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Folk Music
Oxford University Press, USA 2010; US$ 9.99When we think of folk music, most of us picture Pete Seeger singing "This Land is My Land" or Joan Baez singing "Barbara Allen." But this stimulating Very Short Introduction throws open the doors on a remarkably diverse musical genre, in a wide-ranging portrait that goes far beyond America's shores to discuss folk music of every... more...
Albanian Traditional Music
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2011; US$ 55.00For most musicians and musicologists in the West, traditional Albanian music remains an obscure subject, even though Albania has produced a monumental cultural and corresponding musical heritage. This book examines the distinct musical culture of southeastern Europe, both monophonic and polyphonic, by delineating its four main musical dialects: Gheg,... more...
Traditional Folk Song in Modern Japan
BRILL 2008; US$ 133.00The Japanese say that ?folk song is the heart?s home town?. Traditional folk songs (min?yo) from the countryside are strongly linked to their places of origin and continue to play a role there. Today, however, they are also taught as a quasi-art music, arranged for stage and television, quoted in Westernized popular songs and so forth. more...
Music of the Common Tongue
Wesleyan University Press 2011; US$ 21.99"A magnificent book about Afro-American music and its impact on western culture. "--Race and Class more...
Analytical and Cross-Cultural Studies in World Music
Oxford University Press, USA 2011; US$ 35.00Analytical and Cross-Cultural Studies in World Music presents intriguing explanations of extraordinary musical creations from diverse cultures across the world. All the authors are experts, deeply engaged in the traditions they describe. They recount the contexts in which the music is created and performed, and then hone in on elucidating how the music... more...
The Ballad Collectors of North America
Scarecrow Press 2011; US$ 64.99Both biographical and topical, The Ballad Collectors of North America chronicles those individuals most influential in the gathering of North American folksongs and investigates the two leading schools of thought regarding the collection process, the leading proponents of those schools, and the projects shaped by them. Contributors also reflect... more...
Música de todo el mundo (Music Around the World)
Shell Education 2010; US$ 8.99Do you enjoy listening to music? Do you know that there is a pattern to music and the instruments we use to make music? Tapping and clapping are movements that can form a pattern. For example, tap, tap, clap, tap, tap, clap. Can you find a pattern with your favorite instrument? 32pp. more...
Songs from the Edge of Japan
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2012; US$ 99.95Songs from the Edge of Japan is an ethnographic account of the contemporary performance of the music of Yaeyama, in the south of Japan's Okinawa prefecture. The work includes interviews, analysis of popular and scholarly works in Japanese, musical and lyrical analyses, and accounts of fieldwork carried out in Yaeyama and Okinawa since 2000. more...
Sitting In
University of Iowa Press 1993; US$ 29.95This collection of essays and poems about the influence of jazz on writing and culture in this country, an expanded edition of the 1986 publication, is a rewarding volume for all those entranced by jazz. Carruth brings his considerable poetic and literary sensibilities to bear on a topic very near to his heart: "Those who are devoted primarily... more...
Branch Today Gone Tomorrow
Marshall Cavendish 2012; US$ 12.00In the wake of the global financial crisis, retail bankers face another equally challenging shift to their business in the near term the demise of the branch. more...









