Music/Ethnomusicology
Music/Ethnomusicology
Cuban Underground Hip Hop: Black Thoughts, Black Revolution, Black Modernity (Latin American and Caribbean Arts and Culture Publication Initiative, Mellon Foundation)
Honorable Mention, Barbara T. Christian Literary Award, Caribbean Studies Association, 2017 In the wake of the 1959 Cuban Revolution, a key state ideology developed: racism was a systemic cultural issue that ceased to exist after the Revolution, and any racism...
$38.99
Blackout: My 40 Years in the Music Business
Blackout is an explosive look at the corruption that is running rampant in the industry. And Blackout is an inside account of how corporations erased Black identity from Black radio and mainstream Black music -- and why I chose to...
$28.99
Blackness in Opera
Blackness in Opera critically examines the intersections of race and music in the multifaceted genre of opera. A diverse cross-section of scholars places well-known operas (Porgy and Bess, Aida, Treemonisha) alongside lesser-known works such as Frederick Delius's Koanga, William Grant Still's Blue Steel, and Clarence...
$42.99
Black Soundscapes White Stages: The Meaning of Francophone Sound in the Black Atlantic
An innovative look at the dynamic role of sound in the culture of the African Diaspora as found in poetry, film, travel narratives, and popular music. Black Soundscapes White Stages explores the role of sound in understanding the African Diaspora on...
$54.00
Black Popular Music in Britain Since 1945
Black Popular Music in Britain Since 1945 provides the first broad scholarly discussion of this music since 1990. The book critically examines key moments in the history of black British popular music from 1940s jazz to 1970s soul and reggae,...
$195.50
Black Opera: History, Power, Engagement
From classic films like Carmen Jones to contemporary works like The Diary of Sally Hemings and U-Carmen eKhayelitsa, American and South African artists and composers have used opera to reclaim black people's place in history. Naomi André draws on the...
$33.99
Black Opera: History, Power, Engagement
From classic films like Carmen Jones to contemporary works like The Diary of Sally Hemings and U-Carmen eKhayelitsa, American and South African artists and composers have used opera to reclaim black people's place in history. Naomi André draws on the...
$126.50
Black British Jazz: Routes, Ownership and Performance (Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series)
$195.50
Black British Jazz: Routes, Ownership and Performance (Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series)
Black British musicians have been making jazz since around 1920 when the genre first arrived in Britain. This groundbreaking book reveals their hidden history and major contribution to the development of jazz in the UK. More than this, though, the...
$195.50
Bibliography of Black Music, Volume 4: Theory, Education, and Related Studies
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$110.00
Bibliography of Black Music, Volume 1: Reference Materials
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$110.00
Bibliography of Black Music, Volume 1: Reference Materials
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$113.99
Beyond Memory: Recording the History, Moments and Memories of South African Music
South Africa possesses one of the richest popular music traditions in the world - from marabi to mbaqanga, from boeremusiek to bubblegum, from kwela to kwaito. Yet the risk that future generations of South Africans will not know their musical...
$108.00
At Home in Our Sounds: Music, Race, and Cultural Politics in Interwar Paris
At Home in Our Sounds illustrates the effect jazz music had on the enormous social challenges Europe faced in the aftermath of World War I. Examining the ways African American, French Antillean, and French West African artists reacted to the heightened...
$107.00
Anti-Music (Suny Series, Philosophy and Race)
Examines how African American jazz music was received in Germany both as a racial and cultural threat and as a partner in promoting the rise of Nazi totalitarian cultural politics.
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Anti-Music (Suny Series, Philosophy and Race)
Examines how African American jazz music was received in Germany both as a racial and cultural threat and as a partner in promoting the rise of Nazi totalitarian cultural politics.
$124.00
Afrosonic Life
Afrosonic Life explores the role sonic innovations in the African diaspora play in articulating methodologies for living the afterlife of slavery. Developing and extending debates on Afrosonic cultures, the book attends to the ways in which the acts of technological subversion,...
$45.99
Afrosonic Life
Afrosonic Life explores the role sonic innovations in the African diaspora play in articulating methodologies for living the afterlife of slavery. Developing and extending debates on Afrosonic cultures, the book attends to the ways in which the acts of technological subversion,...
$115.00
Afro-Colombian Hip-Hop: Globalization, Transcultural Music, and Ethnic Identities
Afro-Colombian Hip-Hop: Globalization, Transcultural Music, and Ethnic Identities, by Christopher Dennis, explores the impact that globalization and the transnational spread of U.S. popular culture—specifically hip-hop and rap—are having on the social identities of younger generations of black Colombians. Along with...
$132.99
African Stars: Studies in Black South African Performance (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology)
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African Stars: Studies in Black South African Performance (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology)
In recent years black South African music and dance havebecome ever more popular in the West, where they are nowwidely celebrated as expressions of opposition todiscrimination and repression. Less well known is therich history of these arts, which were shaped...
$37.95
African Roots, Brazilian Rites: Cultural and National Identity in Brazil
This text explores how Afro-Brazilians define their Africanness through Candomblé and Quilombo models, and construct paradigms of blackness with influences from US-based perspectives, through the vectors of public rituals, carnival, drama, poetry, and hip hop.
$68.99
African Roots, Brazilian Rites: Cultural and National Identity in Brazil
This text explores how Afro-Brazilians define their Africanness through Candomblé and Quilombo models, and construct paradigms of blackness with influences from US-based perspectives, through the vectors of public rituals, carnival, drama, poetry, and hip hop.
$68.99
The African Imagination in Music
The world of Sub-Saharan African music is immensely rich and diverse, containing a plethora of repertoires and traditions. In The African Imagination in Music, renowned music scholar Kofi Agawu offers an introduction to the major dimensions of this music and the...
$47.99
The African Diaspora (Critical and Cultural Musicology)
The African Diaspora presents musical case studies from various regions of the African diaspora, including Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America, North America, and Europe, that engage with broader interdisciplinary discussions about race, gender, politics, nationalism, and music. Featured here are jazz,...
$80.99
The African Diaspora (Critical and Cultural Musicology)
The African Diaspora presents musical case studies from various regions of the African diaspora, including Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America, North America, and Europe, that engage with broader interdisciplinary discussions about race, gender, politics, nationalism, and music. Featured here are jazz,...
$68.99
The African Diaspora (Critical and Cultural Musicology)
The African Diaspora presents musical case studies from various regions of the African diaspora, including Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America, North America, and Europe, that engage with broader interdisciplinary discussions about race, gender, politics, nationalism, and music. Featured here are jazz,...
$184.00
Africa and the Blues (American Made Music Series)
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...
$40.99
Bob Dylan: No Direction Home Hardcover – Illustrated
This lavishly illustrated and thoughtfully abridged edition of THE classic book on Dylan—published to coincide with Dylan’s 80th birthday (May 24, 1941)—is a must for all Dylan aficionados.Robert Shelton met Bob Dylan when the young singer arrived in New York...
$18.00
The Upcycled Self: A Memoir on the Art of Becoming Who We Are
From one of our generation’s most powerful artists and incisive storytellers comes a brilliantly crafted work about the art—and war—of becoming who we are.
$26.95
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Classical Conductors And Underrepresented Allies
Classical Conductors And Underrepresented Allies
By Otis Alexander
BTB Publications
ISBN:-10: 978-1-63652-116-9
PAGES: 513 / PAPERBACK
PRICE: $35.00
$35.00
Hustle Harder, Hustle Smarter
"Curtis '50 Cent' Jackson opens up about his ... comeback--from tragic personal loss to thriving businessman and cable's highest-paid executive--in this unique self-help guide ... In his early twenties [he'd risen] to the heights of fame and power in the...
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