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  • Hearing Maskanda: Musical Epistemologies in South Africa by Titus, Barbara
    Barbara Titus

    Hearing Maskanda: Musical Epistemologies in South Africa

    Hearing Maskanda outlines how people make sense of their world through practicing and hearing maskanda music in South Africa. Having emerged in response to the experience of forced labour migration in the early 20th century, maskanda continues to straddle a wide range of cultural...
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  • The Power of Music: An Exploration of the Evidence by Hallam, Susan
    Susan Hallam

    The Power of Music: An Exploration of the Evidence

    Building on her earlier work, The Power of Music: A Research Synthesis of the Impact of Actively Making Music on the Intellectual, Social and Personal Development of Children and Young People, this volume by Susan Hallam and Evangelos Himonides is an important new resource...
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  • Music Theory, Analysis, and Society: Selected Essays by Morgan, Robertp
    Robert P. Morgan

    Music Theory, Analysis, and Society: Selected Essays

    Robert P. Morgan is one of a small number of music theorists writing in English who treat music theory, and in particular Schenkerian theory, as part of general intellectual life. Morgan's writings are renowned within the field of music scholarship: he is the author...
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  • The Tango Machine: Musical Culture in the Age of Expediency by Luker, Morgan James
    Morgan James Luker

    The Tango Machine: Musical Culture in the Age of Expediency

    In Argentina, tango isn't just the national music--it's a national brand. But ask any contemporary Argentine if they ever really listen to it and chances are the answer is no: tango hasn't been popular for more than fifty years. In this book, Morgan James...
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  • Whale Music: Thousand Mile Songs in a Sea of Sound by Rothenberg, David
    David Rothenberg

    Whale Music: Thousand Mile Songs in a Sea of Sound

    The marvelous sonic world of whales, from the perspective of music and science. Whale song is an astonishing world of sound whose existence no one suspected before the 1960s. Its discovery has forced us to confront the possibility of alien intelligence--not in outer space...
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  • Stringed Instruments of the Middle Ages: An Illustrated Field Guide to Their Evolution and Development by Panum, H.
    H. Panum

    Stringed Instruments of the Middle Ages: An Illustrated Field Guide to Their Evolution and Development

    Fairhaven Press is proud to publish another historically significant title in the String Music Archaeology series. The String Music Archaeology series consists of both original scholarship and reproductions of important out-of-press titles. This book is republished from the original 1940 text by Panum and...
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  • Zar: Spirit Possession, Music, and Healing Rituals in Egypt by Hadidi, Hager El
    Hager El Hadidi

    Zar: Spirit Possession, Music, and Healing Rituals in Egypt

    An examination of the history and waning culture of zar in Egypt, and the world in which Muslim women negotiate relations with spirits Zar is both a possessing spirit and a set of reconciliation rites between the spirits and their human hosts: living in...
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  • The Last American Gypsy: Chronicles of Phish Tour 2004 by Force, Mike
    Mike Force

    The Last American Gypsy: Chronicles of Phish Tour 2004

    Join A.P. Smith as he travels the country from Phish show to Phish show, from The Mothership in Hampton to the mud fields of Coventry, during what was slated to be the band's final tour and final festival. This book chronicles the author's bittersweet...
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  • New Strung, And Shall Be Heard: An essay on the re-invention of the Celtic harp by Parker, Mike
    Mike Parker

    New Strung, And Shall Be Heard: An essay on the re-invention of the Celtic harp

    The Celtic harp is a familiar part of the modern harp world. It is a common starting point for many players, and a major voice in modern Celtic traditional music. It carries with it cultural and political echoes, and a mythology linking it back...
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  • Music Street New Orleans: A Guide to 200 Jazz, Rock and Rhythm & Blues Sites by Bozant, Kevin J.
    Kevin J. Bozant

    Music Street New Orleans: A Guide to 200 Jazz, Rock and Rhythm & Blues Sites

    Join the "second line" with local author Kevin J. Bozant as he takes you on a neighborhood tour of over 200 music sculptures, markers, parks, murals, historic sites, statues, museums, festivals, plaques and cultural references celebrating the Jazz, Rock and Rhythm & Blues heritage...
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  • Hip Hop Heresies: Queer Aesthetics in New York City by Smalls, Shanté Paradigm
    Shanté Paradigm Smalls

    Hip Hop Heresies: Queer Aesthetics in New York City

    Winner of the 2022-2023 New York City Book Awards! SPECIAL MENTION, 2023 IASPM Book Prize, given by the International Association for the Study of Popular Music SHORTLISTED, 2023 Ralph J. Gleason Book Award, given by the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame/Clive Davis InstituteUnearths...
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  • Recording History: Jews, Muslims, and Music Across Twentieth-Century North Africa by Silver, Christopher
    Christopher Silver

    Recording History: Jews, Muslims, and Music Across Twentieth-Century North Africa

    A new history of twentieth-century North Africa, that gives voice to the musicians who defined an era and the vibrant recording industry that carried their popular sounds from the colonial period through decolonization. If twentieth-century stories of Jews and Muslims in North Africa are...
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  • Recording History: Jews, Muslims, and Music Across Twentieth-Century North Africa by Silver, Christopher
    Christopher Silver

    Recording History: Jews, Muslims, and Music Across Twentieth-Century North Africa

    A new history of twentieth-century North Africa, that gives voice to the musicians who defined an era and the vibrant recording industry that carried their popular sounds from the colonial period through decolonization. If twentieth-century stories of Jews and Muslims in North Africa are...
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  • Transcultural Sound Practices: British Asian Dance Music as Cultural Transformation by Maier, Carla J.
    Carla J. Maier

    Transcultural Sound Practices: British Asian Dance Music as Cultural Transformation

    Listening to the sound practices of bands and musicians such as the Asian Dub Foundation or M.I.A., and spanning three decades of South Asian dance music production in the UK, Transcultural Sound Practiceszooms in on the concrete sonic techniques and narrative strategies in South...
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  • João Gilberto and Stan Getz's Getz/Gilberto by McCann, Bryan Daniel
    Bryan Daniel McCann

    Jo縊 Gilberto and Stan Getz's Getz/Gilberto

    Most die-hard Brazilian music fans would argue that Getz/Gilberto, the iconic 1964 album featuring "The Girl from Ipanema," is not the best bossa nova record. Yet we've all heard "The Girl from Ipanema" as background music in a thousand anodyne settings, from cocktail parties...
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  • Sonic Intimacy: Reggae Sound Systems, Jungle Pirate Radio and Grime Youtube Music Videos by James, Malcolm
    Malcolm James

    Sonic Intimacy: Reggae Sound Systems, Jungle Pirate Radio and Grime YouTube Music Videos

    'Sonic intimacy' is a key concept through which sound, human and technological relations can be assessed in relation to racial capitalism. What is sonic intimacy, how is it changing and what is at stake in its transformation, are questions that should concern us all....
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  • Music and Ethics by Cobussen, Marcel
    Marcel Cobussen

    Music and Ethics

    It seems self-evident that music plays more than just an aesthetic role in contemporary society. In addition, music's social, political, emancipatory, and economical functions have been the subject of much recent research. Given this, it is surprising that the subject of ethics has often...
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  • Scholarly Research for Musicians by Lee, Sang-Hie
    Sang-Hie Lee

    Scholarly Research for Musicians

    Scholarly Research for Musicians presents a range of research methods and techniques, incorporating both the common elements of traditional music research methodologies with innovative research strategies endemic to the fields of social science, education, and performance science. The author's collaborative and interdisciplinary approach reinforces...
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  • Global Metal Music and Culture: Current Directions in Metal Studies by Spracklen, Karl
    Andy Brown

    Global Metal Music and Culture: Current Directions in Metal Studies

    This book defines the key ideas, scholarly debates, and research activities that have contributed to the formation of the international and interdisciplinary field of Metal Studies. Drawing on insights from a wide range of disciplines including popular music, cultural studies, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, and...
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  • Ugandan Music in the Marketing Era: The Branded Arena by Pier, David G.
    David G. Pier

    Ugandan Music in the Marketing Era: The Branded Arena

    David G. Pier offers an ethnographic study of the Senator Extravaganza traditional dance competition in Uganda, and the performers, marketers, and other actors who were involved in it. Pier illustrates the event as part of a broader moment in Ugandan and African public culture...
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  • Gongs and Pop Songs: Sounding Minangkabau in Indonesia by Fraser, Jennifer A.
    Jennifer A. Fraser

    Gongs and Pop Songs: Sounding Minangkabau in Indonesia

    Scholarship on the musical traditions of Indonesia has long focused on practices from Java and Bali, including famed gamelan traditions, at the expense of the wide diversity of other musical forms within the archipelago. Jennifer A. Fraser counters this tendency by exploring a little-known...
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  • ¡Corrido!: The Living Ballad of Mexico's Western Coast by McDowell, John Holmes
    John Holmes McDowell

    ｡Corrido!: The Living Ballad of Mexico's Western Coast

    The present compilation of ballads from the Mexican states of Guerrero and Oaxaca documents one of the world's great traditions of heroic song, a tradition that has thrived continuously for the last hundred years. The 107 corridos presented here, gathered during ethnographic research over...
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  • Rockin' Las Americas: The Global Politics of Rock in Latin/o America by Pacini Hernandez, Deborah
    Deborah Pacini Hernandez

    Rockin' Las Americas: The Global Politics of Rock in Latin/o America

    Every nation in the Americas--from indigenous Peru to revolutionary Cuba--has been touched by the cultural and musical impact of rock. Rockin\u2019 Las Am\u00e9ricas is the first book to explore the production, dissemination, and consumption of rock music throughout the Caribbean, Mexico, Central America, Brazil,...
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  • Singing in Czech: A Guide to Czech Lyric Diction and Vocal Repertoire by Cheek, Timothy
    Timothy Cheek

    Singing in Czech: A Guide to Czech Lyric Diction and Vocal Repertoire

    Timothy Cheek's revised edition of Singing in Czech: A Guide to Czech Lyric Diction and Vocal Repertoire, with its accompanying audio accessible online, builds on the original pioneering work of 2001 that set "a new and very welcome high standard for teaching lyric diction,"...
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  • Tin Pan Alley and the Philippines: American Songs of War and Love, 1898-1946, a Resource Guide by Walsh, Thomas P.
    Thomas P. Walsh

    Tin Pan Alley and the Philippines: American Songs of War And Love, 1898-1946, A Resource Guide

    In this innovative resource, Thomas P. Walsh has compiled a unique collection of some 1,400 published and unpublished American musical compositions related to the Philippines during the American colonial era from 1898 to 1946. For the guide, Walsh surveyed a wide array of sources:...
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  • Music and Displacement: Diasporas, Mobilities, and Dislocations in Europe and Beyond by Levi, Erik
    Erik Levi

    Music and Displacement: Diasporas, Mobilities, and Dislocations in Europe and Beyond

    The grand narratives of European music history are informed by the dichotomy of placements and displacements. Yet musicology has thus far largely ignored the phenomenon of displacement and underestimated its significance for musical landscapes and music history. Music and Displacement: Diasporas, Mobilities, and Dislocations...
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  • Postmodernism and Globalization in Ethnomusicology: An Epistemological Problem by Nercessian, Andy H.
    Andy H. Nercessian

    Postmodernism and Globalization in Ethnomusicology: An Epistemological Problem

    Is the music world clinging to an outdated school of thought in ethnomusicology? Nercessian shows how the theory of cultural relativism continues to detrimentally pervade ethnomusicological thought, and then offers a solution that may better serve musical study in today's more globalized world. At...
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  • The Mystery of Samba: Popular Music and National Identity in Brazil by Vianna, Hermano
    Hermano Vianna

    The Mystery of Samba: Popular Music and National Identity in Brazil

    Samba is Brazil's "national rhythm," the foremost symbol of its culture and nationhood. To the outsider, samba and the famous pre-Lenten carnival of which it is the centerpiece seem to showcase the country's African heritage. Within Brazil, however, samba symbolizes the racial and cultural...
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  • Franklin D Roosevelt by Renshaw, Patrick
    Patrick Renshaw

    Franklin D Roosevelt

    An important addition to the Profiles in Power series, this critical biography looks at Franklin D. Roosevelt, the most dominant US politician of the 1930s and 1940s. Roosevelt led the United States through the two great crises of depression and the Second World War,...
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  • The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music, Space and Place by Stahl, Geoff
    Geoff Stahl

    The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music, Space and Place

    Popular music scholars have long been interested in the connection between place and music. This collection brings together a number of key scholars in order to introduce readers to concepts and theories used to explore the relationships between place and music. An interdisciplinary volume,...
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  • The Mystery of Chopin's Préludes by Leikin, Anatole
    Anatole Leikin

    The Mystery of Chopin's Pr駘udes

    Chopin's twenty-four Pr ludes remain as mysterious today as when they were newly published. What prompted Franz Liszt and others to consider Chopin's Pr ludes to be compositions in their own right rather than introductions to other works? What did set Chopin's Pr ludes...
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  • The Hallelujah Effect: Philosophical Reflections on Music, Performance Practice, and Technology by Babich, Babette
    Babette Babich

    The Hallelujah Effect: Philosophical Reflections on Music, Performance Practice, and Technology

    This book studies the working efficacy of Leonard Cohen's song Hallelujah in the context of today's network culture. Especially as recorded on YouTube, k.d. lang's interpretation(s) of Cohen's Hallelujah, embody acoustically and visually/viscerally, what Nietzsche named the 'spirit of music'. Today, the working of...
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  • Music Education in Africa: Concept, Process, and Practice by Akuno, Emily Achieng'
    Emily Achieng' Akuno

    Music Education in Africa: Concept, Process, and Practice

    This book explores the music of Africa and its experience in modern education, offering music education analyses from African perspectives. The collection assembles insights from around Africa to bring African and non-African scholars into the world of music, education, policy, and assessment as played...
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  • The Spirituals and the Blues - 50th Anniversary Edition by James, Cone
    Cone James

    The Spirituals and the Blues - 50th Anniversary Edition

    "The power of song in the struggle for Black survival--that is what the spirituals and the blues are about." James H. Cone revolutionized American theology with the publication in 1969 and 1970 of his first groundbreaking works on Black Liberation Theology--a fusion of themes...
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  • Popular Music in Japan: Transformation Inspired by the West by Mitsui, Toru
    Toru Mitsui

    Popular Music in Japan: Transformation Inspired by the West

    Popular music in Japan has been under the overwhelming influence of American, Latin American and European popular music remarkably since 1945, when Japan was defeated in World War II. Beginning with gunka and enkaat the turn of the century, tracing the birth of hit...
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  • Missouri Folklore Society Journal: Special Issue: Black Music in the Black Press: an Anthology of Essays from the Heartland by Rice, Marc
    Marc Rice

    Missouri Folklore Society Journal: Special Issue: Black Music in the Black Press: an Anthology of Essays from the Heartland

    Ethnomusicologist Marc Rice immersed himself in African American newspapers published between 1879 and 1935, sifting through hundreds of articles and editorials by Black writers about Black music and musicians. In eight chapters, his Special Issue of the Missouri Folklore Society Journal traces the stars.Author:...
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  • The Games Black Girls Play: Learning the Ropes from Double-Dutch to Hip-Hop by Gaunt, Kyra D.
    Kyra D. Gaunt

    The Games Black Girls Play: Learning the Ropes from Double-Dutch to Hip-Hop

    2007 Alan Merriam Prize presented by the Society for Ethnomusicology 2007 PEN/Beyond Margins Book Award Finalist Explores how the traditions of black music are intertwined in the games black girls grow up with When we think of African American popular music, our first thought...
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  • Professional Music-Making in London: Ethnography and Experience by Cottrell, Stephen
    Stephen Cottrell

    Professional Music-Making in London: Ethnography and Experience

    Professional Music-Making in London is an engaging yet innovative study which examines the lives and work of Western art musicians from an ethnographic perspective. Drawing in part on his own professional experience, Stephen Cottrell considers to what extent musicians in Western society conform to...
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  • Musical Gentrification: Popular Music, Distinction and Social Mobility by Dyndahl, Petter
    Petter Dyndahl

    Musical Gentrification: Popular Music, Distinction and Social Mobility

    Musical Gentrification is an exploration of the role of popular music in processes of socio-cultural inclusion and exclusion in a variety of contexts. Twelve chapters by international scholars reveal how cultural objects of relatively lower status, in this case popular musics, are made objects...
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  • Presence Through Sound: Music and Place in East Asia by Howard, Keith
    Keith Howard

    Presence Through Sound: Music and Place in East Asia

    Presence Through Sound narrates and analyses, through a range of case studies on selected musics of China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and Tibet, some of the many ways in which music and 'place' intersect and are interwoven with meaning in East Asia. It explores how...
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  • Ethnomusicology and Cultural Diplomacy by Hebert, David G.
    David G. Hebert

    Ethnomusicology and Cultural Diplomacy

    Music has long played a prominent role in cultural diplomacy, but until now no resource has comparatively examined policies that shape how non-western countries use music for international relations. Ethnomusicology and Cultural Diplomacy, edited by scholars David G. Hebert and Jonathan McCollum, demonstrates music's...
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  • Microtonality and the Tuning Systems of Erv Wilson by Narushima, Terumi
    Terumi Narushima

    Microtonality and the Tuning Systems of Erv Wilson

    This book explores the emerging area of microtonality through an examination of the tuning theories of Erv Wilson. It is the first publication to offer a broad discussion of this influential theorist whose innovations have far-reaching ramifications for microtonal tuning systems. This study addresses...
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  • The Hidden Musicians: Music-Making in an English Town by Finnegan, Ruth
    Ruth Finnegan

    The Hidden Musicians: Music-Making in an English Town

    A classic ethnography reveals the worlds of amateur musicians. Back in print with a new preface.A landmark in the study of music and culture, this acclaimed volume documents the remarkable scope of amateur music-making in the English town of Milton Keynes. It presents in...
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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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  • Making It Up Together: The Art of Collective Improvisation in Balinese Music and Beyond by Tilley, Leslie A.
    Leslie A. Tilley

    Making It Up Together: The Art of Collective Improvisation in Balinese Music and Beyond

    Most studies of musical improvisation focus on individual musicians. But that is not the whole story. From jazz to flamenco, Shona mbira to Javanese gamelan, improvised practices thrive on group creativity, relying on the close interaction of multiple simultaneously improvising performers. In Making It...
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  • SamulNori: Contemporary Korean Drumming and the Rebirth of Itinerant Performance Culture [With CD (Audio)] by Hesselink, Nathan
    Nathan Hesselink

    SamulNori: Contemporary Korean Drumming and the Rebirth of Itinerant Performance Culture [With CD (Audio)]

    In 1978, four musicians crowded into a cramped basement theater in downtown Seoul, where they, for the first time, brought the rural percussive art of p'ungmul to a burgeoning urban audience. In doing so, they began a decades-long reinvention of tradition, one that would...
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  • Thinking Musically: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture [With CD (Audio)] by Wade, Bonnie C.
    Bonnie C. Wade

    Thinking Musically: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture [With CD (Audio)]

    As the cornerstone of the Global Music Series, Thinking Musically, Third Edition, explores musical diversity by integrating the sounds and traditions of world cultures. Bonnie C. Wade discusses how various cultural influences-gender, ethnicity, mass media, westernization, nationalism, and acculturation-are shaping music and the ways...
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  • Music Worlding in Palau: Chanting, Atmospheres, and Meaningfulness by Abels, Birgit
    Birgit Abels

    Music Worlding in Palau: Chanting, Atmospheres, and Meaningfulness

    Music Worlding in Palau: Chanting, Atmospheres, and Meaningfulness is a detailed study of the performing arts in Palau, Micronesia as holistic techniques enabling the experiential corporeality of music's meaningfulness - that distinctly musical way of making sense of the world with which the felt...
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  • Sonic Mobilities: Producing Worlds in Southern China by Kielman, Adam
    Adam Kielman

    Sonic Mobilities: Producing Worlds in Southern China

    A fascinating look at how the popular musical culture of Guangzhou expresses the city's unique cosmopolitanism. Guangzhou is a large Chinese city like many others. With a booming economy and abundant job opportunities, it has become a magnet for rural citizens seeking better job...
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  • Sonic Identity at the Margins by Love, Joanna
    Joanna Love

    Sonic Identity at the Margins

    Sonic Identity at the Margins convenes the interdisciplinary work of 17 academics, composers, and performers to examine sonic identity from the 19th century to the present. Recognizing the myriad aspects of identity formation, the authors in this volume adopt methodological approaches that range from...
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