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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
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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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  • Global Music Cultures: An Introduction to World Music by Wade, Bonnie C.
    Bonnie C. Wade

    Global Music Cultures: An Introduction to World Music

    Ideal for introductory courses in world music and ethnomusicology, Global Music Cultures gives students an overview of key musical cultures of the world while also incorporating the latest theoretical approaches to the study of world music.Author: Bonnie C. WadeISBN-10: 0190643641ISBN-13: 9780190643645Publisher: Oxford University Press,...
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  • The Awakening of Islamic Pop Music by Otterbeck, Jonas
    Jonas Otterbeck

    The Awakening of Islamic Pop Music

    Awakening - an Islamic media company formed in London - has created the soundtrack to many Muslim lives during the last two decades. As the company celebrates their first 20 years in the industry, Jonas Otterbeck examines their remarkable rise to success and their...
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  • Last Night's Fun: A Book about Irish Traditional Music by Carson, Ciaran
    Ciaran Carson

    Last Night's Fun: A Book about Irish Traditional Music

    Last Night's Fun's is a sparking celebration of music and life that is itself a literary performance of the highest order. Carson's inspired jumble of recording history, poetry, tall tales, and polemic captures the sound and vigor of a ruthlessly unsentimental music. Last Night's...
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  • World Music: A Very Short Introduction by Bohlman, Philip V.
    Philip V. Bohlman

    World Music: A Very Short Introduction

    The term 'world music' encompasses both folk and popular music across the globe, as well as the sounds of cultural encounter and diversity, sacred voices raised in worship, local sounds, and universal values. It emerged as an invention of the West from encounters with...
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  • Music in Vienna: 1700, 1800, 1900 by Jones, David Wyn
    David Wyn Jones

    Music in Vienna: 1700, 1800, 1900

    The image of Vienna as a musical city is a familiar one. This book explores the history of music in Vienna, focussing on three different epochs, 1700, 1800 and 1900. The image of Vienna as a musical city is a familiar one. Vienna has...
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  • The Tango Orchestra: Fundamental Concepts and Techniques by Peralta, Julián
    Juli疣 Peralta

    The Tango Orchestra: Fundamental Concepts and Techniques

    The Tango Orchestra: Fundamental Concepts and Techniques By Julian Peralta Translated by Morgan James Luker Written by one of tango music's most active contemporary orchestra leaders and composers, this book presents for the first time a comprehensive anatomy of the theory and techniques of...
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  • Ten Cities: Clubbing in Nairobi, Cairo, Kyiv, Johannesburg, Berlin, Naples, Luanda, Lagos, Bristol, Lisbon, 1960-Present by Hossfeld Etyang, Johannes
    Johannes Hossfeld Etyang

    Ten Cities: Clubbing in Nairobi, Cairo, Kyiv, Johannesburg, Berlin, Naples, Luanda, Lagos, Bristol, Lisbon, 1960-Present

    A nocturnal journey through local histories of clubbing in Africa and EuropeThe image of the DJ dragging his record case through international "non-places" and deejaying in clubs around the globe is a contemporary clich . But these club scenes have rich, geographically differentiated local...
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  • K-POP - The Odyssey: Your Gateway to the Global K-Pop Phenomenon by Ki, Wooseok
    Wooseok Ki

    K-POP - The Odyssey: Your Gateway to the Global K-Pop Phenomenon

    K-Pop is bigger than it has ever been. Many new artists debut each year and the industry is at an all-time international high. But how did we get here? Is it something more complex and important than mere media headlines?K-POP: The Odyssey - Your...
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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
    $79.25
  • K-Pop: The Odyssey: Your Gateway to the Global K-Pop Phenomenon by Ki, Wooseok
    Wooseok Ki

    K-POP - The Odyssey: Your Gateway to the Global K-Pop Phenomenon

    K-Pop is bigger than it has ever been. Many new artists debut each year and the industry is at an all-time international high. But how did we get here? Is it something more complex and important than mere media headlines?K-POP: The Odyssey - Your...
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  • Resonances of Chindon-YA: Sounding Space and Sociality in Contemporary Japan by Abe, Marié
    Marié Abe

    Resonances of Chindon-YA: Sounding Space and Sociality in Contemporary Japan

    An investigation of music, sound, and public space in contemporary JapanIn this first book-length study of chindon-ya, Marié Abe investigates the intersection of sound, public space, and sociality in contemporary Japan. Chindon-ya, dating back to the 1840s, are ostentatiously costumed street musicians who publicize...
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  • Yma Sumac: The Art Behind the Legend by Limansky, Nidholas E.
    Nidholas E. Limansky

    Yma Sumac: The Art Behind the Legend

    Half the range of the piano keyboard At last a serious critical examination of the utterly unique vocalist celebrated for her "four-octave voice," Yma Sumac A confounding, sometimes heartbreaking, mixture of absurd show-biz hype, stunning virtuosity, and sometimes ravishing artistry, Yma Sumac was a...
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  • New York and the International Sound of Latin Music, 1940-1990 by Lapidus, Benjamin
    Benjamin Lapidus

    New York and the International Sound of Latin Music, 1940-1990

    New York City has long been a generative nexus for the transnational Latin music scene. Currently, there is no other place in the Americas where such large numbers of people from throughout the Caribbean come together to make music. In this book, Benjamin Lapidus...
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  • Sound Fragments: From Field Recording to African Electronic Stories by Lobley, Noel
    Noel Lobley

    Sound Fragments: From Field Recording to African Electronic Stories

    Groundbreaking study of the world's largest archive of field recordings of African musicWinner of IASPM Book Prize, given by IASPM, 2023Winner of the Bruno Nettl Prize, given by the Society for Ethnomusicology, 2023Joint-Winner of the Ruth Stone Prize (with Jessica Perrea), given by the...
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  • Notes from Africa: A Musical Journey with Youssou n'Dour by Cathcart, Jenny
    Jenny Cathcart

    Notes from Africa: A Musical Journey with Youssou n'Dour

    Notes from Africa traces the rise of popular music on the continent - beginning in the 1980s when the term 'world music' was coined as a marketing label and African musicians, notably Youssou N'Dour and his contemporaries, began to appear on the international stage....
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  • O'Neill's Music of Ireland: Over 1,000 Fiddle Tunes by Krassen, Miles
    Miles Krassen

    O'Neill's Music of Ireland: Over 1,000 Fiddle Tunes

    (Music Sales America). Miles Krassen has gathered and re-edited over 1,000 tunes, bringing up to date Capt. Francis O'Neill's famed collection of Irish dance music, airs, jigs, reels, hornpipes, and marches. Includes an introduction on the history of Irish music with tips on playing...
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  • Selenidad: Selena, Latinos, and the Performance of Memory by Paredez, Deborah
    Deborah Paredez

    Selenidad: Selena, Latinos, and the Performance of Memory

    An outpouring of memorial tributes and public expressions of grief followed the death of the Tejana recording artist Selena Quintanilla P駻ez in 1995. The Latina superstar was remembered and mourned in documentaries, magazines, websites, monuments, biographies, murals, look-alike contests, musicals, drag shows, and more....
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  • Music by Subscription: Composers and their Networks in the British Music-Publishing Trade, 1676-1820 by Fleming, Simon D. I.
    Simon D. I. Fleming

    Music by Subscription: Composers and their Networks in the British Music-Publishing Trade, 1676-1820

    This book breaks new ground in the social and cultural history of eighteenth-century music in Britain through the study of a hitherto neglected resource, the lists of subscribers that were attached to a wide variety of publications, including musical works.Author: Simon D. I. FlemingISBN-10:...
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  • Joe Hisaishi's Soundtrack for My Neighbor Totoro by Hara, Kunio
    Kunio Hara

    Joe Hisaishi's Soundtrack for My Neighbor Totoro

    My Neighbor Totoro is a long-standing international icon of Japanese pop culture that grew out of the partnership between the legendary animator Miyazaki Hayao and the world-renowned composer Joe Hisaishi. A crucial step in the two artists' collaboration was the creation of the album,...
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  • The Minqar-I Musiqar: Hazrat Inayat Khan's Classic 1912 Work on Indian Musical Theory and Practice by Inayat Khan, Hazrat
    Hazrat Inayat Khan

    The Minqar-I Musiqar: Hazrat Inayat Khan's Classic 1912 Work on Indian Musical Theory and Practice

    Hazrat Inayat Khan's classic 1912 work on Indian musical theory and practice. The Minqār-i Mūsīqār is prized as much for the quality of its content as for its distinguished author. This book communicates the musical learning and enthusiasms of the twenty-five-year-old Inayat Khan, whose...
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  • Antonín Dvořák's New World Symphony by Shadle, Douglas W.
    Douglas W. Shadle

    Anton? Dvo%r疚's New World Symphony

    Before Anton? Dvor疚's New World Symphony became one of the most universally beloved pieces of classical music, it exposed the deep wounds of racism at the dawn of the Jim Crow era while serving as a flashpoint in broader debates about the American ideals...
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  • Socialist Laments: Musical Mourning in the German Democratic Republic by Sprigge, Martha
    Martha Sprigge

    Socialist Laments: Musical Mourning in the German Democratic Republic

    Antifascist and socialist monuments pervaded the landscape of the former German Democratic Republic (1949-89), presenting a distorted vision of the national past. Official commemorative culture in East Germany celebrated a selective set of political heroes, seeming to leave no public space for mourning those...
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  • New York and the International Sound of Latin Music, 1940-1990 by Lapidus, Benjamin
    Benjamin Lapidus

    New York and the International Sound of Latin Music, 1940-1990

    New York City has long been a generative nexus for the transnational Latin music scene. Currently, there is no other place in the Americas where such large numbers of people from throughout the Caribbean come together to make music. In this book, Benjamin Lapidus...
    $110.00
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  • Fela: Kalakuta Notes by Collins, John
    John Collins

    Fela: Kalakuta Notes

    An intimate portrait of the Afrobeat legendFela: Kalakuta Notes is an evocative account of Fela Kuti--the Afrobeat superstar who took African music into the arena of direct action. With his antiestablishment songs, he dedicated himself to Pan-Africanism and the down-trodden Nigerian masses, or "sufferheads."...
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  • Music in Portugal and Spain: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture by El-Shawan Castelo-Branco, Salwa
    Salwa El-Shawan Castelo-Branco

    Music in Portugal and Spain: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture

    Ideal for introductory undergraduate courses in world music or ethnomusicology and for upper-level courses on music of the Iberian Peninsula, Music in Portugal and Spain: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture introduces students to the diverse musical cultures of these two Iberian countries. This unique text...
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  • Field Guide to the Irish Music Session by Foy, Barry
    Barry Foy

    Field Guide to the Irish Music Session

    Field Guide to the Irish Music Session is the first and only book devoted entirely to the dynamics and etiquette of the traditional Irish musical gathering. There's more to these events than meets the eye or ear, and Field Guide covers it all, with...
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  • Arabic Musical Scales: Basic Maqam Notation by Powers, Cameron
    Cameron Powers

    Arabic Musical Scales: Basic Maqam Notation

    Musicians desiring to play the Dance music, the Sacred music or the Folk music of the Arab and Turkish worlds must study these scales. Discover the musical basis for the incredibly rich emotions associated with Middle Eastern music. Forty-Five Arabic Musical Scales are taught...
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  • Chanson: A Tribute to France's Most Romantic and Poetic Musical Tradition by Salie, Olaf
    Olaf Salie

    Chanson: A Tribute to France's Most Romantic and Poetic Musical Tradition

    A photographic tribute to France's most lyrical, romantic, and poetic musical tradition. Virtually no other musical discipline is as closely linked with the culture and essence of a country as the chanson with France. With roots in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, this secular,...
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  • Popular Dance and Music in Modern Egypt by Zuhur, Sherifa
    Sherifa Zuhur

    Popular Dance and Music in Modern Egypt

    This book is an exploration into the history, aesthetics, social reality, regulation, and transformation of dance and dance music in Egypt. It covers Oriental dance, known as belly dance or danse du ventre, regional or group-specific dances and rituals, sha'bi (lower-class urban music and...
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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...
    $110.00
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  • Sound Relations: Native Ways of Doing Music History in Alaska by Perea, Jessica Bissett
    Jessica Bissett Perea

    Sound Relations: Native Ways of Doing Music History in Alaska

    Sound Relations delves into histories of Inuit musical life in Alaska to register the significance of sound as integral to self-determination and sovereignty. Offering radical and relational ways of listening to Inuit performances across a range of genres--from hip hop to Christian hymnody and...
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  • Book of Salsa by Rondón, César Miguel
    C駸ar Miguel Rond

    Book of Salsa

    Salsa is one of the most popular types of music listened to and danced to in the United States. Until now, the single comprehensive history of the music--and the industry that grew up around it, including musicians, performances, styles, movements, and production--was available only...
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  • African Rhythm and African Sensibility: Aesthetics and Social Action in African Musical Idioms by Chernoff, John Miller
    John Miller Chernoff

    African Rhythm and African Sensibility: Aesthetics and Social Action in African Musical Idioms

    "We have in this book a Rosetta stone for mediating, or translating, African musical behavior and aesthetics."-Andrew Tracey, African Music "John Miller Chernoff, who spent 10 years studying African drumming, has a flair for descriptive writing, and his first-person narratives should be easily understood...
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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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