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Songs of Ireland : 103 Favourite Irish and Irish-American Songs
Jerry Silverman
Paperback - $24.95
"Over 100 classic Irish songs in three categories: Thro' Tara's Halls, All in Americay, and The Troubles. These songs chronicle the struggle and voyages of Irish and Irish-American history. From the polished lines of Moore and Yeats, to the rollickin ...
Banda : Mexican Musical Life Across Borders
Helena Simonette
Paperback - $55.95
Banda music has been performed by traditional brass bands in rural northwestern Mexico for more than a century, while technobanda, a newer style that has replaced the brass instruments with synthesizers and electric instruments, has become part of a ...
Old Jewish Folk Music : The Collections and Writings of Moshe Beregovski
Mark Slobin
Paperback - $47.95
Ethnomusicologist Moshe Beregovski offers insights into Soviet and Jewish history and general musicology and presents the notes and lyrics of nearly three hundred folk songs.
Here, translated into English for the first time, is a cultural record th ...
Noisy Land : A Short History of Irish Popular Music
Gerry Smyth
Hardcover - $51.95
Examines the history, performance, and practice of Irish Rock Music from the 1960s to the present. Using theoretical perspectives drawn from Irish cultural criticism and Rock Music Studies the author shows how Irish rock music has engaged with issues ...
The Steelband Movement : The Forging of a National Art in Trinidad and Tobago
Stephen Stuempfle
Paperback - $49.95
Defining Russia Musically : Historical and Hermeneutical Essays
Richard Taruskin
Paperback - $90.95
"Richard Taruskin has again demonstrated that anything he writes leads to serious thinking and reevaluation of hitherto held views. His erudition and mastery of the field as well as his ability to see beyond the surface the implications not easily gr ...
Balinese Music
Michael Tenzer
Paperback - $32.95
This authoritative book, newly revised and updated, presents an introduction to more than a dozen different types of Balinese gamelan, each with its own established tradition, repertoire and social or religious context. There are beautiful color phot ...
Song of the Outcasts : An Introduction to Flamenco with CD (Audio)
Robin Totton
Hardcover - $49.95
Flamenco has taken the world by storm, with huge crowds experiencing its power. Ironically, though, if the performance is authentic - and much in the tourist trade is not - the uninitiated may find it baffling; the rhythms are exotic and strange, the ...