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Global Music Cultures - An Introduction to World Music (Paperback): Bonnie C. Wade, Patricia Shehan Campbell Global Music Cultures - An Introduction to World Music (Paperback)
Bonnie C. Wade, Patricia Shehan Campbell
R2,961 Discovery Miles 29 610 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
K-Pop Confidential (Paperback): Stephan Lee K-Pop Confidential (Paperback)
Stephan Lee 1
R189 Discovery Miles 1 890 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Big dreams, rivalries and romance collide in this must-read YA novel for K-pop fans everywhere! 'I'm still giddy over this electrifying, big-hearted, all-kill smash of a debut. I couldn't put it down.' BECKY ALBERTALLI, author of Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 'The delectable K-pop confessional we've all been waiting for ... frothy bubble tea of a book.' NEW YORK TIMES '[A] riveting tale of friendship, love, and passion' TEEN VOGUE Candace is your average Korean-American teen - who can't believe her luck when she's picked from thousands of auditionees to travel to Seoul and train to become a K-pop star. There's only one problem: she's really not cut out for it. The language is hard, the girls are mean, and the number-one rule is NO DATING - which proves impossible after she meets superstar idol One.J and fellow trainee YoungBae. In the battle to debut, Candace must decide whether a spot in the most hyped K-pop girl group of all time is really worth risking everything ... A YA romantic coming-of-age novel about big dreams, rivalries and friendship, set against the vibrant landscape of Seoul, South Korea For fans of Jessica Jung's Shine, Axie Oh's XOXO and Lyla Lee's I'll Be the One A must for any K-pop fan: a behind-the-scenes look at the Korean pop industry, whilst exploring themes of expectations, female empowerment and determination Author Stephan Lee is a Korean-American writer, YA enthusiast and ardent K-pop fan!

The Musical Human - A History of Life on Earth - A BBC Radio 4 'Book of the Week' (Paperback): Michael Spitzer The Musical Human - A History of Life on Earth - A BBC Radio 4 'Book of the Week' (Paperback)
Michael Spitzer
R430 R360 Discovery Miles 3 600 Save R70 (16%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK 'Full of delightful nuggets' Guardian online 'Entertaining, informative and philosphical ... An essential read' All About History 'Extraordinary range ... All the world and more is here' Evening Standard 165 million years ago saw the birth of rhythm. 66 million years ago came the first melody. 40 thousand years ago Homo sapiens created the first musical instrument. Today music fills our lives. How we have created, performed and listened to music throughout history has defined what our species is and how we understand who we are. Yet it is an overlooked part of our origin story. The Musical Human takes us on an exhilarating journey across the ages - from Bach to BTS and back - to explore the vibrant relationship between music and the human species. With insights from a wealth of disciplines, world-leading musicologist Michael Spitzer renders a global history of music on the widest possible canvas, from global history to our everyday lives, from insects to apes, humans to artificial intelligence. 'Michael Spitzer has pulled off the impossible: a Guns, Germs and Steel for music' Daniel Levitin 'A thrilling exploration of what music has meant and means to humankind' Ian Bostridge

World Music: A Global Journey - A Global Journey (Hardcover, 5th edition): Terry E. Miller, Andrew Shahriari World Music: A Global Journey - A Global Journey (Hardcover, 5th edition)
Terry E. Miller, Andrew Shahriari
R4,640 Discovery Miles 46 400 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

World Music: A Global Journey, Fifth Edition, explores the diversity of musical expression around the world, taking students across the globe to experience cultural traditions that challenge the ear, the mind, and the spirit. It surveys world music within a systematic study of the world's major cultures, supported by a strong pedagogical framework. Providing historical and cultural overviews of the world's seven continents, and fortified by in-depth studies of varied musical traditions, World Music: A Global Journey is known for its student-friendly approach and lively visits to "sites" that host musics of the world. The robust companion website with audio is ideal for online coursework. FEATURES Easy-to-follow proven chapter structure, organized by geographic region Listening Guides, detailed maps, and hundreds of colorful photos, with more than two dozen new images Coverage of an eclectic blend of world musics, including both popular and traditional music New "Inside Look" entries spotlight distinguished ethnomusicologists and musicians, such as Patricia Shehan-Campbell, Oleg Kruglyakov, Chan E. Park, Vivek Virani, and Mia Gormandy New "Musical Markers" feature that summarizes key musical elements of each audio example New site visiting Georgia, a new "Explore More" feature focused on Slovenian Polka, a new track for North Indian Raga with sitar, and much more New streamed music delivery! Hosted on the book's dedicated website Audiobook-extra value! Presented by chapter on the book website Used in classrooms around the globe, World Music: A Global Journey, Fifth Edition, is an internationally acclaimed and best-selling fundamental resource for students and instructors to begin their exploration of world music and culture. www.routledge.com/cw/miller

Excursions in World Music (Hardcover, 8th edition): Timothy Rommen, Bruno Nettl Excursions in World Music (Hardcover, 8th edition)
Timothy Rommen, Bruno Nettl
R5,277 Discovery Miles 52 770 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Lead author Bruno Nettl. The grand-daddy of Ethnomusicology compiled the first edition, and his name and contributions to the field have brought the book forward several editions. Chapters are written by established/known ethnomusicologists specializing in the particular region, in the perhaps the most balanced attempt to get expert authors together. Does not aim to teach students how to do field work (like Titon), per se, or other ethnomusicological study, and does not aim to teach music - rather, how to think about music in world perspective and the major themes and issues that emerge when we take the musics of the world seriously. Draws a big picture and explains why the musics of the world matter.....the economics, politics, and social dynamics of these sounds.

Writing in the Sand (Hardcover): Matt Garrick Writing in the Sand (Hardcover)
Matt Garrick
R476 Discovery Miles 4 760 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Heitor Villa-Lobos's Bachianas Brasileiras - Intertextuality and Stylization (Paperback): Norton Dudeque Heitor Villa-Lobos's Bachianas Brasileiras - Intertextuality and Stylization (Paperback)
Norton Dudeque
R1,202 Discovery Miles 12 020 Ships in 9 - 15 working days
Trends in World Music Analysis - New Directions in World Music Analysis (Hardcover): Lawrence Beaumont Shuster, Somangshu... Trends in World Music Analysis - New Directions in World Music Analysis (Hardcover)
Lawrence Beaumont Shuster, Somangshu Mukherji, Noe Dinnerstein
R4,082 Discovery Miles 40 820 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

- First volume in almost 10 years to bring together a broad collection on world music analysis, capturing where the field is now - Wide-reaching scope makes this the perfect first stop for anyone interested in world music analysis, and could make it a good focus for seminars at graduate or advanced undergraduate level.

Norton Anthology of Western Music (Paperback, Eighth Edition): J. Peter Burkholder, Donald Jay Grout, Claude V. Palisca Norton Anthology of Western Music (Paperback, Eighth Edition)
J. Peter Burkholder, Donald Jay Grout, Claude V. Palisca
R1,807 Discovery Miles 18 070 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The definitive survey, combining current scholarship with a vibrant narrative. Carefully informed by feedback from dozens of scholars, it remains the book that students and teachers trust to explain what's important, where it fits and why it matters. Peter Burkholder weaves a compelling story of people, their choices and the western musical tradition that emerged. From chant to hip-hop, he connects past to present to create a context for tomorrow's musicians.

Critical Themes in World Music - A Reader for Excursions in World Music, Eighth Edition (Hardcover): Timothy Rommen Critical Themes in World Music - A Reader for Excursions in World Music, Eighth Edition (Hardcover)
Timothy Rommen
R3,900 Discovery Miles 39 000 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Critical Themes in World Music is a reader of nine short essays by the authors of the successful Excursions in World Music, Eighth Edition, edited by Timothy Rommen and Bruno Nettl. The essays introduce key and contemporary themes in ethnomusicology-gender and sexuality, coloniality and race, technology and media, sound and space, and more-creating a counterpoint to the area studies approach of the textbook, a longstanding model for thinking about the musics of the world. Instructors can use this flexible resource as a primary or secondary path through the materials, on its own, or in concert with Excursions in World Music, allowing for a more complete understanding that highlights the many continuities and connections that exist between musical communities, regardless of region. Critical Themes in World Music presents a critically-minded, thematic study of ethnomusicology, one that serves to counterbalance, complicate, and ultimately complement the companion textbook.

Flamenco Music - History, Forms, Culture (Paperback): Peter Manuel Flamenco Music - History, Forms, Culture (Paperback)
Peter Manuel
R844 Discovery Miles 8 440 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

An expert explains and analyzes the beloved art form An iconic symbol of Spain, flamenco has become a global phenomenon. Peter Manuel offers English-language readers a rare portrait of the music’s history, styles, and cultural impact. Beginning with flamenco’s Moorish and Roma influences, Manuel follows the music’s evolution through its consolidation in the mid-1800s and on to the vibrant contemporary scene. An investigation of flamenco’s major song-types looks at rhythm and compás, guitar technique, and many other aspects of the music while Manuel’s description and analysis of the repertoire range from soleares and bulerías to tangos. His overview of contemporary flamenco culture provides insight into issues that surround the music, including globalization, gender dynamics, notions of ownership, and the ongoing debates on purity versus innovation and the relative roles played by Gitanos and non-Gitanos. Multifaceted and entertaining, Flamenco Music is an in-depth study of the indelible art form that inspires enthusiasts and practitioners around the world.

World Music Pedagogy, Volume VII: Teaching World Music in Higher Education - Teaching World Music in Higher Education... World Music Pedagogy, Volume VII: Teaching World Music in Higher Education - Teaching World Music in Higher Education (Hardcover)
William J. Coppola, David G. Hebert, Patricia Shehan Campbell
R4,493 Discovery Miles 44 930 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

World Music Pedagogy, Volume VII: Teaching World Music in Higher Education addresses a pedagogical pathway of varied strategies for teaching world music in higher education, offering concrete means for diversifying undergraduate studies through world music culture courses. While the first six volumes in this series have detailed theoretical and applied principles of World Music Pedagogy within K-12 public schools and broader communities, this seventh volume is chiefly concerned with infusing culture-rich musical experiences through world music courses at the tertiary level, presenting a compelling argument for the growing need for such perspectives and approaches. These chapters include discussions of the logical trajectories of the framework into world music courses, through which the authors seek to challenge the status quo of lecture-only academic courses in some college and university music programs. Unique to this series, each of these chapters illustrates practical procedures for incorporating the WMP framework into sample classes. However, this volume (like the rest of the series) is not a prescriptive "recipe book" of lesson plans. Rather, it seeks to enrich the conversation surrounding cultural diversity in music through philosophically-rooted, social justice-conscious, and practice-oriented perspectives.

Migrating Music (Paperback): Jason Toynbee, Byron Dueck Migrating Music (Paperback)
Jason Toynbee, Byron Dueck
R1,335 Discovery Miles 13 350 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Migrating Music considers the issues around music and cosmopolitanism in new ways. Whilst much of the existing literature on 'world music' questions the apparently world-disclosing nature of this genre - but says relatively little about migration and mobility - diaspora studies have much to say about the latter, yet little about the significance of music. In this context, this book affirms the centrality of music as a mode of translation and cosmopolitan mediation, whilst also pointing out the complexity of the processes at stake within it. Migrating music, it argues, represents perhaps the most salient mode of performance of otherness to mutual others, and as such its significance in socio-cultural change rivals - and even exceeds - literature, film, and other language and image-based cultural forms. This book will serve as a valuable reference tool for undergraduate and postgraduate students with research interests in cultural studies, sociology of culture, music, globalization, migration, and human geography.

Norton Anthology of Western Music (Spiral bound, Eighth Edition): J. Peter Burkholder, Donald Jay Grout, Claude V. Palisca Norton Anthology of Western Music (Spiral bound, Eighth Edition)
J. Peter Burkholder, Donald Jay Grout, Claude V. Palisca
R1,777 Discovery Miles 17 770 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The definitive survey, combining current scholarship with a vibrant narrative. Carefully informed by feedback from dozens of scholars, it remains the book that students and teachers trust to explain what's important, where it fits, and why it matters. Peter Burkholder weaves a compelling story of people, their choices, and the western musical tradition that emerged. From chant to hip-hop, he connects past to present to create a context for tomorrow's musicians.

Hilltop Hoods' The Calling (Paperback): Dianne Rodger Hilltop Hoods' The Calling (Paperback)
Dianne Rodger
R626 Discovery Miles 6 260 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The success of the Hip-Hop album The Calling (2003) by the Hilltop Hoods was a major event on the timeline of Hip-Hop in Australia. It launched a formerly ‘underground’ scene into the spotlight, radically transforming the group members’ lives and creating new opportunities for other Hip-Hop artists. This book analyses the impact of the album by drawing on original interviews with fifteen Hip-Hop practitioners from across Australia, including artists who contributed to the album. These primary interviews are interwoven with material from media sources and close readings of song lyrics and album imagery. An exploration of the early histories of Hip-Hop in Australia with a focus on the formation of Obese Records and the Hilltop Hoods’ biography gives way to analysis of specific tracks from the album and the Hoods’ prowess as live performers. The book uses The Calling as a lens to examine the beliefs and practices of Hip-Hop enthusiasts in Australia, including changes since the album was released. Published in 2023 to coincide with the album’s twenty-year anniversary, the book is an engaging evaluation of a musical release that was so significant that people now use it explain two distinct periods in Australian Hip-Hop (pre or post The Calling).

Sounds and Colours Argentina (CD): Russell Slater Sounds and Colours Argentina (CD)
Russell Slater; Contributions by Lorna Scott Fox
R338 Discovery Miles 3 380 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Composing for Japanese Instruments (Paperback): Minoru Miki Composing for Japanese Instruments (Paperback)
Minoru Miki; Translated by Marty Marty Regan; Edited by Philip Flavin
R1,009 R922 Discovery Miles 9 220 Save R87 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A practical but scholarly guide to Japanese instruments by one of the country's leading composers. The unique sounds of the biwa, shamisen, and other traditional instruments from Japan are heard more and more often in works for the concert hall and opera house. Composing for Japanese Instruments is a practical orchestration and instrumentation manual with contextual and relevant historical information for composers who wish to learn how to compose for traditional Japanese instruments. Widely regarded as the authoritative text on the subject in Japan and China, it contains hundreds of musical examples, diagrams, photographs, and fingering charts. Many of the musical examples can be heard on a companion website. The book also contains valuable appendices, one of works author Minoru Miki composed using Japanese traditional instruments, and one of works by other composers -- including Toru Takemitsu and Henry Cowell -- using these instruments. Minoru Miki was a composer of international renown, recognized in Japan as a pioneer in writing for Japanese traditional instruments. Marty Regan is associate professor of music at Texas A&M University. Philip Flavin is associate professor at the Osaka University of Economicsand Law and adjunct senior research associate of Monash University in Melbourne, Australia.

World Music Pedagogy, Volume VI: School-Community Intersections - School-Community Intersections (Hardcover): Patricia Shehan... World Music Pedagogy, Volume VI: School-Community Intersections - School-Community Intersections (Hardcover)
Patricia Shehan Campbell, Chee-Hoo Lum
R4,063 Discovery Miles 40 630 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

World Music Pedagogy, Volume VI: School-Community Intersections provides students with a resource for delving into the meaning of "world music" across a broad array of community contexts and develops the multiple meanings of community relative to teaching and learning music of global and local cultures. It clarifies the critical need for teachers to work in tandem with community musicians and artists in order to bridge the unnecessary gulf that often separates school music from the music of the world beyond school and to consider the potential for genuine collaborations across this gulf. The five-layered features of World Music Pedagogy are specifically addressed in various school-community intersections, with attention to the collaboration of teachers with local community artist-musicians and with community musicians-at-a-distance who are available virtually. The authors acknowledge the multiple routes teachers are taking to enable and encourage music learning in community contexts, such as their work in after-school academies, museums and libraries, eldercare centers, places of worship, parks and recreation centers, and other venues in which adults and children gather to learn music, make music, and become convivial through music This volume suggests that the world's musical cultures may be found locally, can be tapped virtually, and are important in considerations of music teaching and learning in schools and community contexts. Authors describe working artists and teachers, scenarios, vignettes, and teaching and learning experiences that happen in communities and that embrace the role of community musicians in schools, all of which will be presented with supporting theoretical frameworks.

Away from the Light of Day (Paperback): Amadou Bagayogo, Mariam Doumbia Away from the Light of Day (Paperback)
Amadou Bagayogo, Mariam Doumbia; Translated by Ann Wright
R217 Discovery Miles 2 170 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The magic couple Amadou and Mariam are one of the most loved and successful acts to come out of Africa this century, but their story is not one of overnight success. They have been singing their warm notes for more than thirty years. This autobiography traces Amadou's early years in Mali, first accepting his blindness, then adapting, to finding a source of joy in music and playing alongside some of the country's leading musicians. On meeting Mariam at an institute for the blind in Bamako, he discovers they share a passion for music and for life, they fall in love and begin their career as a duo in search of an international stage. "Away from the Light of Day" is an inspiring story which reveals the source of this golden duo's contagious music, threading its way between tradition, religion, hope and superstition.

Brazilian Popular Music and Globalization (Hardcover): Charles A. Perrone, Christopher Dunn Brazilian Popular Music and Globalization (Hardcover)
Charles A. Perrone, Christopher Dunn
R5,394 Discovery Miles 53 940 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This collection of articles by leading scholars traces the history of Brazilian pop music through the twentieth-century.

Vibe Merchants: The Sound Creators of Jamaican Popular Music (Hardcover, New Ed): Ray Hitchins Vibe Merchants: The Sound Creators of Jamaican Popular Music (Hardcover, New Ed)
Ray Hitchins
R4,361 Discovery Miles 43 610 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Vibe Merchants offers an insider's perspective on the development of Jamaican Popular Music, researched and analysed by a thirty-year veteran with a wide range of experience in performance, production and academic study. This rare perspective, derived from interviews and ethnographic methodologies, focuses on the actual details of music-making practice, rationalized in the context of the economic and creative forces that locally drive music production. By focusing on the work of audio engineers and musicians, recording studios and recording models, Ray Hitchins highlights a music creation methodology that has been acknowledged as being different to that of Europe and North America. The book leads to a broadening of our understanding of how Jamaican Popular Music emerged, developed and functions, thus providing an engaging example of the important relationship between music, technology and culture that will appeal to a wide range of scholars.

Living Politics, Making Music - The Writings of Jan Fairley (Hardcover, New Ed): Jan Fairley, Edited By Simon Frith, Ian... Living Politics, Making Music - The Writings of Jan Fairley (Hardcover, New Ed)
Jan Fairley, Edited By Simon Frith, Ian Christie
R4,208 Discovery Miles 42 080 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The late Jan Fairley (1949-2012) was a key figure in making world music a significant topic for popular music studies and an influential contributor to such world music magazines as fRoots and Songlines. This book celebrates her contribution to popular music scholarship by gathering her most important work together in a single place. The result is a richly informed and entertaining volume that will be of interest to all scholars in the field while also serving as an excellent introduction for students interested in popular music as a global phenomenon. Fairley's work was focused on the problems and possibilities of cross-cultural musical influences, fantasies and flows and on the importance of performing circuits and networks. Her interest in the details of music-making and in the lives of music-makers means that this collection is also an original and illuminating study of music and politics. In drawing on Jan Fairley's journalism, this volume also offers students a guide to various genres of world music, from Cuban son to flamenco, as well as an insight into the lives of such world music stars as Mercedes Sosa and Silvio RodrA guez. This is inspiring as well as essential reading.

London Voices, 1820-1840 - Vocal Performers, Practices, Histories (Hardcover): Roger Parker, Susan Rutherford London Voices, 1820-1840 - Vocal Performers, Practices, Histories (Hardcover)
Roger Parker, Susan Rutherford
R1,862 Discovery Miles 18 620 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

London, 1820. The British capital is a metropolis that overwhelms dwellers and visitors alike with constant exposure to all kinds of sensory stimulation. Over the next two decades, the city's tumult will reach new heights: as population expansion places different classes in dangerous proximity and ideas of political and social reform linger in the air, London begins to undergo enormous infrastructure change that will alter it forever. It is the London of this period that editors Roger Parker and Susan Rutherford pinpoint in this book, which chooses one broad musical category--voice--and engages with it through essays on music of the streets, theaters, opera houses, and concert halls; on the raising of voices in religious and sociopolitical contexts; and on the perception of voice in literary works and scientific experiments with acoustics. Emphasizing human subjects, this focus on voice allows the authors to explore the multifaceted issues that shaped London, from the anxiety surrounding the city's importance in the musical world at large to the changing vocal imaginations that permeated the epoch. Capturing the breadth of sonic stimulations and cultures available--and sometimes unavoidable--to residents at the time, London Voices, 1820-1840 sheds new light on music in Britain and the richness of London culture during this period.

Music, Difference and the Residue of Race (Hardcover): Jo Haynes Music, Difference and the Residue of Race (Hardcover)
Jo Haynes
R4,205 Discovery Miles 42 050 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Race and music seem fatally entwined in a way that involves both creative ethnic hybridity and ongoing problems of racism. This book presents a sociological analysis of this enduring relationship and asks: how are ideas of race critical to the understanding of music genres and preferences? What does the 'love of difference' via music contribute to contemporary perspectives of racism? Previous studies of world music have situated it within the dynamics of local/global musical production, the representation of nations and ethnic groups, theories of globalization, hybridization and cultural appropriation. Haynes adds a conceptual and textual shift to these debates by utilizing world music as a lens for examining cultural imaginaries of race and analytical nuances of racialization. The text offers a view of world music from 'within, ' building on original, qualitative, interview-based research with people from the British world music scene. These interviews provide unique insights into the discursive repertoires that underpin contemporary culture, and will make a significant contribution to the mainly theoretical debates about world music.

Norton Anthology of Western Music (Spiral bound, Eighth Edition): J. Peter Burkholder, Donald Jay Grout, Claude V. Palisca Norton Anthology of Western Music (Spiral bound, Eighth Edition)
J. Peter Burkholder, Donald Jay Grout, Claude V. Palisca
R1,774 Discovery Miles 17 740 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The definitive survey, combining current scholarship with a vibrant narrative. Carefully informed by feedback from dozens of scholars, it remains the book that students and teachers trust to explain what's important, where it fits and why it matters. Peter Burkholder weaves a compelling story of people, their choices and the western musical tradition that emerged. From chant to hip-hop, he connects past to present to create a context for tomorrow's musicians.

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