Narcocorrido : A Journey Into the Music of Drugs, Guns, and Guerrillas

Elijah Wald
Paperback - $27.95

In the first full-length exploration of the contemporary and controversial Mexican corrido, award-winning author Elijah Wald blends a travel narrative with his search for the roots of this genre -- a modern outlaw music that fuses the sensibilities o ...

Singing the Classical, Voicing the Modern : The Postcolonial Politics of Music in South India

Amanda J. Weidman
Paperback - $51.95

Satie the Bohemian : From Cabaret to Concert Hall

Stephen Moore Whiting
Hardcover - $523.95

The composer Erik Satie (1866-1925) came of age in the bohemian sub-culture of Montmartre, with its artists' cabarets and cafes-concerts. These colorful milieux decisively shaped his aesthetic priorities and compositional strategies, from the esoteri ...

Breaking the Sound Barrier : An Argument for Mainstream Literary Music

John H. Winsor
Paperback - $30.95

The Encyclopedia of Native Music : More Than a Century of Recordings from Wax Cylinder to the Internet

Brian Wright-McLeod
Paperback - $44.95

- music of the arctic/circumpolar region
- chicken scratch
- contemporary music
- flute music
- peyote ritual music
- powwow music
- traditional/archival music

Afro-Cuban Jazz : The Essential Listening Companion

Scott Yanow
Paperback - $30.95

Often called "Latin jazz" today, Afro-Cuban jazz dates back to 1947, when Cuban percussionist Chano Pozo joined Dizzy Gillespie's big band, helping to fuse bebop with Cuban folk music and rhythms. This book focuses on the jazz side of this irresistib ...

African Drum Music-Adowa

Kongo Zabana
Paperback - $44.95

In African drum ensembles, a musician establishes a time line which establishes the points of entry for the different instruments. So the player must know the role of the particular instrument in the totality, and also the rhythm or rhythms assigned ...

African Drum Music-Kpanlogo

Kongo Zabana
Paperback - $44.95

In African drum ensembles, a musician establishes a time line which establishes the points of entry for the different instruments. So the player must know the role of the particular instrument in the totality, and also the rhythm or rhythms assigned ...

African Drum Music-Slow Agbekor

Kongo Zabana
Paperback - $44.95

In African drum ensembles, a musician establishes a time line which establishes the points of entry for the different instruments. So the player must know the role of the particular instrument in the totality, and also the rhythm or rhythms assigned ...