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  • Central Avenue Sounds: Jazz in Los Angeles by Bryant, Clora
    Clora Bryant

    Central Avenue Sounds: Jazz in Los Angeles

    The musical and social history of Los Angeles's black community from the 1920s through the early 1950s comes to life in this exceptional oral history collection. Through the voices of musicians who performed on L.A.'s Central Avenue during those years, a vivid picture of...
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  • Buyers Beware: Insurgency and Consumption in Caribbean Popular Culture by Saunders, Patricia Joan
    Patricia Joan Saunders

    Buyers Beware: Insurgency and Consumption in Caribbean Popular Culture

    Buyers Beware offers a new perspective for critical inquiries about the practices of consumption in (and of) Caribbean popular culture. The book revisits commonly accepted representations of the Caribbean from "less respectable" segments of popular culture such as dancehall culture and 'sistah lit' that...
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  • Chocolate Surrealism: Music, Movement, Memory, and History in the Circum-Caribbean by Njoroge, Njoroge M.
    Njoroge M. Njoroge

    Chocolate Surrealism: Music, Movement, Memory, and History in the Circum-Caribbean

    In Chocolate Surrealism, Njoroge M. Njoroge highlights connections among the production, performance, and reception of popular music at critical historical junctures in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The author sifts different origins and styles to place socio-musical movements into a larger historical framework....
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  • Brass Baja: Stories from the World of Indian Wedding Bands [Oip] by Booth, Gregory
    Gregory Booth

    Brass Baja: Stories from the World of Indian Wedding Bands [Oip]

    Anyone who has seen a wedding procession in northern India would have heard and seen the band of professional musicians accompanying the procession. Surrounded by bright lamps and dressed in uniforms reminiscent of military finery, these are the men who herald the arrival of...
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  • Chico Buarque's First Chico Buarque by Perrone, Charles A.
    Charles A. Perrone

    Chico Buarque's First Chico Buarque

    Chico Buarque comprises a critical appreciation of the self-titled album (1978), which is one of the Brazilian artist's most representative. This vibrant collection displays the singer-songwriter's singular talents as a composer/poet of songs with both popular appeal and keen analytical skills. The 11 tracks...
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  • Check the Technique: Liner Notes for Hip-Hop Junkies by Coleman, Brian
    Brian Coleman

    Check the Technique: Liner Notes for Hip-Hop Junkies

    A Tribe Called Quest - Beastie Boys - De La Soul - Eric B. & Rakim - The Fugees - KRS-One - Pete Rock & CL Smooth - Public Enemy - The Roots - Run-DMC - Wu-Tang Clan - and twenty-five more hip-hop immortals...
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  • Chronicling Stankonia: The Rise of the Hip-Hop South by Bradley, Regina
    Regina Bradley

    Chronicling Stankonia: The Rise of the Hip-Hop South

    This vibrant book pulses with the beats of a new American South, probing the ways music, literature, and film have remixed southern identities for a post-civil rights generation. For scholar and critic Regina N. Bradley, Outkast's work is the touchstone, a blend of funk,...
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  • Collecting Music in the Aran Islands: A Century of History and Practice by Ní Chonghaile, Deirdre
    Deirdre Ní Chonghaile

    Collecting Music in the Aran Islands: A Century of History and Practice

    For more than 150 years, individuals have traveled the countryside with pen, paper, tape recorders, and even video cameras to document versions of songs, music, and stories shared by communities. As technologies and methodologies have advanced, the task of gathering music has been taken...
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  • Caribbean Currents:: Caribbean Music from Rumba to Reggae by Manuel, Peter
    Peter Manuel

    Caribbean Currents:: Caribbean Music from Rumba to Reggae

    First published in 1995, Caribbean Currents has become the definitive guide to the distinctive musics of this region of the world. This third edition of the award-winning book is substantially updated and expanded, featuring thorough coverage of new developments, such as the global spread...
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  • Celtic Music and Dance in Cornwall: Cornu-Copia by Hagmann, Lea
    Lea Hagmann

    Celtic Music and Dance in Cornwall: Cornu-Copia

    Focusing on the Cornish Music and Dance Revival, this book investigates the revivalists' claims about Cornwall's cultural distinctiveness and Celtic heritage, both which are presently used as arguments to promote the English county's political status as an independent Celtic nation. The author describes two...
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  • Colm Ó Caodháin: An Irish Singer and His World by Uí Ógáin, Ríonach
    Ríonach Uí Ógáin

    Colm Ó Caodháin: An Irish Singer and His World

    One of the most sought after aspects of Irish vernacular culture is traditional song. Access to earlier recordings is a way to ensure the best understanding and appreciation of earlier singers, styles and repertoires. Within Ireland this is often primarily associated with the Irish...
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  • Chronicling Stankonia: The Rise of the Hip-Hop South by Bradley, Regina
    Regina Bradley

    Chronicling Stankonia: The Rise of the Hip-Hop South

    This vibrant book pulses with the beats of a new American South, probing the ways music, literature, and film have remixed southern identities for a post-civil rights generation. For scholar and critic Regina N. Bradley, Outkast's work is the touchstone, a blend of funk,...
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  • City of Song: Music and the Making of Modern Jerusalem by Figueroa, Michael A.
    Michael A. Figueroa

    City of Song: Music and the Making of Modern Jerusalem

    Modern Jerusalem, a city central to Jewish, Muslim, and Christian religious imaginaries and the political epicenter of the Israeli-Palestinian crisis, is to put it mildly a highly contested space. More surprising, perhaps, is that its musical landscape not only reflects these rifts but also...
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  • Brought to Life by the Voice: Playback Singing and Cultural Politics in South India by Weidman, Amanda
    Amanda Weidman

    Brought to Life by the Voice: Playback Singing and Cultural Politics in South India

    A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. To produce the song sequences that are central to Indian popular cinema, singers' voices are first recorded in the studio and then played back on the set to be lip-synced and...
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  • Christian Sacred Music in the Americas by Shenton, Andrew
    Andrew Shenton

    Christian Sacred Music in the Americas

    Christian Sacred Music in the Americas explores the richness of Christian musical traditions and reflects the distinctive critical perspectives of the Society for Christian Scholarship in Music. This volume, edited by Andrew Shenton and Joanna Smolko, is a follow-up to SCSM's Exploring Christian Song...
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  • Celtic Music and Dance in Cornwall: Cornu-Copia by Hagmann, Lea
    Lea Hagmann

    Celtic Music and Dance in Cornwall: Cornu-Copia

    Focusing on the Cornish Music and Dance Revival, this book investigates the revivalists' claims about Cornwall's cultural distinctiveness and Celtic heritage, both which are presently used as arguments to promote the English county's political status as an independent Celtic nation. The author describes two...
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  • Circuit Listening: Chinese Popular Music in the Global 1960s by Jones, Andrew F.
    Andrew F. Jones

    Circuit Listening: Chinese Popular Music in the Global 1960s

    How the Chinese pop of the 1960s participated in a global musical revolution What did Mao's China have to do with the music of youth revolt in the 1960s? And how did the mambo, the Beatles, and Bob Dylan sound on the front lines...
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  • Claiming Diaspora: Music, Transnationalism, and Cultural Politics in Asian/Chinese America by Zheng, Su
    Su Zheng

    Claiming Diaspora: Music, Transnationalism, and Cultural Politics in Asian/Chinese America

    Framed by a century and a half of racialized Chinese American musical experiences, Claiming Diaspora explores the thriving contemporary musical culture of Asian/Chinese America. Ranging from traditional operas to modern instrumental music, from ethnic media networks to popular music, from Asian American jazz to...
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  • Buried Country: The Story of Aboriginal Country Music by Walker, Clinton
    Clinton Walker

    Buried Country: The Story of Aboriginal Country Music

    It was country music that first gave Aboriginal Australians a voice in modern Australia. Country has always offered a vehicle for the dispossessed to tell their stories, and Aboriginal country music has a rich history, from the great pioneer Jimmy Little through Vic Simms,...
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  • Bulgarian Harmony: In Village, Wedding, and Choral Music of the Last Century by Kirilov, Kalin S.
    Kalin S. Kirilov

    Bulgarian Harmony: In Village, Wedding, and Choral Music of the Last Century

    An in-depth study of the Bulgarian harmonic system is long overdue. More than two decades since the Le Myst鑽e des Voix Bulgares choir was awarded a Grammy (1990), there is no scholarly study of the captivating sounds of Bulgarian vertical sonorities. Kalin Kirilov traces...
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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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  • Composing for the State: Music in Twentieth-Century Dictatorships by Buch, Esteban
    Esteban Buch

    Composing for the State: Music in Twentieth-Century Dictatorships

    Under the dictatorships of the twentieth century, music never ceased to sound. Even when they did not impose aesthetic standards, these regimes tended to favour certain kinds of art music such as occasional works for commemorations or celebrations, symphonic poems, cantatas and choral settings....
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  • Celtic Modern: Music at the Global Fringe by Stokes, Martin
    Martin Stokes

    Celtic Modern: Music at the Global Fringe

    This resource offers an opportunity to reflect critically on some of the insistent 'othering' that has accompanied much cultural production in and on the Celtic World, and that have prohibited serious critical engagement with what are sometimes described as the 'traditional' and 'folk' music...
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  • Brutality Garden: Tropicalia and the Emergence of a Brazilian Counterculture by Dunn, Christopher
    Christopher Dunn

    Brutality Garden: Tropicalia and the Emergence of a Brazilian Counterculture

    In the late 1960s, Brazilian artists forged a watershed cultural movement known as Tropicalia. Music inspired by that movement is today enjoying considerable attention at home and abroad. Few new listeners, however, make the connection between this music and the circumstances surrounding its creation,...
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  • Capital Bluegrass: Hillbilly Music Meets Washington, DC by Lornell, Kip
    Kip Lornell

    Capital Bluegrass: Hillbilly Music Meets Washington, DC

    With its rich but underappreciated musical heritage, Washington, D.C. is often overlooked as a cradle for punk, the birthplace of go go, and as the urban center for bluegrass in the Untied States. Capital Bluegrass: Hillbilly Music Meets Washington, D.C. richly documents the history...
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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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  • Chances and Choices: Exploring the Impact of Music Education by Pitts, Stephanie
    Stephanie Pitts

    Chances and Choices: Exploring the Impact of Music Education

    In Chances and Choices, Stephanie Pitts surveys the aims and impact of formative musical experiences, evaluating the extent to which music education of various kinds provides a foundation for lifelong involvement and interest in music. Pitts draws upon rich qualitative data from her own...
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  • Community Music: In Theory and in Practice by Higgins, Lee
    Lee Higgins

    Community Music: In Theory and in Practice

    Community musicians move in many diverse settings, and facilitate local music activities in a wide array of community contexts including schools, hospitals, places of worship, music festivals, and prisons. Underscoring the importance of active participation and sensitivity to context, they integrate activities such as...
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  • Cajun Breakdown: The Emergence of an American-Made Music by Brasseaux, Ryan Andre
    Ryan Andre Brasseaux

    Cajun Breakdown: The Emergence of an American-Made Music

    In 1946, Harry Choates, a Cajun fiddle virtuoso, changed the course of American musical history when his recording of the so-called Cajun national anthem "Jole Blon" reached number four on the national Billboard charts. Cajun music became part of the American consciousness for the...
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  • Animal Musicalities: Birds, Beasts, and Evolutionary Listening by Mundy, Rachel
    Rachel Mundy

    Animal Musicalities: Birds, Beasts, and Evolutionary Listening

    How conflicts between science and the humanities have shaped our understanding of the line between art and animal behaviorOver the past century and a half, the voices and bodies of animals have been used by scientists and music experts as a benchmark for measures...
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  • Black Orpheus: Music in African American Fiction from the Harlem Renaissance to Toni Morrison by Simawe, Saadi a.
    Saadi a. Simawe

    Black Orpheus: Music in African American Fiction from the Harlem Renaissance to Toni Morrison

    The legendary Greek figure Orpheus was said to have possessed magical powers capable of moving all living and inanimate things through the sound of his lyre and voice. Over time, the Orphic theme has come to indicate the power of music to unsettle, subvert,...
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  • Arnold Bake: A Life with South Asian Music by Van Der Linden, Bob
    Bob Van Der Linden

    Arnold Bake: A Life with South Asian Music

    Arnold Bake (1899-1963) was a Dutch pioneer in South Asian ethnomusicology, whose research impressed not only the most renowned Indologists of his time but also the leading figures in the emerging field of ethnomusicology. This long-overdue biography sheds light on his knowledge of the...
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  • Archaeoacoustics II: Publication of proceedings from the second international conference on the Archaeology of Sound by Coimbra Phd, Fernando
    Fernando Coimbra Phd

    Archaeoacoustics II: Publication of proceedings from the second international conference on the Archaeology of Sound

    Proceedings of the 2015 conference on The Archaeology of SoundAuthor: Fernando Coimbra Phd, Linda C. EneixISBN-10: 1530248418ISBN-13: 9781530248414Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/20/2016Pages: 152Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.81lbsSize: 11.02h x 8.50w x 0.33d
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  • Babylon East: Performing Dancehall, Roots Reggae, and Rastafari in Japan by Sterling, Marvin D.
    Marvin D. Sterling

    Babylon East: Performing Dancehall, Roots Reggae, and Rastafari in Japan

    An important center of dancehall reggae performance, sound clashes are contests between rival sound systems: groups of emcees, tune selectors, and sound engineers. In World Clash 1999, held in Brooklyn, Mighty Crown, a Japanese sound system and the only non-Jamaican competitor, stunned the international...
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  • Asante Court Music and Verbal Arts in Ghana: The Porcupine and the Gold Stool by Ampene, Kwasi
    Kwasi Ampene

    Asante Court Music and Verbal Arts in Ghana: The Porcupine and the Gold Stool

    Asante Court Music and Verbal Arts in Ghana is a comprehensive portrait of Asante court musical arts. Weaving together historical narratives with analyses of texts performed on drums, ivory trumpets, and a cane flute, the book includes a critical assembly of ancient song texts,...
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  • At the Crossroads of Music and Social Justice by Romero, Brenda M.
    Brenda M. Romero

    At the Crossroads of Music and Social Justice

    Music is powerful and transformational, but can it spur actual social change? A strong collection of essays, At the Crossroads of Music and Social Justice studies the meaning of music within a community to investigate the intersections of sound and race, ethnicity, religion, gender,...
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  • At the Crossroads of Music and Social Justice by Romero, Brenda M.
    Brenda M. Romero

    At the Crossroads of Music and Social Justice

    Music is powerful and transformational, but can it spur actual social change? A strong collection of essays, At the Crossroads of Music and Social Justice studies the meaning of music within a community to investigate the intersections of sound and race, ethnicity, religion, gender,...
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  • Black Lives Matter and Music: Protest, Intervention, Reflection by Orejuela, Fernando
    Fernando Orejuela

    Black Lives Matter and Music: Protest, Intervention, Reflection

    Music has always been integral to the Black Lives Matter movement in the United States, with songs such as Kendrick Lamar's "Alright," J. Cole's "Be Free," D'Angelo and the Vanguard's "The Charade," The Game's "Don't Shoot," Janelle Monae's "Hell You Talmbout," Usher's "Chains," and...
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  • Annoying Music in Everyday Life by Trotta, Felipe
    Felipe Trotta

    Annoying Music in Everyday Life

    Just as music has the power to inspire, it has the power to irritate and enrage. Why does certain music annoy us? Why does it force us to leave rooms, invade our personal space and affect us on a visceral level? Based on more...
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  • Black Sea Sketches: Music, Place and People by Samson, Jim
    Jim Samson

    Black Sea Sketches: Music, Place and People

    Black Sea Sketches is a portrait of some of the diverse musical cultures surrounding the Black Sea and in its hinterlands. Its six separate chapters follow a very broad trajectory from close-ups of traditional music (chapters 1-4) towards wide-angle studies of art music (chapters...
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  • Asian Sound Cultures: Voice, Noise, Sound, Technology by Haukamp, Iris
    Iris Haukamp

    Asian Sound Cultures: Voice, Noise, Sound, Technology

    This book examines the meanings, uses, and agency of voice, noise, sound, and sound technologies across Asia. Including a series of wide-ranging and interdisciplinary case studies, the book reveals sound as central to the experience of modernity in Asia and as essential to the...
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  • ARABIC MUSIC AND THE OUD - Paperback by Mukhtar, Ahmed
    Ahmed Mukhtar

    ARABIC MUSIC AND THE OUD - Paperback

    Many books have been written on the subject of Arabic music, most of them by Western authors who presented the subject from a Western perspective with no knowledge of Arabic music other than from theories reported by authors relying mainly on other Western and...
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  • Being Musically Attuned: The Act of Listening to Music by Wallrup, Erik
    Erik Wallrup

    Being Musically Attuned: The Act of Listening to Music

    Listening according to mood is likely to be what most people do when they listen to music. We want to take part in, or even be part of, the emerging world of the musical work. Using the sources of musical history and philosophy, Erik...
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  • Beautiful Cosmos: Performance And Belonging In The Caribbean Diaspora by Ramnarine, Tina K.
    Tina K. Ramnarine

    Beautiful Cosmos: Performance And Belonging In The Caribbean Diaspora

    What are the musical sounds that people remember in the diaspora? What are the sounds they create? Recognising the importance that people attach to musical performances, this book explores the significance of widespread Caribbean genres in diaspora politics. Tina K. Ramnarine uses ethnographic approaches...
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  • Blowin' the Blues Away: Performance and Meaning on the New York Jazz Scenevolume 16 by Jackson, Travis A.
    Travis A. Jackson

    Blowin' the Blues Away: Performance and Meaning on the New York Jazz Scene Volume 16

    New York City has always been a mecca in the history of jazz, and in many ways the city's jazz scene is more important now than ever before. Blowin' the Blues Away examines how jazz has thrived in New York following its popular resurgence...
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  • Baakisimba: Gender in the Music and Dance of the Baganda People of Uganda by Nannyonga-Tamusuza, Sylvia Antonia
    Sylvia Antonia Nannyonga-Tamusuza

    Baakisimba: Gender in the Music and Dance of the Baganda People of Uganda

    Originally a royal court dance, baakisimba asserted the authority of the king as the head of Baganda society. After the abolition of kingship in 1967, baakisimba dance began to be performed in other contexts, with women sometimes playing the accompanying drums-traditionally a man's role-and...
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  • As Serious as Your Life: Black Music and the Free Jazz Revolution, 1957-1977 by Wilmer, Val
    Val Wilmer

    As Serious as Your Life: Black Music and the Free Jazz Revolution, 1957-1977

    In this classic account of the new black music of the 1960s and 70s, celebrated photographer and jazz historian Val Wilmer tells the story of how a generation of revolutionary musicians established black music as the true vanguard of American culture. Placing the achievements...
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  • Bewitching Russian Opera: The Tsarina from State to Stage by Naroditskaya, Inna
    Inna Naroditskaya

    Bewitching Russian Opera: The Tsarina from State to Stage

    In Bewitching Russian Opera: The Tsarina from State to Stage, author Inna Naroditskaya investigates the musical lives of four female monarchs who ruled Russia for most of the eighteenth century: Catherine I, Anna, Elizabeth, and Catherine the Great. Engaging with ethnomusicological, historical, and philological...
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  • Black Ephemera: The Crisis and Challenge of the Musical Archive by Neal, Mark Anthony
    Mark Anthony Neal

    Black Ephemera: The Crisis and Challenge of the Musical Archive

    PROSE Award- Music and Performing Arts Category Winner A framework for understanding the deep archive of Black performance in the digital era In an era of Big Data and algorithms, our easy access to the archive of contemporary and historical Blackness is unprecedented. That...
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  • Blood, Fire, Death: The Swedish Metal Story by Johannesson, Ika
    Ika Johannesson

    Blood, Fire, Death: The Swedish Metal Story

    In the early 1990s, Swedish death metal revolutionized the international music scene. Suddenly, the mild-mannered Scandinavian country found itself at the forefront of a new movement with worldwide impact thanks to bands such as Entombed, Dismember, and At the Gates. The birth of black...
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