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Taiko Boom: Japanese Drumming in Place and Motion
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /With its thunderous sounds and dazzling choreography, Japanese taiko drumming has captivated audiences in Japan and across the world, making it o...
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Cumbia!: Scenes of a Migrant Latin American Music Genre
PaperbackOriginal price $28.95 - Original price $28.95Original price $28.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Cumbia is a musical form that originated in northern Colombia and then spread throughout Latin America and wherever Latin Americans travel and se...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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The Authorized P-Funk Song Reference: Official Canon of Parliament-Funkadelic, 1956-2023
HardcoverOriginal price $50.00 - Original price $50.00Original price $50.00$63.99$63.99 - $63.99Current price $63.99| /"Daniel Bedrosian has done a wonderful job of a seemingly impossible task of reconstructing this history--finding everybody who's been a part of, i...
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Vibe: The Sound and Feeling of Black Life in the American South
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /Where exactly does the South begin and end? Current maps are too rigid to account for the ways Black people have built the South while being simult...
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Vibe: The Sound and Feeling of Black Life in the American South
HardcoverOriginal price $99.00 - Original price $99.00Original price $99.00$122.99$122.99 - $122.99Current price $122.99| /Where exactly does the South begin and end? Current maps are too rigid to account for the ways Black people have built the South while being simult...
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Cornell '77: The Music, the Myth, and the Magnificence of the Grateful Dead's Concert at Barton Hall
HardcoverOriginal price $21.95Original price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /On May 8, 1977, at Barton Hall, on the Cornell University campus, in front of 8,500 eager fans, the Grateful Dead played a show so significant th...
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Confess: The Autobiography
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Notes From Your BooksellerPublished to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the influential heavy metal band Judas Priest, Rob Halford—the lead ...
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Confess: The Autobiography
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Notes From Your BooksellerPublished to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the influential heavy metal band Judas Priest, Rob Halford—the lead ...
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E.A.R.L.: The Autobiography of DMX
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Raised in the ghetto, abandoned as a child, addicted to drugs and women all his life but still able to produce four consecutive #1 hip-hop albums...
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Brother Robert: Growing Up with Robert Johnson
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /A Rolling Stone-Kirkus Best Music Book of 2020“[Brother Robert} book does much to pull the blues master out of the fog of myth.”—Rolling StoneAn ...
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The Story of Motown
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Re-release of the first book ever published in America about the legendary Motown Record Company, with a new foreword by legendary music journali...
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Murder Dog The Covers Vol. 1
HardcoverOriginal price $48.99Original price $48.99 - Original price $48.99Original price $48.99Current price $45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /Murder Dog has been the premiere magazine of underground Hip Hop for over twenty years now This full-color book features the best of their covers ...
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