Musicking

Christopher Small

• Paperback | Engels | Music / Culture
• Acclaimed scholar rethinks the nature and meaning of music. Extending the inquiry of his early groundbreaking books, Christopher Small strikes at the ... Lees meer

Citizen Azmari

Ilana Webster-Kogen

• Paperback | Engels | Music / Culture
• An examination of popular Ethiopian music styles in Tel Aviv 2019 Winner of Society of Ethnomusicology's Special Interest Group Award for Jewish Music... Lees meer

The City of Musical Memory

Lise A Waxer

• Paperback | Engels | Music / Culture
• Salsa is a popular dance music developed by Puerto Ricans in New York City during the 1960s and 70s, based on Afro-Cuban forms. By the 1980s, the Colo... Lees meer

Love and Rage

Kelley Tatro

• Paperback | Engels | Music / Culture
• English language study of the punk scene in Mexico City Love and Rage is a deeply ethnographic account of punk in Mexico City as it is lived and pract... Lees meer

Monument Eternal

Franya J Berkman

• Paperback | Engels | Music / Culture
• Long-awaited biography of an African American avant-garde composer Alice Coltrane was a composer, improviser, guru, and widow of John Coltrane. Over t... Lees meer

My Music

Susan D Crafts, Daniel Cavicchi, Charles Keil, Music In Daily Life Project

• Paperback | Engels | Music / Culture
• A first-hand exploration of the diverse roles music plays in people's lives. My Music is a first-hand exploration of the diverse roles music plays in ... Lees meer

Music of the Common Tongue

Christopher Small

• Paperback | Engels | Music / Culture
• "A magnificent book about Afro-American music and its impact on western culture. "--Race and Class In clear and elegant prose, Music of the Common Ton... Lees meer

Empire of Dirt

Wendy Fonarow

• Paperback | Engels | Music / Culture
• Inside the culture of an artistically influential music community Britain is widely considered the cradle of independent music culture. Bands like Rad... Lees meer

The Land Is Sung

Thomas M Pooley

• Paperback | Engels | Music / Culture
• Ethnography on the politics of land and belonging in post apartheid Zulu performances What does it mean to belong? In The Land is Sung , musicologist ... Lees meer

Identity and Everyday Life

Harris M Berger, Giovanna P Del Negro

• Paperback | Engels | Music / Culture
• The notion of "everyday life" is ubiquitous in the contemporary intellectual scene. While scholars frequently use this concept to signal a romantic re... Lees meer

Music, Politics, and Violence

• Paperback | Engels | Music / Culture
• An in-depth consideration of the relationship between music and violence Music and violence have been linked since antiquity in ritual, myth, and art.... Lees meer

Black Noise

Tricia Rose

• Paperback | Engels | Music / Culture
• A comprehensive look at the lyrics, music, cultures, themes, and styles of rap music. Winner of the American Book Award from the Before Columbus Found... Lees meer

Living Space

Michael E Veal

• Paperback | Engels | Music / Culture
• Examines John Coltrane's "late period" and Miles Davis's "Lost Quintet" through the prisms of digital architecture and experimental photography Living... Lees meer

Musical Resilience

Shalini R Ayyagari

• Paperback | Engels | Music / Culture
• Indian regional musicians find resilience in a postcolonial world In Musical Resilience , Shalini Ayyagari shows how professional low-caste musicians ... Lees meer

Club Cultures

Sarah Thornton

• Paperback | Engels | Music / Culture
• A close look at the music and culture of dance clubs and the "rave" phenomenon.. Focusing on youth cultures that revolve around dance clubs and raves ... Lees meer

Running with the Devil

Robert Walser

• Paperback | Engels | Music / Culture
• A comprehensive musical, social, and cultural analysis of heavy metal music, with a new foreword and afterword Winner of the 1994 Irving Lowens Book A... Lees meer

Echo and Reverb

Peter Doyle

• Paperback | Engels | Music / Culture
• The untold story of acoustic effects in popular music. Winner of the Association for Recorded Sound Collections' (ARSC) Award for Excellence in Histor... Lees meer

Upside Your Head!

Johnny Otis

• Paperback | Engels | Music / Culture
• An intriguing memoir by the legendary bandleader. Legendary jazzman Johnny Otis has spent a lifetime at the center of L.A.'s black music scene as a co... Lees meer

Sounds of Other Shores

Andrew J Eisenberg

• Paperback | Engels | Music / Culture
• A study of transoceanic musical appropriation and Swahili ethnic subjectivity on the Kenyan coast Sounds of Other Shores takes an ethnographic ear to ... Lees meer

Making Beats

Joseph G Schloss

• Paperback | Engels | Music / Culture
• First book on hip-hop sampling as a musical process, now with a new foreword and afterword Winner of IASPM's 2005 International Book Award Based on te... Lees meer

Dissonant Landscapes

Tore Størvold

• Hardcover | Engels | Music / Culture
• Listening to the dissonances of nature and nationhood in modern Iceland During the past three decades, Iceland has attained a strong presence in the w... Lees meer

Dissonant Identities

Barry Shank

• Paperback | Engels | Music / Culture
• A fascinating analysis of the music scene in Austin, Texas. Music of the bars and clubs of Austin, Texas has long been recognized as defining one of a... Lees meer

Trad Nation

Tes Slominski

• Paperback | Engels | Music / Culture
• A provocative call to dislodge ethnic nationalism from Irish traditional music Just how "Irish" is traditional Irish music? Trad Nation combines ethno... Lees meer

Recollecting from the Past

Ron Emoff

• Paperback | Engels | Music / Culture
• Studies interconnections between sound production, spirit possession, colonialism and ceremonial remembering in Madagascar. The first serious ethnomus... Lees meer