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Representing African Music : Postcolonial Notes, Queries, Positions
Kofi Agawu
Paperback - $66.95
The aim of this book is to stimulate debate by offering a critique of discourse about African music. Who writes about African music, how, and why? What assumptions and prejudices influence the presentation of ethnographic data? To what orders of auth ...
MIDI for Musicians
Craig Anderton
Paperback - $33.95
The first guide that clearly explains the impact that Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) has made on the creation of music. Profusely illustrated with easy-to-understand diagrams and examples that take the mystery out of MIDI.
Listening to Salsa
Frances R. Aparicio
Paperback - $51.95
The pulsing beats of salsa, merengue, and bolero are a compelling expression of Latino/a culture, but few outsiders comprehend the music's implications in larger social terms.
Music and German National Identity
Celia Applegate
Paperback - $48.95
Concert halls all over the world feature mostly the works of German and Austrian composers as their standard repertoire: composers like the three "Bs" of classical music, Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms, all of whom are German. Over the past three centur ...
African Polyphony and Polyrhythm
Simha Arom
Paperback - $233.95
In this detailed study Simha Arom takes a new and original approach to the understanding of the complex and sophisticated patterns of polyphony and polyrhythm that characterise African music. Considering in particular the harp, sanza, xylophone and p ...
Music of Death and New Creation : Experiences in the World of Balinese Gamelan Beleganjur
Michael B. Bakan
Paperback - $78.95
For centuries the gamelan beleganjur percussion orchestra has been an indispensable part of political, social, and spiritual life on the island of Bali. Traditionally associated with warfare and rituals for the dead, the music has recently given rise ...
Public Worship, Private Faith
John Bealle
Paperback - $41.95
The Sacred Harp, a tunebook that first appeared in 1844, has stood as a model of early American musical culture for most of this century. Tunebooks such as this, printed in shape notes for public singing and singing schools, followed the New England ...
Women's Voices Across Musical Worlds
Jane A. Bernstein
Paperback - $57.95
Written by a distinguished group of musicologists and ethnomusicologists, the essays collected here provide a cross-cultural and cross-historical view of the roles women have played as creators and performers and the representation of women in world, ...
Sounding Indigenous : Authenticity in Bolivian Music Performance
Michelle Bigenho
Paperback - $73.95
"Sounding Indigenous explores the relations between music, people, and places through analysis of Bolivian music performances: by a non-governmentalorganization involved in musical activities, by a music performing ensemble, and by the people living ...