Music/Ethnomusicology
Music/Ethnomusicology
Yorùbá Bàtá Goes Global: Artists, Culture Brokers, and Fans
Responding to growing international interest in the Yorùbá culture of southwestern Nigeria, practitioners of bàtá—a centuries-old drumming, dancing, and singing tradition—have recast themselves as traditional performers in a global market. As the Nigerian market for ritual bàtá has been declining,...
$55.00
Yoruba Oral Tradition in Islamic Nigeria (paperback)
This book traces Dàdàkúàdá’s history and artistic vision and discusses its vibrancy as the most popular traditional Yoruba oral art form in Islamic Africa. Foregrounding the role of Dàdàkúàdá in Ilorin, and of Ilorin in Dàdàkúàdá the book covers the...
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Yoruba Oral Tradition in Islamic Nigeria
This book traces Dàdàkúàdá’s history and artistic vision and discusses its vibrancy as the most popular traditional Yoruba oral art form in Islamic Africa. Foregrounding the role of Dàdàkúàdá in Ilorin, and of Ilorin in Dàdàkúàdá the book covers the...
$64.95
The Yoruba God of Drumming: Transatlantic Perspectives on the Wood That Talks
As one of the salient forces in the ritual life of those who worship the pre-Christian and Muslim deities called orishas, the Yorùbá god of drumming, known as Àyàn in Africa and Añá in Cuba, is variously described as the...
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The Yoruba God of Drumming: Transatlantic Perspectives on the Wood That Talks (hardcover)
As one of the salient forces in the ritual life of those who worship the pre-Christian and Muslim deities called orishas, the Yorùbá god of drumming, known as Àyàn in Africa and Añá in Cuba, is variously described as the...
$144.00
Singing Yoruba Christianity: Music, Media, and Morality (paperback)
Singing the same song is a central part of the worship practice for members for the Cherubim and Seraphim Christian Church in Lagos, Nigeria. Vicki L. Brennan reveals that by singing together, church members create one spiritual mind and become...
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Singing Yoruba Christianity: Music, Media, and Morality (hardcover)
Singing the same song is a central part of the worship practice for members for the Cherubim and Seraphim Christian Church in Lagos, Nigeria. Vicki L. Brennan reveals that by singing together, church members create one spiritual mind and become...
$122.00
Louder Than Words (Coming Soon-June 4, 2024)
When Jordyn Jones transfers to Edgewood High, it's her opportunity to forget everything that happened at her old school. To forget what she and her friends did. To forget who she used to be. That was a different person ―...
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Life's Too Short: A Memoir
A raw, heartfelt memoir from Darius Rucker, the Grammy Award– winning country music sensation and multiplatinum-selling lead singer of Hootie & The Blowfish In 1986 Darius Rucker cofounded Hootie & The Blowfish at the University of South Carolina. What began...
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Bible Study Bookz (Lion of Judah)
Bible Study Bookz (lined notebooks) are perfect for the Bible study enthusiast that loves to take notes and keep them. Each notebook includes the following tables to enhance your study time.+ Biblical Lengths+ Biblical Weights+ Biblical Liquid Measures+ Biblical Dry...
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Ancient Text Messages of the Yoruba Bata Drum: Cracking the Code
The bata is one of the most important and representative percussion traditions of the people in southwest Nigeria, and is now learnt and performed around the world. In Cuba, their own bata tradition derives from the Yoruba bata from Africa...
$166.00
All You Need Is Love: The Beatles in Their Own Words: Unpublished, Unvarnished, and Told by The Beatles and Their Inner Circle
An oral history of The Beatles from never-before-seen interviews.All You Need Is Love is a groundbreaking oral history of the one of the most enduring musical acts of all time. The material is comprised of intimate interviews with Paul McCartney, Yoko...
$32.00
Highlife Giants: West African Dance Band Pioneers
Blending European and African-American styles with traditional African patterns, highlife music was the soundtrack of the independence era. Its influence still resonates today. Highlife Giants is an intimate portrait of the pioneering artistes of West Africa's music scene from the 1920s onwards....
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Wild Dances
"A page-turning, tragicomic memoir . . . By ingeniously weaving improbable and conflicting forces that make up his personal history, Adams affirms a resilient idea of home that yearns to transcend space and time." —Thúy Đinh, NPRA memoir of glitz, glamour, geopolitics,...
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The Green Piano: How Little Me Found Music
This autobiographical picture book by the multiple Grammy Award-winning singer Roberta Flack recounts her childhood in a home surrounded by music and love: it all started with a beat-up piano that her father found in a junkyard, repaired, and painted green.Growing up in a Blue Ridge...
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The Chronicles of DOOM
The definitive biography of MF DOOM, charting the reclusive and revered hip-hop artist’s life, career, and eventual immortality.From the journalist behind From the Streets of Shaolin and packed with behind-the-scenes content, for fans of hip-hop biographies like Dilla Time and The Marathon Don’t Stop.On December...
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Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation
Can't Stop Won't Stop is a powerful cultural and social history of the end of the American century, and a provocative look into the new world that the hip-hop generation created.Forged in the fires of the Bronx and Kingston, Jamaica, hip-hop...
$23.00
It Was All a Dream: Biggie and the World That Made Him
From a talented young journalist on the rise, a deeply reported, timely new biography of the Notorious B.I.G., publishing for what would have been his 50th birthday. The Notorious B.I.G. was one of the most charismatic and talented artists of...
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Zu Weiss Fur Die Schwarzen Und Zu Schwarz Fur Die Weissen: Der Kunstlerische Umgang Mit Identitat, Rassismus Und Hybriditat Bei Samy Deluxe Und B-Tight
Bin ich schwarz, weiss oder beides? In ihren Tracks nehmen die beiden afrodeutschen Rapper B-Tight und Samy Deluxe Stellung zu offentlichen Debatten uber nationale Identitat, Integration und Rassismus und pragen diese - dank ihrer Popularitat - auch entscheidend mit. B-Tight...
$57.00
Woodwind Music of Black Composers
The preponderance of early Black composers wrote choral music and even the most outstanding among them did not compose works for woodwinds. However, the later half of the twentieth century has witnessed a rise in compositions for woodwinds, both for...
$114.00
When Music Migrates: Crossing British and European Racial Faultlines, 1945–2010
When Music Migrates uses rich material to examine the ways that music has crossed racial faultlines that have developed in the post-Second World War era as a consequence of the movement of previously colonized peoples to the countries that colonized...
$221.00
Various Artists' DJs do Guetto (33 1/3 Europe)
Call it batida, kuduro, Afro house, Lisbon bass: anyone with a keen ear for contemporary developments in global electronic dance music can't fail to have noticed the rise in popularity and influence of Lisbon-based DJs such as DJ Marfox, DJ...
$27.99
Various Artists' DJs do Guetto (33 1/3 Europe)
Call it batida, kuduro, Afro house, Lisbon bass: anyone with a keen ear for contemporary developments in global electronic dance music can't fail to have noticed the rise in popularity and influence of Lisbon-based DJs such as DJ Marfox, DJ...
$104.00
Ukulele Christmas Songs: 27 Easy Ukulele Songs For Christmas I Colorful Songbook For Kids and Adults
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Ukulele Christmas Songs: 27 Easy Ukulele Songs For Christmas I Colorful Songbook For Kids and Adults
The Ukulele Christmas Songbook has 26 of the most loved holiday favorite songs for beginner to intermediate ukulelists. Each song includes lyrics, chord diagrams showing the finger placement.Songs include:Away In A Manger * Blue Christmas * Deck the Halls *...
$8.00
Tuk Music Tradition in Barbados
Barbados is a small Caribbean island better known as a tourist destination rather than for its culture. The island was first claimed in 1627 for the English King and remained a British colony until independence was gained in 1966. This...
$66.00
Tuk Music Tradition in Barbados
Barbados is a small Caribbean island better known as a tourist destination rather than for its culture. The island was first claimed in 1627 for the English King and remained a British colony until independence was gained in 1966. This...
$220.00
The Transformation of Black Music: The rhythms, the songs, and the ships of the African Diaspora
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The Transformation of Black Music: The rhythms, the songs, and the ships of the African Diaspora
Powerful and embracive, The Transformation of Black Music explores the full spectrum of black musics over the past thousand years as Africans and their descendants have traveled around the globe making celebrated music both in their homelands and throughout the Diaspora. Authors...
$78.00
Teklife, Ghettoville, Eski: The Sonic Ecologies of Black Music in the Early 21st Century
How black electronic dance music makes it possible to reorganize life within the contemporary city.Teklife, Ghettoville, Eski argues that Black electronic dance music produces sonic ecologies of Blackness that expose and reorder the contemporary racialization of the urban--ecologies that can never...
$29.95
Tambú: Curaçao's African-Caribbean Ritual and the Politics of Memory
As contemporary Tambú music and dance evolved on the Caribbean island of Curaçao, it intertwined sacred and secular, private and public cultural practices, and many traditions from Africa and the New World. As she explores the formal contours of Tambú,...
$33.75
Styling Blackness in Chile: Music and Dance in the African Diaspora
Chile had long forgotten about the existence of the country's Black population when, in 2003, the music and dance called the tumbe carnaval appeared on the streets of the city of Arica. Featuring turbaned dancers accompanied by a lively rhythm played on...
$41.99