Music
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Animal Musicalities: Birds, Beasts, and Evolutionary Listening [Paperback]
Rachel Mundy (Author)
£18.50ISBN: 9780819500861
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Series: Music / Culture
Not yet published - available for pre-order
How conflicts between science and the humanities have shaped our understanding of the line between art and animal behavior
Over the past century and a half, the voices and bodies of animals have been used by scientists and music experts a... .... Learn More -
The Land Is Sung: Zulu Performances and the Politics of Place [Hardback]
Thomas M. Pooley (Author)
£70.50ISBN: 9780819500571
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Series: Music / Culture
Not yet published - available for pre-order
Ethnography on the politics of land and belonging in post apartheid Zulu performances
What does it mean to belong? In The Land is Sung, musicologist Thomas Pooley shows how performances of song, dance, and praise poetry connect Zulu commu... .... Learn More -
The Land Is Sung: Zulu Performances and the Politics of Place [Paperback]
Thomas M. Pooley (Author)
£19.95ISBN: 9780819500588
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Series: Music / Culture
Not yet published - available for pre-order
Ethnography on the politics of land and belonging in post apartheid Zulu performances
What does it mean to belong? In The Land is Sung, musicologist Thomas Pooley shows how performances of song, dance, and praise poetry connect Zulu commu... .... Learn More -
The Life of Music in South India [Hardback]
T. Sankaran (Author); Matthew Harp Allen (Editor); Daniel Neuman (Editor)
£62.95ISBN: 9780819500731
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Series: Music / Culture
Not yet published - available for pre-order
An insider's eight-decade overview of South India's 20th century classical music culture.
This book offers an account of Carnatic music culture drawing on the knowledge of T. Sankaran, a musician raised in an illustrious non-Brahmin devad... .... Learn More -
The Life of Music in South India [Paperback]
T. Sankaran (Author); Matthew Harp Allen (Editor); Daniel Neuman (Editor)
£19.95ISBN: 9780819500748
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Series: Music / Culture
Not yet published - available for pre-order
An insider's eight-decade overview of South India's 20th century classical music culture.
This book offers an account of Carnatic music culture drawing on the knowledge of T. Sankaran, a musician raised in an illustrious non-Brahmin devad... .... Learn More -
Queer Arrangements: Billy Strayhorn and Midcentury Jazz Collaboration [Paperback]
Lisa Barg (Author)
£18.50ISBN: 9780819500649
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Series: Music / Culture
Not yet published - available for pre-order
Queer Arrangements is a new study of Billy Strayhorn that examines his music and career at the intersection of jazz and Black queer history
The legacy of Black queer composer, arranger and pianist Billy Strayhorn (1915–1967) hove... .... Learn More -
Dissonant Landscapes: Music, Nature, and the Performance of Iceland [Hardback]
Tore Storvøld (Author)
£62.95ISBN: 9780819500489
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Series: Music / Culture
Not yet published - available for pre-order
Listening to the dissonances of nature and nationhood in modern Iceland.
During the past three decades, Iceland has attained a strong presence in the world through its musical culture, with images of the nation being packaged and shipped ... .... Learn More -
Dissonant Landscapes: Music, Nature, and the Performance of Iceland [Paperback]
Tore Storvøld (Author)
£18.50ISBN: 9780819500496
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Series: Music / Culture
Not yet published - available for pre-order
Listening to the dissonances of nature and nationhood in modern Iceland.
During the past three decades, Iceland has attained a strong presence in the world through its musical culture, with images of the nation being packaged and shipped ... .... Learn More -
Queer Arrangements: Billy Strayhorn and Midcentury Jazz Collaboration [Hardback]
Lisa Barg (Author)
£70.50ISBN: 9780819500632
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Series: Music / Culture
Not yet published - available for pre-order
Queer Arrangements is a new study of Billy Strayhorn that examines his music and career at the intersection of jazz and Black queer history.
The legacy of Black queer composer, arranger and pianist Billy Strayhorn (1915–1967) hov... .... Learn More -
Australasian Music, at Home and Abroad [Paperback]
Sarah Kirby (Editor)
£27.00ISBN: 9781922952233
Published by : Australian Scholarly Publishing
Not yet published - available for pre-order
Combining approaches from Western art music, First Nations music, pop music, studies of contemporary community practice, and anthropological and ethnomusicological field work, 'Australasian Music, At Home and Abroad' presents peer-reviewed chapter... .... Learn More
