Non-Western music: traditional & "classical" books

Unwritten Literature of Hawaii: The Sacred Songs of the Hula (1909) is a collection of hulas and essays by Nathaniel...  Read More >>

Jazz in Socialist Hà Nội: Improvisations between Worlds examines the germination and growth of jazz under communist...  Read More >>

Combining approaches from reception studies and historical musicology, this book demonstrates how the representation...  Read More >>

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

Examines the economic and spatial importance of performance arts in West Africa through a close analysis of the...  Read More >>

Chelvita! Un titolo che e anche un grido, un soffio, amaro e delicato com'e il personaggio Ciamioncino. Amato dalle...  Read More >>

Music Saved Them, They Say: Social Impacts of Music-Making and Learning in Kinshasa (DR Congo) explores the role...  Read More >>

Traces Gullah Geechee songs from their beginnings in West Africa to their height as songs for social change and...  Read More >>

A new Australian music history seeking to understand disruption and continuation of Aboriginal music and dance and...  Read More >>

(String Letter Publishing). The world of popular music is filled with singer-songwriters who are not just brilliant...  Read More >>

"Sound Relations delves into histories of Inuit musical life in Alaska to register the significance of sound as...  Read More >>

A provocative interpretation of why classical music in America “stayed white”—how it got to be that way and what...  Read More >>

The Third Edition of Armenian Duduk Method is the only trilingual comprehensive and easy-to-use guide designed for...  Read More >>

"""Lyrics, chord symbols and guitar chord diagrams for 22 favorites""."  Read More >>

This book offers a comprehensive survey of the history and the development of Arab music and musical theory from...  Read More >>

Suitable for intermediate players, the collection of 27 Russian folk tunes arranged for accordion includes notes...  Read More >>

The final of the seven books published by one of Armenia's most renowned duduk players, inventors, and teachers,...  Read More >>

This ground-breaking book is the first in-depth global study of the role played in musical history by song collectors....  Read More >>

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Hypermetric Manipulations in Haydn and Mozart offers a systematic classification of hypermetrical irregularities...  Read More >>

This two-volume collection transforms our understanding of the discipline of ethnomusicology by exploring how ethnomusicologists...  Read More >>

This two-volume collection transforms our understanding of the discipline of ethnomusicology by exploring how ethnomusicologists...  Read More >>

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

Unwritten Literature of Hawaii: The Sacred Songs of the Hula (1909) is a collection of hulas and essays by Nathaniel...  Read More >>

Excursions in World Music is a comprehensive introductory textbook to the musics of the world, creating a panoramic...  Read More >>