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  • Regurgitator's Unit by Goold, Lachlan
    Lachlan Goold

    Regurgitator's Unit

    Regurgitator's second full-length album, Unit (1997), was produced in a DIY warehouse studio at a time when this was unusual for a major label band. The album went three times Platinum in Australia and won five esteemed ARIA Awards in 1998, including Album of...
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  • Iannis Xenakis's Persepolis by Yardumian, Aram
    Aram Yardumian

    Iannis Xenakis's Persepolis

    Iannis Xenakis' Persepolis stood as witness to one of the most important events in modern human history, the Iranian Revolution in 1979. Its existence is owed to an invitation to participate in the 1971 Shiraz Arts Festival, which was overseen by Empress Farah Pahlavi....
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  • Ed Kuepper's Honey Steel's Gold by Encarnacao, John
    John Encarna艫o

    Ed Kuepper's Honey Steel's Gold

    Ed Kuepper's history as a rock pioneer with The Saints and Laughing Clowns means that his albums of the early 1990s represent a remapping of the singer-songwriter concept. His classic Honey Steel's Gold shares a looseness with blues and folk recordings of the 1940s...
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  • Ed Kuepper's Honey Steel's Gold by Encarnacao, John
    John Encarna艫o

    Ed Kuepper's Honey Steel's Gold

    Ed Kuepper's history as a rock pioneer with The Saints and Laughing Clowns means that his albums of the early 1990s represent a remapping of the singer-songwriter concept. His classic Honey Steel's Gold shares a looseness with blues and folk recordings of the 1940s...
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  • Musical Nationalism, Despotism and Scholarly Interventions in Greek Popular Music by Ordoulidis, Nikos
    Nikos Ordoulidis

    Musical Nationalism, Despotism and Scholarly Interventions in Greek Popular Music

    This book discusses the relationship between Greek Orthodox ecclesiastical music and laiko (popular) song in Greece. Laiko music was long considered a lesser form of music in Greece, with rural folk music considered serious enough to carry the weight of the ideologies founded within...
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  • Vopli Vidopliassova's Tantsi by Sonevytsky, Maria
    Maria Sonevytsky

    Vopli Vidopliassova's Tantsi

    Rock 'n' roll may not have toppled the USSR, but it definitely rumbled through its foundations. Unlike the often-saccharine pop music sanctioned by the Soviet state, Ukrainian punk musicians of the 1980s Kyiv underground adapted ideologies of rock to roast the absurdities of late...
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  • Vopli Vidopliassova's Tantsi by Sonevytsky, Maria
    Maria Sonevytsky

    Vopli Vidopliassova's Tantsi

    Rock 'n' roll may not have toppled the USSR, but it definitely rumbled through its foundations. Unlike the often-saccharine pop music sanctioned by the Soviet state, Ukrainian punk musicians of the 1980s Kyiv underground adapted ideologies of rock to roast the absurdities of late...
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  • Los Rodríguez's Sin Documentos by Fouce, Héctor
    H馗tor Fouce

    Los Rodr刕uez's Sin Documentos

    Sin Documentos is a landmark album in Spanish popular culture and continues to maintain considerable popularity more than two decades after its release. The characteristic guitar riff of the title song, a kind of rumba-rock, still occupies a place at every party in Spain....
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  • Los Rodríguez's Sin Documentos by Fouce, Héctor
    H馗tor Fouce

    Los Rodr刕uez's Sin Documentos

    Sin Documentos is a landmark album in Spanish popular culture and continues to maintain considerable popularity more than two decades after its release. The characteristic guitar riff of the title song, a kind of rumba-rock, still occupies a place at every party in Spain....
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  • Amália Rodrigues's Amália at the Olympia by Gray, Lila Ellen
    Lila Ellen Gray

    Amália Rodrigues's Amália at the Olympia

    The voice of Amália Rodrigues (1920-1999), the "Queen of Fado" and Portugal's most celebrated diva, was extraordinary for its interpretive power, soul wrenching timbre, and international reach. Amalia à l'Olympia (1957) is an album made from recordings of her first performances at the fabled...
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  • Amália Rodrigues's Amália at the Olympia by Gray, Lila Ellen
    Lila Ellen Gray

    Amália Rodrigues's Amália at the Olympia

    The voice of Amália Rodrigues (1920-1999), the "Queen of Fado" and Portugal's most celebrated diva, was extraordinary for its interpretive power, soul wrenching timbre, and international reach. Amalia à l'Olympia (1957) is an album made from recordings of her first performances at the fabled...
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  • A History of Welsh Music by Herbert, Trevor
    Trevor Herbert

    A History of Welsh Music

    From early medieval bards to the bands of the 'Cool Cymru' era, this book looks at Welsh musical practices and traditions, the forces that have influenced and directed them, and the ways in which the idea of Wales as a 'musical nation' has been...
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  • Hip Hop Africa: New African Music in a Globalizing World by Charry, Eric
    Eric Charry

    Hip Hop Africa: New African Music in a Globalizing World

    Hip Hop Africa explores a new generation of Africans who are not only consumers of global musical currents, but also active and creative participants. Eric Charry and an international group of contributors look carefully at youth culture and the explosion of hip hop in...
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  • Music in Golden-Age Florence, 1250-1750: From the Priorate of the Guilds to the End of the Medici Grand Duchy by Cummings, Anthony M.
    Anthony M. Cummings

    Music in Golden-Age Florence, 1250-1750: From the Priorate of the Guilds to the End of the Medici Grand Duchy

    A comprehensive account of music in Florence from the late Middle Ages until the end of the Medici dynasty in the mid-eighteenth century. Florence is justly celebrated as one of the world's most important cities. It enjoys mythic status and occupies an enviable place...
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  • Kylie Minogue's Kylie by Renzo, Adrian
    Adrian Renzo

    Kylie Minogue's Kylie

    Kylie Minogue's self-titled debut album produced hits, controversy and a perfect mainstream storm. The then soap and children's television star 'crossed over' to music with hit writer/producers SAW - and the shamelessly commercial approach of all involved saw the 'real' music industry get its...
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  • Traditional Scottish Favorites Cigar Box Guitar Songbook: 38 Beloved Scottish Classics arranged for 3-string GDG Cigar Box Guitars by Baker, Ben Gitty
    Ben Gitty Baker

    Traditional Scottish Favorites Cigar Box Guitar Songbook: 38 Beloved Scottish Classics arranged for 3-string GDG Cigar Box Guitars

    This is a collection of 38 of the best traditional patriotic, war and love songs from Scotland, with a few from elsewhere in the British Isles as well. This songbook contains 140 pages with multiple tablature arrangements of each song, and also includes full...
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  • Transcultural Sound Practices: British Asian Dance Music as Cultural Transformation by Maier, Carla J.
    Carla J. Maier

    Transcultural Sound Practices: British Asian Dance Music as Cultural Transformation

    Listening to the sound practices of bands and musicians such as the Asian Dub Foundation or M.I.A., and spanning three decades of South Asian dance music production in the UK, Transcultural Sound Practiceszooms in on the concrete sonic techniques and narrative strategies in South...
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  • John Farnham's Whispering Jack by Turner, Graeme
    Graeme Turner

    John Farnham's Whispering Jack

    The album examined in this book transformed the singer John Farnham from a faded teen pop star into the most popular solo rock performer in Australia, in a career that has lasted for more than 30 years. Whispering Jack remains the top-selling album by...
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  • Various Artists' Djs Do Guetto by Elliott, Richard
    Richard Elliott

    Various Artists' Djs Do Guetto

    Call it batida, kuduro, Afro house, Lisbon bass: anyone with a keen ear for contemporary developments in global electronic dance music can't fail to have noticed the rise in popularity and influence of Lisbon-based DJs such as DJ Marfox, DJ Nervoso and N?ia. These...
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  • Mercyful Fate's Don't Break the Oath by Marstal, Henrik
    Henrik Marstal

    Mercyful Fate's Don't Break the Oath

    Upon its release, Don't Break the Oath charted fifth on the official British heavy metal album list and was supported by a two month long sold-out American tour in early 1985. The band's controversial stage appearance with burning crosses, a microphone stand formed as...
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  • Sacred Music as Public Image for Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand III: Representing the Counter-Reformation Monarch at the End of the Thirty Years' War by Weaver, Andrew H.
    Andrew H. Weaver

    Sacred Music as Public Image for Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand III: Representing the Counter-Reformation Monarch at the End of the Thirty Years' War

    Ferdinand III played a crucial role both in helping to end the Thirty Years' War and in re-establishing Habsburg sovereignty within his hereditary lands, and yet he remains one of the most neglected of all Habsburg emperors. The underlying premise of Sacred Music as...
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  • Music and Fantasy in the Age of Berlioz by Brittan, Francesca
    Francesca Brittan

    Music and Fantasy in the Age of Berlioz

    The centrality of fantasy to French literary culture has long been accepted by critics, but the sonorous dimensions of the mode and its wider implications for musical production have gone largely unexplored. In this book, Francesca Brittan invites us to listen to fantasy, attending...
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  • Marilyn Nance: Last Day in Lagos by Nance, Marilyn
    Marilyn Nance

    Marilyn Nance: Last Day in Lagos

    A focused study on a singular African American photographer, through an archival encounter with her documentation of the landmark FESTAC'77 festivalFrom January 15 to February 12, 1977, more than 15,000 artists, intellectuals and performers from 55 nations worldwide gathered in Lagos, Nigeria, for the...
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  • Latin American Classical Composers: A Biographical Dictionary, Second Edition by Ficher, Miguel
    Miguel Ficher

    Latin American Classical Composers: A Biographical Dictionary

    Contains biographical data on hundreds of composers from Latin America: dates of birth and death, information on their background and training, a selective listing of their works, and sources for further study, with an index of composers by country.Author: Miguel FicherISBN-10: 0810845172ISBN-13: 9780810845176Publisher: Scarecrow...
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  • Cuban Counterpoints: The Legacy of Fernando Ortiz by Font, Mauricio A.
    Mauricio A. Font

    Cuban Counterpoints: The Legacy of Fernando Ortiz

    While Fernando Ortiz's contribution to our understanding of Cuba and Latin America more generally has been widely recognized since the 1940s, recently there has been renewed interest in this scholar and activist who made lasting contributions to a staggering array of fields. For the...
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  • French Musical Life: Local Dynamics in the Century to World War II by Ellis, Katharine
    Katharine Ellis

    French Musical Life: Local Dynamics in the Century to World War II

    Explicitly or not, the historical musicology of post-Revolutionary France has focused on Paris as a proxy for the rest of the country. This distorting lens is the legacy of political and cultural struggle during the long nineteenth century, indicating a French Revolution unresolved both...
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  • The Church's Starfish by Gibson, Chris
    Chris Gibson

    The Church's Starfish

    After a string of commercial disappointments, in 1986 Australian rock band The Church were simultaneously dropped by Warner Brothers in the US and EMI in Australasia. The future looked bleak. Seemingly from nowhere, their next record, Starfish, became an unlikely global hit. Its alluring...
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  • Iannis Xenakis's Persepolis by Yardumian, Aram
    Aram Yardumian

    Iannis Xenakis's Persepolis

    Iannis Xenakis' Persepolis stood as witness to one of the most important events in modern human history, the Iranian Revolution in 1979. Its existence is owed to an invitation to participate in the 1971 Shiraz Arts Festival, which was overseen by Empress Farah Pahlavi....
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  • Fela Anikulapo-Kuti: Afrobeat, Rebellion, and Philosophy by Afolayan, Adeshina
    Adeshina Afolayan

    Fela Anikulapo-Kuti: Afrobeat, Rebellion, and Philosophy

    Fela Anikulapo Kuti was the Afrobeat music maestro whose life and time provide the lens through which we can outline the postcolonial trajectory of the Nigerian state as well as the dynamics of most other African states. Through the Afrobeat music, Fela did not...
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  • Taiko Boom: Japanese Drumming in Place and Motionvolume 23 by Bender, Shawn
    Shawn Bender

    Taiko Boom: Japanese Drumming in Place and Motion Volume 23

    With its thunderous sounds and dazzling choreography, Japanese taiko drumming has captivated audiences in Japan and across the world, making it one of the most successful performing arts to emerge from Japan in the past century. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted among taiko groups...
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  • Heitor Villa-Lobos's Bachianas Brasileiras: Intertextuality and Stylization by Dudeque, Norton
    Norton Dudeque

    Heitor Villa-Lobos's Bachianas Brasileiras: Intertextuality and Stylization

    Heitor Villa-Lobos's Bachianas Brasileiras demonstrates how the composer achieved his own Brazilian neoclassical style in a group of works, nine suites in total, that is arguably one of the best examples of homage to J.S. Bach's music in the twentieth century. In this book,...
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  • Music and Ultra-Modernism in France: A Fragile Consensus, 1913-1939 by Kelly, Barbara L.
    Barbara L. Kelly

    Music and Ultra-Modernism in France: A Fragile Consensus, 1913-1939

    Music and Ultra-Modernism in France examines the priorities of three generational groupings: the pre-war Société Musicale Indépendente of Ravel and his circle, Les Six in the 1920s and Jeune France in 1936, and questions some of the stereotypes that characterise that period. It shows...
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  • Settling Scores: German Music, Denazification, and the Americans, 1945-1953 by Monod, David
    David Monod

    Settling Scores: German Music, Denazification, and the Americans, 1945-1953

    Classical music was central to German national identity in the early twentieth century. The preeminence of composers such as Bach and Beethoven and artists such as conductor Wilhelm Furtwangler and pianist Walter Gieseking was cited by the Nazis as justification for German expansionism and...
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  • Metaphors of Depth in German Musical Thought: From E. T. A. Hoffmann to Arnold Schoenberg by Watkins, Holly
    Holly Watkins

    Metaphors of Depth in German Musical Thought: From E. T. A. Hoffmann to Arnold Schoenberg

    What does it mean to say that music is deeply moving? Or that music's aesthetic value derives from its deep structure? This study traces the widely employed trope of musical depth to its origins in German-language music criticism and analysis. From the Romantic aesthetics...
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  • The Queen of Indian Pop: The Authorised Biography of Usha Uthup by Jha, Vikas Kumar
    Vikas Kumar Jha

    The Queen of Indian Pop: The Authorised Biography of Usha Uthup

    Usha Uthup, India's undisputed icon of pop music, has enthralled an entire generation of listeners with her unforgettable voice and continues to do so. Completing fifty years as a professional singer in 2020 was just another milestone in her fabled career. In this vivid...
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  • Gamelan Girls: Gender, Childhood, and Politics in Balinese Music Ensembles by Downing, Sonja Lynn
    Sonja Lynn Downing

    Gamelan Girls: Gender, Childhood, and Politics in Balinese Music Ensembles

    In recent years, girls' and mixed-gender ensembles have challenged the tradition of male-dominated gamelan performance. The change heralds a fundamental shift in how Balinese think about gender roles and the gender behavior taught in children's music education. It also makes visible a national reorganization...
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  • Harmony and Counterpoint: Ritual Music in Chinese Context by Yung, Bell
    Bell Yung

    Harmony and Counterpoint: Ritual Music in Chinese Context

    This volume of nine essays draws together leading scholars in anthropology, social history, musicology, and ethnomusicology to address the roles and functions of music in the Chinese ritual context. How does music, one of a constellation of essential performative elements in almost all rituals,...
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  • Great Spirits: Portraits of Life-Changing World Music Artists by Grass, Randall
    Randall Grass

    Great Spirits: Portraits of Life-Changing World Music Artists

    What do such artists as Bob Marley, Fela Anikulapo Kuti, Nina Simone, and Sun Ra have in common? All created uniquely powerful musical art that had a profound effect on their audiences. Through their music and their lives, they became forces for liberation, challenging...
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  • Driven Into Paradise: The Musical Migration from Nazi Germany to the United States by Brinkmann, Reinhold
    Reinhold Brinkmann

    Driven Into Paradise: The Musical Migration from Nazi Germany to the United States

    The forced migration of artists and scholars from Nazi Germany is a compelling and often wrenching story. The story is twofold, of impoverishment for the countries the musicians left behind and enrichment for the United States. The latter is the focus of this eminent...
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  • The Unofficial Bts Fan Book: For the Bangtan Army by Wright, Becca
    Becca Wright

    The Unofficial Bts Fan Book: For the Bangtan Army

    Celebrate your love for V, Jimin, Jungkook, J-Hope, RM, Jin, and Suga with this adorable, full-color, unofficial collectible book dedicated to the most popular Korean boy band on Earth: BTS. From "No More Dream" to "Boy with Luv," you've been an ARMY through it...
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  • What about Tomorrow?: An Oral History of Russian Punk from the Soviet Era to Pussy Riot by Herbert, Alexander
    Alexander Herbert

    What about Tomorrow?: An Oral History of Russian Punk from the Soviet Era to Pussy Riot

    Punk arrived in Soviet Russia in 1978, spreading slowly at first through black market vinyl records and soon exploding into state-controlled performance halls, where authorities found the raucous youth movement easier to control. In fits and starts, the scene grew and flourished, always a...
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  • Bts: Blood, Sweat & Tears by Herman, Tamar
    Tamar Herman

    Bts: Blood, Sweat & Tears

    A beautifully illustrated exploration of the music, inspiration and cultural influence of BTS - K-pop's global superstars! "The Beatles for the 21st Century" - BBC BTS have exploded onto the global music scene with their distinctive brand of music, impressive choreography, and socially conscious...
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  • Norton Anthology of Western Music by Burkholder, J. Peter
    J. Peter Burkholder

    Norton Anthology of Western Music

    The definitive survey, combining current scholarship with a vibrant narrative. Carefully informed by feedback from dozens of scholars, it remains the book that students and teachers trust to explain what's important, where it fits, and why it matters. Peter Burkholder weaves a compelling story...
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  • A Field Guide to Britpop by Wide, Steve
    Steve Wide

    A Field Guide to Britpop

    This book is your gateway to the oasis of Britain's music in the 90s. A Field Guide to ... delves into music's most influential genres to uncover the innovators and agitators who changed music history forever. In A Field Guide to Britpop, Steve Wide...
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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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  • Inside Arabic Music: Arabic Maqam Performance and Theory in the 20th Century by Farraj, Johnny
    Johnny Farraj

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

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

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

    K-pop (Korean popular music) reigns as one of the most popular music genres in the world today, a phenomenon that appeals to listeners of all ages and nationalities. In Soul in Seoul: African American Popular Music and K-pop, Crystal S. Anderson examines the most...
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  • Norton Anthology of Western Music by Burkholder, J. Peter
    J. Peter Burkholder

    Norton Anthology of Western Music

    The definitive survey, combining current scholarship with a vibrant narrative. Carefully informed by feedback from dozens of scholars, it remains the book that students and teachers trust to explain what's important, where it fits, and why it matters. Peter Burkholder weaves a compelling story...
    $79.25
    $79.25
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  • No Regrets: The Life of Edith Piaf by Burke, Carolyn
    Carolyn Burke

    No Regrets: The Life of Edith Piaf

    The iconic French singer comes to life in this biography, which captures Edith Piaf s immense charisma along with the time and place that gave rise to her international career. Raised by turns in a brothel, a circus caravan, and a working-class Parisian neighborhood,...
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  • Indian Sun: The Life and Music of Ravi Shankar by Craske, Oliver
    Oliver Craske

    Indian Sun: The Life and Music of Ravi Shankar

    One of Library Journal's "Best Arts Books of 2020" The definitive biography of Ravi Shankar, one of the most influential musicians and composers of the twentieth century, told with the cooperation of his estate, family, and friends For over eight decades, Ravi Shankar was...
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