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  • Mongolian Film Music

    Tradition, Revolution and Propaganda

    by Lucy M. Rees ...
    In 1936 the Mongolian socialist government decreed the establishment of a film industry with the principal aim of disseminating propaganda to the largely nomadic population. The government sent promising young rural Mongolian musicians to Soviet conservatoires to be trained formally as composers. On their return they utilised their traditional Mongolian musical backgrounds and the musical skills ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

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    by Donna Leon ...
    Series Book 6 - A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery
    A nun has left her convent after a series of suspicious deaths: "Leon's novels are always a pleasure." — The Washington PostIn Venice, Italy, Commissario Guido Brunetti comes to the aid of a young Catholic sister, who has left her convent after five of her nursing home patients died unexpectedly. In the course of his inquiries, Brunetti encounters an unusual cast of characters, but discovers ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Devo's Freedom of Choice

    by Evie Nagy ...
    Series series 33 1/3
    Finally, after all that waiting, The Future arrived in 1980. Ohio art-rockers Devo had plainly prepared with their 1979 second LP Duty Now for the Future, and now it was go time. Propelled by the new decade's high-tech, free-market, pre-AIDS promise, 1980's Freedom of Choice would rocket what Devo co-founder Gerald Casale calls his "alternate universe, hermetically sealed, alien band" both into ... Read more

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  • Made in Latin America

    Studies in Popular Music

    Edited by Julio Mendívil, Christian Spencer Espinosa ...
    Series series Routledge Global Popular Music Series
    Made in Latin America serves as a comprehensive introduction to the history, sociology, and musicology of contemporary Latin American popular music. Each essay, written by a leading scholar of Latin American music, covers the major figures, styles, and social contexts of popular music in Latin America and provides adequate context so readers understand why the figure or genre under discussion is ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • The Songs of Robert Schumann

    by Eric Sams ...
    Eric Sams' study of Schumann's 246 songs (Faber 1961, revised 1993) - a companion volume to his The Songs of Hugo Wolf, also available in Faber Finds - remains a classic text. By providing a translation, commentary and notes for each of the songs, tracing original sources and relating recurring themes vividly to Schumann's life, Sams provides a unique documentary of Schumann's song-writing art.The ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • War, Exile and the Music of Afghanistan

    The Ethnographer’s Tale

    by John Baily ...
    Series series SOAS Studies in Music
    In the 1970s John Baily conducted extensive ethnomusicological research in Afghanistan, principally in the city of Herat but also in Kabul. Then, with Taraki’s coup in 1978, came conflict, war, and the dispersal of many musicians to locations far and wide. This new publication is the culmination of Baily’s further research on Afghan music over the 35 years that followed. This took him to ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • Pieces of the Musical World: Sounds and Cultures

    by Rachel Harris, Rowan Pease ...
    Pieces of the Musical World: Sounds and Cultures is a fieldwork-based ethnomusicology textbook that introduces a series of musical worlds each through a single "piece." It focuses on a musical sound or object that provides a springboard from which to tell a story about a particular geographic region, introducing key aspects of the cultures in which it is embedded, contexts of performance, the ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • Tracing Tangueros

    Argentine Tango Instrumental Music

    by Kacey Link, Kristin Wendland ...
    Series series Currents in Latin American and Iberian Music
    Tracing Tangueros offers an inside view of Argentine tango music in the context of the growth and development of the art form's instrumental and stylistic innovations. Rather than perpetuating the glamorous worldwide conceptions that often only reflect the tango that left Argentina nearly 100 years ago, authors Kacey Link and Kristin Wendland trace tango's historical and stylistic musical ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to French Music

    Edited by Simon Trezise ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Music
    France has a long and rich music history that has had a far-reaching impact upon music and cultures around the world. This accessible Companion provides a comprehensive introduction to the music of France. With chapters on a range of music genres, internationally renowned authors survey music-making from the early middle ages to the present day. The first part provides a complete chronological ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Highlife Giants

    West African Dance Band Pioneers

    by John Collins ...
    "Highlife Giants is an intimate portrait of the pioneering artistes of West Africa's vibrant music scene from the 1920s onwards. It is packed full of inside information from stars including E.T Mensah, Kofo Ghanaba, King Bruce, Bobby Benson, Victor Uwaifo, and Ignace De Souza. Blending European and African-American styles with traditional African patterns, highlife music contributed to the ... Read more

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  • Englishness, Pop and Post-War Britain

    by Kari Kallioniemi, Kari Kallioniemi, Bruce Johnson ...
    English pop music was a dominant force on the global cultural scene in the decades after World War II – and it served a key role in defining, constructing and challenging various ideas about Englishness in the period. Kari Kallioniemi covers a stunning range of styles of pop – from punk, reggae and psychedelia to jazz, rock, Brit Pop and beyond – as he explores the question of how various artists ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • The Art of Songwriting

    by Andrew West ...
    How do you turn songwriting talent into a professional career? This essential guide tackles that question, alongside many others, taking songwriters through all the developmental phases and commercial experiences along the way in order to inspire and encourage the reader to find their own voice and write successfully within their chosen genre.Collating the best-available expertise with fresh ideas ... Read more

    $28.99 USD