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  • The Musical Tradition of the Eastern European Synagogue: Volume 2 by Kalib, Sholom
    Sholom Kalib

    Musical Tradition of the Eastern European Synagogue: Volume 2: The Weekday Services

    This volume includes multiple renditions of every prayer, thus illustrating the broad diversity within traditional intonation of each prayer mode. In accordance with the traditional role assigned to the prayer leader of each service, renditions are presented at levels appropriate to the lay cantor...
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  • Kalimba. 45 Simple Songs Around the World: Play by Number by Winter, Helen
    Helen Winter

    Kalimba. 45 Simple Songs Around the World: Play by Number

    International songs are one of the most exciting and appealing avenues to introducing children to new and different cultures through music.We've gathered 45 different national songs adapted especially for kalimba, including lyrics, classical sheet music, number-coded notation, and online audio tracks.This book includes complete...
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  • Jazz Cultures by Ake, David
    David Ake

    Jazz Cultures

    From its beginning, jazz has presented a contradictory social world: jazz musicians have worked diligently to erase old boundaries, but they have just as resolutely constructed new ones. David Ake's vibrant and original book considers the diverse musics and related identities that jazz communities...
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  • Interspecies Communication: Sound and Music Beyond Humanity by Steingo, Gavin
    Gavin Steingo

    Interspecies Communication: Sound and Music Beyond Humanity

    A surprising study reveals a plethora of attempts to communicate with non-humans in the modern era. In Interspecies Communication, music scholar Gavin Steingo examines significant cases of attempted communication beyond the human--cases in which the dualistic relationship of human to non-human is dramatically challenged....
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  • Music Films: Documentaries, Concert Films and Other Cinematic Representations of Popular Music by Fox, Neil
    Neil Fox

    Music Films: Documentaries, Concert Films and Other Cinematic Representations of Popular Music

    In Music Films, Neil Fox considers a broad range of music documentaries, delving into their cinematic style, political undertones, racial dynamics, and gender representations, in order to assess their role in the cultivation of myth. Combining historical and critical analyses, and drawing on film...
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  • On Methods of Music Theory and (Ethno-) Musicology: From Interdisciplinary Research to Teaching by Sch?er, Nico
    Nico Sch?er

    On Methods of Music Theory and (Ethno-) Musicology: From Interdisciplinary Research to Teaching

    Although all research makes use of specific research methods, much music scholarship is being published without any reference to, or reflection on, the premises of the methods employed. In other words, published articles and books are often lacking a discussion of the scope and...
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  • Everyday Music Listening: Absorption, Dissociation and Trancing by Herbert, Ruth
    Ruth Herbert

    Everyday Music Listening: Absorption, Dissociation and Trancing

    In what ways does listening to music shape everyday perception? Is music particularly effective in promoting shifts in consciousness? Is there any difference perceptually between contemplating one's surroundings and experiencing a work of art? Everyday Music Listening is the first book to focus in...
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  • Music in Puerto Rico: A Reader's Anthology by Thompson, Donald
    Donald Thompson

    Music in Puerto Rico: A Reader's Anthology

    Thompson's book provides a glimpse into a society in which cultures intersect and in which magic was born in the form of the popular salsa. Musicians, musicologists, historians, students of Hispanic culture, and anyone interested in the musical foundations of Puerto Rican life will...
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  • From Spirituals to Symphonies: African-American Women Composers and Their Music by Walker-Hill, Helen
    Helen Walker-Hill

    From Spirituals to Symphonies: African-American Women Composers and Their Music

    African-American women composers remain largely unknown despite their important musical contributions. Active in the United States since the late-19th century, several gained national and international recognition during their lifetimes, only to have their work neglected after their deaths. From Spirituals to Symphonies is a...
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  • Island Time: Speed and the Archipelago from St. Kitts and Nevis by Baker, Jessica Swanston
    Jessica Swanston Baker

    Island Time: Speed and the Archipelago from St. Kitts and Nevis

    A close look at how wylers, a popular musical style from the island of St. Kitts and Nevis, expresses a unique mode of relation in the postcolonial Caribbean. In Island Time, ethnomusicologist Jessica Swanston Baker examines wylers, a musical form from St. Kitts and...
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  • Music as Agency: Diversities of Perspectives on Artistic Citizenship by Westvall, Maria
    Maria Westvall

    Music as Agency: Diversities of Perspectives on Artistic Citizenship

    Music as Agency: Diversities of Perspectives on Artistic Citizenship focuses on the concept, application, interpretation and manifestation of Artistic Citizenship in diverse contexts. The key concepts that the book tackles are: Cultural experience, artistic practice, musical identities, equity, democracy, community, activism, resistance and empathy.In...
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  • Making Congregational Music Local in Christian Communities Worldwide by Ingalls, Monique M.
    Monique M. Ingalls

    Making Congregational Music Local in Christian Communities Worldwide

    What does it mean for music to be considered local in contemporary Christian communities, and who shapes this meaning? Through what musical processes have religious beliefs and practices once 'foreign' become 'indigenous'? How does using indigenous musical practices aid in the growth of local...
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  • A History Of Indian Music Vol I by Prananananda, Swami
    Swami Prananananda

    A History Of Indian Music Vol I

    In this seminal work, Swami Prananananda provides a comprehensive history of Indian music from ancient times to the present day. From the classical ragas of the courts to the folk traditions of the villages, Prananananda illuminates the rich cultural heritage of this important musical...
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  • Music Downtown Eastside: Human Rights and Capability Development Through Music in Urban Poverty by Harrison, Klisala
    Klisala Harrison

    Music Downtown Eastside: Human Rights and Capability Development Through Music in Urban Poverty

    Music Downtown Eastside draws on two decades of research in one of North America's poorest urban areas to illustrate how human rights can be promoted through music. Harrison's examination of how gentrification, grant funding, and community organizations affect the success or failure of human...
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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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  • The Music of Malaysia: The Classical, Folk and Syncretic Traditions by Matusky, Patricia
    Patricia Matusky

    The Music of Malaysia: The Classical, Folk and Syncretic Traditions

    The Music of Malaysia, first published in Malay in 1997 and followed by an English edition in 2004 is still the only history, appreciation and analysis of Malaysian music in its many and varied forms available in English. The book categorizes the types of...
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  • Blacksound: Making Race and Popular Music in the United States by Morrison, Matthew D.
    Matthew D. Morrison

    Blacksound: Making Race and Popular Music in the United States

    A new concept for understanding the history of the American popular music industry. Blacksound explores the sonic history of blackface minstrelsy and the racial foundations of American musical culture from the early 1800s through the turn of the twentieth century. With this namesake book,...
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  • Sounds of Other Shores: The Musical Poetics of Identity on Kenya's Swahili Coast by Eisenberg, Andrew J.
    Andrew J. Eisenberg

    Sounds of Other Shores: The Musical Poetics of Identity on Kenya's Swahili Coast

    A study of transoceanic musical appropriation and Swahili ethnic subjectivity on the Kenyan coastSounds of Other Shores takes an ethnographic ear to the history of transoceanic stylistic appropriation in the Swahili taarab music of the Kenyan coast. Swahili taarab, a form of sung poetry...
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  • Blacksound: Making Race and Popular Music in the United States by Morrison, Matthew D.
    Matthew D. Morrison

    Blacksound: Making Race and Popular Music in the United States

    A new concept for understanding the history of the American popular music industry. Blacksound explores the sonic history of blackface minstrelsy and the racial foundations of American musical culture from the early 1800s through the turn of the twentieth century. With this namesake book,...
    $85.00
    $85.00
    $85.00
  • Voices of the Field: Pathways in Public Ethnomusicology by Garc僘 Corona, Le F.
    Le F. Garc僘 Corona

    Voices of the Field: Pathways in Public Ethnomusicology

    Ethnomusicologists face complex and challenging professional landscapes for which graduate studies in the field do not fully prepare them. The essays in Voices of the Field: Pathways in Public Ethnomusicology, edited by Le F. Garc僘 Corona and Kathleen Wiens, provide a reflection on the...
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  • World Music Pedagogy, Volume VII: Teaching World Music in Higher Education by Coppola, William J.
    William J. Coppola

    World Music Pedagogy, Volume VII: Teaching World Music in Higher Education

    World Music Pedagogy, Volume VII: Teaching World Music in Higher Education addresses a pedagogical pathway of varied strategies for teaching world music in higher education, offering concrete means for diversifying undergraduate studies through world music culture courses. While the first six volumes in this...
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  • The Product of Our Souls: Ragtime, Race, and the Birth of the Manhattan Musical Marketplace by Gilbert, David
    David Gilbert

    The Product of Our Souls: Ragtime, Race, and the Birth of the Manhattan Musical Marketplace

    In 1912 James Reese Europe made history by conducting his 125-member Clef Club Orchestra at Carnegie Hall. The first concert by an African American ensemble at the esteemed venue was more than just a concert--it was a political act of desegregation, a defiant challenge...
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  • California Gold: Sidney Robertson and the Wpa California Folk Music Project by Kerst, Catherine Hiebert
    Catherine Hiebert Kerst

    California Gold: Sidney Robertson and the Wpa California Folk Music Project

    California Gold offers a compelling cultural snapshot of a diverse California during the 1930s at the height of the New Deal, drawing on the career of folk music collector Sidney Robertson and the musical culture of often-unheard voices. Robertson--an intrepid young woman armed only...
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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 in international relations. Inspired by decolonization, this book describes policies and legal frameworks that impact music's role in...
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  • Richard Strauss's Orchestral Music and the German Intellectual Tradition: The Philosophical Roots of Musical Modernism by Youmans, Charles Dowell
    Charles Youmans

    Richard Strauss's Orchestral Music and the German Intellectual Tradition: The Philosophical Roots of Musical Modernism

    The young Richard Strauss was almost exclusively an orchestral composer. Yet, the year 1903 brought a significant break from orchestral writing, and Strauss then shifted his focus to opera for the next four decades. In the aftermath of the Second World War he returned...
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  • To the Break of Dawn: A Freestyle on the Hip Hop Aesthetic by Cobb, William Jelani
    William Jelani Cobb

    To the Break of Dawn: A Freestyle on the Hip Hop Aesthetic

    2007 Arts Club of Washington's National Award for Arts Writing - FinalistSEE ALSO: Pimps Up, Ho's Down: Hip Hop's Hold on Young Black Women by T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting. An inside look into the beats, lyrics, and flow of hip-hop's history With roots that stretch...
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  • How to Play Theremin: A Comprehensive Guide to Playing the Theremin with Confidence and Creativity by Smith, Brian
    Brian Smith

    How to Play Theremin: A Comprehensive Guide to Playing the Theremin with Confidence and Creativity

    Step into the fascinating world of the theremin, the ethereal instrument that has captivated music enthusiasts and electronic pioneers alike. How to play theremin beckons you to unlock the secrets of this unique instrument and embark on a musical journey like no other.Discover the...
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  • Ethics and Christian Musicking by Myrick, Nathan
    Nathan Myrick

    Ethics and Christian Musicking

    The relationship between musical activity and ethical significance occupies long traditions of thought and reflection both within Christianity and beyond. From concerns regarding music and the passions in early Christian writings through to moral panics regarding rock music in the 20th century, Christians have...
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  • Jewish Religious Music in Nineteenth-Century America: Restoring the Synagogue Soundtrack by Cohen, Judah M.
    Judah M. Cohen

    Jewish Religious Music in Nineteenth-Century America: Restoring the Synagogue Soundtrack

    In Jewish Religious Music in Nineteenth-Century America: Restoring the Synagogue Soundtrack, Judah M. Cohen demonstrates that Jews constructed a robust religious musical conversation in the United States during the mid- to late-19th century. While previous studies of American Jewish music history have looked to...
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  • Hip-Hop Is History by Questlove
    Questlove

    Hip-Hop Is History

    This is a book only Questlove could have written: a perceptive and personal reflection on the first half-century of hip-hop. When hip-hop first emerged in the 1970s, it wasn't expected to become the cultural force it is today. But for a young Black kid...
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  • Jazz Migrations: Movement as Place Among New York Musicians by Gazit, Ofer
    Ofer Gazit

    Jazz Migrations: Movement as Place Among New York Musicians

    Since the 1990s, migrant musicians have become increasingly prominent in New York City's jazz scene. Challenging norms about who can be a jazz musician and what immigrant music should sound like, these musicians create mobile and diverse notions of jazz while inadvertently contributing to...
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  • Yellowface: Creating the Chinese in American Popular Music and Performance, 1850s-1920s by Moon, Krystyn R.
    Krystyn R. Moon

    Yellowface: Creating the Chinese in American Popular Music and Performance, 1850s-1920s

    Music and performance provide a unique window into the ways that cultural information is circulated and perceptions are constructed. Because they both require listening, are inherently ephemeral, and most often involve collaboration between disparate groups, they inform cultural perceptions differently from literary or visual...
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  • Memory, Music, Manuscripts: The Ritual Dynamics of Kōshiki in Japanese Sōtō Zen by Mross, Michaela
    Michaela Mross

    Memory, Music, Manuscripts: The Ritual Dynamics of Kōshiki in Japanese Sōtō Zen

    Kōshiki (Buddhist ceremonials) belong to a shared ritual repertoire of Japanese Buddhism that began with Tendai Pure Land belief in the late tenth century and spread to all Buddhist schools, including Sōtō Zen in the thirteenth century. In Memory, Music, Manuscripts, Michaela Mross elegantly...
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  • Johann Mattheson's Pièces de clavecin and Das neu-eröffnete Orchestre: Mattheson's Universal Style in Theory and Practice by Seares, Margaret
    Margaret Seares

    Johann Mattheson's Pi鐵es de clavecin and Das neu-erfnete Orchestre: Mattheson's Universal Style in Theory and Practice

    In this important study, Margaret Seares places Johannes Mattheson's Pi鐵es de clavecin (1714) in the context of his work as a public intellectual who encouraged German musicians and their musical public to embrace a universalism of style and expression derived from contemporary currents in...
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  • Sankomota: An Ode in One Album: A Reflective Essay by Mofokeng, Phehello J.
    Phehello J. Mofokeng

    Sankomota: An Ode in One Album: A Reflective Essay

    Sankomota: An Ode in One Album - A Reflective Essay is the result of many years of research and obsession about the music and band of Sankomota. The book is a slim offering that offers insights into the first album ever recorded in Lesotho,...
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  • Jazz Transatlantic, Volume I: The African Undercurrent in Twentieth-Century Jazz Culture by Kubik, Gerhard
    Gerhard Kubik

    Jazz Transatlantic, Volume I: The African Undercurrent in Twentieth-Century Jazz Culture

    A CHOICE 2018 Outstanding Academic Title In Jazz Transatlantic, Volume I, renowned scholar Gerhard Kubik takes the reader across the Atlantic from Africa to the Americas and then back in pursuit of the music we call jazz. This first volume explores the term itself...
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  • Jazz Transatlantic, Volume II: Jazz Derivatives and Developments in Twentieth-Century Africa by Kubik, Gerhard
    Gerhard Kubik

    Jazz Transatlantic, Volume II: Jazz Derivatives and Developments in Twentieth-Century Africa

    A CHOICE 2018 Outstanding Academic Title In Jazz Transatlantic, Volume II, renowned scholar Gerhard Kubik extends and expands the epic exploration he began in Jazz Transatlantic, Volume I. This second volume amplifies how musicians influenced by swing, bebop, and post-bop in Africa from the...
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  • The Inspiration Machine: Computational Creativity in Poetry and Jazz by Wilf, Eitan Y.
    Eitan Y. Wilf

    The Inspiration Machine: Computational Creativity in Poetry and Jazz

    Explores how creative digital technologies and artificial intelligence are embedded in culture and society. In The Inspiration Machine, Eitan Y. Wilf explores the transformative potentials that digital technology opens up for creative practice through three ethnographic cases, two with jazz musicians and one with...
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  • Even in the Rain: Uyghur Music in Modern China by Wong, Chuen-Fung
    Chuen-Fung Wong

    Even in the Rain: Uyghur Music in Modern China

    Even in the Rain: Uyghur Music in Modern China explores music as constitutive of Uyghur cultural and social life where subaltern experiences of ethnicity, race, and nationhood are indexed. A Central Asian Turkic-speaking, predominantly Muslim people, the Uyghur are identified in China as one...
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  • Sounding Our Way Home: Japanese American Musicking and the Politics of Identity by Asai, Susan Miyo
    Susan Miyo Asai

    Sounding Our Way Home: Japanese American Musicking and the Politics of Identity

    A product of twenty-five years of archival and primary research, Sounding Our Way Home: Japanese American Musicking and the Politics of Identity narrates the efforts of three generations of Japanese Americans to reach "home" through musicking. Using ethnomusicology as a lens, Susan Miyo Asai...
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  • Singing the Land: Hebrew Music and Early Zionism in America by Sperling, Eli
    Eli Sperling

    Singing the Land: Hebrew Music and Early Zionism in America

    Singing the Land: Hebrew Music and Early Zionism in America examines the proliferation and use of popular Hebrew Zionist music amongst American Jewry during the first half of the twentieth century. This music--one part in a greater process of instilling diasporic Zionism in American...
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  • Music, Society, Agency by November, Nancy
    Nancy November

    Music, Society, Agency

    This ten-chapter book explores how music and society are, and have been, intertwined and mutually influential. It examines the agents behind these connections: who determines musical cultures in society? Which social groups are represented in particular musical contexts? Which social groups are silenced or...
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  • The Duduk and National Identity in Armenia by Nercessian, Andy H.
    Andy Nercessian

    The Duduk and National Identity in Armenia

    The book is an outline of the Armenian duduk, a cylindrical double-reed aerophone made of apricot-wood, and its relation to the Armenian identity. It attempts to deepen our understanding of musical instruments not only through an examination of musical and constructional features, but also...
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  • Women Behind The Mic: Curators of The Culture Volume Two "The Hip-Hop Edition" by Brookshire, Lajoyce
    Lajoyce Brookshire

    Women Behind The Mic: Curators of The Culture Volume Two "The Hip-Hop Edition"

    WOMEN BEHIND THE MIC: Curators of The Culture Volume Two "The Hip-Hop Edition" Volume Two "The Hip-Hop Edition" from the WOMEN BEHIND THE MIC series contains the stories of 21 veteran executives who were the engines behind the most iconic artists and brands of...
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  • The Art of Emergency: Aesthetics and Aid in African Crises by Ndaliko, Chérie Rivers
    Ch駻ie Rivers Ndaliko

    The Art of Emergency: Aesthetics and Aid in African Crises

    The Art of Emergency charts the maneuvers of art through conflict zones across the African continent. Advancing diverse models for artistic and humanitarian alliance, the volume urges conscientious deliberation on the role of aesthetics in crisis through intellectual engagement, artistic innovation, and administrative policy....
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  • Ears to the Ground: Adventures in Field Recording and Electronic Music by Murphy, Ben
    Ben Murphy

    Ears to the Ground: Adventures in Field Recording & Electronic Music

    From the cacophonous surrounds of London to the sea stacks of Orkney, via the abandoned military facilities of the Suffolk coast and the watery expanses of the Blackwater Estuary in Essex, from the quarries and neolithic sites of Snowdonia and the wide open skies...
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  • Music in Arabia: Perspectives on Heritage, Mobility, and Nation by Boulos, Issa
    Issa Boulos

    Music in Arabia: Perspectives on Heritage, Mobility, and Nation

    Music in Arabia extends and challenges existing narratives of the region's distinctive but understudied music to reveal diverse and dynamic music cultures rooted in centuries-old heritage.Contributors to Music in Arabia bring a critical eye and ear to the contemporary soundscape, musical life, and expressive...
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  • Networking the Russian Diaspora: Russian Musicians and Musical Activities in Interwar Shanghai by Yang, Hon-Lun Helan
    Hon-Lun Helan Yang

    Networking the Russian Diaspora: Russian Musicians and Musical Activities in Interwar Shanghai

    Networking the Russian Diaspora is a fascinating and timely study of interwar Shanghai. Aside from the vacated Orthodox Church in the former French Concession where most Russian migr s resided, Shanghai today displays few signs of the bustling settlement of those years. Russian musicians...
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  • Race and Gender in the Western Music History Survey: A Teacher's Guide by Maxile Jr, Horace J.
    Horace J. Maxile Jr

    Race and Gender in the Western Music History Survey: A Teacher's Guide

    Race and Gender in the Western Music History Survey: A Teacher's Guide provides concrete information and approaches that will help instructors include women and people of color in the typical music history survey course and the foundational music theory classes. Author: Horace J. Maxile...
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  • Shaping Sound and Society: The Cultural Study of Musical Instruments by Cottrell, Stephen
    Stephen Cottrell

    Shaping Sound and Society: The Cultural Study of Musical Instruments

    This volume brings together leading voices from the new wave of research on musical instruments to consider how we can connect the material aspects of instruments with their social function, approaches that have been otherwise too frequently separated in musical scholarship. Shaping Sound and...
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