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

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

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

Animal Musicalities

Rachel Mundy

• Paperback | Engels | Music / Culture
• How conflicts between science and the humanities have shaped our understanding of the line between art and animal behavior Over the past century and 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

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

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

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

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

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

A Thousand Honey Creeks Later

Preston Love

• Paperback | Engels | Music / Culture
• Preston Love's resume reads like a Who's Who of American music: member of the Count Basie Band during its heyday in the 40s, studio musician in Los An... 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

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

Beyoncé in the World

• Paperback | Engels | Music / Culture
• Essays investigate Beyoncé's global impact Honorable Mention for Outstanding Edited Collection of Essays in Ethnomusicology for the 2023 Ellen Koskoff... 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

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

Popular Music in Theory

Keith Negus

• Paperback | Engels | Music / Culture
• A lively contribution to the debates that are central to popular music studies. Winner of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music... 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 Life of Music in South India

T Sankaran

• Paperback | Engels | Music / Culture
• An insider's eight-decade overview of South India's 20th century classical music culture This book offers an account of Carnatic music culture drawing... Lees meer

Metal, Rock, and Jazz

Harris M Berger

• Paperback | Engels | Music / Culture
• A lively comparison of musical meaning in Ohio's Jazz, metal, and hard rock scene. This vivid ethnography of the musical lives of heavy metal, rock, a... Lees meer

Queer Arrangements

Lisa Barg

• Paperback | Engels | Music / Culture
• Queer Arrangements is a new study of Billy Strayhorn that examines his music and career at the intersection of jazz and Black queer history The legacy... 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

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

Born in the U.S.A.

Jim Cullen

• Paperback | Engels | Music / Culture
• A thinking person's exploration of the cultural significance of Bruce Springsteen. Moving beyond the biographical and journalistic approaches of most ... Lees meer