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We wrote Island Voices Reggae & New Jamaican Music for the tourist and visitor to Jamaica who uses a smartphone or digital reading device. It links to over 300 songs and 200 artists so the ……続きを見る

The System is about how to actively market, promote, and build a brand on a grass roots level in the music industry for your area. Cool Water gives a step by step guide on how to build a brand to at……続きを見る

While Karnatic music, a form of Indian music based on the melodic principle of raga and time cycles called tala, is known today as South India’s classical music, its status as “classical” is an earl……続きを見る

Musical Intimacies and Indigenous Imaginaries explores several styles performed in the vital aboriginal musical scene in the western Canadian province of Manitoba, focusing on fiddling, country musi……続きを見る

Available in English for the first time, Cuban Music from A to Z is an encyclopedic guide to one of the world’s richest and most influential musical cultures. It is the most extensive compendium of ……続きを見る

"Finding Fela" is my personal memoir of a journey to Lagos, Nigeria, to film the legendary African musician and political firebrand Fela Kuti, the "Black President." In 1983, Fela was Africa’s best-……続きを見る

Japanese popular culture has been steadily increasing in visibility both in Asia and beyond in recent years. This book examines Japanese popular music, exploring its historical development, technolo……続きを見る

About the eBook Series (Exotic Guitar Scales for Solo Guitar): If you are a creative guitarist and are seeking to expand your musical horizons, then you will love playing Indian Ragas. Ragas are mil……続きを見る

About the eBook Series (Exotic Guitar Scales for Solo Guitar): If you are a creative guitarist and are seeking to expand your musical horizons, then you will love playing Indian Ragas. Ragas are mil……続きを見る

Revealing the hidden facts of this African superstar’s complex personality and the truth about his tumultuous existence, this unique biography is based on hours of conversation and close interaction……続きを見る

Sonic Liturgy: Ritual and Music in Hindu Tradition builds on the foundation of Guy L. Beck's earlier work, which described the theoretical role of sound in Hindu thought. Sonic Liturgy continues the……続きを見る

From the tender "My heart's love is he" to the bitter "Hag, you've killed me," this extraordinary compilation of melodies ranks among the most important 19th-century collections of traditional Irish……続きを見る

Every culture on Earth has music. Every culture that's ever existed has had it, but we don't exactly know why. Music is not like food, shelter, or having opposable thumbs. We don't need it to live, ……続きを見る

Yellow Music is the first history of the emergence of Chinese popular music and urban media culture in early-twentieth-century China. Andrew F. Jones focuses on the affinities between "yellow” or “p……続きを見る

In Listen to This, the award-winning music critic and author of The Rest is Noise, Alex Ross looks forward and backward in musical culture: capturing essential figures in classical music history, as……続きを見る

Kwakwaka'wakw welcome songs, an aria from Joseph Quesnel's 1808 opera Lucas et Cécile, rubbaboos (a combination of elements from First Peoples, French, and English music), the Tin Pan Alley hits of ……続きを見る

In this lively ethnography Ian Condry interprets Japan’s vibrant hip-hop scene, explaining how a music and culture that originated halfway around the world is appropriated and remade in Tokyo clubs ……続きを見る

2PM often called as beast-idol in Korea. The nick name comes not only from their muscular body, but also from their powerful voices and dances. If you happen to experience their performances you’ll ……続きを見る

An outpouring of memorial tributes and public expressions of grief followed the death of the Tejana recording artist Selena Quintanilla Pérez in 1995. The Latina superstar was remembered and mourned……続きを見る

Sistar (Hangul: 씨스타, stylized as SISTAR) is a South Korean girl group formed in 2010 under the management of Starship Entertainment. The members are Hyolyn (often written Hyorin), Bora, Soyou an……続きを見る

In Chances and Choices, Stephanie Pittssurveys the aims and impact of formative musical experiences, evaluating the extent to which music education of various kinds provides a foundation for lifelon……続きを見る

This is the first systematic literary study of one of the masterpieces of classical Arabic literature, the fourth/tenth century Kitâb al-aghânî (The Book of Songs) by Abû I-Faraj al-Isbahânî. Until ……続きを見る

K-Pop Lyrics series cover complete official and mini albums of world famous Korean idol groups. In this edition, three repackage albums (2nd - "Don't Don" , 4th - "Miina" & 5th - "Mr. Simple") of Su……続きを見る

K-Pop Lyrics Vol.5 - 2NE1 covers all the lyrics of albums of 2NE1, Korean lovely idol group. Enjoy the lyrics of the 2NE1. In this 2nd edition, digital single "I Love You" included. 続きを見る

Made in Italy serves as a comprehensive and rigorous introduction to the history, sociology, and musicology of contemporary Italian popular music. Each essay, written by a leading scholar of Italian……続きを見る

This book explores how Theodorakis' music, such as the soundtrack for Zorba the Greek, has contrirbuted to the development of the modern Greek identity. 続きを見る

"Crete is an island where many people from different countries, cultures and religions have lived and have left their traces. So isn't music in Crete today a product of all these mixtures and cultur……続きを見る

As a measure of individual and collective identity, music offers both striking metaphors and tangible data for understanding societies in transitionーand nowhere is this clearer than in the recent c……続きを見る

This anthology of writings about the American experimental composer Harry Partch is the most comprehensive collection of commentaries about the composer and his work ever assembled. Eleven major fig……続きを見る

A decade ago, Manu Chao's band, Mano Negra, toured Colombia by train, negotiating with government troops and rebels - an episode described at the time as 'less like a rock'n'roll tour - more like Na……続きを見る