Music/Ethnomusicology
Music/Ethnomusicology
Cardi B
In hip-hop music, the artist’s voice is front and center. This pop culture collection for age 12 and up showcases the lives and genius of rappers, singer-songwriters, and vocalists such as Cardi B, Drake, and Kendrick Lamar. Song lyrics accompany...
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Fela: Music Is the Weapon
A spectacular graphic novel about the life and times of the legendary Fela Kuti—the Pan-African frontman, multi-instrumentalist, sociopolitical powerhouse, and father of Afrobeat. In this bold and striking graphic novel, artist Jibola Fagbamiye and writer Conor McCreery team up to...
$48.00
Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues (Amistad Pbk)
The life of blues legend Robert Johnson becomes the centerpiece for this innovative look at what many consider to be America's deepest and most influential music genre. Pivotal are the questions surrounding why Johnson was ignored by the core black...
$19.00
Birth of a Culture
Step into the vibrant streets of the 1970s Bronx and witness the exact moment a global movement began. Birth of a Culture gives you a front-row seat to the origins of hip-hop, told through the firsthand experiences of Grandmaster Flash—one of the...
$30.00
Bad Fat Black Girl: Notes from a Trap Feminist
“Sesali Bowen is poised to give Black feminism the rejuvenation it needs. Her trendsetting writing and commentary reaches across experiences and beyond respectability. I and so many Black girls still figuring out who they are in this world will gain...
$17.00
The 50th Law
In The 50th Law, hip hop and pop culture icon 50 Cent (aka Curtis Jackson) joins forces with Robert Greene, bestselling author of The 48 Laws of Power, to write a definitive business playbook for success in life and work based on a single...
$27.00
Ueberlieferung, Individualitaet Und Musikalische Interaktion: Neuere Formen Der Ensemblemusik in Asante/Ghana
Neben verschiedenen Spielarten der unter dem Etikett Highlife international bekannten westafrikanischen Popmusik entstanden während des 20. Jahrhunderts in Ghana auch musikalische Genres wie Dansuom und Nnwomkorɔ. Ihre melodischen und textlichen Strukturen erweisen sich im Vergleich zu älteren Gesängen der Asante-Region Ghanas als...
$113.00
Asante Ntahera Trumpets in Ghana: Culture, Tradition, and Sound Barrage
Based on the author's fieldwork in Ghana with the Asante and Denkyira ntahera trumpeters, this book draws on interviews, field recordings, oral traditions, written accounts, archaeological evidence, transcriptions and linguistic analyses to situate the Asante trumpet tradition in historical culture....
$200.00
Asante Court Music and Verbal Arts in Ghana: The Porcupine and the Gold Stool
Asante Court Music and Verbal Arts in Ghana is a comprehensive portrait of Asante court musical arts. Weaving together historical narratives with analyses of texts performed on drums, ivory trumpets, and a cane flute, the book includes a critical assembly of...
$62.00
Asante Court Music and Verbal Arts in Ghana: The Porcupine and the Gold Stool
Asante Court Music and Verbal Arts in Ghana is a comprehensive portrait of Asante court musical arts. Weaving together historical narratives with analyses of texts performed on drums, ivory trumpets, and a cane flute, the book includes a critical assembly of...
$200.00
Arts of West Africa (excluding Music)
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other...
$25.00
Arts of West Africa (excluding Music)
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other...
$42.00
An Archive of Ancient Rhythms from West Africa
An Archive of Ancient Rhythms from West Africa translates the oral tradition of ancient west African rhythms into comprehensive standard music notation. All ancient names have been maintained as well as their related orchestrations. This archive contains forty five ancient...
$325.00
Africa's Creative Frontiers: The Business of Fashion, Music and Film Production
Africa’s Creative Frontiers brings together scholars, researchers, and practitioners to examine how fashion, music, and film are transforming African economies. It explores intersections with tourism, sustainability, and entrepreneurship, with implications for job creation, cultural preservation, and inclusive growth. This book offers...
$143.00
Africanness in Action: Essentialism and Musical Imaginations of Africa in Brazil
When many people think of African music, the first ideas that come to mind are often of rhythm, drums, and dancing. These perceptions are rooted in emblematic African and African-derived genres such as West African drumming, funk, salsa, or samba...
$68.00
African Music And The Church In Africa
This book contains a wealth of information on African folk music, detailing it's importance within African society and taking an in depth look at it's use within the church. In this book Henry Weman has covered the structure and composition...
$40.00
African Music and the Church in Africa
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other...
$45.00
African Music and the Church in Africa
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other...
$31.00
African Music: A Bibliographical Guide to the Traditional, Popular, Art, and Liturgical Musics of Sub-Saharan Africa
African Music is devoted to ethnographic, anthropological, musicological, and popular studies of sub-Saharan African music from the 1890s to the present. The bibliography is organized into six basic sections. Section one covers works on cultural policy and the performing arts in...
$117.00
21 Nights in Accra: Culture, Excursions and discussions in Africa's favorite city.
21 Nights in Accra: Culture Discussions and Excursions in Africa's Favourite City comprises critical pieces across music, film, travel and art, offering powerful glimpses into the sights, sounds and experiences that have made the West African country a focus of...
$22.00
100 Greatest Soul Songs: The Stories Behind Soul and R&B Music's Biggest Hits
The greatest soul songs aren't just heard-they're felt. Now it's time to unlock their secrets. 100 Greatest Soul Songs takes you deeper than the radio ever could, revealing the untold stories behind the tracks that shook the charts and moved the...
$10.00
Go Back and Fetch It: Recovering Early Black Music in the Americas for Fiddle and Banjo
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Go Back and Fetch It: Recovering Early Black Music in the Americas for Fiddle and Banjo
Publisher : The University of North Carolina Press
Publication date : September 16, 2025
Language : English
Print length : 120 pages
ISBN-10 : 1469690578
ISBN-13 : 9781469690575
$25.00
$19.00
Mothership Connected: The Women of Parliament-Funkadelic
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Publication date : September 30, 2025
Language : English
Print length : 360 pages
ISBN-10 : 1477332677
ISBN-13 : 9781477332672
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Stan Levey: Jazz Heavyweight
Stan Levey is one of the most influential drummers in the history of modern jazz. During his extraordinary career, the self-taught Levey played alongside a who’s who of twentieth century jazz artists: Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Stan Getz,...
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Sound Pictures: The Life of Beatles Producer George Martin, The Later Years, 1966–2016
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Sound Pictures: The Life of Beatles Producer George Martin, The Later Years, 1966–2016
More than anyone besides the bandmates themselves, George Martin was the man who created the unique sound of the Beatles. Sound Pictures offers a powerful and intimate account of how he did so. The second and final volume of...
$35.00
$27.00
Of Potato Heads and Polaroids: My Life Inside and Out of Pearl Jam
Pearl Jam. Not many bands have achieved a status needing no adjective or description. Pearl Jam has. And fewer still have had an insider, much less a member, obsessively capture onstage and offhand pics of the experience-the friends, family, and...
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We Were Going to Change the World: Interviews with Women from the 1970s and 1980s Southern California Punk Rock Scene
The punk rock scene of the 1970s and ’80s in Southern California is widely acknowledged as one of the most vibrant, creative periods in all of rock and roll history. And while many books have covered the artists who contributed...
$16.95
Sinatra and Me: The Very Good Years
An intimate look at the legendary Frank Sinatra by one of his closest friends.Not many people were allowed inside Frank Sinatra's inner circle. But Tony Consiglio was a boyhood friend of Sinatra's who remained his friend and confidant for over...
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Face the Music: A Memoir
In this poignant memoir, the internationally celebrated bandleader reflects on family, illness, grief, and a bygone era of glamour, contemplating not just his career but the history of midcentury music and nightlife—and the enormously important role that the bandstand played...
$28.00
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Calder: The Conquest of Space: The Later Years: 1940-1976
The concluding volume to the first biography of one of the most important, influential, and beloved twentieth-century sculptors, and one of the greatest artists in the cultural history of America--is a vividly written, illuminating account of his triumphant later years.The...
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