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  • How Music Works is David Byrne’s remarkable and buoyant celebration of a subject he has spent a lifetime thinking about. In it he explores how profoundly music is shaped by its time and place, and he…
    How Music Works

    How Music Works

    By David Byrne rating of short cover   ( 1053 customer ratings) McSweeney's, September 2012 ISBN: 9781938073489 Business & Technical, Business Aspects Language:  English
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  • Hip Hop's Inheritance arguably offers the first book-length treatment of what hip hop culture has, literally, 'inherited' from the Harlem Renaissance, the Black Arts movement, the Feminist Art…
    Hip Hop's Inheritance

    Hip Hop's Inheritance - From the Harlem Renaissance to the Hip Hop Feminist Movement

    By Reiland Rabaka rating of short cover   ( 2 customer ratings) Lexington Books, March 2011 ISBN: 9780739164822 Pop & Rock, Rap Language:  English
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  • The early decades of American popular music-Stephen Foster, Scott Joplin, John Philip Sousa, Enrico Caruso-are, for most listeners, the dark ages. It wasn’t until the mid-1920s that the full spectrum…
    Stomp and Swerve: American Music Gets Hot, 1843-1924

    Stomp and Swerve: American Music Gets Hot, 1843-1924

    By David Wondrich rating of short cover   ( 23 customer ratings) Chicago Review Press, August 2003 ISBN: 9781569764978 Theory & Criticism, Ethnomusicology Language:  English
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  • Performing Ethnomusicology is the first book to deal exclusively with creating, teaching, and contextualizing academic world music performing ensembles. Considering the formidable theoretical…
    Performing Ethnomusicology

    Performing Ethnomusicology - Teaching and Representation in World Music Ensembles

    rating of short cover   ( 4 customer ratings) University of California Press, July 2004 ISBN: 9780520937178 Theory & Criticism, Ethnomusicology Language:  English
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  • A Tribe Called Quest • Beastie Boys • De La Soul • Eric B. & Rakim • The Fugees • KRS-One • Pete Rock & CL Smooth • Public Enemy • The Roots • Run-DMC • Wu-Tang Clan • and twenty-five more hip-hop…
    Check the Technique

    Check the Technique - Liner Notes for Hip-Hop Junkies

    By Brian Coleman rating of short cover   ( 152 customer ratings) Random House Publishing Group, March 2009 ISBN: 9780307494429 Biography & Memoir, Composers & Musicians Language:  English
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  • A unique Israeli national culture-indeed, the very nature of "Israeliness"-remains a matter of debate, a struggle to blend vying memories and backgrounds, ideologies and wills. Identifying popular…
    Popular Music and National Culture in Israel

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    Popular Music and National Culture in Israel

    By Regev, Motti rating of short cover   ( 1 customer rating) University of California Press, March 2004 ISBN: 9780520936881 Theory & Criticism, Ethnomusicology Language:  English
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  • Rebel Dance, Renegade Stance shows how community music-makers and dancers take in all that is around them socially and globally, and publicly and bodily unfold their memories, sentiments, and raw…
    Rebel Dance, Renegade Stance: Timba Music and Black Identity in Cuba

    Rebel Dance, Renegade Stance: Timba Music and Black Identity in Cuba

    By Umi Vaughan University of Michigan Press, October 2012 ISBN: 9780472028696 Entertainment, Dance Language:  English
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  • What is it about the history, geographical position and cultures of the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia that has made music such a potent and powerful agent? This volume presents the first…
    Music and the Play of Power in the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia

    Music and the Play of Power in the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia

    SOAS Musicology Series Ashgate Publishing Ltd, January 2013 ISBN: 9781409493952 Theory & Criticism, Ethnomusicology Language:  English
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  • Designed as a tribute to Robert Garfias, who has conducted field work in more cultures than any other living ethnomusicologist, this volume explores the originating encounter in field work of…
    Ethnomusicological Encounters with Music and Musicians

    Ethnomusicological Encounters with Music and Musicians - Essays in Honor of Robert…

    SOAS Musicology Series Ashgate Publishing Ltd, January 2013 ISBN: 9781409494782 Social Science, Anthropology Language:  English
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  • Popular music has long understood that human rights, if attainable at all, involve a struggle without end. The right to imagine an individual will, the right to some form of self-determination, and…
    Popular Music and Human Rights

    Popular Music and Human Rights - Volume II: World Music

    Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series Ashgate Publishing Ltd, January 2013 ISBN: 9781409494485 Pop & Rock, Popular Language:  English
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