Asian Reads
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Listening with a Feminist Ear: Soundwork in Bombay Cinema
HardcoverOriginal price $75.00 - Original price $75.00Original price $75.00$95.99$95.99 - $95.99Current price $95.99| /Listening with a Feminist Ear is a study of the cultural politics and possibilities of sound in cinema. Eschewing ocularcentric and siloed discipli...
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A General History of Chinese Art: From the Qin Dynasty to the Northern and Southern Dynasties
PaperbackOriginal price $171.99Original price $171.99 - Original price $171.99Original price $171.99Current price $147.99$147.99 - $147.99Current price $147.99| /This volume studies the evolution of Chinese art during the Qin and Han Dynasties, The Three Kingdoms, Eastern and Western Jin, and the Northern an...
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Musical Resilience: Performing Patronage in the Indian Thar Desert
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95Original price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Indian regional musicians find resilience in a postcolonial worldIn Musical Resilience, Shalini Ayyagari shows how professional low-caste musicians...
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Japanthem: Counter-Cultural Experiences, Cross-Cultural Remixes
PaperbackOriginal price $16.00 - Original price $16.00Original price $16.00$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Both personally revealing and informed by years of Fulbright- and MTV-sponsored research, JAPANTHEM's honest vignettes delve beyond the aspects of ...
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Lovesic in Kyoto
PaperbackOriginal price $21.95Original price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Seen through the lens of Buddhist wisdom, Lovesic in Kyoto is a journey through spirit, language, musicianship, and the beauty and contradictions o...
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Homesick Blues: Politics, Protest, and Musical Storytelling in Modern Japan
HardcoverOriginal price $68.00 - Original price $68.00Original price $68.00$79.99$79.99 - $79.99Current price $79.99| /Homesick Blues explores how artists, fans, amateur practitioners, and others have used music to tell stories of everyday life in Japan from the lat...
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The Life of Music in South India
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95Original price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /An insider's eight-decade overview of South India's 20th century classical music cultureThis book offers an account of Carnatic music culture drawi...
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Music in Colonial Punjab
HardcoverOriginal price $130.00 - Original price $130.00Original price $130.00$151.99$151.99 - $151.99Current price $151.99| /This book offers the first social history of music in undivided Punjab (1800-1947), beginning at the Lahore court of Maharaja Ranjit Singh and conc...
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Balinese Dance, Drama & Music: A Beginner's Guide to the Performing Arts of Bali (Bonus Online Content)
HardcoverOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Discover the richness and beauty of Bali's many performing art forms. This book is a lavishly illustrated introduction to the most popular forms of...
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Chinese Music in Print: From the Great Sage to the Lady Literata
HardcoverOriginal price $70.00 - Original price $70.00Original price $70.00$89.99$89.99 - $89.99Current price $89.99| /A collection of rare musical artifacts from the University of Hong Kong's Fung Ping Shan Library. Chinese Music in Print is grounded in a desire to...
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Rocking China: Music scenes in Beijing and beyond
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99$25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Rocking China traces the rise and spread of indie rock scenes from the rock capital of Beijing to Shanghai and many other cities in China. Through ...
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Outlaw Music in Russia: The Rise of an Unlikely Genre
HardcoverOriginal price $89.95 - Original price $89.95Original price $89.95$112.99$112.99 - $112.99Current price $112.99| /The Russian shanson can be heard across the country today, on radio and television shows, at mass events like political rallies, and even at the Kr...
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Chinese Music
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Unique and complex in style, traditional Chinese music forms a fascinating part of China's cultural heritage. This accessible, illustrated introd...
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Kunqu: A Classical Opera of Twenty-First-Century China
HardcoverOriginal price $90.00 - Original price $90.00Original price $90.00$112.99$112.99 - $112.99Current price $112.99| /In Kunqu: A Classical Opera of Twenty-First-Century China, Joseph S. C. Lam offers a holistic and interdisciplinary view on kunqu, a 600-year-old g...
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