Lineage of Loss

Max Katz

• Paperback | Engels | Music / Culture
• Explores the forgotten voices and visions of a North Indian musical tradition In the middle of the nineteenth century a new family of hereditary music... Lees meer

Musical Resilience

Shalini R Ayyagari

• Paperback | Engels | Music / Culture
• Indian regional musicians find resilience in a postcolonial world In Musical Resilience , Shalini Ayyagari shows how professional low-caste musicians ... Lees meer

Music & Camp

• Paperback | Engels | Music / Culture
• Illuminates the expressive, social, and political stakes of style This collection of essays provides the first in-depth examination of camp as it rela... Lees meer

The Christopher Small Reader

Christopher Small

• Paperback | Engels | Music / Culture
• A rich representation of the transformative work of an influential scholar of music studies The Christopher Small Reader is the fourth and final book ... Lees meer

The Arab Avant-Garde

• Paperback | Engels | Music / Culture
• The first in-depth study of diverse and radical innovation in Arab music From jazz trumpeters drawing on the noises of warfare in Beirut to female hea... Lees meer

Among the Jasmine Trees

Jonathan Holt Shannon

• Paperback | Engels | Music / Culture
• The first ethnographic study of music-making in modern Syria How does a Middle Eastern community create a modern image through its expression of herit... Lees meer

Music and Technoculture

• Paperback | Engels | Music / Culture
• Explores the rich relationship between technology, music and culture. Moving from web to field, from Victorian parlor to 21st-century mall, the 15 ess... Lees meer

Between Nostalgia and Apocalypse

Daniel B Sharp

• Paperback | Engels | Music / Culture
• Chronicles the entanglement of traditional and experimental music in northeast Brazil Between Nostalgia and Apocalypse is a close-to-the-ground accoun... Lees meer

Planet Beethoven

Mina Yang

• Paperback | Engels | Music / Culture
• Exploring the complexities and significance of classical music today In Planet Beethoven, Mina Yang makes the compelling case that classical music in ... Lees meer

Music and Modernity Among First Peoples of North America

Victoria Lindsay Levine, Dylan Robinson

• Paperback | Engels | Music / Culture
• Revisioning Indigenous musicology Winner of the 2020 Ruth A. Solie Award for Edited Collections from the American Musicological Society (AMS), which h... Lees meer

Love and Rage

Kelley Tatro

• Paperback | Engels | Music / Culture
• English language study of the punk scene in Mexico City Love and Rage is a deeply ethnographic account of punk in Mexico City as it is lived and pract... Lees meer

Club Cultures

Sarah Thornton

• Paperback | Engels | Music / Culture
• A close look at the music and culture of dance clubs and the "rave" phenomenon.. Focusing on youth cultures that revolve around dance clubs and raves ... Lees meer

Wild Music

Maria Sonevytsky

• Hardcover | Engels | Music / Culture
• Musical representations of wildness in an era of revolution Recipient of the 2020 Lewis Lockwood Award from the American Musicological Society What ar... Lees meer

Seeding the Tradition

Alexander M Cannon

• Paperback | Engels | Music / Culture
• Critically evaluates assumptions of creativity by exploring the dynamism of southern Vietnamese traditional music For artists, creativity plays a powe... Lees meer

Banda

Helena Simonett

• Paperback | Engels | Music / Culture
• The first in-depth study of banda, a Mexican and Mexican American musical practice. Runner-up for the International Association for the Study of Popul... Lees meer

Resonances of Chindon-YA

Marié Abe

• Hardcover | Engels | Music / Culture
• An investigation of music, sound, and public space in contemporary Japan In this first book-length study of chindon-ya, Marié Abe investigates the int... Lees meer

Singing Our Way to Victory

Regina M Sweeney

• Paperback | Engels | Music / Culture
• A penetrating cross-disciplinary study of the cultural constructions of singing. Winner of the International Book Award from International Association... Lees meer

Animal Musicalities

Rachel Mundy

• Paperback | Engels | Music / Culture
• How conflicts between science and the humanities have shaped our understanding of the line between art and animal behavior Over the past century and a... Lees meer

Echo and Reverb

Peter Doyle

• Paperback | Engels | Music / Culture
• The untold story of acoustic effects in popular music. Winner of the Association for Recorded Sound Collections' (ARSC) Award for Excellence in Histor... Lees meer

Critical Brass

Andrew Snyder

• Paperback | Engels | Music / Culture
• Ethnography explores political activism of carnival brass bands in Brazil Critical Brass tells the story of neofanfarrismo , an explosive carnival bra... Lees meer

Tokyo Listening

Lorraine Plourde

• Paperback | Engels | Music / Culture
• Ethnographic analysis of urban music in Japan Tokyo Listening examines how the sensory experience of the city informs how people listen to both music ... Lees meer

Ways of Voice

Matthew Rahaim

• Paperback | Engels | Music / Culture
• An exploration of vocal change and ethical dynamism Ways of Voice explores techniques of voice production in North India, from Bollywood to raga music... Lees meer

Music and Cyberliberties

Patrick Burkart

• Paperback | Engels | Music / Culture
• An activist's guide for musicians and fans opposed to the major label lockdown of online music Musicians and music fans are at the forefront of cyberl... Lees meer

Music, Society, Education

Christopher Small

• Paperback | Engels | Music / Culture
• A groundbreaking work expanding our view of music beyond the Western classical tradition. Cited by Soundpost as "remarkable and revolutionary" upon it... Lees meer