Ethnomusicology
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The Schubert Treatment: A Story of Music and Healing
$24.95 Add to cartFor readers of Oliver Sacks and Being Mortal by Atul Gawande comes “a luminous ode to the ‘mysterious ways music… moves’ patients with such conditions as dementia and autism… Assured and lyrical, … [more below]
- Author: Oppert, Claire
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1778400809
- Language: English
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The Bakersfield Sound: How a Generation of Displaced Okies Revolutionized American Music
$27.00 Add to cartIn California’s Central Valley, two thousand miles away from country music’s hit machine, the hard edge of the Bakersfield Sound transformed American music in the latter half of the twentieth century…. [more below]
- Author: Price, Robert E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: March 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1597144150
- Language: English
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Harp Making in Late-Georgian London
$72.99 Add to cartAt the end of the eighteenth century, after the French Revolution, the centre of pedal-harp making moved from Paris to London. There, building on the work of its Bavarian originators and Parisian deve
- Author: Baldwin, Mike
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 428
- Publish Date: August 21 2020
- ISBN10: 1527265110
- Language: English
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Fight the Power: Rap, Race, and Reality
$19.00 Add to cartLike the hard-hitting sounds of a Public Enemy jam, the words of the band’s lead singer, Chuck D, excite the mind and senses. In his first book, Chuck D pours out commentary that takes on Hollywood, r… [more below]
- Author: D, Chuck
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 08 1998
- ISBN10: 0385318731
- Language: English
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Contact Languages and Music
$55.00 Add to cartLanguage and music are connected in many
ways. As social and cultural practices, they have been intertwined in
multiple ways. Musical and linguistic practices are often intertwined to
express distinct an… [more below]- Author: Hollington, Andrea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 350
- Publish Date: December 20 2022
- ISBN10: 9766409234
- Language: English
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Music and Black Community in Segregated North Carolina: “It’s all right…”
$34.95 Add to cartEmotional courage is an underestimated characteristic of successful Black life in the segregated, unjust US south. Author Greg Freeland reflects on how music reflected, impacted, and influenced Black
- Series: Black Studies
- Author: Freeland, Gregory
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 262
- Publish Date: May 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1915271215
- Language: English
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Step It Up and Go: The Story of North Carolina Popular Music, from Blind Boy Fuller and Doc Watson to Nina Simone and Superchunk
$25.00 Add to cartThis book is a love letter to the artists, scenes, and sounds defining North Carolina’s extraordinary contributions to American popular music. David Menconi spent three decades immersed in the state’s… [more below]
- Author: Menconi, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: March 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1469676788
- Language: English
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Tejano Proud: Tex-Mex Music in the Twentieth Century
$24.95 Add to cartFrom the dance halls to the main stage, from small town Texas to the big cities, and from treasured local cultural traditions to the national display of Mexican Texas’ finest talent, m俍ica tejana is
- Series: Fronteras Series, Sponsored by Texas A&m International Unive #1
- Author: San Miguel, Guadalupe, Jr.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 19 2018
- ISBN10: 1585441880
- Language: English
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Blood, Fire, Death: The Swedish Metal Story
$29.95 Add to cartIn the early 1990s, Swedish death metal revolutionized the international music scene. Suddenly, the mild-mannered Scandinavian country found itself at the forefront of a new movement with worldwide im… [more below]
- Series: Extreme Metal
- Author: Johannesson, Ika
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 27 2018
- ISBN10: 1627310673
- Language: English
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The Spirituals and the Blues – 50th Anniversary Edition
$20.00 Add to cart“The power of song in the struggle for Black survival–that is what the spirituals and the blues are about.” James H. Cone revolutionized American theology with the publication in 1969 and 1970 of his… [more below]
- Author: James, Cone
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 03 2022
- ISBN10: 1626984816
- Language: English
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As Serious as Your Life: Black Music and the Free Jazz Revolution, 1957-1977
$18.95 Read moreIn this classic account of the new black music of the 1960s and 70s, celebrated photographer and jazz historian Val Wilmer tells the story of how a generation of revolutionary musicians established bl… [more below]
- Author: Wilmer, Val
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 12 2018
- ISBN10: 1788160711
- Language: English
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My Bloody Roots: From Sepultura to Soulfly and Beyond: The Autobiography (Revised & Updated Edition)
$24.95 Add to cartMy Bloody Roots is the brutally honest story of life in two of the world’s best-known heavy metal bands, Sepultura and Soulfly, by one of the global metal scene’s most respected musicians.
Max Cavale- Author: Cavalera, Max
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 26 2022
- ISBN10: 1911036912
- Language: English
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Ethnomusicology
$12.99 Add to cartEthnomusicologists believe that all humans, not just those we call musicians, are musical, and that musicality is one of the essential touchstones of the human experience. This insight raises big ques… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Rice, Timothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: December 27 2013
- ISBN10: 0199794375
- Language: English
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Holy Ghost: The Life and Death of Free Jazz Pioneer Albert Ayler
$24.95 Read moreHoly Ghost is the first extended study of free jazz saxophonist Albert Ayler, who is seen today as one of the most important innovators in the history of jazz.
Ayler synthesized children’s songs, La M
- Author: Koloda, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1911036939
- Language: English
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Wayfaring Strangers: The Musical Voyage from Scotland and Ulster to Appalachia
$32.00 Add to cartFrom the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries, a steady stream of Scots migrated to Ulster and eventually onward across the Atlantic to resettle in the United States. Many of these Scots-Irish… [more below]
- Author: Ritchie, Fiona
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1469664186
- Language: English
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Ocean of Sound: Ambient Sound and Radical Listening in the Age of Communication
$15.95 Add to cartDavid Toop’s extraordinary work of sonic history travels from the rainforests of Amazonas to the megalopolis of Tokyo via the work of artists as diverse as Brian Eno, Sun Ra, Erik Satie, Kate Bush, Kr… [more below]
- Author: Toop, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 30 2018
- ISBN10: 1788160304
- Language: English
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Wired for Music: A Search for Health and Joy Through the Science of Sound
$18.95 Add to cart“Beautifully written… a riveting account of how melodies and rhythms connect us, and help us deal with alienation and anxiety.”–Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, author of The Body Keeps the Score
In this ca
- Author: Barton, Adriana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 8, 2023
- ISBN10: 1778401112
- Language: English
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Rise Up!: Indigenous Music in North America
$29.95 Add to cartMusic historian Craig Harris explores more than five hundred years of Indigenous history, religion, and cultural evolution in Rise Up! Indigenous Music in North America. More than powwow drums and woo… [more below]
- Author: Harris, Craig
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: November 1, 2023
- ISBN10: 1496236157
- Language: English
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High Bias: The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape
$21.00 Add to cartThe cassette tape was revolutionary. Cheap, portable, and reusable, this small plastic rectangle changed music history. Make your own tapes! Trade them with friends! Tape over the ones you don’t like!… [more below]
- Author: Masters, Marc
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1469675986
- Language: English
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Cool Town: How Athens, Georgia, Launched Alternative Music and Changed American Culture
$23.00 Add to cartIn the summer of 1978, the B-52’s conquered the New York underground. A year later, the band’s self-titled debut album burst onto the Billboard charts, capturing the imagination of fans and music crit… [more below]
- Series: A Ferris and Ferris Book
- Author: Hale, Grace Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1469664054
- Language: English
