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  • Following the Elephant

    Ethnomusicologists Contemplate Their Discipline

    par Bruno Nettl, Ethnomusicology, Charlotte J. Frisbie, Mieczylaw Kolinski, Gerhard Kubik, George List, Alan P Merriam, David Pruett, Adelaida Reyes, Timothy Rice0, Jesse D Ruskin1, Kay Shelemay2, Gabriel Solis3, Jeff Todd Titon4, J. Lawrence Witzleben5, Deborah Wong6 ...
    Collections series Common Threads
    In Following the Elephant, Bruno Nettl edits articles drawn from fifty years of the pioneering journal Ethnomusicology. The roster of acclaimed scholars hail from across generations, using other works in the collection as launching points for dialogues on the history and accomplishments of the field. Nettl divides the collection into three sections. In the first, authors survey ethnomusicology ... En savoir plus

    $10.89 CAD

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  • The Sound of Pictures

    Listening to the Movies, from Hitchcock to High Fidelity

    par Andrew Ford ...
    The Sound of Pictures is an illuminating journey through the soundtracks of more than 400 films. How do filmmakers play with sound? And how does that affect the way we watch their movies? Whether pop or classical, sweeping or sparse, music plays a crucial role in our cinematic experience. Other sounds can be even more evocative: the sounds of nature, of cities and of voices.In The Sound of ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

  • Playing Along

    Digital Games, YouTube, and Virtual Performance

    par Kiri Miller ...
    Collections series Oxford Music / Media
    Why don't Guitar Hero players just pick up real guitars? What happens when millions of people play the role of a young black gang member in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas? How are YouTube-based music lessons changing the nature of amateur musicianship? This book is about play, performance, and participatory culture in the digital age. Miller shows how video games and social media are bridging ... En savoir plus

    $35.99 CAD

  • Music, Criticism, and the Challenge of History

    Shaping Modern Musical Thought in Late Nineteenth Century Vienna

    par Kevin Karnes ...
    Collections series AMS Studies in Music
    More than a century after Guido Adler's appointment to the first chair in musicology at the University of Vienna, Music, Criticism, and the Challenge of History provides a first look at the discipline in this earliest period, and at the ideological dilemmas and methodological anxieties that characterized it upon its institutionalization. Author Kevin Karnes contends that some of the most vital ... En savoir plus

    $32.79 CAD

  • Applying Karnatic Rhythmical Techniques to Western Music

    par Rafael Reina ...
    Most classical musicians, whether in orchestral or ensemble situations, will have to face a piece by composers such as Ligeti, Messiaen, Varèse or Xenakis, while improvisers face music influenced by Dave Holland, Steve Coleman, Aka Moon, Weather Report, Irakere or elements from the Balkans, India, Africa or Cuba. Rafael Reina argues that today’s music demands a new approach to rhythmical training, ... En savoir plus

    $96.35 CAD

  • Music of Azerbaijan

    From Mugham to Opera

    par Aida Huseynova ...
    Collections series Ethnomusicology Multimedia
    This book traces the development of Azerbaijani art music from its origins in the Eastern, modal, improvisational tradition known as mugham through its fusion with Western classical, jazz, and world art music. Aida Huseynova places the fascinating and little-known history of music in Azerbaijan against the vivid backdrop of cultural life under Soviet influence, which paradoxically both encouraged ... En savoir plus

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  • The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

    Protest Music After Fukushima

    par Noriko Manabe ...
    Nuclear power has been a contentious issue in Japan since the 1950s, and in the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster, the conflict has only grown. Government agencies and the nuclear industry continue to push a nuclear agenda, while the mainstream media adheres to the official line that nuclear power is Japan's future. Public debate about nuclear energy is strongly discouraged. ... En savoir plus

    $29.59 CAD

  • Hearts of Pine

    Songs in the Lives of Three Korean Survivors of the Japanese "Comfort Women"

    par Joshua D. Pilzer, J. D. ...
    In the wake of the Asia-Pacific War, Korean survivors of the "comfort women" system-those bound into sexual slavery for the Japanese military during the war-lived under great pressure not to speak about what had happened to them. Hearts of Pine brings us into the lives of three such survivors: Pak Duri, Mun Pilgi, and Bae Chunhui. Over the course of eight years, author Joshua Pilzer worked with ... En savoir plus

    $30.39 CAD

  • Punk Ethnography

    Artists & Scholars Listen to Sublime Frequencies

    Modifié par Michael E. Veal, E. Tammy Kim ...
    Collections series Music / Culture
    This ground-breaking case study examines record production as ethnographic work. Since its founding in 2003, Seattle-based record label Sublime Frequencies has produced world music recordings that have been received as radical, sometimes problematic critiques of the practices of sound ethnography. Founded by punk rocker brothers Alan and Richard Bishop, along with filmmaker Hisham Mayet, the label ... En savoir plus

    $24.99 CAD

  • Africa and the Blues

    par Gerhard Kubik ...
    In 1969 Gerhard Kubik chanced to encounter a Mozambican labor migrant, a miner in Transvaal, South Africa, tapping a cipendani, a mouth-resonated musical bow. A comparable instrument was seen in the hands of a white Appalachian musician who claimed it as part of his own cultural heritage. Through connections like these Kubik realized that the link between these two far-flung musicians is African ... En savoir plus

    $27.19 CAD

  • Interpreting Chopin: Analysis and Performance

    par Alison Hood ...
    Music theory is often seen as independent from - even antithetical to - performance. While music theory is an intellectual enterprise, performance requires an intuitive response to the music. But this binary opposition is a false one, which serves neither the theorist nor the performer. In Interpreting Chopin Alison Hood brings her experience as a performer to bear on contemporary analytical ... En savoir plus

    $100.42 CAD

  • Agustin Lara

    A Cultural Biography

    par Andrew Grant Wood ...
    Collections series Currents in Latin American and Iberian Music
    Few Mexican musicians in the twentieth century achieved as much notoriety or had such an international impact as the popular singer and songwriter Agustín Lara (1897-1970). Widely known as "el flaco de oro" ("the Golden Skinny"), this remarkably thin fellow was prolific across the genres of bolero, ballad, and folk. His most beloved "Granada", a song so enduring that it has been covered by the ... En savoir plus

    $52.79 CAD