Music
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A New and Concise History of Rock and R&B through the Early 1990s [Paperback]
Eric Charry (Author)
£22.00ISBN: 9780819578952
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Not yet published - available for pre-order
Ethnomusicologist Eric Charry’s innovative and road-tested textbook is an introduction to Rock and R&B suitable for general education courses in music and also accessible for general readers interested in a novel approach to gaining a historically... .... Learn More -
Playing It Dangerously: Tambura Bands, Race, and Affective Block in Croatia and Its Intimates [Paperback]
Ian MacMillen (Author)
£22.00ISBN: 9780819579027
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Not yet published - available for pre-order
Playing It Dangerously questions what happens when feelings attached to popular music conflict with expressions of the dominant socio-cultural order, and how this tension enters into the politics of popular culture at various levels of human inter... .... Learn More -
Playing It Dangerously: Tambura Bands, Race, and Affective Block in Croatia and Its Intimates [Hardback]
Ian MacMillen (Author)
£66.00ISBN: 9780819579010
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Playing It Dangerously questions what happens when feelings attached to popular music conflict with expressions of the dominant socio-cultural order, and how this tension enters into the politics of popular culture at various levels of human inter... .... Learn More -
Tokyo Listening: Sound and Sense in a Contemporary City [Paperback]
Lorraine Plourde (Author)
£20.00ISBN: 9780819578846
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Tokyo Listening examines how the sensory experience of the city informs how people listen to both music and everyday, ubiquitous sounds. Drawing on recent scholarship in the fields of sound studies, anthropology, and ethnomusicology and over fifte... .... Learn More -
Tokyo Listening: Sound and Sense in a Contemporary City [Hardback]
Lorraine Plourde (Author)
£63.00ISBN: 9780819578839
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Tokyo Listening examines how the sensory experience of the city informs how people listen to both music and everyday, ubiquitous sounds. Drawing on recent scholarship in the fields of sound studies, anthropology, and ethnomusicology and over fifte... .... Learn More -
Harbingers of 20th-Century Neo-classicism [Paperback]
Finn Egeland Hansen (Author)
£15.00ISBN: 9788771847116
Published by : Aarhus University Press
Not yet published - available for pre-order
This book proposes a new theory about the neo-classical style in music. The Danish emeritus professor Finn Egeland Hansen has chosen three different composers – the French Camille Saint-Saëns and Charles Gounod and the Danish Niels W. Gade – to di... .... Learn More -
CINÉMA&CIE, INTERNATIONAL FILM STUDIES JOURNAL, VOL. XIX, no. 31, FALL 2018: To Each Their Own Pop. The Mediatization of Popular Music in Europe (1960-1979) [Paperback]
Alessandro Bratus (Editor); Massimo Locatelli (Editor); Miguel Mera (Editor)
£12.00ISBN: 9788869772320
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: CINÉMA&CIE, International Film Studies Journal
Volume: Vol. XIX, no. 31, Fall 2018
Pop music meets the media... This issue is dedicated to a social and cultural phenomenon that we could call the ‘mediatization of pop music’. With a particular focus on the 1960s and 1970s, it is our contention that these two decades significantly... .... Learn More -
Roots in Reverse: Senegalese Afro-Cuban Music and Tropical Cosmopolitanism [Paperback]
Richard M. Shain (Author)
£23.00ISBN: 9780819577092
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Series: Music/Culture
Roots in Reverse explores how Latin music contributed to the formation of the négritude movement in the 1930s. Taking Senegal and Cuba as its primary research areas, this work uses oral histories, participant observation, and archival research to ... .... Learn More -
Citizen Azmari: Making Ethiopian Music in Tel Aviv [Paperback]
Ilana Webster-Kogen (Author)
£25.00ISBN: 9780819578334
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Series: Music/Culture
In the thirty years since their immigration from Ethiopia to the State of Israel, Ethiopian-Israelis have put music at the center of communal and public life, using it alternatingly as a mechanism of protest and as appeal for integration. Ethiopia... .... Learn More -
Dynamic Korea and Rhythmic Form [Hardback]
Katherine In-Young Lee (Author)
£75.00ISBN: 9780819577054
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Series: Music/Culture
The South Korean percussion genre, samul nori, is a world phenomenon whose rhythmic form is the key to its popularity and mobility. Based on both ethnographic research and close formal analysis, author Katherine In-Young Lee focuses on the kinetic... .... Learn More
