Non-Western music: traditional & "classical" books

1014 books were found.

Decolonising and Indigenising Music Education: First Peoples Leading Research and Practice

Decolonising and Indigenising Music Education: First...

Author: Te Oti Rakena ,  Clare Hall
ISBN: 9781032265766
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This co-edited volume provides a forum for Indigenous scholars at the intersection of music and education. Authors...  Read More >>

Music, Encounter, Togetherness

Music, Encounter, Togetherness

Author: Nicholas Cook (1684 Professor Emeritus, 1684 Professor Emeritus, University of Cambridge)
ISBN: 9780197663981
Format: Hardback
$210.95

Modern Western musical thought tends to represent music as a thing--a pattern, a structure, even an organism--than...  Read More >>

Music, Mind, and Language in Chinese Poetry and Performance: The Voice Extended

Music, Mind, and Language in Chinese Poetry and Performance:...

Author: Casey Schoenberger (Lecturer in Transnational Asian Studies, Lecturer in Transnational Asian Studies, Rice University)
ISBN: 9780198886211
Format: Hardback
$188.95

This innovative study introduces the rhythms, melodies, language, and organization of traditional Chinese poetry...  Read More >>

Drones, Tones, and Timbres: Sounding Place among Nomads of the Inner Asian Mountain-Steppes

Drones, Tones, and Timbres: Sounding Place among Nomads...

Author: Carole Pegg
ISBN: 9780252045455
Format: Hardback
$194.00

An indispensable study of the music of Altai-Sayan peoples Based on more than twenty years of collaborative research,...  Read More >>

Sonic Ruins of Modernity: Judeo-Spanish Folksongs Today

Sonic Ruins of Modernity: Judeo-Spanish Folksongs Today...

Author: Edwin Seroussi
ISBN: 9781032276540
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Sonic Ruins of Modernity shows how social, cultural, and cognitive phenomena interact in the making and distribution...  Read More >>

The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Music Studies

The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Music Studies

Author: Tina Frühauf (Executive Director, Executive Director, Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale)
ISBN: 9780197528624
Format: Hardback
$361.00

The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Music Studies is the most comprehensive and expansive critical handbook of Jewish...  Read More >>

Historical Research Of Chinese Folk Songs, A

Historical Research Of Chinese Folk Songs, A

Author: Shulu Chen (Nanjing Normal University, China) ,  Fuying Shen (Shandong University, China)
ISBN: 9789811276088
Format: Hardback
$401.06

This book advances the study of Chinese folk songs through theoretical innovation in literature-based folk songs...  Read More >>

Music and Citizenship

Music and Citizenship

Author: Martin Stokes (Ethnomusicologist, Ethnomusicologist)
ISBN: 9780197555187
Format: Hardback
$193.95

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Korean Pansori as Voice Theatre: History, Theory, Practice

Korean Pansori as Voice Theatre: History, Theory, Practice...

Author: Chan E. Park (Ohio State University, USA.) ,  Simon Shepherd (Royal Central School of Speech & Drama, University of London, UK)
ISBN: 9781350174887
Format: Hardback
$130.00

This book introduces readers to the historical, performative, and cultural context of pansori, a traditional Korean...  Read More >>

Indigenous Audibilities: Music, Heritage, and Collections in the Americas

Indigenous Audibilities: Music, Heritage, and Collections...

Author: Amanda Minks (Associate Professor of Anthropology and Ethnomusicology, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Ethnomusicology, Honors College, University of Oklahoma)
ISBN: 9780197532485
Format: Hardback
$187.95

In the middle of the twentieth century, transnational networks sparked a range of cultural projects focused on collecting...  Read More >>

Music and Citizenship

Music and Citizenship

Author: Martin Stokes (Ethnomusicologist, Ethnomusicologist)
ISBN: 9780197555194
Format: Paperback
$44.95

In Music and Citizenship, author Martin Stokes challenges the conventional understanding of citizenship in terms...  Read More >>

Music Making in Iran from the 15th to the Early 20th Century

Music Making in Iran from the 15th to the Early 20th...

Author: Amir Hosein Pourjavady
ISBN: 9781399515771
Format: Hardback
$219.94

Examines the music of Iran in its historical and social contexts between the 15th and early 20th centuries  Read More >>

Performing Post-Tariqa Sufism: Making Sacred Space with Mevlevi and Rifai Zikir in Turkey

Performing Post-Tariqa Sufism: Making Sacred Space with...

Author: Esra Çizmeci
ISBN: 9780367632694
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This ethnographic research project examines the generation of post-tariqa Tasavvuf (Sufism: a spiritual practice...  Read More >>

The Poet’s Song: ‘Folk’ and its Cultural Politics in South Asia

The Poet’s Song: ‘Folk’ and its Cultural Politics in...

Author: Priyanka Basu (Project Curator of ‘Two Centuries of Indian Print’ at the British Library, London)
ISBN: 9780367903138
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book explores the ‘folk’ performance genre of Kobigaan, a dialogic song-theatre form in which performers verse-duel,...  Read More >>

World Music CONCISE: A Global Journey

World Music CONCISE: A Global Journey

Author: Terry E. Miller ,  Andrew Shahriari
ISBN: 9781032265599
Format: Paperback
$131.00

World Music CONCISE: A Global Journey, Third Edition, explores the diversity of musical expression around the world,...  Read More >>

World Music CONCISE: A Global Journey

World Music CONCISE: A Global Journey

Author: Terry E. Miller ,  Andrew Shahriari
ISBN: 9781032265612
Format: Hardback
$284.00

World Music CONCISE: A Global Journey, Third Edition, explores the diversity of musical expression around the world,...  Read More >>

The Music of India

The Music of India

Author: Herbert A. Popley
ISBN: 9788119139392
Format: Paperback
$30.95

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Indian Classical Music and the Gramophone, 1900–1930

Indian Classical Music and the Gramophone, 1900–1930...

Author: Vikram Sampath
ISBN: 9781032270166
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Vikram Sampath sheds light on the role and impact of The Gramophone Company’s early recording expeditions on Indian...  Read More >>

Celtic Music and Dance in Cornwall: Cornu-Copia

Celtic Music and Dance in Cornwall: Cornu-Copia

Author: Lea Hagmann
ISBN: 9780367691424
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Focusing on the Cornish Music and Dance Revival, it investigates the revivalists’ claims about Cornwall’s cultural...  Read More >>

Rocking in the Free World: Popular Music and the Politics of Freedom in Postwar America

Rocking in the Free World: Popular Music and the Politics...

Author: Nicholas Tochka (Associate Professor, Associate Professor, University of Melbourne)
ISBN: 9780197566510
Format: Hardback
$54.95

Rocking in the Free World explains how Americans came to believe they had learned the truth about rock 'n' roll,...  Read More >>

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