Non-Western music: traditional & "classical" books

1021 books were found.

Roma Music and Emotion

Roma Music and Emotion

Author: Filippo Bonini Baraldi (Researcher, Researcher, Institute of Ethnomusicology at Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
ISBN: 9780190096786
Format: Hardback
$286.00

Roma Music and Emotion is an important work of scholarship at the intersection of ethnomusicology and anthropology,...  Read More >>

The Folk: Music, Modernity, and the Political Imagination

The Folk: Music, Modernity, and the Political Imagination...

Author: Ross Cole
ISBN: 9780520383746
Format: Paperback
$49.95

"Who are ""the folk"" in folk music? This book traces the musical culture of these elusive figures in Britain and...  Read More >>

The Folk: Music, Modernity, and the Political Imagination

The Folk: Music, Modernity, and the Political Imagination...

Author: Ross Cole
ISBN: 9780520383739
Format: Hardback
$157.95

"Who are ""the folk"" in folk music? This book traces the musical culture of these elusive figures in Britain and...  Read More >>

Resounding Taiwan: Musical Reverberations Across a Vibrant Island

Resounding Taiwan: Musical Reverberations Across a Vibrant...

Author: Nancy Guy
ISBN: 9780367473990
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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The Union Grove Old-Time Fiddlers Convention: The Real Truth

The Union Grove Old-Time Fiddlers Convention: The Real...

Author: Ken Jurney
ISBN: 9781952485336
Format: Paperback
$37.39

The purpose of this book is to share the history of the Union Grove Old-time Fiddlers Convention with descendants...  Read More >>

The Kumulipo

The Kumulipo

Author: Lili‘uokalani ,  Mint Editions
ISBN: 9781513299556
Format: Paperback
$12.99

The Kumulipo (1897) is a traditional chant translated by Lili‘uokalani. Published in 1897, the translation was written...  Read More >>

Gullah Spirituals: The Sound of Freedom and Protest in the South Carolina Sea Islands

Gullah Spirituals: The Sound of Freedom and Protest...

Author: Eric Sean Crawford
ISBN: 9781643361895
Format: Hardback
$237.57

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

Making It Heard: A History of Brazilian Sound Art

Making It Heard: A History of Brazilian Sound Art

Author: Dr. Rui Chaves ,  Prof. Fernando Iazzetta (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil)
ISBN: 9781501383205
Format: Paperback
$64.99

From the mid-20th century to present, the Brazilian art, literature, and music scene have been witness to a wealth...  Read More >>

Not Yo' Butterfly: My Long Song of Relocation, Race, Love, and Revolution

Not Yo' Butterfly: My Long Song of Relocation, Race,...

Author: Nobuko Miyamoto ,  Deborah Wong
ISBN: 9780520380653
Format: Paperback
$49.95

A mold-breaking memoir of Asian American identity, political activism, community, and purpose. Not Yo’ Butterfly...  Read More >>

Not Yo' Butterfly: My Long Song of Relocation, Race, Love, and Revolution

Not Yo' Butterfly: My Long Song of Relocation, Race,...

Author: Nobuko Miyamoto ,  Deborah Wong
ISBN: 9780520380646
Format: Hardback
$157.95

A mold-breaking memoir of Asian American identity, political activism, community, and purpose. Not Yo’ Butterfly...  Read More >>

Albanian Identity in History and Traditional Performance

Albanian Identity in History and Traditional Performance...

Author: Eno Koco
ISBN: 9781527569997
Format: Hardback
$263.87

This book represents a group of individual musical essays collected under common Albanian themes, with a particular...  Read More >>

Music and Musicians in the Medieval Islamicate World: A Social History

Music and Musicians in the Medieval Islamicate World:...

Author: Lisa Nielson
ISBN: 9781784539542
Format: Hardback
$190.00

In the early medieval Islamic world (800-1300 CE), discourses concerned with music and musicians were wide-ranging...  Read More >>

Tagore: The World Voyager

Tagore: The World Voyager

Author: Rabindranath Tagore ,  Sugata Bose
ISBN: 9780143453437
Format: Paperback
$24.20

Tagore's beautiful songs now available in English translation. For long considered untranslatable, Tagore's songs...  Read More >>

Sounding Jewish in Berlin: Klezmer Music and the Contemporary City

Sounding Jewish in Berlin: Klezmer Music and the Contemporary...

Author: Phil Alexander (British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Glasgow)
ISBN: 9780190064433
Format: Hardback
$201.00

This book tells the story of Berlin's dynamic klezmer scene, tracing the ongoing dialogue between traditional Yiddish...  Read More >>

Learning To Play The Guitar: A New And Fresh Way Of Learning Playing Guitar: Effective Guitar Method Guides Children From A Beginner

Learning To Play The Guitar: A New And Fresh Way Of...

Author: Melissa Abel
ISBN: 9798504873954
Format: Paperback
$23.73

This book will help your children having fun learning guitar. The book will give you step by step lesson to learn...  Read More >>

Learning How To Play The Guitar: Simple And Step-By-Step Lesson To Learn Playing Guitar: Basic Music Elements

Learning How To Play The Guitar: Simple And Step-By-Step...

Author: Marcus Snuffer
ISBN: 9798504621258
Format: Paperback
$23.73

This book will help your children having fun learning guitar. The book will give you step by step lesson to learn...  Read More >>

Start To Learn Playing Guitar: The Book For Children To Learn Playing Guitar: Parts Of The Guitar

Start To Learn Playing Guitar: The Book For Children...

Author: Benedict Oderkirk
ISBN: 9798504615776
Format: Paperback
$23.73

This book will help your children having fun learning guitar. The book will give you step by step lesson to learn...  Read More >>

Essential Mantras of the World: Piano & Keyboard for Adult Beginners

Essential Mantras of the World: Piano & Keyboard for...

Author: Helen Winter ,  Veda Gupta
ISBN: 9798749310337
Format: Paperback
$22.51

"The word ""mantra"" is derived from Sanskrit and simply means a sacred sound. Mantras are used in different traditions,...  Read More >>

Keyboard for Adult Beginners. Traditional Native American Songs

Keyboard for Adult Beginners. Traditional Native American...

Author: Helen Winter
ISBN: 9798742092636
Format: Paperback
$18.22

The most difficult thing about playing Native American songs is their irregular rhythms. It might change several...  Read More >>

Kalimba Meditation 20 Healing Mantras

Kalimba Meditation 20 Healing Mantras

Author: Veda Gupta ,  Helen Winter
ISBN: 9798738447815
Format: Paperback
$24.56

The kalimba came from Africa, but it is perfectly suitable for any kind of ethnic music. The kalimba has a rather...  Read More >>

Audible Infrastructures

Audible Infrastructures

Author: Kyle Devine (Associate Professor of Musicology, Associate Professor of Musicology, University of Oslo) ,  Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier (Associate Professor of Anthropology, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Victoria)
ISBN: 9780190932640
Format: Paperback
$70.95

Audible Infrastructures reveals the material, environmental, and economic conditions that underlie the production...  Read More >>

Finding the Raga: An Improvisation on Indian Music

Finding the Raga: An Improvisation on Indian Music

Author: Amit Chaudhuri
ISBN: 9781681374789
Format: Paperback
$44.75

A revelatory and very personal exploration of Indian classical music from 'one of his generation's best writers'...  Read More >>

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