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'Hood Comes First - Race, Space, And Place In Rap And Hip-Hop

by Murray Forman

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 'The 'Hood Comes First' looks at the specific emphasis on real neighbourhoods and streets in rap music and hip hop culture as a urgent response to the cultural and geographical ghettoization of black urban communities.
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Presence And Pleasure - The Funk Grooves Of James Brown And Parliament

by Anne Danielsen

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 What does it mean to be in the groove?
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In-Between In Javanese Performing Arts - History And Myth, Interculturalism And Interreligiosity

by Sumarsam

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 This book is the first comprehensive overview of Javanese performing arts from their origins to their dynamic present. Renowned scholar and musician Sumarsam draws from a lifetime of immersion in both wayang and gamelan to guide readers through the concept of the "in-between," revealing how the interplay of dualisms—myth and history, sacred and secular, personal and cultural—forms the bedrock of Javanese performance. Rigorously researched historical case studies reveal the intricate relationship between histories and mythologies in Java. Wayang, accompanied by gamelan, is a multimedia performance imbued with rich historical, aesthetic, religious, and emotional associations. Sumarsam delves into this intricate, profound, and ever-evolving art form, exploring its diverse manifestations and venues, from courtly village entertainment-cum-ritual to palace-based aesthetic expressions of cultural proficiency; from coastal mercantile entrepots to the verdant wet rice terraces of Java; from colonial plantation and textile factory cultures to communities centered around contemporary industrial estates and creative economy initiatives. An essential resource for scholars, musicians, and enthusiasts of wayang and gamelan, The In-Between in Javanese Performing Arts offers an unparalleled immersion into the heart of traditional Javanese performing arts, revealing their profound impact on Javanese culture, identity, and artistic expression.
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Fraught Balance - The Embodied Politics Of Dabke Dance Music In Syria

by Shayna M. Silverstein

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 Winner of The de la Torre Bueno First Book Prize® (2025) from Dance Studies Association Winner of the Dance, Movement, and Gesture Kealiinohomoku Award, granted by SEM (Society for Ethnomusicology)Winner of the 2025 AMEWS Book Award, presented by the Association for Middle East Women's StudiesHonorable mention for ICTMD Book Prize, granted by the International Council for Traditions of Music and DanceHonorable mention for Ruth Stone Prize, granted by SEM (Society for Ethnomusicology) Dabke, one of Syria's most beloved dance music traditions, is at the center of the country's war and the social tensions that preceded conflict. Drawing on almost two decades of ethnographic, archival, and digital research, Shayna M. Silverstein shows how dabke dance music embodies the fraught dynamics of gender, class, ethnicity, and nationhood in an authoritarian state. The book situates dabke politically, economically, and historically in a broader account of expressive culture in Syria's recent (and ongoing) turmoil. Silverstein shows how people imagine the Syrian nation through dabke, how the state has coopted it, how performances of masculinity revealand play withthe tensions and complexities of the broader social imaginary, how forces opposed to the state have used it resistively, and how migrants and refugees have reimagined it in their new homes in Europe and the United States. She offers deeply thoughtful reflections on the ethnographer's ethical and political dilemmas on fieldwork in an authoritarian state. Silverstein's study ultimately questions the limits of authoritarian power, considering the pleasure and play intrinsic to dabke circles as evidence for how performance cultures sustain social life and solidify group bonds while reproducing the societal divides endemic to Syrian authoritarianism.
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Musical Resilience - Performing Patronage In The Indian Thar Desert

by Shalini R Ayyagari

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 In Musical Resilience, Shalini Ayyagari shows how professional low-caste musicians from the Thar Desert borderland of Rajasthan, India have skillfully reinvented their cultural and economic value in postcolonial India.
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Sound Fragments - From Field Recording To African Electronic Stories

by Noel Lobley

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 This book is an ethnographic study of sound archives and the processes of creative decolonization that form alternative modes of archiving and curating in the 21st century. Sound Fragments follows what happens when a colonial sound archive is repurposed and reimagined by local artists in post-apartheid South Africa.
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Seeding The Tradition - Musical Creativity In Southern Vietnam

by Alexander M. Cannon

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 With ethnographic descriptions of zither lessons in Ho Chi Minh City, outdoor music cafes in Can Tho, and television programs in Dong Thap, Seeding the Tradition offers a rich description of southern Vietnamese sang tao and suggests revised approaches to studying creativity in contemporary ethnomusicology.
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City Of Musical Memory - Salsa, Record Grooves And Popular Culture In Cali, Colombia

by Lise A. Waxer

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 Winner of the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award for Popular Music Books (2002) Winner of the Society for Ethnomusicology's (SEM) Alan P. Merriam Prize (2003)Salsa is a popular dance music developed by Puerto Ricans in New York City during the 1960s and 70s, based on Afro-Cuban forms. By the 1980s, the Colombian metropolis of Cali emerged on the global stage as an important center for salsa consumption and performance. Despite their geographic distance from the Caribbean and from Hispanic Caribbean migrants in New York City, Caleos (people from Cali) claim unity with Cubans, Puerto Ricans and New York Latinos by virtue of their having adopted salsa as their own. The City of Musical Memory explores this local adoption of salsa and its Afro-Caribbean antecedents in relation to national and regional musical styles, shedding light on salsa's spread to other Latin American cities. Cali's case disputes the prevalent academic notion that live music is more "real" or "authentic" than its recorded versions, since in this city salsa recordings were until recently much more important than musicians themselves, and continued to be influential in the live scene. This book makes valuable contributions to ongoing discussions about the place of technology in music culture and the complex negotiations of local and transnational cultural identities.
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Music Of The Common Tongue - Survival And Celebration In African American Music

by Christopher Small

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 "A magnificent book about Afro-American music and its impact on western culture. "--Race and Class
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Music, Society, Education

by Christopher Small

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 A groundbreaking work expanding our view of music beyond the Western classical tradition.
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The In-Between In Javanese Performing Arts - History And Myth, Interculturalism And Interreligiosity

by Sumarsam

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Brassroots Democracy - Maroon Ecologies And The Jazz Commons

by Benjamin Barson

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Carriacou String Band Serenade - Performing Identity In The Eastern Caribbean

by Rebecca S Miller

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Stepping In The Madang - Sustaining Expressive Ecologies Of Korean Drumming And Dance

by Donna L Kwon

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The In-Between In Javanese Performing Arts - History And Myth, Interculturalism And Interreligiosity

by Sumarsam

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Sounds Of Other Shores - The Musical Poetics Of Identity On Kenya'S Swahili Coast

by Andrew J Eisenberg

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 A study of transoceanic musical appropriation and Swahili ethnic subjectivity on the Kenyan coastSounds of Other Shores takes an ethnographic ear to the history of transoceanic stylistic appropriation in the Swahili taarab music of the Kenyan coast.
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Fraught Balance - The Embodied Politics Of Dabke Dance Music In Syria

by Shayna M Silverstein

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The Life Of Music In South India

by T Sankaran

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 An insider's eight-decade overview of South India's 20th century classical music culture. This book offers an account of Carnatic music culture drawing on the knowledge of T.
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Queer Arrangements - Billy Strayhorn And Midcentury Jazz Collaboration

by Lisa Barg

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 Queer Arrangements is a new study of Billy Strayhorn that examines his music and career at the intersection of jazz and Black queer history. The legacy of Black queer composer, arranger and pianist Billy Strayhorn (1915â€"1967) hovers at the edge of canonical jazz narratives.
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The Land Is Sung - Zulu Performances And The Politics Of Place

by Thomas M Pooley

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 Engaging with justice and environmental ethics, education and indigenous knowledge systems, musical and linguistic analysis, and the ethics of recording practice, Pooley's analysis draws on genres of music and dance recorded in the midlands and borderlands of South Africa, and in Johannesburg's inner city.
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The Land Is Sung - Zulu Performances And The Politics Of Place

by Thomas M Pooley

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 Engaging with justice and environmental ethics, education and indigenous knowledge systems, musical and linguistic analysis, and the ethics of recording practice, Pooley's analysis draws on genres of music and dance recorded in the midlands and borderlands of South Africa, and in Johannesburg's inner city.
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Dissonant Landscapes - Music, Nature, And The Performance Of Iceland

by Tore Storvã¸Ld

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 Listening to the dissonances of nature and nationhood in modern Iceland. During the past three decades, Iceland has attained a strong presence in the world through its musical culture, with images of the nation being packaged and shipped out in melodies, harmonies, and rhythms.
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Dissonant Landscapes - Music, Nature, And The Performance Of Iceland

by Tore Storvold

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 Listening to the dissonances of nature and nationhood in modern Iceland. During the past three decades, Iceland has attained a strong presence in the world through its musical culture, with images of the nation being packaged and shipped out in melodies, harmonies, and rhythms.
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Love And Rage - Autonomy In Mexico City'S Punk Scene

by Kelley Tatro

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 Love and Rage is a deeply ethnographic account of punk in Mexico City as it is lived and practiced, connecting the sounds of punk music to different styles of political action.
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