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  • Musicians from a Different Shore: Asians and Asian Americans in Classical Music by Yoshihara, Mari
    Mari Yoshihara

    Musicians from a Different Shore: Asians and Asian Americans in Classical Music

    Musicians of Asian descent enjoy unprecedented prominence in concert halls, conservatories, and classical music performance competitions. In the first book on the subject, Mari Yoshihara looks into the reasons for this phenomenon, starting with her own experience of learning to play piano in Japan...
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  • Wired for Music: A Search for Health and Joy Through the Science of Sound by Barton, Adriana
    Adriana Barton

    Wired for Music: A Search for Health and Joy Through the Science of Sound

    "Beautifully written... a riveting account of how melodies and rhythms connect us, and help us deal with alienation and anxiety."--Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, author of The Body Keeps the ScoreIn this captivating blend of science and memoir, a health journalist and former cellist...
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  • Guitar: Guitar Music Book For Beginners, Guide How To Play Guitar Within 24 Hours by Mahalo, Tom
    Tom Mahalo

    Guitar: Guitar Music Book For Beginners, Guide How To Play Guitar Within 24 Hours

    Updated Content On February 4, 2018, + Extra Bonus AddedLearn How To Play The Guitar Within 24 Hours TodayThis book will help you: Learn the guitar in a record time. If you would love to learn how to play the guitar, but have not...
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  • The Blues: The Authentic Narrative of My Music and Culture by King, Chris Thomas
    Chris Thomas King

    The Blues: The Authentic Narrative of My Music and Culture

    "A fresh new perspective that will be a true revolution to readers and will open new lines of discussion on . . . the importance of the city of New Orleans for generations to come." --Dr. Michael White, jazz clarinetist, composer, and Keller Endowed...
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  • The Sound of Hope: Music as Solace, Resistance and Salvation During the Holocaust and World War II by Brown, Kellie D.
    Kellie D. Brown

    The Sound of Hope: Music as Solace, Resistance and Salvation During the Holocaust and World War II

    Since ancient times, music has demonstrated the incomparable ability to touch and resonate with the human spirit as a tool for communication, emotional expression, and as a medium of cultural identity. During World War II, Nazi leadership recognized the power of music and chose...
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  • Wayfaring Strangers: The Musical Voyage from Scotland and Ulster to Appalachia by Ritchie, Fiona
    Fiona Ritchie

    Wayfaring Strangers: The Musical Voyage from Scotland and Ulster to Appalachia

    From the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries, a steady stream of Scots migrated to Ulster and eventually onward across the Atlantic to resettle in the United States. Many of these Scots-Irish immigrants made their way into the mountains of the southern Appalachian region. They...
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  • Musics Lost and Found: Song Collectors and the Life and Death of Folk Tradition by Church, Michael
    Michael Church

    Musics Lost and Found: Song Collectors and the Life and Death of Folk Tradition

    This ground-breaking book is the first-ever study of the role played in musical history by song collectors. This is the first-ever book about song collectors, music's unsung heroes. They include the Armenian priest who sacrificed his life to preserve the folk music which the...
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  • Music, Dance, Anthropology by Cottrell, Stephen
    Stephen Cottrell

    Music, Dance, Anthropology

    This volume celebrates the significant resurgence of interest in the anthropology of music and dance in recent decades. Traversing a range of fascinating topics, from the reassessment of historical figures such as Katherine Dunham and John Blacking, to the contemporary salience of sonic conflict...
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  • Sonorous Worlds: Musical Enchantment in Venezuela by Stainova, Yana
    Yana Stainova

    Sonorous Worlds: Musical Enchantment in Venezuela

    El Sistema is a nationwide, state-funded music education program in Venezuela. Founded in 1975 by economist and musician José Antonio Abreu, the institution has weathered seven jolting changes in government. Hugo Chávez and, after his death, president Nicolás Maduro enthusiastically included the institution into...
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  • Songs of Earth: Aesthetic and Social Codes in Music by Wood, Anna L.
    Anna L. Wood

    Songs of Earth: Aesthetic and Social Codes in Music

    Based upon Cantometrics: An Approach to the Anthropology of Music (1976), by Alan Lomax, Songs of Earth: Aesthetic and Social Codes in Music is a contemporary guide to understanding and exploring Cantometrics, the system developed by Lomax and Victor Grauer for analyzing the formal...
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  • Gullah Spirituals: The Sound of Freedom and Protest in the South Carolina Sea Islands by Crawford, Eric Sean
    Eric Sean Crawford

    Gullah Spirituals: The Sound of Freedom and Protest in the South Carolina Sea Islands

    In Gullah Spirituals musicologist Eric Crawford traces Gullah Geechee songs from their beginnings in West Africa to their height as songs for social change and Black identity in the twentieth century American South. While much has been done to study, preserve, and interpret Gullah...
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  • Just Can't Get Enough: The Making of Depeche Mode by Spence, Simon
    Simon Spence

    Just Can't Get Enough: The Making of Depeche Mode

    Nobody who saw Depeche Mode in 1980 could have predicted that those four fresh-faced, synth-pop innocents would transform themselves into stadium-filling rock gods within a few years. Yet Depeche Mode went on to become one of the ten bestselling British acts of all-time, ranked...
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  • Teklife, Ghettoville, Eski: The Sonic Ecologies of Black Music in the Early 21st Century by Brar, Dhanveer Singh
    Dhanveer Singh Brar

    Teklife, Ghettoville, Eski: The Sonic Ecologies of Black Music in the Early 21st Century

    How black electronic dance music makes it possible to reorganize life within the contemporary city. Teklife, Ghettoville, Eski argues that Black electronic dance music produces sonic ecologies of Blackness that expose and reorder the contemporary racialization of the urban--ecologies that can never simply be...
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  • Salsa Consciente: Politics, Poetics, and Latinidad in the Meta-Barrio by Espinoza Agurto, Andrés
    Andrés Espinoza Agurto

    Salsa Consciente: Politics, Poetics, and Latinidad in the Meta-Barrio

    This volume explores the significations and developments of the Salsa consciente movement, a Latino musico-poetic and political discourse that exploded in the 1970s but then dwindled in momentum into the early 1990s. This movement is largely linked to the development of Nuyolatino popular music...
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  • Ways of Voice: Vocal Striving and Moral Contestation in North India and Beyond by Rahaim, Matthew
    Matthew Rahaim

    Ways of Voice: Vocal Striving and Moral Contestation in North India and Beyond

    An exploration of vocal change and ethical dynamismWays of Voice explores techniques of voice production in North India, from Bollywood to raga music to ghazal to devotional hymns and Sufi song. The voices in play here are not merely given, but achieved. Singers consciously...
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  • Trad Nation: Gender, Sexuality, and Race in Irish Traditional Music by Slominski, Tes
    Tes Slominski

    Trad Nation: Gender, Sexuality, and Race in Irish Traditional Music

    A provocative call to dislodge ethnic nationalism from Irish traditional musicJust how "Irish" is traditional Irish music? Trad Nation combines ethnography, oral history, and archival research to challenge the longstanding practice of using ethnic nationalism as a framework for understanding vernacular music traditions. Tes...
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  • Jimi Hendrix Black Legacy: A Dream Deferred by Washington, Corey Artrail
    Corey Artrail Washington

    Jimi Hendrix Black Legacy: A Dream Deferred

    Jimi Hendrix - Black Legacy (A Dream Deferred) is a deep exploration of Jimi Hendrix's subtle, yet ubiquitous footprint on Black culture. Often, Jimi Hendrix was seen by many to have transcended race, which is a slap in the face to his deep cultural...
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  • Inside Arabic Music: Arabic Maqam Performance and Theory in the 20th Century by Farraj, Johnny
    Johnny Farraj

    Inside Arabic Music: Arabic Maqam Performance and Theory in the 20th Century

    What makes hundreds of listeners cheer ecstatically at the same instant during a live concert by Egyptian diva Umm Kulthum? What is the unspoken language behind a taqsim (traditional instrumental improvisation) that performers and listeners implicitly know? How can Arabic music be so rich...
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  • Soul in Seoul: African American Popular Music and K-Pop by Anderson, Crystal S.
    Crystal S. Anderson

    Soul in Seoul: African American Popular Music and K-Pop

    K-pop (Korean popular music) reigns as one of the most popular music genres in the world today, a phenomenon that appeals to listeners of all ages and nationalities. In Soul in Seoul: African American Popular Music and K-pop, Crystal S. Anderson examines the most...
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  • John Duffey's Bluegrass Life: FEATURING THE COUNTRY GENTLEMEN, SELDOM SCENE, AND WASHINGTON, D.C. - Second Edition by Moore, Stephen
    Stephen Moore

    John Duffey's Bluegrass Life: FEATURING THE COUNTRY GENTLEMEN, SELDOM SCENE, AND WASHINGTON, D.C. - Second Edition

    John Duffey's Bluegrass Life: Featuring The Country Gentlemen, Seldom Scene and Washington, D.C. with a Foreword by Tom Gray is the definitive biography of one of bluegrass music's most important artists of the genre. Through his work as a founding member of these two...
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  • The Anthropology of Music by Merriam, Alan P.
    Alan P. Merriam

    The Anthropology of Music

    In this highly praised and seminal work, Alan Merriam demonstrates that music is a social behavior-one worthy and available to study through the methods of anthropology. In it, he convincingly argues that ethnomusicology, by definition, cannot separate the sound-analysis of music from its cultural...
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  • Our Singing Country: Folk Songs and Ballads by Lomax, John a.
    John a. Lomax

    Our Singing Country: Folk Songs and Ballads

    In the 1930s and 40s, a father-and-son team of folklorists hit the highways, byways and rural routes of the United States, traveling in a battered pickup truck laden with primitive recording equipment. John A. Lomax and his son, Alan, covered thousands of miles, stopping...
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  • Transatlantic History of Haitian Vodou: Rasin Figuier, Rasin Bwa Kayiman, and the Rada and Gede Rites by Hebblethwaite, Benjamin
    Benjamin Hebblethwaite

    A Transatlantic History of Haitian Vodou: Rasin Figuier, Rasin Bwa Kayiman, and the Rada and Gede Rites

    Connecting four centuries of political, social, and religious history with fieldwork and language documentation, A Transatlantic History of Haitian Vodou analyzes Haitian Vodou's African origins, transmission to Saint-Domingue, and promulgation through song in contemporary Haiti. Split into two sections, the African chapters focus on...
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  • I Don't Like the Blues: Race, Place, and the Backbeat of Black Life by Foster, B. Brian
    B. Brian Foster

    I Don't Like the Blues: Race, Place, and the Backbeat of Black Life

    How do you love and not like the same thing at the same time? This was the riddle that met Mississippi writer B. Brian Foster when he returned to his home state to learn about Black culture and found himself hearing about the blues....
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  • Rural Rhythm: The Story of Old-Time Country Music in 78 Records by Russell, Tony
    Tony Russell

    Rural Rhythm: The Story of Old-Time Country Music in 78 Records

    There are many biographies and histories of early country music and its creators, but surprisingly little attention has been given to the actual songs at the heart of these narratives. In this groundbreaking book, music historian Tony Russell turns the spotlight on seventy-eight original...
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  • Sing and Sing on: Sentinel Musicians and the Making of the Ethiopian American Diaspora by Shelemay, Kay Kaufman
    Kay Kaufman Shelemay

    Sing and Sing on: Sentinel Musicians and the Making of the Ethiopian American Diaspora

    A sweeping history of Ethiopian musicians during and following the 1974 Ethiopian revolution. Sing and Sing On is the first study of the forced migration of musicians out of the Horn of Africa dating from the 1974 Ethiopian revolution, a political event that overthrew...
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  • Echoes of the Great Catastrophe: Re-Sounding Anatolian Greekness in Diaspora by League, Panayotis
    Panayotis League

    Echoes of the Great Catastrophe: Re-Sounding Anatolian Greekness in Diaspora

    Echoes of the Great Catastrophe: Re-sounding Anatolian Greekness in Diaspora explores the legacy of the Great Catastrophe--the death and expulsion from Turkey of 1.5 million Greek Christians following the Greco-Turkish War of 1919-1922--through the music and dance practices of Greek refugees and their descendants...
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  • Why You Love Music: From Mozart to Metallica--The Emotional Power of Beautiful Sounds by Powell, John
    John Powell

    Why You Love Music: From Mozart to Metallica--The Emotional Power of Beautiful Sounds

    A delightful journey through the psychology and science of music, Why You Love Music is the perfect book for anyone who loves a tune. Music plays a hugely important role in our emotional, intellectual, and even physical lives. It impacts the ways we work,...
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  • Whose Blues?: Facing Up to Race and the Future of the Music by Gussow, Adam
    Adam Gussow

    Whose Blues?: Facing Up to Race and the Future of the Music

    Mamie Smith's pathbreaking 1920 recording of "Crazy Blues" set the pop music world on fire, inaugurating a new African American market for "race records." Not long after, such records also brought black blues performance to an expanding international audience. A century later, the mainstream...
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  • World Music: A Global Journey: A Global Journey by Miller, Terry E.
    Terry E. Miller

    World Music: A Global Journey

    World Music: A Global Journey, Fifth Edition, explores the diversity of musical expression around the world, taking students across the globe to experience cultural traditions that challenge the ear, the mind, and the spirit. It surveys world music within a systematic study of the...
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  • The Language of the Blues: From Alcorub to Zuzu by Devi, Debra
    Debra Devi

    The Language of the Blues: From Alcorub to Zuzu

    Find out what the words in your favorite blues songs really mean In The Language of the Blues: From Alcorub to Zuzu (Foreword by Dr. John), rock musician Debra Devi defines 170 blues terms like mojo, hoodoo, buffet flat and killing floor with wild...
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  • Music in Egypt Book and CD [With CD] by Marcus
    Scott L. Marcus

    Music in Egypt: Experiencing Music, Expressing Cultureincludes CD [With CD]

    Music in Egypt 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 Other Classical Musics: Fifteen Great Traditions by Church, Michael
    Michael Church

    The Other Classical Musics: Fifteen Great Traditions

    The Other Classical Musics offers challenging new perspectives on classical music by presenting the history of fifteen parallel traditions. Winner of the Royal Philharmonic Society Music Award for Creative Communication 2015 There is a treasure trove of underappreciated music out there; this book will...
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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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  • The Bakersfield Sound: How a Generation of Displaced Okies Revolutionized American Music by Price, Robert E.
    Robert E. Price

    The Bakersfield Sound: How a Generation of Displaced Okies Revolutionized American Music

    In California's Central Valley, two thousand miles away from country music's hit machine, the hard edge of the Bakersfield Sound transformed American music in the latter half of the twentieth century. It turned displaced Oklahomans like Buck Owens and Merle Haggard into household names,...
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  • To Win the Indian Heart: Music at Chemawa Indian School by Parkhurst, Melissa D.
    Melissa D. Parkhurst

    To Win the Indian Heart: Music at Chemawa Indian School

    Since 1879, Indian children from all regions of the United States have entered federal boarding schools--institutions designed to assimilate them into mainstream society. Chemawa Indian School in western Oregon, one of the nation's oldest and the longest still in continuous operation, is an emblem...
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  • Latin Jazz: The Other Jazz by Washburne, Christopher
    Christopher Washburne

    Latin Jazz: The Other Jazz

    Jazz has always been a genre built on the blending of disparate musical cultures. Latin jazz illustrates this perhaps better than any other style in this rich tradition, yet its cultural heritage has been all but erased from narratives of jazz history. Told from...
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  • Listening to the Lomax Archive: The Sonic Rhetorics of African American Folksong in the 1930s by Stone, Jonathan W.
    Jonathan W. Stone

    Listening to the Lomax Archive: The Sonic Rhetorics of African American Folksong in the 1930s

    In 1933, John A. Lomax and his son Alan set out as emissaries for the Library of Congress to record the folksong of the "American Negro" in several southern African American prisons. Listening to the Lomax Archive: The Sonic Rhetorics of African American Folksong...
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  • Road to Rembetika: music of a greek sub-culture, songs of love, sorrow and hashish by Holst, Gail
    Gail Holst

    Road to Rembetika: music of a greek sub-culture, songs of love, sorrow and hashish

    The rembetika, songs that were sung in the poor quarters of Smyrna, Istanbul and the ports of Greece in the late nineteenth century, and became the popular bouzouki music of the 1930s to 1950s, have many parallels with American blues. Like the blues, the...
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  • Japanthem: Counter-Cultural Experiences, Cross-Cultural Remixes by Marshall, Jillian
    Jillian Marshall

    Japanthem: Counter-Cultural Experiences, Cross-Cultural Remixes

    "In this illuminating debut, Marshall offers an outsider's look into Japanese culture via its music . . . Throughout, her sharp observations are interspersed with moving moments of introspection . . . This transportive work is a thrilling escape." -Publishers WeeklyFulbright and mtvU sponsored...
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  • Whose Blues?: Facing Up to Race and the Future of the Music by Gussow, Adam
    Adam Gussow

    Whose Blues?: Facing Up to Race and the Future of the Music

    Mamie Smith's pathbreaking 1920 recording of "Crazy Blues" set the pop music world on fire, inaugurating a new African American market for "race records." Not long after, such records also brought black blues performance to an expanding international audience. A century later, the mainstream...
    $99.00
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  • The Singing Earth: Adventures From A World Of Music by Martin, Barrett
    Barrett Martin

    The Singing Earth: Adventures From A World Of Music

    The Singing Earth is a collection of musical adventure stories from Grammy-winning producer, composer, and writer Barrett Martin. The book chronicles Martin's musical work in 14 different musical regions, across 6 continents, over the course of 30 years. It starts with his involvement in...
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  • Music-Study in Germany: The Classic Memoir of the Romantic Era by Fay, Amy
    Amy Fay

    Music-Study in Germany: The Classic Memoir of the Romantic Era

    In this series of letters written between November 1869 and May 1875, a young American pianist, Amy Fay, recounts the thrilling experience of studying piano with such great teachers as Liszt, Tausig, and Kullak. Printed 21 times in America, published also in London, and...
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  • Music in the Hispanic Caribbean: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture [With CDROM] by Moore, Robin
    Robin Moore

    Music in the Hispanic Caribbean: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture [With CDROM]

    ** Music in the Hispanic Caribbean 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...
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  • Rock on Record by Zak, Albin J.
    Albin J. Zak

    Rock on Record

    Albin J. Zak is Professor Emeritus of Music at the University at Albany, State University of New York. Zak is the author of many books, including The Poetics of Rock: Cutting Tracks, Making Records and I Don't Sound Like Nobody: Remaking Music in 1950s...
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  • Musics of the World by Williams, Sean
    Sean Williams

    Musics of the World

    Musics of the World offers a rich and inviting introduction to music from around the globe, exploring a diverse array of traditions and genres in depth while helping students develop skills for approaching new music in their lives. Clear, accessible introductory chapters give students...
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  • The Cape Breton Fiddle Companion by Doherty, Liz
    Liz Doherty

    The Cape Breton Fiddle Companion

    Celtic music scholar and musician Liz Doherty is no stranger to Cape Breton music - in fact, she has made a study of it. Doherty's exposure to, and research of, the island's music traditions was the germination for this compendium on the Cape Breton...
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  • Resonances of Chindon-YA: Sounding Space and Sociality in Contemporary Japan by Abe, Marié
    Marié Abe

    Resonances of Chindon-YA: Sounding Space and Sociality in Contemporary Japan

    An investigation of music, sound, and public space in contemporary JapanIn this first book-length study of chindon-ya, Marié Abe investigates the intersection of sound, public space, and sociality in contemporary Japan. Chindon-ya, dating back to the 1840s, are ostentatiously costumed street musicians who publicize...
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  • Great God A'Mighty! the Dixie Hummingbirds: Celebrating the Rise of Soul Gospel Music by Zolten, Jerry
    Jerry Zolten

    Great God A'Mighty! the Dixie Hummingbirds: Celebrating the Rise of Soul Gospel Music

    The venerable Dixie Hummingbirds stand at the top of the black gospel music pantheon as artists who not only significantly shaped that genre but, in the process, also profoundly influenced emerging American pop music genres from Rhythm & Blues and Doo-Wop to Rock 'n'...
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  • The Folk: Music, Modernity, and the Political Imagination by Cole, Ross
    Ross Cole

    The Folk: Music, Modernity, and the Political Imagination

    Who are "the folk" in folk music? This book traces the musical culture of these elusive figures in Britain and the US during a crucial period of industrialization from 1870 to 1930, and beyond to the contemporary alt-right. Drawing on a broad, interdisciplinary range...
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