| Dr Janet Topp Fargion - Music - 2014 - 251 pages
The musical genre of taarab is played for entertainment at weddings and other festive occasions all along the Swahili Coast in East Africa. In this study Janet Topp Fargion ... | |
| Dr Uroš Čvoro - Music - 2014 - 225 pages
Turbo-folk music is the most controversial form of popular culture in the new states of former Yugoslavia. Beginning with 1970s Socialist Yugoslavia, Uroš Čvoro explores the ... | |
| Dr Margaret E Walker - Performing Arts - 2014 - 175 pages
Through an analysis both broad and deep of primary and secondary sources, ethnography, iconography and current performance practice, this enquiry undertakes a critical approach ... | |
| Dr Laudan Nooshin - Music - 2015 - 257 pages
This book interrogates musicological discourses of creativity from the perspective of critical theory and postcolonial studies, examining their ideological underpinnings and ... | |
| Dr Simon Barker - Music - 2015 - 169 pages
Simon Barker sets out the developmental processes he has followed creating an improvisational language for the drumset utilizing Korean rhythm/sticking cells, aesthetic ... | |
| Stone Blue Editors - Biography & Autobiography - 2015 - 50 pages
Yma Sumac: Exotica World Music Vocalist The next Musician Snapshots book in the 'Music You Should Hear Series' is a profile of singer Yma Sumac. With a four-octave range ... | |
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