarah Morelli

    A Guru's Journey: Pandit Chitresh Das and Indian Classical Dance in Diaspora

    An important modern exponent of Asian dance, Pandit Chitresh Das brought kathak to the United States in 1970. The North Indian classical dance has since become an important art form within the greater Indian diaspora. Yet its adoption outside of India raises questions about...
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  • The Cambridge Companion to Music in Australia by Harris, Amanda
    Amanda Harris

    The Cambridge Companion to Music in Australia

    Highlighting the diversity of musical practice that flows though Australia, this book places the music of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people at its heart. It presents the latest research alongside perspectives of current creative artists, whilst acknowledging the fluid nature of music, and...
    $35.99
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