South African Music: A Century of Traditions in Transformation (World Music Series) 1576072762, 9781576072769

South African Popular Music 9781501383427, 9781501383458, 9781501383441

From the storied ache of mbube harmonies of the '40s to the electronic boom of kwaito and the amapiano and house ex

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Sound of Africa!: Making Music Zulu in a South African Studio 9780822384632

An ethnography of the recording of Mbaqanga music, that examines its relation to issues of identity, South African polit

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Music, Culture, and the Politics of Health : Ethnography of a South African AIDS Choir 9781498510110, 9781498510103

This book is an ethnographic study of a HIV/AIDS choir who use music to articulate their individual and collective exper

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Focus: Irish Traditional Music (Focus on World Music Series) [1 Pap/Com ed.] 0415991471, 9780415991476

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Seeing Sideways: A Memoir of Music and Motherhood (American Music Series) 2020056889, 9781477312346, 9781477323106, 147731234X

Doony, Ryder, Wyatt, Bodhi. The names of Kristin Hersh’s sons are the only ones included in her new memoir, Seeing Sidew

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Soundscapes of Liberation: African American Music in Postwar France 9781478021995

Celeste Day Moore traces the popularity of African American music in postwar France to outline how it came to signify bo

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Making Music: Profiles from a Century of Canadian Music 0002000563, 9780002000567

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A Century of South African Theatre 9781350008007, 9781350008014, 9781350008045, 9781350008038

“Theatre is not part of our vocabulary”: Sipho Sepamla’s provocation in 1981, the year of famous anti-apartheid play Woz

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Music of the Twentieth Century 9789048505425

Ton de Leeuw's lifetime engagement with music, European and Oriental, gives this book its unique insight into what

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Mavericks and Other Traditions in American Music 9780300127898

From colonial times to the present, American composers have lived on the fringes of society and defined themselves in la

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