Non-Western music: traditional & "classical" books

1019 books were found.

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 >>

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 >>

Music as Ethics: Stories from Virginia

Music as Ethics: Stories from Virginia

Author: Andrew McGraw (Associate Professor of MusicUniveristy of Richmond, Associate Professor of MusicUniveristy of Richmond)
ISBN: 9780197654880
Format: Hardback
$175.95

Music as Ethics offers a comparative ethnography of four musical communities in Virginia: a monastery, an intentional...  Read More >>

Afrosonic Life

Afrosonic Life

Author: Professor or Dr. Mark V. Campbell
ISBN: 9781501379338
Format: Paperback
$59.99

"""Explores the role sonic innovations in the African diaspora play in articulating methodologies for living the...  Read More >>

On African Music: Techniques, Influences, Scholarship

On African Music: Techniques, Influences, Scholarship...

Author: Kofi Agawu (Distinguished Professor, Distinguished Professor, The Graduate Center, City University of New York)
ISBN: 9780197664070
Format: Paperback
$63.95

Written by one of the best-known academic writers on African music, On African Music is a collection of seven essays...  Read More >>

On African Music: Techniques, Influences, Scholarship

On African Music: Techniques, Influences, Scholarship...

Author: Kofi Agawu (Distinguished Professor, Distinguished Professor, The Graduate Center, City University of New York)
ISBN: 9780197664063
Format: Hardback
$264.00

Written by one of the best-known academic writers on African music, On African Music is a collection of seven essays...  Read More >>

ReSounding Poverty: Romani Music and Development Aid

ReSounding Poverty: Romani Music and Development Aid...

Author: Adriana N. Helbig (Associate Professor of Music, Associate Professor of Music, University of Pittsburgh)
ISBN: 9780197631775
Format: Paperback
$92.40

In ReSounding Poverty, author Adriana N. Helbig refocuses studies of Roma communities and explores the failures...  Read More >>

ReSounding Poverty: Romani Music and Development Aid

ReSounding Poverty: Romani Music and Development Aid...

Author: Adriana N. Helbig (Associate Professor of Music, Associate Professor of Music, University of Pittsburgh)
ISBN: 9780197631768
Format: Hardback
$330.00

In ReSounding Poverty, author Adriana N. Helbig refocuses studies of Roma communities and explores the failures...  Read More >>

Music Theory in Ethnomusicology

Music Theory in Ethnomusicology

Author: Stephen Blum (Professor Emeritus of Music, Professor Emeritus of Music, CUNY Graduate Center)
ISBN: 9780199303533
Format: Paperback
$44.95

Music Theory in Ethnomusicology outlines a conception of music theory suited to cross-cultural research on musical...  Read More >>

Music Theory in Ethnomusicology

Music Theory in Ethnomusicology

Author: Stephen Blum (Professor Emeritus of Music, Professor Emeritus of Music, CUNY Graduate Center)
ISBN: 9780199303526
Format: Hardback
$193.95

Music Theory in Ethnomusicology outlines a conception of music theory suited to cross-cultural research on musical...  Read More >>

What in the World is Music?

What in the World is Music?

Author: Alison E. Arnold (North Carolina State University, USA) ,  Jonathan C. Kramer (North Carolina State University, USA)
ISBN: 9781032341491
Format: Paperback
$183.00

What in the World is Music? Second Edition, is an undergraduate, interactive e-textbook that explores the shared...  Read More >>

Sound Within Sound: A History of Radical Twentieth Century Composers

Sound Within Sound: A History of Radical Twentieth Century...

Author: Kate Molleson
ISBN: 9780571363230
Format: Paperback
$24.99

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Resounding Taiwan: Musical Reverberations Across a Vibrant Island

Resounding Taiwan: Musical Reverberations Across a Vibrant...

Author: Nancy Guy
ISBN: 9780367529420
Format: Paperback
$83.99

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Heitor Villa-Lobos’s Bachianas Brasileiras: Intertextuality and Stylization

Heitor Villa-Lobos’s Bachianas Brasileiras: Intertextuality...

Author: Norton Dudeque ,  Judith Lochhead
ISBN: 9781032100630
Format: Paperback
$83.99

In this book, the corpus of Bachianas Brasileiras is contextualised and critically examined according to its structure...  Read More >>

Music in Colonial Punjab: Courtesans, Bards, and Connoisseurs, 1800-1947

Music in Colonial Punjab: Courtesans, Bards, and Connoisseurs,...

Author: Dr Radha Kapuria (Assistant Professor in South Asian History, Assistant Professor in South Asian History, Durham University)
ISBN: 9780192867346
Format: Hardback
$236.00

This book offers the first social history of music in undivided Punjab (1800-1947), unearthing new evidence to argue...  Read More >>

Rebetika – Music from the Old Greek Underworld

Rebetika – Music from the Old Greek Underworld

Author: Giannis Chorbajoglou ,  Yannis Chorbajoglou
ISBN: 9781551643397
Format: Hardback
$105.57

A fascinating history of the anguish of an uprooted people as expressed through their music.  Read More >>

The Art Song in East Asia and Australia, 1900 to 1950

The Art Song in East Asia and Australia, 1900 to 1950...

Author: Alison McQueen Tokita ,  Joys H. Y. Cheung
ISBN: 9781032321622
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book explores art song as an emblem of musical modernity in early twentieth century East Asia and Australia....  Read More >>

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