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Popular Music in Vietnam
Taylor and Francis 2011; US$ 44.95Based on the author?s research in Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi, and other urban areas in Vietnam, this study of contemporary Vietnamese popular music explores the ways globalization and free market economics have influenced the music and subcultures of Vietnamese youth, focusing on the conflict between the politics of remembering, nurtured by the Vietnamese... more...
Main Lines, Blood Feasts, and Bad Taste
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2008; US$ 15.95Before his untimely death in 1982, Lester Bangs was inarguably the most influential critic of rock and roll. Writing in hyper-intelligent Benzedrine prose that calls to mind Jack Kerouac and Hunter S. Thompson, he eschewed all conventional thinking as he discussed everything from Black Sabbath being the first truly Catholic band to Anne Murray?s smoldering... more...
Christopher Columbus
Teacher Created Materials Publishing 2004; US$ 8.99Christopher Columbus set out on August 3, 1492, to find the East by sailing west. Over the course of a few years, he convinced the king and queen of Spain to pay for his trip, promising them fame and riches in return. Columbus discovered more than he bargained for?he had found a new continent. more...
Focus: Music of Northeast Brazil
Taylor and Francis 2009; US$ 49.95Focus: Music of Northeast Brazil examines the historical and contemporary manifestations of the music of Brazil, a country with a musical landscape that is layered with complexity and diversity. Based on the author?s field research during the past twenty years, the book describes and analyzes the social/historical contexts and contemporary musical... more...
Entartete Musik
Amsterdam University Press 2004; US$ 46.95Tussen 1933 en 1945 zijn complete bevolkingsgroepen van de aardbodem verdwenen. Onder hen ontelbaar veel uitvoerende en scheppende musici. De namen die we onthouden hebben, die we nog kennen of weer hebben leren kennen, vormen slechts een klein deel van wat verloren is gegaan. Een themaproject over 'entartete Musik', zoals Jan Zekveld voor... more...
Raised By Wolves
ECW Press 2000; US$ 11.95As the countercultural movements of the 60s gathered steam, one of its first splinter groups was the Jesus freaks. In addition to culturally hip pastors, the scene produced a handful of musicians who brazenly coupled rock & roll music with lyrics that reflected a Christian world-view and often became an outright evangelistic tool. Jesus music... more...
Music from behind the Bridge
Oxford University Press, USA 2007; US$ 20.99A symbol of Trinidadian culture, the steelband has made an extraordinary transformation since its origins-from junk metal to steel orchestra, and from disparaged underclass pastime to Trinidad and Tobago's national instrument. Now, Shannon Dudley gives the first discerning look at the musical thinking that ignited this transformation, and the way... more...
Music in the Galant Style
Oxford University Press, USA 2007; US$ 44.99Music in the Galant Style is an authoritative and readily understandable study of the core compositional style of the eighteenth century. Gjerdingen adopts a unique approach, based on a massive but little-known corpus of pedagogical workbooks used by the most influential teachers of the century, the Italian partimenti. He has brought this vital repository... more...
Experimental Music
University of NSW Press 2008; US$ 19.99Experimental music has been mostly unrecognised in Australia, but it is in this underground area that the major innovations and creative developments in music occur. Through testing perceived boundaries, breaking rules and creating new forms, the artists in this field force us to question what, in fact, music is. Written by artists who... more...
Performance and Popular Music
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2007; US$ 39.95Since the emergence of rocknroll in the early 1950s, there have been a number of live musical performances that became hugely influential in the way they shaped the subsequent trajectory and development of popular music. Each, in its own way, introduced new styles, confronted existing practices, shifted accepted definitions, and provided... more...









