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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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  • The Routledge Companion to Music and Human Rights by Fifer, Julian
    Julian Fifer

    The Routledge Companion to Music and Human Rights

    The Routledge Companion to Music and Human Rights is a collection of case studies spanning a wide range of concerns about music and human rights in response to intensifying challenges to the wellbeing of individuals, peoples, and the planet. Author: Julian FiferISBN-10: 0367494159ISBN-13: 9780367494155Publisher:...
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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 Andy 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...
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  • Perspectives in Motion: Engaging the Visual in Dance and Music by Stepputat, Kendra
    Kendra Stepputat

    Perspectives in Motion: Engaging the Visual in Dance and Music

    Focusing on visual approaches to performance in global cultural contexts, Perspectives in Motion explores the work of Adrienne L. Kaeppler, a pioneering researcher who has made a number of interdisciplinary contributions over five decades to dance and performance studies. Through a diverse range of...
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  • Time in Indian Music: Rhythm, Metre, and Form in North Indian Rag Performance by Clayton, Martin
    Martin Clayton

    Time in Indian Music: Rhythm, Metre, and Form in North Indian Rag Performance

    Time in Indian Music is the first major study of rhythm, metre, and form in North Indian rag, or classical, music. Martin Clayton presents a theoretical model for the organization of time in this repertory, a model which is related explicitly to other spheres...
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  • Missing Music: Voices from Where the Dirt Roads End by Brennan, Ian
    Ian Brennan

    Missing Music: Voices from Where the Dirt Roads End

    Missing Music: Voices from Where the Dirt Roads End details Grammy-winning music producer and author Ian Brennan's ongoing quest to provide musical platforms for underrepresented nations and populations around the world.In a compact and quick-read format, Missing Music collects the latest narratives from Brennan's...
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  • Love Songs in Motion: Voicing Intimacy in Somaliland by Woolner, Christina J.
    Christina J. Woolner

    Love Songs in Motion: Voicing Intimacy in Somaliland

    An intimate account of everyday life in Somaliland, explored through an ever-evolving musical genre of love songs. At first listen, both music and talk about love are conspicuously absent from Somaliland's public soundscapes. The lingering effects of war, the contested place of music in...
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  • World Music: 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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  • Efficacy of Sound: Power, Potency, and Promise in the Translocal Ritual Music of Cuban Ifá-Òrìsà by Meadows, Ruthie
    Ruthie Meadows

    Efficacy of Sound: Power, Potency, and Promise in the Translocal Ritual Music of Cuban Ifá-Òrìsà

    The first book-length ethnographic study on music and Ifá divination in Cuba and Nigeria. Hailing from Cuba, Nigeria, and various sites across Latin America and the Caribbean, Ifá missionary-practitioners are transforming the landscape of Ifá divination and deity (òrìṣà/oricha) worship through transatlantic travel and...
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  • Song and Social Change in Latin America by Shaw, Lauren
    Lauren E. Shaw

    Song and Social Change in Latin America

    Song & Social Change in Latin America offers seven essays from a diverse group of scholars on the topic of music as a reflection of the many social-political upheavals throughout Latin America from the 20th century to the present. Topics covered include: the Tropic疝ia...
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  • Popular Music and Human Rights: Volume II: World Music by Peddie, Ian
    Ian Peddie

    Popular Music and Human Rights: Volume II: World Music

    Popular music has long understood that human rights, if attainable at all, involve a struggle without end. The right to imagine an individual will, the right to some form of self-determination and the right to self-legislation have long been at the forefront of popular...
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  • Music of Latin America and the Caribbean by Brill, Mark
    Mark Brill

    Music of Latin America and the Caribbean

    Music of Latin America and the Caribbean, Second Edition is a comprehensive textbook for undergraduate students, which covers all major facets of Latin American music, finding a balance between important themes and illustrative examples. This book is about enjoying the music itself and provides...
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  • A Historical Research of Chinese Folk Songs by Shulu Chen
    Shulu Chen

    A Historical Research of Chinese Folk Songs

    This book advances the study of Chinese folk songs through theoretical innovation in literature-based folk songs and methodological innovation in multidisciplinary cross-interaction. It describes the historical development of folk songs, makes an in-depth study of the intersection and integration of folk songs with other...
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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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  • Widening the Horizon: Exoticism in Post-War Popular Music by Hayward, Philip
    Philip Hayward

    Widening the Horizon: Exoticism in Post-War Popular Music

    During the 1950s and early 1960s, the musical exotica produced by performers such as Les Baxter, Martin Denny, and Arthur Lyman enjoyed international success. Widening the Horizon is the first in-depth analysis of the music and its cultural context.Author: Philip HaywardISBN-10: 1864620471ISBN-13: 9781864620474Publisher: Indiana...
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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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  • Rediscovering the Silver Lyre of Ur by Dumbrill, Richard
    Richard Dumbrill

    Rediscovering the Silver Lyre of Ur

    This book explores in depth the restoration of the oldest string instrument ever found, and its replication. The author is one of the few specialists in the world able to undertake such a remarkable work almost 5000 years after this lyre was built.Author: Richard...
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  • Masters of the Sabar: Wolof Griot Percussionists of Senegal [With CD (Audio)] by Tang, Patricia
    Patricia Tang

    Masters of the Sabar: Wolof Griot Percussionists of Senegal [With CD (Audio)]

    Tang examines the rich history and changing repertories of sabar drumming, including dance rhythms and bakks, and musical phrases derived from spoken words. Highlighting the virtuosity and musical skill of the percussionist, this work also considers the burgeoning popular music genre called mbalax.Author: Patricia...
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  • Making Value: Music, Capital, and the Social by Taylor, Timothy D.
    Timothy D. Taylor

    Making Value: Music, Capital, and the Social

    In Making Value, Timothy D. Taylor examines how people's conceptions of value inform and shape their production and consumption of music. Drawing on anthropological value theory, Taylor theorizes music's economic and noneconomic forms of value both ethnographically and historically. He covers the creation and...
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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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  • Gamelan Gong Kebyar: The Art of Twentieth-Century Balinese Music [With 2 CDs] by Tenzer, Michael
    Michael Tenzer

    Gamelan Gong Kebyar: The Art of Twentieth-Century Balinese Music [With 2 CDs]

    The Balinese gamelan, with its shimmering tones, breathless pace, and compelling musical language, has long captivated musicians, composers, artists, and travelers. Here, Michael Tenzer offers a comprehensive and durable study of this sophisticated musical tradition, focusing on the preeminent twentieth-century genre, gamelan gong kebyar....
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  • Irish Blood, English Heart: Second Generation Irish Musicians in England by Campbell, Sean
    Sean Campbell

    Irish Blood, English Heart: Second Generation Irish Musicians in England

    The book draws on extensive archival research of print and audio-visual media as well as original interviews with the key figures, including Shane MacGowan, Johnny Marr, Kevin Rowland and Cait O'Riordan. Combining its assiduous research with fresh critical insights, the book offers new analyses...
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  • Folklore Matters: Incursions in the Field, 1965-2021 by Jackson, Bruce
    Bruce Jackson

    Folklore Matters: Incursions in the Field, 1965-2021

    Celebrates over a half-century of the work of one of America's greatest folklorists.Author: Bruce JacksonISBN-10: 1438496168ISBN-13: 9781438496160Publisher: State University of New York PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/01/2024Pages: 388Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.62lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d
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  • From Blues to Beyoncé: A Century of Black Women's Generational Sonic Rhetorics by McGee, Alexis
    Alexis McGee

    From Blues to Beyoncé: A Century of Black Women's Generational Sonic Rhetorics

    Explores how Black women have continually used sound to convey stories and forge community across generations.Author: Alexis McGeeISBN-10: 1438496494ISBN-13: 9781438496498Publisher: State University of New York PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/01/2024Pages: 240Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.16lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d
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  • Music in Imperial Rio de Janeiro: European Culture in a Tropical Milieu by Magaldi, Cristina
    Cristina Magaldi

    Music in Imperial Rio de Janeiro: European Culture in a Tropical Milieu

    This book focuses on the relationship of European music to the social and cultural experiences of the residents of nineteenth-century Rio de Janeiro. It shows European Music as a powerful force in the internal processes of political, cultural, social, and ethnic negotiations during the...
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  • Klezmer's Afterlife: An Ethnography of the Jewish Music Revival in Poland and Germany by Waligorska, Magdalena
    Magdalena Waligorska

    Klezmer's Afterlife: An Ethnography of the Jewish Music Revival in Poland and Germany

    Klezmer in Europe has been a controversial topic ever since this traditional Jewish wedding music made it to the concert halls and discos of Berlin, Warsaw, Budapest and Prague. Played mostly by non-Jews and for non-Jews, it was hailed as "fakelore," "Jewish Disneyland" and...
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  • The Jews-Harp in Britain and Ireland by Wright, Michael
    Michael Wright

    The Jews-Harp in Britain and Ireland

    The jews-harp is a distinctive musical instrument of international importance, yet it remains one of those musical instruments, like the ocarina, kazoo or even the art of whistling, that travels beneath the established musical radar. The story of the jews-harp is also part of...
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  • The Life of Music in South India by Sankaran, T.
    T. Sankaran

    The Life of Music in South India

    An insider's eight-decade overview of South India's 20th century classical music cultureThis book offers an account of Carnatic music culture drawing on the knowledge of T. Sankaran, a musician raised in an illustrious non-Brahmin devadasi family, and his long affiliation with cultural institutions including...
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  • Coughing and Clapping: Investigating Audience Experience by Burland, Karen
    Karen Burland

    Coughing and Clapping: Investigating Audience Experience

    Coughing and Clapping: Investigating Audience Experience explores the processes and experiences of attending live music events from the initial decision to attend through to audience responses and memories of a performance after it has happened. The book brings together international researchers who consider the...
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  • An Ethnomusicologist's Last Lecture: Music and Globalism, Philosophy and Religion by Loza, Steven
    Steven Loza

    An Ethnomusicologist's Last Lecture: Music and Globalism, Philosophy and Religion

    This book critically addresses the conventional practices of studies on music, while taking readers through various global examples of musical expression.Author: Steven LozaISBN-10: 1666932965ISBN-13: 9781666932966Publisher: Lexington BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/07/2023Pages: 252Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.19lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d
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  • More Than Bollywood: Studies in Indian Popular Music by Booth, Gregory D.
    Gregory D. Booth

    More Than Bollywood: Studies in Indian Popular Music

    This is the first book to tackle the diverse styles and multiple histories of popular music in India. It brings together fourteen of the field's leading scholars to contribute chapters on a range of topics from the classic songs of Bollywood to contemporary remixes....
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  • Homesick Blues: Politics, Protest, and Musical Storytelling in Modern Japan by Aalgaard, Scott W.
    Scott W. Aalgaard

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

    Homesick Blues explores how artists, fans, amateur practitioners, and others have used music to tell stories of everyday life in Japan from the late 1940s to 2018, a practice that author Scott Aalgaard calls "musical storytelling." At its core, musical storytelling is a political...
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  • The Cape Breton Fiddle: Making and Maintaining Tradition by Graham, Glenn
    Glenn Graham

    The Cape Breton Fiddle: Making and Maintaining Tradition

    In the Cape Breton Fiddle, Glenn Graham, an accomplished Cape Breton fiddler, explores the rootes of the Cape BReton fiddling tradition, an art firmly rooted in Scottish Gaelic cultural forms, through an evolution that has made Cape BReton an icon of creativity recognized throughout...
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  • Irish Blood, English Heart: Second Generation Irish Musicians in England by Campbell, Sean
    Sean Campbell

    Irish Blood, English Heart: Second Generation Irish Musicians in England

    The book draws on extensive archival research of print and audio-visual media as well as original interviews with the key figures, including Shane MacGowan, Johnny Marr, Kevin Rowland and Cait O'Riordan. Combining its assiduous research with fresh critical insights, the book offers new analyses...
    $29.00
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  • From Biblical Book to Musical Megahit: William B. Bradbury's Esther, the Beautiful Queen by Karpf, Juanita
    Juanita Karpf

    From Biblical Book to Musical Megahit: William B. Bradbury's Esther, the Beautiful Queen

    Many churchgoers will recognize the name William Bradbury, a nineteenth-century American composer of popular hymns still sung at Sunday services. Bradbury's name may also bring to mind Esther, the Beautiful Queen, his choral setting of a text based on the biblical Book of Esther....
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  • From Biblical Book to Musical Megahit: William B. Bradbury's Esther, the Beautiful Queen by Karpf, Juanita
    Juanita Karpf

    From Biblical Book to Musical Megahit: William B. Bradbury's Esther, the Beautiful Queen

    Many churchgoers will recognize the name William Bradbury, a nineteenth-century American composer of popular hymns still sung at Sunday services. Bradbury's name may also bring to mind Esther, the Beautiful Queen, his choral setting of a text based on the biblical Book of Esther....
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  • Learning Jazz: Jazz Education, History, and Public Pedagogy by Prouty, Ken
    Ken Prouty

    Learning Jazz: Jazz Education, History, and Public Pedagogy

    Learning Jazz: Jazz Education, History, and Public Pedagogy addresses a debate that has consumed practitioners and advocates since the music's early days. Studies on jazz learning typically focus on one of two methods: institutional education or the kinds of informal mentoring relationships long associated...
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  • Learning Jazz: Jazz Education, History, and Public Pedagogy by Prouty, Ken
    Ken Prouty

    Learning Jazz: Jazz Education, History, and Public Pedagogy

    Learning Jazz: Jazz Education, History, and Public Pedagogy addresses a debate that has consumed practitioners and advocates since the music's early days. Studies on jazz learning typically focus on one of two methods: institutional education or the kinds of informal mentoring relationships long associated...
    $110.00
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  • Music from the Tang Court by Picken, Laurence
    Laurence Picken

    Music from the Tang Court

    During the two centuries before 841, the Japanese Court borrowed a large amount of secular entertainment music from China, chiefly music of the Sui and Tang Courts. This music, known as 'Tang Music' is preserved in manuscripts written between the eighth and thirteenth centuries...
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  • Musical Listening in the Age of Technological Reproduction by Borio, Gianmario
    Gianmario Borio

    Musical Listening in the Age of Technological Reproduction

    It is undeniable that technology has made a tangible impact on the nature of musical listening. The new media have changed our relationship with music in a myriad of ways, not least because the experience of listening can now be prolonged at will and...
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  • Voicing Girlhood in Popular Music: Performance, Authority, Authenticity by Warwick, Jacqueline
    Jacqueline Warwick

    Voicing Girlhood in Popular Music: Performance, Authority, Authenticity

    This interdisciplinary volume explores the girl's voice and the construction of girlhood in contemporary popular music, visiting girls as musicians, activists, and performers through topics that range from female vocal development during adolescence to girls' online media culture. While girls' voices are more prominent...
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  • Loose Leaf for Harmony in Context by Roig-Francoli, Miguel
    Miguel Roig-Francoli

    Loose Leaf for Harmony in Context

    Music Theory Made RelevantDesigned for undergraduate music majors, Harmony in Context provides the richest possible musical context for the study of harmony, constantly encouraging students to translate what they are learning into better performances and better listening. The musical examples and anthology encompass a...
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  • A Distinctive Voice in the Antipodes: Essays in Honour of Stephen A. Wild by Gillespie, Kirsty
    Kirsty Gillespie

    A Distinctive Voice in the Antipodes: Essays in Honour of Stephen A. Wild

    This volume of essays honours the life and work of Stephen A. Wild, one of Australia's leading ethnomusicologists. Born in Western Australia, Wild studied at Indiana University in the USA before returning to Australia to pursue a lifelong career with Indigenous Australian music. As...
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  • Songs Of The North American Indian by Lieurance, Thurlow
    Thurlow Lieurance

    Songs Of The North American Indian

    This book consists of a collection of songs from North American Indigenous peoples, as transcribed and arranged for piano and voice by Thurlow Lieurance. The music reflects a wide variety of styles and cultures, from the Navajo to the Winnebago. Each song is accompanied...
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  • Music Making in Iran from the 15th to the Early 20th Century by Pourjavady, Amir Hosein
    Amir Hosein Pourjavady

    Music Making in Iran from the 15th to the Early 20th Century

    'Music Making in Iran' looks at the change and evolution of music in Iran from both social and theoretical perspectives. Amir Hosein Pourjavady scrutinises the emergence and development of modal entities, rules for modulation, the formation of court repertoires, the progress of rhythmic structures,...
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  • Lives in Music: Mobility and Change in a Global Context by Le Menestrel, Sara
    Sara Le Menestrel

    Lives in Music: Mobility and Change in a Global Context

    Lives in Music analyses interwoven patterns of mobility, change, and power in music and dance practices.It challenges some commonly accepted conceptual tools that are ubiquitous in anthropology today, including cultural hybridity, transnational networks, and globalization. Based on seven "itineraries" that are the result of...
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  • Performing Nostalgia: Migration Culture and Creativity in South Albania by Pistrick, Eckehard
    Eckehard Pistrick

    Performing Nostalgia: Migration Culture and Creativity in South Albania

    Migration studies is an area of increasing significance in musicology as in other disciplines. How do migrants express and imagine themselves through musical practice? How does music help them to construct social imaginaries and to cope with longings and belongings? In this study of...
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  • The Place of Music in the Australian Aboriginals' Way of Life by Scott-Branagan, Bronwen
    Bronwen Scott-Branagan

    The Place of Music in the Australian Aboriginals' Way of Life

    A paper researched and written by Alwyn Jones in 1959 as a requirement for her Bachelor of Music degree at the University of Melbourne Conservatorium of Music. It remains in high demand at the Music Library there. This is a new, illustrated presentation of...
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  • Knowing Jazz: Community, Pedagogy, and Canon in the Information Age by Prouty, Ken
    Ken Prouty

    Knowing Jazz: Community, Pedagogy, and Canon in the Information Age

    Ken Prouty argues that knowledge of jazz, or more to the point, claims to knowledge of jazz, are the prime movers in forming jazz's identity, its canon, and its community. Every jazz artist, critic, or fan understands jazz differently, based on each individual's unique...
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  • A Tombstone for Texas: Texas Alexander and the Blues Pioneers of Texas by Prather, Coy Mac
    Coy Mac Prather

    A Tombstone for Texas: Texas Alexander and the Blues Pioneers of Texas

    Alger 'Texas' Alexander was one of the original blues stars of the 1920s. As an original honker and shouter, he was a major influence on many blues stars to follow: Lightning Hopkins, Lowell Fulsom and Frankie Lee Sims. He worked with legends Eddie Lang,...
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