{"product_id":"eastward-piano","title":"Eastward Piano","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book follows the piano through musical worlds typically overlooked in the instrument’s history. Grounded in practice-led research, it treats the piano as a mobile, adaptive resource rather than a fixed cultural artefact.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy engaging with early commercial recordings from Eastern Europe, the Balkans, the Middle East, and North Africa, this book unsettles the rigid oppositions (East\/West, oral\/literate, folk\/scholarly) through which the piano’s presence has typically been read.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe concept of ‘modeness’ attends to music as realised performance, while Foucault’s ‘heterotopias’ frame the instrument’s eastward trajectories. A central case study—the author’s 2015 album The Rebetiko Era—brings these threads into the studio, examining arrangement, improvisation and recording as compositional acts. Moving beyond a conventional musicological study, the volume also provides the musical scores for nine of the album’s tracks, complete with insightful commentary.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDesigned for researchers, educators, practitioners, and students of the piano, the book proposes a mode of enquiry in which artistic practice, historical and discographic research, and critical reflection inform one another, and in which the piano emerges not as a belated arrival but as a participant whose eastward journeys have been audible all along.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Product","offer_id":57427815432536,"sku":"9781041258568","price":51.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/eastward-piano","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}