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21. Focus: Music of South Africa

    2nd Edition

    By Carol A. Muller

    Series: Focus on World Music Series

    Focus: Music of South Africa provides an in-depth look at the full spectrum of South African music, a musical culture that epitomizes the enormous ethnic, religious, linguistic, class, and gender diversity of the nation itself. Drawing on extensive field and archival research, as well as her own...

    Published April 8th 2008 by Routledge
22. The Garland Handbook of Southeast Asian Music

    Edited by Terry Miller, Sean Williams

    Series: Garland Handbooks of World Music

    The Garland Handbook of Southeast Asian Music is comprised of essays from The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: Volume 4, Southeast Asia (1998). Largely revised and updated, the essays offer detailed, regional studies of the different musical cultures of Southeast Asia and examine the...

    Published March 9th 2008 by Routledge
23. Musical Performance in the Diaspora

    Edited by Tina K Ramnarine

    This book illustrates how ethnographic investigation of musical performances might contribute to the analysis of diaspora. It embraces diverse examples such as 'mourning and cultures of survival' amongst Aboriginal and Jewish communities in Australia, remembering a Kazakh 'homeland' in Western...

    Published January 9th 2008 by Routledge
24. The Garland Handbook of Latin American Music

    2nd Edition

    By Dale Olsen, Daniel Sheehy

    Series: Garland Handbooks of World Music

    The Garland Handbook of Latin American Music is comprised of essays from The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: Volume 2, South America, Mexico, Central America, and the Carribean, (1998). Revised and updated, the essays offer detailed, regional studies of the different musical cultures of Latin...

    Published October 23rd 2007 by Routledge
25. Global Minstrels

    Voices of World Music

    By Elijah Wald

    As the fastest growing sector of the U.S. music market, world music has embedded itself in the fabric of American life. Artists such as Peter Gabriel, Paul Simon and the Talking Heads have all utilized characteristics of the "world" sound in their music, while international performers are enjoying...

    Published November 8th 2006 by Routledge
26. The Ethnomusicologists' Cookbook

    Complete Meals from Around the World

    By Sean Williams

    Named one of New York Times Top-20 Cookbooks of 2006. Have you ever wanted to host a full evening of Indian food, culture, and music? How about preparing a traditional Balinese banquet? Or take a trip to Cairo and enjoy an Egyptian feast? The Ethnomusicologists' Cookbook takes you around...

    Published June 6th 2006 by Routledge
27. Ethnomusicology

    A Contemporary Reader

    Edited by Jennifer C. Post

    Ethnomusicology: A Contemporary Reader is designed to supplement a textbook for an introductory course in ethnomusicology. It offers a cross section of the best new writing in the field from the last 15-20 years. Many instructors supplement textbook readings and listening assignments with scholarly...

    Published November 7th 2005 by Routledge
28. African American Music

    An Introduction

    Edited by Mellonee V. Burnim, Portia K. Maultsby

    African American Music: An Introduction is a collection of thirty essays by leading scholars whch survey major African American musical genres, both sacred and secular, from slavery to the present. The work brings together, in a single volume, treatments of African American music that have existed...

    Published October 20th 2005 by Routledge
29. Alan Lomax

    Selected Writings, 1934-1997

    Edited by Ronald Cohen

    Alan Lomax is a legendary figure in American folk music circles. Although he published many books, hundreds of recordings and dozens of films, his contributions to popular and academic journals have never been collected. This collection of writings, introduced by Lomax's daughter Anna, reintroduces...

    Published April 2nd 2005 by Routledge
30. Music Cultures in the United States

    An Introduction

    Edited by Ellen Koskoff

    Music Cultures in the United States is a basic textbook for an Introduction to American Music course. Taking a new, fresh approach to the study of American music, it is divided into three parts. In the first part, historical, social, and cultural issues are discussed, including how music history is...

    Published December 26th 2004 by Routledge