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In this first book-length study of chindon-ya, Marié Abe investigates the intersection of sound, public space, and sociality in contemporary Japan. Chindon-ya, dating back to the 1840s, are ostentat……続きを見る

Extending the inquiry of his early groundbreaking books, Christopher Small strikes at the heart of traditional studies of Western music by asserting that music is not a thing, but rather an activity……続きを見る

Positioned on a major trade route, the Toba Batak people of Sumatra have long witnessed the ebb and flow of cultural influence from India, the Middle East, and the West. Living as ethnic and religio……続きを見る

Indian vocalists trace intricate shapes with their hands while improvising melody. Although every vocalist has an idiosyncratic gestural style, students inherit ways of shaping melodic space from th……続きを見る

Winner of IASPM's 2005 International Book Award Based on ten years of research among hip-hop producers, Making Beats was the first work of scholarship to explore the goals, methods, and values of a ……続きを見る

Recipient of the 2020 Lewis Lockwood Award from the American Musicological Society What are the uses of musical exoticism? In Wild Music, Maria Sonevytsky tracks vernacular Ukrainian discourses of ……続きを見る

In the middle of the nineteenth century a new family of hereditary musicians emerged in the royal court of Lucknow and subsequently rose to the heights of renown throughout North India. Today this m……続きを見る

Sounds of Other Shores takes an ethnographic ear to the history of transoceanic stylistic appropriation in the Swahili taarab music of the Kenyan coast. Swahili taarab, a form of sung poetry that em……続きを見る

From 1981 to 1994, music patron and art collector Betty Freeman (1921--2009) hosted a series of monthly musicales, or salons, in Los Angeles. Most of these salons were held in a room off the den of ……続きを見る

Documentary filmmakers have been making films about music for a half-century. American Music Documentary looks at five key films to begin to imagine how we might produce, edit, and watch films from ……続きを見る

What does it mean to belong? In The Land is Sung, musicologist Thomas M. Pooley shows how performances of song, dance, and praise poetry connect Zulu communities to their ancestral homes and genealo……続きを見る

Over the past century and a half, the voices and bodies of animals have been used by scientists and music experts as a benchmark for measures of natural difference. Animal Musicalities traces music'……続きを見る

For artists, creativity plays a powerful role in understanding, confronting, and negotiating the crises of the present. Seeding the Tradition explores conflicting creativities in traditional music i……続きを見る

Chambers is a virtually complete collection of composer Alvin Lucier's major works from 1965 to 1977, interspersed with twelve interviews with the composer by Douglas Simon. Each score is written in……続きを見る

This compilation of Evanira Mendes’s biography and translated publications offers for the first time in English an opportunity to revisit the music and culture of 1950s Brazil. Examining the traject……続きを見る

"Rhythms of the Soul: The Power of Music in Black Culture" is an in-depth exploration of the profound and transformative role music plays within the Black community. From the deeply rooted African r……続きを見る

Visions of the Village offers a nuanced account of the cultural history, political salience, and social resonances of Czech village operas, especially those by composers Bed%rich Smetana, Antonín Dv……続きを見る

Korngold in America offers new ways of listening to the film scores and post-Hollywood concert works of Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957), a Viennese-raised Austro-Hungarian composer who left Euro……続きを見る

With its thunderous sounds and dazzling choreography, Japanese taiko drumming has captivated audiences in Japan and across the world, making it one of the most successful performing arts to emerge f……続きを見る

Experiencing Latin American Music draws on human experience as a point of departure for musical understanding. Students explore broad topicsーidentity, the body, religion, and moreーand relate these……続きを見る

Songs of Seoul is an ethnographic study of voice in South Korea, where the performance of Western opera, art songs, and choral music is an overwhelmingly Evangelical Christian enterprise. Drawing on……続きを見る

Race, politics, and opera production during apartheid South Africa intersect in this historiographic work on the Eoan Group, a “coloured” cultural organization that performed opera in the Cape. The ……続きを見る

New York City has always been a mecca in the history of jazz, and in many ways the city’s jazz scene is more important now than ever before. Blowin’ the Blues Away examines how jazz has thrived in N……続きを見る

**"No book from this past year better explains American popular music than professor Matthew Morrison’s Blacksound."ーA Rolling Stone Best Music Book of 2024 A new concept for understanding the hist……続きを見る

Just Beyond Listening asks how we might think about encounters with sound that complicate standard accounts of aurality. In a series of essays, Michael C. Heller considers how sound functions in dia……続きを見る

Descubra os fundamentos da música com este livro sobre Ritmo, Melodia e Harmonia. Com explicações claras e exemplos práticos, ele é perfeito para músicos e compositores que desejam aprimorar suas ha……続きを見る

Se aportan nuevas miradas sobre la historia de la música novohispana, la cual, por su complejidad, sus silencios y lagunas, no podría explicarse en función de una sola causa. Se incluye un balance d……続きを見る

Music in ancient China was never mere entertainment: it was a unifying principle that shaped society and aligned humanity with the cosmos. In The Way: Music and Philosophy in Ancient China, Dr. Mich……続きを見る

The collected run of the groundbreaking and iconoclastic zine. From 1977 to 1979, Search & Destroy chronicled the birth of San Francisco's punk scene with an intensity and vision that transformed mu……続きを見る

Explore os movimentos musicais brasileiros com este livro sobre MPB, Tropicália e Forró. Ele oferece uma análise detalhada das obras e influências desses movimentos, destacando sua importância na fo……続きを見る