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Caribbean Currents: Caribbean Music from Rumba to Reggae
This is an exploration of the region's music - its forms and innovations, musicians, festivals, and dance halls, its fans - and traces its African, Asian and European roots. This book is oriented toward a few distinct yet overlapping sets of readers. One group...- $45.95
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Caribbean Currents:: Caribbean Music from Rumba to Reggae
First published in 1995, Caribbean Currents has become the definitive guide to the distinctive musics of this region of the world. This third edition of the award-winning book is substantially updated and expanded, featuring thorough coverage of new developments, such as the global spread...- $34.95
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Cassette Culture: Popular Music and Technology in North India
In Cassette Culture, Peter Manuel tells how a new mass medium-the portable cassette player-caused a major upheaval in popular culture in the world's second-largest country. The advent of cassette technology in the 1980s transformed India's popular music industry from the virtual monopoly of a...- $37.00
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East Indian Music [With CD]
This is a portrait of a diaspora community in motion. The book documents the social and cultural development of a people without history, a people who have been dismissed as foreigners. It also examines the assertiveness and syncretism of Indo-Caribbean popular music.Author: Peter ManuelISBN-10:...- $43.95
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Flamenco Music: History, Forms, Culture
An expert explains and analyzes the beloved art form An iconic symbol of Spain, flamenco has become a global phenomenon. Peter Manuel offers English-language readers a rare portrait of the music's history, styles, and cultural impact. Beginning with flamenco's Moorish and Roma influences, Manuel...- $35.00
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Popular Musics of the Non-Western World: An Introductory Survey
Reflecting the growing interest in popular music from the developing world, this unique book is the first to examine all major non-Western urban music styles, from increasingly familiar genres like reggae and salsa, to the lesser-known regional styles of Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa,...- $75.00
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