Icke västerländsk musik: traditionell & ”klassisk”

A delightfully pleasing potpourri of ballads, songs, and glimpses of the colorful diversity and history of the French people. Thirty-seven songs are included. Lyrics are in French …

Examines the economic and spatial importance of performance arts in West Africa through a close analysis of the masquerade culture of Calabar, the capital city of Nigeria's Cross …

A radical new book by journalist, critic and BBC Radio 3 broadcaster Kate Molleson, which fundamentally changes the way we think about classical music and the musicians who made it …

Brazilian popular music is widely celebrated for its inventive amalgams of styles and sounds. Cariocas, native residents of Rio de Janeiro, think of their city as particularly …

This study is concerned with the vocal iso(n) repertory, used, on the one hand, in the oral traditions of the multipart unaccompanied singing (IMUS) of the Southwest Balkans, or, …

This book is an academic biography of Liu Ching-chih, a renowned musicologist and translation scholar, and a prolific music critic in Hong Kong. Three Library Collections named …

How do you survive leaving everything you know to try to reconstruct your life and future in a new way? What do you carry with you on your journey to the new place? Migration looms …

The bayou sings and the trees sway with the untold stories of many unsung heroes, including Louisiana,s amazing Zydeco musicians. The music is an extraordinary blend of the …

From the mid-20th century to present, the Brazilian art, literature, and music scene have been witness to a wealth of creative approaches involving sound. This is the backdrop …

The Other Classical Musics offers challenging new perspectives on classical music by presenting the history of fifteen parallel traditions.Winner of the Royal Philharmonic Society …