Music: styles & genres
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Music: styles & genres
Hardcover. A book on the critical role of music in African ritual which focuses on the Brekete/Gorovodu religion of the Ewe people. It analyzes their practices through a historical and ethnographic study of one of the dominant ritual sites on the southern coast of Ghana: a medicine shrine whose origins lie in the northern region of the country. Series: Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology. Num Pages: 240 pages, 2 colour plates, 25 halftones, 3 line drawings, 23 musical examples. BIC Classification: 1HFDH; AVGH; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226265049
- ISBN
- 9780226265049
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 123.92
€ 123.92
Paperback. A book on the critical role of music in African ritual which focuses on the Brekete/Gorovodu religion of the Ewe people. It analyzes their practices through a historical and ethnographic study of one of the dominant ritual sites on the southern coast of Ghana: a medicine shrine whose origins lie in the northern region of the country. Series: Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology. Num Pages: 240 pages, 2 colour plates, 25 halftones, 3 line drawings, 23 musical examples. BIC Classification: 1HFDH; AVGH; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226265056
- ISBN
- 9780226265056
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 28.24
€ 35.99
€ 28.24
Paperback. For the Tumbuka people of Malawi, traditional medical practices are filled with music. This ethnography explores a health care system populated by dancing prophets, singing patients and drummed spirits. Series: Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology. Num Pages: 260 pages, 16 halftones, 4 figures. BIC Classification: 1HFMM; AVGH; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 150 x 17. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226265025
- ISBN
- 9780226265025
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 29.31
€ 36.99
€ 29.31
Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages, 38 b/w photos. BIC Classification: AVGU; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 153 x 10. Weight in Grams: 402.
- Publisher
- A Cappella Books United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781556527616
- ISBN
- 9781556527616
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 17.78
€ 17.99
€ 17.78
Hardcover. Trash has been blowing across the rock 'n' roll landscape since the first amplified guitar riff tore through American mass culture. Throwaway tunes, wasted fans, crappy reviews. In this book, Steven L. Hamelman guides us across five decades of rock to explore the trash trope in all of its audible, visual, and emblematic power. Num Pages: 320 pages, 1 figure. BIC Classification: AVGP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820325361
- ISBN
- 9780820325361
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 74.57€ 68.19
€ 74.57
€ 68.19
Paperback. "The Beach Boys have been rolling, like the tide their great songs evoke, for more than thirty years, reaching professional peaks and tragic personal depths. In this electrifying account Steven Gaines" Num Pages: 416 pages, 66 photographs. BIC Classification: AVGP; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 163 x 26. Weight in Grams: 574.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Hachette Books United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780306806476
- ISBN
- 9780306806476
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 14.05
€ 18.99
€ 14.05
Hardback. Looks at the vernacular cosmopolitanism of a group of jazz players in Ghana, who have traveled widely, played with American jazz greats, and blended Coltrane with local instruments and philosophy. This book describes their cosmopolitan outlook as an accoustemology, a way of knowing the world through sound. Num Pages: 328 pages, 78 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFDH; AVGJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 165 x 25. Weight in Grams: 649.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822351481
- ISBN
- 9780822351481
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 123.96
€ 123.96
Paperback. Introduces the anthropology of sound, or the cultural study of sound Num Pages: 344 pages, 27 illustrations (including 2 in colour), 5 tables, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1MKLP; AVGH; HBTB; JHBT; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 159 x 21. Weight in Grams: 502. Birds, Weeping, Poetics, and Song in Kaluli Expression. 344 pages, 27 illustrations (including 2 in colour), 5 tables, 1 map. Introduces the anthropology of sound, or the cultural study of sound. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1MKLP; AVGH; HBTB; JHBT; JHMC. Dimension: 227 x 159 x 21. Weight: 498.
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Number of pages
- 344
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Third
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822353652
- ISBN
- 9780822353652
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 31.30
€ 34.99
€ 31.30
Paperback. The story of one of the most influential and controversial jazz recordings of the twentieth century Series: Jazz Perspectives. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations, figures, printed music items. BIC Classification: AVGJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 151 x 21. Weight in Grams: 432.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- The University of Michigan Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472034482
- ISBN
- 9780472034482
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 25.40
€ 29.99
€ 25.40
Hardcover. "Hot Music, Ragmentation, and the Bluing of American Literature" is a multidisciplinary exploration of the ways that African American hot musicminstrelsy, ragtime, jazz, and especially bluesemerged into the American cultural mainstream in the nineteenth century and ultimately dominated both American music and literature from 1920 to 1929." Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; AVGJ; AVGK; DSBH; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 43. Weight in Grams: 998.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University Alabama Press
- Edition
- 2nd ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780817318659
- ISBN
- 9780817318659
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.25€ 60.05
€ 65.25
€ 60.05
Paperback. Num Pages: 410 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AVGU. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 252 x 178 x 25. Weight in Grams: 828.
- Publisher
- Feral House,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 410
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- Second
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781932595895
- ISBN
- 9781932595895
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 23.45
€ 29.99
€ 23.45
Paperback. From original Guns N' Roses drummer Steven Adler comes a tale of sex, drugs, excess, hairspray and and intense 20-year struggle with addiction. Num Pages: 304 pages, (2x8pp plates). BIC Classification: AVGT; AVH; BGFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 25. Weight in Grams: 232.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780007368488
- ISBN
- 9780007368488
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.51
€ 13.99
€ 10.51
Paperback. Metal and punk enjoyed a charged, intimate relationship that informed both genres in terms of sound, image, and discourse. This book traces this connection back to the early 1970s, when metal first asserted its identity and punk arose independently. Num Pages: 398 pages, 21 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: AVGP; AVGT; AVGU. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 568.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 398
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520257177
- ISBN
- 9780520257177
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 28.72
€ 38.99
€ 28.72
Paperback. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: AVC; AVGP; AVH; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 135. Weight in Grams: 294.
- Publisher
- Ecco
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780062475589
- ISBN
- 9780062475589
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.50
€ 13.99
€ 10.50
Paperback. The incredible journey of the world's most recorded song through an astonishing diversity of musical genres, from gospel to heavy metal, to become a cultural icon. Num Pages: 304 pages, B&W Halftones. BIC Classification: AVGD; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 131 x 20. Weight in Grams: 246.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Lion Hudson Plc London
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Edition
- New
- SKU
- KNW0007896
- ISBN
- 9780745951782
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.49
€ 5.49
Paperback. An examination of how musical activity has been transformed by contemporary production practices Series: Tracking Pop S. Num Pages: 268 pages. BIC Classification: AVG; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- The University of Michigan Press United States
- Number of pages
- 268
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472035533
- ISBN
- 9780472035533
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 29.44
€ 34.99
€ 29.44
Paperback. aeo Informed by original ethnographic research and oral history into popular music and youth culture. aeo Presents a broad--ranging history from the post--Punk era of the late 70a s through the 80a s to the internationalisation ---- or globalisation ---- of sport and music influenced youth and dance clubcultures of the 1990s. Num Pages: 144 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1DBK; AVGF; AVGP; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 142 x 11. Weight in Grams: 258.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 144
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631197898
- ISBN
- 9780631197898
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.35
€ 51.35
Hardback. Responds to the separation of 'youth' and 'pop' in the 1980s and the fragmentation of the audience for popular music in the 1990s, arguing for a redefinition of the conceptual apparatus needed to explain developments in popular music culture - from the rise of 'Clubcultures' to the future of the popular music scene. Num Pages: 144 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1DBK; AVGF; AVGP; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 167 x 241 x 18. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 144
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631197881
- ISBN
- 9780631197881
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 140.45
€ 140.45
Paperback. What binds this series together, and what brings it to life, is that all of the authors - musicians, scholars, and writers - are deeply in love with the album they have chosen. Series: 33 1/3. Num Pages: 128 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKENL; AVGP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 167 x 121 x 11. Weight in Grams: 158. Series: 33 1/3. 128 pages, illustrations. What binds this series together, and what brings it to life, is that all of the authors - musicians, scholars, and writers - are deeply in love with the album they have chosen. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1DBKENL; AVGP. Dimension: 167 x 121 x 11. Weight: 150.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Academic
- Number of pages
- 128
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780826416346
- ISBN
- 9780826416346
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.50
€ 13.99
€ 11.50
Paperback. Sees pop music journalism as a form of cultural criticism. Editor(s): Jones, Steve. Series: Sound Matters S. Num Pages: 288 pages, 1 table. BIC Classification: AVGP; KNTJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781566399661
- ISBN
- 9781566399661
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 31.30
€ 34.99
€ 31.30