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  • Let the World Listen Right: The Mississippi Delta Hip-Hop Story by Neff, Ali Colleen
    Ali Colleen Neff

    Let the World Listen Right: The Mississippi Delta Hip-Hop Story

    In the Mississippi Delta, creativity, community, and a rich expressive culture persist despite widespread poverty. Over five years of extensive work in the region, author Ali Colleen Neff collected a wealth of materials that demonstrate a vibrant musical scene. Let the World Listen Right...
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  • Music, Sound, and Architecture in Islam by Frishkopf, Michael
    Michael Frishkopf

    Music, Sound, and Architecture in Islam

    Tracing the connections between music making and built space in both historical and contemporary times, Music, Sound, and Architecture in Islam brings together domains of intellectual reflection that have rarely been in dialogue to promote a greater understanding of the centrality of sound production...
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  • The Scattered Court: Hindustani Music in Colonial Bengal by Williams, Richard David
    Richard David Williams

    The Scattered Court: Hindustani Music in Colonial Bengal

    Presents a new history of how Hindustani court music responded to the political transitions of the nineteenth century. How far did colonialism transform north Indian music? In the period between the Mughal empire and the British Raj, how did the political landscape bleed into...
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  • Sounding Latin Music, Hearing the Americas by Moreno, Jairo
    Jairo Moreno

    Sounding Latin Music, Hearing the Americas

    How is Latin American music heard, by whom, and why? Many in the United States believe Latin American musicians make "Latin music"--which carries with it a whole host of assumptions, definitions, and contradictions. In their own countries, these expatriate musicians might generate immense national...
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  • Music in the World of Islam: A Socio-Cultural Study by Shiloah, Amnon
    Amnon Shiloah

    Music in the World of Islam: A Socio-Cultural Study

    Provides basic musicological information about a vast variety of Middle Eastern musical genres within an ethnomusical context. The story of music told in this book begins in pre-Islamic times with musical forms that bear strong imprints of the Bedouin's tribal way of life. Pre-Islamic...
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  • Polish Folk Music: Slavonic Heritage - Polish Tradition - Contemporary Trends by Czekanowska, Anna
    Anna Czekanowska

    Polish Folk Music: Slavonic Heritage - Polish Tradition - Contemporary Trends

    This study of Polish folk music examines the history and practice of the musical tradition while offering an illuminating view of a culture and its social activities. Anna Czekanowska analyzes the vocal and instrumental traditions of Polish folk music, tracing the background history, the...
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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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  • The Triumph of the Soul: Cultural and Psychological Aspects of African American Music by Jones, Ferdinand
    Ferdinand Jones

    The Triumph of the Soul: Cultural and Psychological Aspects of African American Music

    Music is a central element of African American culture. It is part of the oral tradition that began before Africans were enslaved and brought to North America, and it continues in the bicultural synthesis that is the African American experience. All black American music...
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  • The Instruments in Portuguese Traditional Music by Correia Branco, Sergio
    Sergio Correia Branco

    The Instruments in Portuguese Traditional Music

    The Instruments in Portuguese Traditional Music is a illustrated guide to discover the instrumental wealth of Portugal (mainland and islands). Join me on a journey through the history, description, uses, chords, curiosities, and much more about the many instruments used for the performance of...
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  • Jorge Ben Jor's África Brasil by Moehn, Frederick Josef
    Frederick Josef Moehn

    Jorge Ben Jor's ﾁfrica Brasil

    1976, Rio de Janeiro. Revered Brazilian pop musician Jorge Ben Jor, known for his 'samba-rock' fusions and hits such as 'Pa s Tropical' and 'Mas que Nada', picks up the electric guitar and records the album frica Brasil. With grooves structured around guitar and...
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  • Noise Uprising: The Audiopolitics of a World Musical Revolution by Denning, Michael
    Michael Denning

    Noise Uprising: The Audiopolitics of a World Musical Revolution

    A radically new reading of the origins of recorded music Noise Uprising brings to life the moment and sounds of a cultural revolution. Between the development of electrical recording in 1925 and the outset of the Great Depression in the early 1930s, the soundscape...
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  • The Akonting: Banjo Ancestor: Illustrated Poem Story of an African Legacy by Levitt, Steve
    Steve Levitt

    The Akonting: Banjo Ancestor: Illustrated Poem Story of an African Legacy

    This book tells a fascinating story, based on recently uncovered and seldom known history, about an African legacy that appears to have had a profound impact on a musical instrument that America holds dear, the banjo. This illustrated story, in rhyming narrative form, is...
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  • Rock the Nation: Latin/O Identities and the Latin Rock Diaspora by Avant-Mier, Roberto
    Roberto Avant-Mier

    Rock the Nation

    Rock the Nation analyzes Latino/a identity through rock 'n' roll music and its deep Latin/o history. By linking rock music to Latinos and to music from Latin America, the author argues that Latin/o music, people, and culture have been central to the development of...
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  • Oh, Didn't They Ramble: Rounder Records and the Transformation of American Roots Music by Menconi, David
    David Menconi

    Oh, Didn't They Ramble: Rounder Records and the Transformation of American Roots Music

    What is American roots music? Any definition must account for a kaleidoscope of genres from bluegrass to blues, western swing to jazz, soul and gospel to rock and reggae, Cajun to Celtic. It must encompass the work of artists as diverse as Alice Gerard...
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  • Magic City: How the Birmingham Jazz Tradition Shaped the Sound of America by Mathews, Burgin
    Burgin Mathews

    Magic City: How the Birmingham Jazz Tradition Shaped the Sound of America

    Magic City is the story of one of American music's essential unsung places: Birmingham, Alabama, birthplace of a distinctive and influential jazz heritage. In a telling replete with colorful characters, iconic artists, and unheralded masters, Burgin Mathews reveals how Birmingham was the cradle and...
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  • Playing with Something That Runs: Technology, Improvisation, and Composition in DJ and Laptop Performance by Butler, Mark J.
    Mark J. Butler

    Playing with Something That Runs: Technology, Improvisation, and Composition in DJ and Laptop Performance

    Winner of the 2015 PMIG Outstanding Publication Award from the Society of Music Theory The DJs and laptop performers of electronic dance music use preexistent elements such as vinyl records and digital samples to create fluid, dynamic performances. These performances are also largely improvised,...
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  • Scholarly Research in Music: Shared and Disciplinary-Specific Practices by Lee, Sang-Hie
    Sang-Hie Lee

    Scholarly Research in Music: Shared and Disciplinary-Specific Practices

    Scholarly Research in Music: Shared and Disciplinary-Specific Practices, Second Edition offers a comprehensive and detailed guide to engaging in research in all disciplines of music. This second edition continues to provide the foundational principles of research for all musicians, including performers, theorists, composers, conductors,...
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  • Sonic Identity at the Margins by Love, Joanna
    Joanna Love

    Sonic Identity at the Margins

    Sonic Identity at the Margins convenes the interdisciplinary work of 17 academics, composers, and performers to examine sonic identity from the 19th century to the present. Recognizing the myriad aspects of identity formation, the authors in this volume adopt methodological approaches that range from...
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  • The Passion for Music: A Sociology of Mediation by Hennion, Antoine
    Antoine Hennion

    The Passion for Music: A Sociology of Mediation

    Music is an accumulation of mediators: instruments, languages, sheets, performers, scenes, media and so on. There is no musical object 'in itself'; music must always be made again. In this innovative book, Hennion turns the elusiveness of music into a resource for a pragmatic...
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  • Korea and the Western Drumset: Scattering Rhythms by Barker, Simon
    Simon Barker

    Korea and the Western Drumset: Scattering Rhythms

    For over a century, drummers have been turning to a variety of percussive traditions as prompts for the creation of new expressive possibilities on the drumset. In this book, Simon Barker sets out in detail the developmental processes he has followed creating an improvisational...
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  • The Alphorn through the Eyes of the Classical Composer (Premium Color) by Jones, Frances
    Frances Jones

    The Alphorn through the Eyes of the Classical Composer (Premium Color)

    'The Alphorn through the Eyes of the Classical Composer' is the first and definitive book to be written about the alphorn in English. It has been written with English-speaking readers in mind, as it examines the extensive interest of primarily non-Swiss composers, writers and...
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  • Music, Branding and Consumer Culture in Church: Hillsong in Focus by Wagner, Tom
    Tom Wagner

    Music, Branding and Consumer Culture in Church: Hillsong in Focus

    Starting as a single congregation in Australia, Hillsong Church now has campuses worldwide, releases worship music that sells millions of albums and its ministers regularly appear in mainstream media. So, how has a single church gained such international prominence? This book offers an ethnographic...
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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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  • Everyday Musical Life Among the Indigenous Bunun, Taiwan by Stock, Jonathan P. J.
    Jonathan P. J. Stock

    Everyday Musical Life among the Indigenous Bunun, Taiwan

    Everyday Musical Life among the Indigenous Bunun, Taiwan contributes to multidisciplinary research on music in everyday human life by pushing beyond the urbanized Western populations routinely featured in such writing. Based on ethnographic study in Buklavu, a village in southern Taiwan mostly inhabited by...
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  • Music and Dance in Eastern Africa: Current Research in Humanities and Social Sciences by Kiiru, Kahithe
    Kahithe Kiiru

    Music and Dance in Eastern Africa: Current Research in Humanities and Social Sciences

    This collection of articles cuts across the Eastern African region, with authors interrogating varying themes in different historical periods that speak not only to the practice of music and dance but also to the performances that characterize these practices. The book dedicates itself to...
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  • New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century: The Music of Naftule Brandwein and Dave Tarras by Rubin, Joel E.
    Joel E. Rubin

    New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century: The Music of Naftule Brandwein and Dave Tarras

    The music of clarinetists Naftule Brandwein and Dave Tarras is iconic of American klezmer music. Their legacy has had an enduring impact on the development of the popular world music genre. Since the 1970s, klezmer music has become one of the most popular world...
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  • Representing African Music: Postcolonial Notes, Queries, Positions by Agawu, Kofi
    Kofi Agawu

    Representing African Music: Postcolonial Notes, Queries, Positions

    The aim of this book is to stimulate debate by offering a critique of discourse about African music. Who writes about African music, how, and why? What assumptions and prejudices influence the presentation of ethnographic data? Even the term "African music" suggests there is...
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  • Is Prog Rock Really Progressive? by Yfantis, Vasileios
    Vasileios Yfantis

    Is Prog Rock Really Progressive?

    Is Prog Rock really progressive anymore? How do the current Prog bands feel about the genre and its legacy? Do they feel that there is progress in the music they perform? Different Prog artists/bands are being interviewed and answer 5 questions about the current...
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  • Voices, Bodies, Practices: Performing Musical Subjectivities by Laws, Catherine
    Catherine Laws

    Voices, Bodies, Practices: Performing Musical Subjectivities

    Who is the "I" that performs? The arts of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have pushed us relentlessly to reconsider our notions of the self, expression, and communication: to ask ourselves, again and again, who we think we are and how we can speak...
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  • Time in Music and Culture by Goląb, Maciej
    Maciej Goląb

    Time in Music and Culture

    For centuries, the dispute over time has concerned mainly its objective and relative character. For the author, besides philosophy and science, the principal point of reference is man, the way he exists in time and space, and the way he observes, senses and organises...
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  • International Reggae: Current and Future Trends in Jamaican Popular Music by Hope, Donna P.
    Donna P. Hope

    International Reggae: Current and Future Trends in Jamaican Popular Music

    International Reggae is an edited volume emanating from the International Reggae Conference hosted annually by the Institute of Caribbean Studies Unit at the University of the West Indies, Mona. Like the conference, this work seeks to consolidate and disseminate knowledge on Jamaican music and...
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  • Post-Tonal Affinities in Piano Works of Bartók, Chen, and Crumb by Antokoletz, Elliot
    Elliot Antokoletz

    Post-Tonal Affinities in Piano Works of Bart, Chen, and Crumb

    The book explores cellular pivots as a new means of progression, functional tonality having disappeared in much of contemporary music. B駘a Bart serves as a kind of father figure to Chen Yi and George Crumb - stylistically, technically, and even philosophically. These affinities provide...
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  • Extensions of African Cultures in Brazil by Kubik, Gerhard
    Gerhard Kubik

    Extensions of African Cultures in Brazil

    Brazil owes a significant portion of its social and cultural heritage of several West and Central African cultures. Due to his intensive knowledge of the African culture renown ethnomusicologist Gerhard Kubik has studied the presence of African culture phenomena in several research trips in...
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  • Jerome: Just One More Song: Local, Social & Political History in the Repertoire of a Newfoundland-Irish Singer by Bennett, Margaret
    Margaret Bennett

    Jerome: Just One More Song: Local, Social & Political History in the Repertoire of a Newfoundland-Irish Singer

    Jerome Just one more Song! A Local, Social & Political History in the Repertoire of a Newfoundland-Irish SingerThis timeless Songs collection, recorded in Codroy Valley, Newfoundland, 1980 by folklorists Kenneth S. Goldstein and Margaret Bennett, is a tribute to singer Jerome Downey. This is...
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  • Sounds Icelandic: Essays on Icelandic Music in the 20th and 21st Centuries by Hall, þOrbjörg Daphne
    﨩rbj鰎g Daphne Hall

    Sounds Icelandic: Essays on Icelandic Music in the 20th and 21st Centuries

    Over the past 25 years, Icelandic music has been gaining considerable international attention. This is attested to by the international success of such acts as the Sugarcubes, and then Bj鰎k as a solo artist, followed by the worldwide success of Sigur R髎, and more...
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  • Songs from the Stations: Wajarra as Performed by Ronnie Wavehill Wirrpnga, Topsy Dodd Ngarnjal and Dandy Danbayarri at Kalkaringi by Turpin, Myfany
    Myfany Turpin

    Songs from the Stations: Wajarra as Performed by Ronnie Wavehill Wirrpnga, Topsy Dodd Ngarnjal and Dandy Danbayarri at Kalkaringi

    The Gurindji people of the Northern Territory are best known for their walk-off of Wave Hill Station in 1966, protesting against mistreatment by the station managers. The strike would become the first major victory of the Indigenous land rights movement. Many discussions of station...
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  • Racial Uplift and American Music, 1878-1943 by Schenbeck, Lawrence
    Lawrence Schenbeck

    Racial Uplift and American Music, 1878-1943

    Racial Uplift and American Music, 1878-1943 traces the career of racial uplift ideology as a factor in elite African Americans' embrace of classical music around the turn of the previous century, from the collapse of Reconstruction to the death of composer/conductor R. Nathaniel Dett,...
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  • Reggae Wisdom: Proverbs in Jamaican Music by Prahlad, Anand
    Anand Prahlad

    Reggae Wisdom: Proverbs in Jamaican Music

    Bob Marley, Jimmy Cliff, Peter Tosh, the Itals, the Ethiopians--they all dropped dazzling proverbs into their best-known reggae tunes. "What come bad in the morning, can't come good in the evening." "They love to give you a basket to carry water." "The harder the...
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  • Gilberto Gil's Refazenda by Hertzman, Marc A.
    Marc A. Hertzman

    Gilberto Gil's Refazenda

    Refazenda connects a remarkable album by one of the 20th and 21st centuries' great musicians to a dazzling, often unexpected, array of people and places spread across the globe from Brazil to England to Chile to Japan. Critics and fans often project (or impose)...
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  • The Sound of Navajo Country: Music, Language, and Diné Belonging by Jacobsen, Kristina M.
    Kristina M. Jacobsen

    The Sound of Navajo Country: Music, Language, and Diné Belonging

    In this ethnography of Navajo (Din ) popular music culture, Kristina M. Jacobsen examines questions of Indigenous identity and performance by focusing on the surprising and vibrant Navajo country music scene. Through multiple first-person accounts, Jacobsen illuminates country music's connections to the Indigenous politics...
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  • Experiencing Jewish Music in America: A Listener's Companion by Frühauf, Tina
    Tina Fr?auf

    Experiencing Jewish Music in America: A Listener's Companion

    Experiencing Jewish Music in America: A Listener's Companion offers an easy-to-read and new perspective on the remarkably diverse landscape that comprises Jewish music in the United States. This much-needed survey on the art of listening to and enjoying this dynamic and diverse musical culture...
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  • Shared Meanings in the Film Music of Philip Glass: Music, Multimedia and Postminimalism by Evans, Tristian
    Tristian Evans

    Shared Meanings in the Film Music of Philip Glass: Music, Multimedia and Postminimalism

    The study of music within multimedia contexts has become an increasingly active area of scholarly research. However, the application of such studies to musical genres outside the 'classical' film canon, or in television and other media remains largely unexplored in any detail. Tristian Evans...
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  • Ethnomusicological Encounters with Music and Musicians: Essays in Honor of Robert Garfias by Rice, Timothy
    Timothy Rice

    Ethnomusicological Encounters with Music and Musicians: Essays in Honor of Robert Garfias

    Designed as a tribute to Robert Garfias, who has conducted field work in more cultures than any other living ethnomusicologist, this volume explores the originating encounter in field work of ethnomusicologists with the musicians and musical traditions they study. The nineteen contributors provide case...
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  • Sound Clash: Jamaican Dancehall Culture at Large by Cooper, C.
    C. Cooper

    Sound Clash: Jamaican Dancehall Culture at Large

    Megawattage sound systems have blasted the electronically-enhanced riddims and tongue-twisting lyrics of Jamaica's dancehall DJs across the globe. This high-energy raggamuffin music is often dismissed by old-school roots reggae fans as a raucous degeneration of classic Jamaican popular music. In this provocative study of...
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  • The Female Voice in the Twentieth Century: Material, Symbolic and Aesthetic Dimensions by Facci, Serena
    Serena Facci

    The Female Voice in the Twentieth Century: Material, Symbolic and Aesthetic Dimensions

    By integrating theoretical approaches to the female voice with the musicological investigation of female singers' practices, the contributors to this volume offer fresh viewpoints on the material, symbolic and cultural aspects of the female voice in the twentieth century. Various styles and genres are...
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  • Songs of Tagore: Poetry and Melody by Tagore, Rabindranath
    Rabindranath Tagore

    Songs of Tagore: Poetry and Melody

    Rabindranath Tagore composed over 2000 songs that are revered and sung by Bengalis everywhere. However, they remain mostly unknown to listeners from other communities. This book brings the Nobel Laureate's unique music - Rabindrasangit - to a global audience, with a lucid introduction by...
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  • Vibe Merchants: The Sound Creators of Jamaican Popular Music by Hitchins, Ray
    Ray Hitchins

    Vibe Merchants: The Sound Creators of Jamaican Popular Music

    Vibe Merchants offers an insider's perspective on the development of Jamaican Popular Music, researched and analysed by a thirty-year veteran with a wide range of experience in performance, production and academic study. This rare perspective, derived from interviews and ethnographic methodologies, focuses on the...
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  • French and Soviet Musical Diplomacies in Post-War Austria, 1945-1955 by Golovlev, Alexander
    Alexander Golovlev

    French and Soviet Musical Diplomacies in Post-War Austria, 1945-1955

    French and Soviet Musical Diplomacies in Post-War Austria, 1945-1955 investigates how promoting 'national' music and musicians was used as an important asset by France and the USSR in post-Nazi Austria, covering music's role in international relations at various levels, within changing power frameworks. Bridging...
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  • Live from the Underground: A History of College Radio by Jewell, Katherine Rye
    Katherine Rye Jewell

    Live from the Underground: A History of College Radio

    Bands like R.E.M., U2, Public Enemy, and Nirvana found success as darlings of college radio, but the extraordinary influence of these stations and their DJs on musical culture since the 1970s was anything but inevitable. As media deregulation and political conflict over obscenity and...
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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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