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  • - The Art of Collective Improvisation in Balinese Music and Beyond
    af Leslie A Tilley
    433,95 - 1.240,95 kr.

  • af Richard David Williams
    383,95 - 1.178,95 kr.

  • - Performing Gender in Dominican Music
    af Sydney Hutchinson
    433,95 kr.

  • - Musical Culture in the Age of Expediency
    af Morgan James Luker
    363,95 kr.

  • af Lewis Rowell
    386,95 kr.

  • - Music and the Aesthetics of Freedom in South Africa
    af Gavin Steingo
    363,95 kr.

  • af Philip Bohlman & Goffredo Plastino
    433,95 kr.

  • af Bonnie C. Wade
    393,95 kr.

    When we think of composers like Mozart or Beethoven, we usually envision an isolated artist separate from the orchestra. For most of Japan's musical history, however, no such role existed - composition and performance were deeply intertwined. This book offers fresh insights not just into Japanese music but Japanese modernity at large.

  • - Huayno Music, Media Work, and Ethnic Imaginaries in Urban Peru
    af Joshua Tucker
    393,95 - 1.158,95 kr.

    Focusing on popular huayno music and the ways it has been promoted to Peru's emerging middle class, the author tells a complex story of identity making and the marketing forces entangled with it, providing crucial insights into the dynamics among art, class, and ethnicity that reach far beyond the Andes.

  • - Perspectives from the Mediterranean
    af Tullia Magrini
    437,95 kr.

    The contributors explore the intimate relationships between music & gender, across the wide range of cultures around the Mediterranean. Essays examine musical behaviour as representation, assertion, and transgression of gender identities.

  • - Music, Trance, and Alterity in Tunisia
    af Richard C. Jankowsky
    372,95 kr.

    Presents an account of the healing trance music created by the descendants of sub-Saharan slaves brought to Tunisia during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Part ethnography, part history of the complex relationship between Tunisia's Arab and sub-Saharan populations, this book is also suitable for students of ethnomusicology, and religion.

  • - Northern Gods in a Southern Land
    af Steven M. Friedson
    316,95 kr.

    A book on the critical role of music in African ritual which focuses on the Brekete/Gorovodu religion of the Ewe people. It analyzes their practices through a historical and ethnographic study of one of the dominant ritual sites on the southern coast of Ghana: a medicine shrine whose origins lie in the northern region of the country.

  • - Sundanese Dance and Masculinity in West Java
    af Henry Spiller
    418,95 kr.

    In West Java, Indonesia, all it takes is a woman's voice and a drumbeat to make a man get up and dance. The author draws on decades of ethnographic research to explore the reasons behind this phenomenon, arguing that Sundanese men use dance to explore and enact contradictions in their gender identities.

  • - Cultural Intimacy in Turkish Popular Music
    af Martin Stokes
    433,95 kr.

    Presents the voices of three musicians - queer nightclub star Zeki Muren, arabesk originator Orhan Gencebay, and pop diva Sezen Aksu - who collectively have dominated mass media in Turkey since the early 1950s. Using these three singers as a lens, the author examines Turkey's repressive politics and civil violence as well as its public life.

  • - Contemporary Korean Drumming and the Rebirth of Itinerant Performance Culture
    af Nathan Hesselink
    393,95 kr.

    In 1978, four musicians crowded into a cramped basement theater in downtown Seoul, where they, for the first time, brought the rural percussive art of p'ungmul to a burgeoning urban audience. This title traces this reinvention through the rise of the Korean supergroup.

  • - The Infinite Art of Improvisation
    af Paul F. Berliner
    493,95 kr.

    Explores how musicians, both individually and collectively, learn to improvise. Chronicling musicians from their first encounters with jazz to the development of a unique improvisatory voice, Berliner demonstrates that a lifetime of preparation lies behind the skilled improviser's every note.

  • - Music, Politics, and Pleasure in Guinea
    af Nomi Dave
    338,95 - 863,95 kr.

  • - Popular Music in the Peruvian Andes
    af Joshua Tucker
    363,95 - 953,95 kr.

    Describes the development of chimaycha, a Quechua-language music genre, over the last fifty years, in order to show how changes in performance track and drive evolving conceptions of Andean indigeneity over the same period.

  • - Women, Music, and Environmental Justice in an African Borderland
    af Angela Impey
    388,95 - 1.008,95 kr.

  • - European Hip Hop and the Politics of Postcoloniality
    af J. Griffith Rollefson
    363,95 - 963,95 kr.

  • - An Archive of Improvisation
    af Paul F. Berliner
    813,95 kr.

    "A companion to The Art of Mbira, Mbira's Restless Dance features thirty-nine of master musician Cosmas Magaya's full-length mbira compositions, plus Magaya's commentaries on them--a patchwork of observations, reflections, analyses, performer's notes and pedagogical advice--along with Paul Berliner's notes and interpretations of various features of the music"--Publisher's info.

  • - Andalusi Music in Urban North Africa
    af Jonathan Glasser
    363,95 kr.

  • - Studies in Black South African Performance
    af Veit Erlmann
    378,95 kr.

  • af Ronald M. Radano
    587,95 kr.

    Representing a broad range of academic disciplines and geographic regions, this work examines how the imagination of race has influenced musical production, reception, and scholarly analysis. It reviews the history of race in European and American, non-Western and global music.

  • - Essays on the History of Ethnomusicology
    af Bruno Nettl
    513,95 kr.

  • - Popular Music and Technology in North India
    af Peter Manuel
    429,95 kr.

  • - Haitian Art Music and Cultural Nationalism
    af Michael Largey
    424,95 kr.

    Examines art music by Haitian and African American composers who were inspired by Haiti's history as a nation created by slave revolt. This title also highlights the contributions of many Haitian and African American composers who wrote music that brought rhythms and melodies of the Vodou ceremony to local and international audiences.

  • - A Social History and Ethnography of an African Popular Music
    af Christopher Alan Waterman
    418,95 kr.

  • - Studies in the World of Musical Improvisation
    af Bruno Nettl
    498,95 kr.

    Illustrating the practices and processes of musical improvisation, this text includes contributions by 17 scholars and improvisers. It offers a history of research and an overview of the different approaches to the topic that can be used, ranging from cognitive study to detailed musical analysis.