Music in North India. Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture, Paperback - ***

This title provides an overview of the many styles of North Indian music, from the chants of the ancient Vedas to modern devotional singing; from t...

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The diverse landscape of Jewish music in the US is presented in its rich variety and history, from sixteenth century Torah chanting to the ripples ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: Guy L. Beck This innovative book explores religion through music, one of the most universally recognized forms of human exp...

Inquiries into marital patterns can serve as an effective lens to analyze social structures and material cultures not only on the question of sexua...

Focus: Popular Music in Contemporary India examines India's musical soundscape beyond the classical and folk traditions of old to consider the cult...

Reducere. Resonances: Engaging Music in Its Cultural Context offers a fresh curriculum for the college-level music appreciation course. The musical examples ...

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In 2001 Jace Clayton was an unknown DJ who recorded a three-turntable, sixty-minute mix and put it online to share with friends. Within weeks, Gold...

Reducere. An exploration of vocal change and ethical dynamismWays of Voice explores techniques of voice production in North India, from Bollywood to raga mus...

Reducere. Popular Music in the Post-Digital Age explores the relationship between macro environmental factors, such as politics, economics, culture and techn...

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The musical output of jazz pianist and composer Herbie Hancock has toppled genre boundaries and influenced generations of musicians. A child prodig...

The strands of progressive rock music that diverged from points of origin in the sophisticated and maximalist rock music of the sixties and seventi...

Since the eighteenth century, violin concertos have provided a showcase for dramatic interplay between a soloist's virtuosity and the blended sonor...

Uncover the Deep Roots of the Reformation in Anglican Worship Conceived under the conviction that the future of the global Anglican Communion hinge...

DescriptionStories are the backbone of ethnographic research. During fieldwork, subjects describe their lives through stories. Afterward ethnograph...

This extensively revised and expanded fifth edition of Understanding Popular Music Culture provides an accessible and comprehensive introduction to...

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DescriptionMusic and Modernity among First Peoples of North America is a collaboration between Indigenous and settler scholars from both Canada and...

DescriptionExperiencing Latin American Music draws on human experience as a point of departure for musical understanding. Students explore broad to...

Reducere. The Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina are the heart of a region where traditional music and dance are performed and celebrated as nowhere else...

The impact of digital technologies on music has been vast: both the practice of music and thinking about it have changed almost beyond all recognit...

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Reducere. Winner of the Best Book of 2009, Jazz Division, sponsored by AllAboutJazz-New York, 2009.Selected for "The Best of the Best" from University Presse...

Reducere. Composer John Luther Adams makes his home in the boreal forest near Fairbanks, Alaska, where he has created a unique musical world grounded in the ...

Reducere. Chet Atkins called Lenny Breau (1941-1984) "the greatest guitarist who ever walked the face of the earth." Breau's astonishing virtuosity influence...

Reducere. Why did jazz go Latin? And how did blues influence rock? Find out how music has shaped the world from prehistory to the present day. Classical or r...

Music after the Fall is the first book to survey contemporary Western art music within the transformed political, cultural, and technological envir...

A comprehensive history of reggae and how it is inextricably linked to the island of its birth - Jamaica. Many extraordinary stories about characte...

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Joseph C. EwoodzieThe origin story of hip-hop--one that involves Kool Herc DJing a house party on Sedgwick Avenue in the Br...

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The ultimate guide to classical composers and their music-for both the novice and the experienced listenerMusic, according to Aaron Copland, can th...