Music
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Katherine Jackson French: Kentucky's Forgotten Ballad Collector [Paperback]
Elizabeth DiSavino (Author)
£22.00ISBN: 9780813196701
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Not yet published - available for pre-order
The second woman to earn a PhD from Columbia University
face=Calibri>– and the first from south of the Mason-Dixon Line to do so
face=Calibri>– Kentucky native Katherine Jackson French broke boundaries. ... .... Learn More -
Critical Brass: Street Carnival and Musical Activism in Olympic Rio de Janeiro [Hardback]
Andrew Snyder (Author)
£70.50ISBN: 9780819500182
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Series: Music / Culture
Not yet published - available for pre-order
Critical Brass tells the story of neofanfarrismo, an explosive carnival brass band community turned activist musical movement in Rio de Janeiro, as Brazil shifted from a country on the rise in the 2000s to one beset by various crises in the 2010s.... .... Learn More -
Critical Brass: Street Carnival and Musical Activism in Olympic Rio de Janeiro [Paperback]
Andrew Snyder (Author)
£19.95ISBN: 9780819500199
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Series: Music / Culture
Not yet published - available for pre-order
Critical Brass tells the story of neofanfarrismo, an explosive carnival brass band community turned activist musical movement in Rio de Janeiro, as Brazil shifted from a country on the rise in the 2000s to one beset by various crises in the 2010s.... .... Learn More -
Love and Rage: Autonomy in Mexico City's Punk Scene [Hardback]
Kelley Tatro (Author)
£62.95ISBN: 9780819580931
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Series: Music / Culture
Not yet published - available for pre-order
Love and Rage is a deeply ethnographic account of punk in Mexico City as it is lived and practiced, connecting the sounds of punk music to different styles of political action. Through compelling first-person accounts, ethnographer Kelley... .... Learn More -
Love and Rage: Autonomy in Mexico City's Punk Scene [Paperback]
Kelley Tatro (Author)
£18.95ISBN: 9780819580948
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Series: Music / Culture
Not yet published - available for pre-order
Love and Rage is a deeply ethnographic account of punk in Mexico City as it is lived and practiced, connecting the sounds of punk music to different styles of political action. Through compelling first-person accounts, ethnographer Kelley... .... Learn More -
Musical Resilience: Performing Patronage in the Indian Thar Desert [Hardback]
Shalini R. Ayyagari (Author)
£70.50ISBN: 9780819500090
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Series: Music / Culture
Not yet published - available for pre-order
In Musical Resilience, Shalini Ayyagari shows how professional low-caste musicians from the Thar Desert borderland of Rajasthan, India have skillfully reinvented their cultural and economic value in postcolonial India. Before India's inde... .... Learn More -
Musical Resilience: Performing Patronage in the Indian Thar Desert [Paperback]
Shalini R. Ayyagari (Author)
£19.95ISBN: 9780819500106
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Series: Music / Culture
Not yet published - available for pre-order
In Musical Resilience, Shalini Ayyagari shows how professional low-caste musicians from the Thar Desert borderland of Rajasthan, India have skillfully reinvented their cultural and economic value in postcolonial India. Before India's inde... .... Learn More -
An Academic Biography of Liu Ching-chih: A Man of “a Pure Heart” [Hardback]
Yongyan Li (Author)
£80.00ISBN: 9781626430839
Published by : Bridge 21 Publications
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This book is an academic biography of Liu Ching-chih, a renowned musicologist and translation scholar, and a prolific music critic in Hong Kong. Three Library Collections named after him are housed in the University of Hong Kong Libraries, the Hon... .... Learn More -
Seeding the Tradition: Musical Creativity in Southern Vietnam [Paperback]
Alexander M. Cannon (Author)
£19.95ISBN: 9780819580801
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Series: Music / Culture
Not yet published - available for pre-order
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 in Hõ Chí Minh City, the Mekong Delta, and the Vie... .... Learn More -
Mellencamp, updated edition: American Troubadour [Paperback]
David Masciotra (Author)
£20.50ISBN: 9780813195568
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Despite his numerous hits and Grammy nominations - and his induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame - John Mellencamp remains one of America’s most underrated songwriters. In Mellencamp, David Masciotra explores the life and career of this impo... .... Learn More
