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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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Jazz à la Creole: French Creole Music and the Birth of Jazz
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Winner of the 2023 Award for Excellence for Best Historical Research in Recorded Jazz from the Association for Recorded Sound Collections During ...
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How to Go Mad without Losing Your Mind: Madness and Black Radical Creativity
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /"Hold tight. The way to go mad without losing your mind is sometimes unruly." So begins La Marr Jurelle Bruce's urgent provocation and poignant med...
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Accordion Eulogies: A Memoir of Music, Migration, and Mexico
HardcoverOriginal price $26.00Original price $26.00 - Original price $26.00Original price $26.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Searching, propulsive, and deeply spiritual, Accordion Eulogies is an odyssey to repair a severed family lineage, told through the surprising his...
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The Notebooks of Sonny Rollins
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /An illuminating selection of writings on a wide variety of topics—everything from technique, music theory, and daily routine to spirituality and ...
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Ataca Sergio: Inquebrantable
HardcoverOriginal price $22.99Original price $22.99 - Original price $22.99Original price $22.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Sergio George es una amenaza global- Tommy Mottola, Ejecutivo Icónico de la MusicaPor mucho tiempo han esperado escuchar mi historia, perspectiva ...
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Ataca Sergio: Inquebrantable
PaperbackOriginal price $15.99 - Original price $15.99Original price $15.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Sergio George es una amenaza global -Tommy Mottola, Ejecutivo Icónico de la MusicaPor mucho tiempo han esperado escuchar mi historia, perspectiva ...
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Well of Souls: Uncovering the Banjo's Hidden History
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /ONE OF THE NEW YORKER’S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR NAMED ONE OF THE MOST MEMORABLE MUSIC BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NO DEPRESSION: THE JOURNAL OF ROOTS MUS...
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Queer Opera
HardcoverOriginal price $120.00 - Original price $120.00Original price $120.00$147.99$147.99 - $147.99Current price $147.99| /In Queer Opera, Andrew Sutherland argues that operas often reflect characteristics of the society and epistime in which they are written but that t...
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Bubblegum Daydreams: Inaudible Songs For Sad Gays
HardcoverOriginal price $22.00Original price $22.00 - Original price $22.00Original price $22.00Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Bubblegum Daydreams is a pop music project from another timeline. Somewhere in the vastness of the multiverse, another version of the author is the...
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Laughter in the Dark: Egypt to the Tune of Change
PaperbackOriginal price $16.00 - Original price $16.00Original price $16.00$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /What can hip-hop tell us about Egypt today? A decade ago, millions of Egyptians took to the streets in a people-led revolution that captivated the ...
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The Oud: An Illustrated History
HardcoverOriginal price $40.00Original price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /A beautifully-written illustrated history of one of the most important instruments in music cultures of the Middle East and North Africa. According...
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From Rumi to the Whirling Dervishes: Music, Poetry, and Mysticism in the Ottoman Empire
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi, whose life and mystical poetry provided the inspiration for the Mevlevi Sufi order, is one of the world's best-known poets...
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Music Making in Iran from the 15th to the Early 20th Century
HardcoverOriginal price $110.00 - Original price $110.00Original price $110.00$129.99$129.99 - $129.99Current price $129.99| /'Music Making in Iran' looks at the change and evolution of music in Iran from both social and theoretical perspectives. Amir Hosein Pourjavady scr...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /American pop music is arguably this country's greatest cultural contribution to the world, and its singular voice and virtuosity were created by a ...
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Kansas City Jazz: A Little Evil Will Do You Good
HardcoverOriginal price $55.00 - Original price $55.00Original price $55.00$69.99$69.99 - $69.99Current price $69.99| /The brand of jazz that developed in the Kansas City area in the period from the late 1920s to the late 1930s is recognised as both a distinct styli...
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William Levi Dawson: American Music Educator
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /William Levi Dawson (1899-1990) overcame adversity and Jim Crow racism to become a nationally recognized composer, choral arranger, conductor, and ...
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