Overview :The music started: two guitarists beating out more Albore s. The women took turns to dance in a frenzy, each trying to outdo the other. "Dee... Read More
Overview :A delightful journey through the psychology and science of music, WHY YOU LOVE MUSIC is the perfect book for anyone who loves a tune. Music ... Read More
Overview :The first serious ethnomusicological study of Malagasy music, Recollecting from the Past evokes the complex sound and performative aesthetic... Read More
Overview :When the Portuguese seafarer Afonso de Albuquerque conquered the bustling port of Malacca in 1511, he effectively gained control of the enti... Read More
Overview :Samba is Brazil's "national rhythm," the foremost symbol of its culture and nationhood. To the outsider, samba and the famous pre-Lenten car... Read More
Overview :In the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, recent technological developments in music listening enabled troops to carry with them vast amounts of ... Read More
Overview :Throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, a steady stream of Scots migrated to Ulster and eventually onward across the Atlantic to... Read More
Overview :Medical Ethnomusicology is a new field of integrative and holistic research and applied practice that approaches music, health, and healing ... Read More
Overview :Video games open portals to fantastical worlds where imaginative play and enchantment prevail. These virtual settings afford us considerable... Read More
Overview :Music in Bulgaria is one of several case-study volumes that can be used along with Thinking Musically, the core book in the Global Music Ser... Read More
Overview :"An important book for anyone with an interest in life, American music, Southern culture, dancing, accordions, the recording industry, folkl... Read More