The Race of Sound: Listening, Timbre, and Vocality in African American Music, Paperback - Nina Sun Eidsheim

DescriptionIn The Race of Sound Nina Sun Eidsheim traces the ways in which sonic attributes that might seem natural, such as the voice and its qual...

David Toop's extraordinary work of sonic history travels from the rainforests of Amazonas to the megalopolis of Tokyo via the work of artists as di...

Contributor(s): Author: David F. GarciaIn Listening for Africa David F. Garcia explores how a diverse group of musicians, dancers, academics, and a...

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A landmark work within the study of conflict, sound studies, and ethnomusicology, Listening to War offers a broad theorization of sound, violence, ...

Offers an epic history of a little-known African American instrumental music form. John Shaw follows the music from its roots in West Africa and ea...

Political scientists and social choice theorists often assume that economic diversification within a group produces divergent political beliefs and...

The story behind Martin Luther King's historic, but largely forgotten visit to Newcastle upon Tyne, England in 1967, placing King's visit within an...

Reducere. The aesthetic known as the Bakersfield Sound transformed country music, its hard edge a stark contrast to Nashville's stringed orchestras. It turne...

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTUREOscar Nominated For Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay Set amid the civil rights movement, the never-before-told tr...

A complete guide to the Clan Maclaine of Lochbue. The twenty six clan chiefs, their monuments and buildings, the legends, the branch clans and clan...

Reducere. An award-winning constitutional law historian examines case-based evidence that reveals the Supreme Court's longstanding support for white supremac...

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In Speaking of Race, Jennifer B. Delfino draws on three years of teaching experience and ethnographic research to examine language and racial ident...

Reducere. In the sound of the 1960s and 1970s, nothing symbolized the rift between black and white America better than the seemingly divided genres of countr...

"We have in this book a Rosetta stone for mediating, or translating, African musical behavior and aesthetics."--Andrew Tracey, African Music "John ...

Celeste Day Moore traces the popularity of African American music in postwar France to outline how it came to signify both state power and liberati...

Reducere. Examining how African American males end up in dead-end classes, this book explores what must be done to change this trend, asking such questions a...

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Reducere. Learn about music history in musical termsWhat distinguishes the major periods in music history: Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romanti...

Reducere. Speaking of Race explores the linguistic practices of African American children in an after school program in Washington, DC. Drawing on ethnograph...

With sound becoming more important in cinema exhibition and DVD release, this book offers user-friendly knowledge and stimulating exercises to help...

Reducere. "An extraordinary, innovative, and generative book." - George Lipsitz, author of How Racism Takes PlaceAbout the Author: Shana L. Redmond is Assist...

THE DEFINITIVE, AUTHORISED BIOGRAPHY OF BILL FRISELLOver a period of 45 years, 40 albums as leader, and appearances on more than 300 recordings, Bi...

Reducere. DescriptionWritten in a clear, accessible, storytelling style, African American Theater will shine a bright new light on the culture which has hist...

DescriptionDuring the twentieth century, the number of Christians in Africa grew from an estimated 4 million to more than 300 million. One of the f...

Reducere. In Soundworks Anthony Reed argues that studying sound requires conceiving it as process and as work. Since the long Black Arts era (ca. 1958-1974),...

Reducere. Enduring Truth argues that faithfulness to Scripture is the solution to a "crisis" among African American preaching. Though misinterpreting God's W...

Music and Sound in the Worlds of Michel Gondry examines the hybrid nature of Gondry's work, his process of collaboration, how he uses sound and mus...

Reducere. The: Phoenix Sound: A History of Twang and Rockabilly Music in Arizona, Hardcover

Combines ethnographic research with music, media, and policy analysis to examine how localized forms of hip hop create social and political spaces ...

Reducere. Offers user-friendly knowledge and stimulating exercises to help compose story, develop characters and create emotion through skillful creation of ...

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Contributor(s): Michael Aaron FrishkopfEditor: Federico SpinettiTracing the connections between music making and built space in both historical and...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Karen (Canada Research Chair, University of Waterloo) CollinsIllustration(s): 27 b 54 Illustrations, unspecified...

Reducere. 136 songs of African-American slaves, collected and compiled a few years after the Emancipation Proclamation, are presented here complete with thei...

Reducere. This book is the first anthology to explore the connection between race and the suburbs in American cinema from the end of World War II to the pres...

Reducere. The Revolutionary War encompassed at least two struggles: one for freedom from British rule, and another, quieter but no less significant fight for...

Julie Andrews lumineaza ecranul in rolul Mariei, o tanara indrazneața care parasește manastirea pentru a deveni guvernanta celor șapte copii ai Cap...

Publisher: Fordham University PressIllustration(s): 8 b/w illustrationsNumber of pages: 334Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 153 x 230 x 27Cover ty...

Reducere. Noise explores the human dramas that have revolved around sound at various points in the last 100, 000 years, allowing us to think in fresh ways ab...

Reducere. An estimated four hundred gold records have been recorded in the Muscle Shoals area. Many of those are thanks to Muscle Shoals Sound Studio and the...

A child is kidnapped with consequences that extend across worlds... A writer reaches into the past to discover the truth about a possible murder......

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Edward J. GillinIllustration(s): 33 halftones, 4 tablesNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2...

Reducere. Chips Moman's genius began in the studio, where he instituted technical innovations that forever changed the recording industry, but it expanded fr...

Publisher: Citadel Press Inc., U.S.Author(s): Michael L. LanningNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 153 x 226 x 28Cover type: Pap...

Reducere. With a lifetime of experience, knowledge, and appreciation, the internationally celebrated conductor and teacher answers the questions: Why should ...

Reducere. DescriptionBlues Book of the Year --Living Blues Association of Recorded Sound Collections Awards for Excellence Best Historical Research in Record...

Reducere. Using a page-a-day format, this is a collection of vignettes--````inspired moments````--from the lives of black woman across recorded time.