World Music
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A New Approach to Understanding Rhythm in Indian Music
Meera SubramanianCurrent price €40.47Original price €43.99Presenting a comprehensive overview of some major traditional Indian rhythms, this book adopts a novel visual approach towards representing these r...
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Songs from the Stations: Wajarra as Performed by Ronnie Wavehill Wirrpnga, Topsy Dodd Ngarnjal and Dandy Danbayarri at Kalkaringi
Dr Felicity MeakinsCurrent price €31.27Original price €33.99The Gurindji people of the Northern Territory are best known for their walk-off of Wave Hill Station in 1966, protesting against mistreatment by th...
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Music and Change in the Eastern Baltics Before and After 1989
Academic Studies PressCurrent price €107.09Original price €118.99This volume provides a transnational study of the impact of musical cultures in the Eastern BalticsLithuania, Latvia, Poland, and Russiaat the end ...
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Beyond the Bassline: 500 Years of Black British Music
British Library PublishingCurrent price €41.39Original price €44.99The story of Black British music is a five-hundred-year journey from the court of King Henry VIII to the Ends of South London; from Africa to the C...
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Si Njay Njay Njay
Faber Music LtdCurrent price €3.22Original price €3.50A joyful, exuberant song with an infectious rhythm, Si njay njay njay is easy to learn, as it builds up gradually from just the men, and then men a...
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Siyahamba
Faber Music LtdCurrent price €3.22Original price €3.50Siyahamba is one of the best-known African worship songs of recent times. It is presented here in a (mostly) homophonic arrangement that contrasts ...
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Thuma Mina
Faber Music LtdCurrent price €3.22Original price €3.50The words of the beautiful funeral song Thuma mina come from the vocabulary of the Xhosa tribe. Pronounced ''''too-ma mee-na'''' it means ''''send ...
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Popular Music, Ethnicity and Politics in the Kenya of the 1990s: Okatch Biggy Live at The Junction
T. Michael MboyaCurrent price €64.79Original price €71.99Okatch Biggy was the single most dominant benga artiste of the 1990s. Over that decade, benga was the most important genre of popular music in Keny...
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Beats Exotiques: Drum grooves for independence
Gary LeachCurrent price €29.90Original price €32.50Current price €29.90Original price €32.50Save 8% -
Jesu Ukukhanya
Faber Music LtdCurrent price €3.22Original price €3.50Jesu ukukhanya is a vibrant call-and-response song from South Africa. The words first boldly proclaim that Jesus is the light, and then that ''we''...
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Hamba Lulu
Faber Music LtdCurrent price €3.22Original price €3.50Singing (''umculo'') is a huge part of the culture and everyday life of many African peoples, none more so than those in Southern Africa. Hamba Lul...
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Hearing Music in a Different Key: Ideological Implications in Works of German Music
Jost HermandCurrent price €46.91Original price €50.99«This volume epitomizes Jost Hermands inimitable talent of synthesizing wide-ranging disciplines in an accessible and compelling style, bringing to...
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Jenni Rivera: La Diva de la Banda
Michael PuenteCurrent price €16.14Original price €18.99When a tragic plane crash took the life of singer and actress Jenni Rivera on December 9, 2012, the world lost an artist whose talents transcended ...
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Tagore: The World Voyager
Rabindranath TagoreCurrent price €12.59Original price €13.99Tagore's beautiful songs now available in English translation. For long considered untranslatable, Tagore's songs express most profoundly his roman...
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Music and Globalization: Critical Encounters
Indiana University PressCurrent price €24.75Original price €27.50World music emerged as a commercial and musical category in the 1980s, but in some sense music has always been global. Through the metaphor of enco...
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Cuban Music Counterpoints: Vanguardia Musical in Global Networks
Marysol QuevedoCurrent price €78.19Original price €84.99Cuban Music Counterpoints maps the intellectual and artistic networks Cuban composers forged between 1940 and 1991 by exploring moments--concerts, ...
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The Old Songs are Always New: Singing Traditions of the Tiwi Islands
Genevieve CampbellCurrent price €46.91Original price €50.99Approximately 1300 ethnographic field recordings of Tiwi songs, made between 1912 and 1981, are archived at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal ...
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World Music: A Global Journey
Andrew ShahriariCurrent price €96.59Original price €104.99World Music: A Global Journey, Fifth Edition, explores the diversity of musical expression around the world, taking students across the globe to ex...
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A Respectable Spell: Transformations of Samba in Rio de Janeiro
Carlos SandroniCurrent price €27.59Original price €29.99A landmark in Brazilian music scholarship, A Respectable Spell introduces English-speaking readers to the rich history of samba from its nineteenth...
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ReSounding Poverty: Romani Music and Development Aid
Adriana N. HelbigCurrent price €26.22Original price €28.50ReSounding Poverty: Romani Music and Development Aid engages with global scholarship on development, poverty, and applied research. It addresses th...
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The Color of Sound: Race, Religion, and Music in Brazil
John BurdickCurrent price €80.99Original price €89.99Throughout Brazil, Afro-Brazilians face widespread racial prejudice. Many turn to religion, with Afro-Brazilians disproportionately represented amo...
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World Music CONCISE: A Global Journey
Andrew ShahriariCurrent price €68.99Original price €74.99World Music CONCISE: A Global Journey, Third Edition, explores the diversity of musical expression around the world, taking students across the glo...
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The Continuity of African Drumming Traditions
Modesto AmegagoCurrent price €40.47Original price €43.99Current price €40.47Original price €43.99Save 8% -
The Cambridge History of World Music
Cambridge University PressCurrent price €150.29Original price €166.99Scholars have long known that world music was not merely the globalized product of modern media, but rather that it connected religions, cultures, ...
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