The Temptation to Tango: Journeys of Intimacy and Desire
ISBN: 9781412064132 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Explore the world's most sensual and intimate dance, through stories and memoirs by two avid tangueros. Discover why thousands of people are obsessed with the passion of tango.
Explore the world's most sensual and intimate dance, through stories and memoirs by two avid tangueros. Discover why thousands of people are obsessed ...
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84,16 zł |
What You Should Know About Haitian Music and the Evolution of Compas Direct
ISBN: 9781420858402 / Angielski / Miękka / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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77,03 zł |
Global Pop, Local Language
ISBN: 9781578065356 / Angielski / Twarda / 277 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why would a punk band popular only in Indonesia cut songs in no other language than English? If you're rapping in Tanzania and Malawi, where hip hop has a growing audience, what do you rhyme in? Swahili? Chichewa? English? Some combination of these? Global Pop, Local Language examines how performers and audiences from a wide range of cultures deal with the issue of language choice and dialect in popular music. Related issues confront performers of Latin music in the U.S., drum and bass MCs in Toronto, and rappers, rockers, and traditional folk singers from England and... Why would a punk band popular only in Indonesia cut songs in no other language than English? If you're rapping in Tanzania and Malawi, where hip ho... |
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269,05 zł |
Field Guide to the Irish Music Session
ISBN: 9780981759012 / Angielski / Miękka / 100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Field Guide to the Irish Music Session is the first and only book devoted entirely to the dynamics and etiquette of the traditional Irish musical gathering. There's more to these events than meets the eye or ear, and Field Guide covers it all, with an insightful blend of the humorous and the serious that is of value to both listeners and prospective participants.
Field Guide to the Irish Music Session is the first and only book devoted entirely to the dynamics and etiquette of the traditional Irish musical gath...
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42,93 zł |
Selenidad: Selena, Latinos, and the Performance of Memory
ISBN: 9780822345022 / Angielski / Miękka / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An outpouring of memorial tributes and public expressions of grief followed the death of the Tejana recording artist Selena Quintanilla Perez in 1995. The Latina superstar was remembered and mourned in documentaries, magazines, websites, monuments, biographies, murals, look-alike contests, musicals, drag shows, and more. Deborah Paredez explores the significance and broader meanings of this posthumous celebration of Selena, which she labels Selenidad. She considers the performer s career and emergence as an icon within the political and cultural transformations in the United States during the...
An outpouring of memorial tributes and public expressions of grief followed the death of the Tejana recording artist Selena Quintanilla Perez in 1995....
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129,22 zł |
Musical Cultures in Seventeenth-Century Russia
ISBN: 9780253353542 / Angielski / Twarda / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Claudia R. Jensen presents the first unified study of musical culture in the court and church of Muscovite Russia. Spanning the period from the installation of Patriarch Iov in 1589 to the beginning of Peter the Great's reign in 1694, her book offers detailed accounts of the celebratory musical performances for Russia's first patriarch--events that were important displays of Russian piety and power. Jensen emphasizes music's varied roles in Muscovite society and the equally varied opinions and influences surrounding it. In an attempt to demystify what has previously been an enigma to... Claudia R. Jensen presents the first unified study of musical culture in the court and church of Muscovite Russia. Spanning the period from the ins... |
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204,69 zł |
Popular Music of Vietnam: The Politics of Remembering, the Economics of Forgetting
ISBN: 9780415883979 / Angielski / Miękka / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based on the author's research in Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi, and other urban areas in Vietnam, this study of contemporary Vietnamese popular music explores the ways globalization and free market economics have influenced the music and subcultures of Vietnamese youth, focusing on the conflict between the politics of remembering, nurtured by the Vietnamese Communist government, and the politics of forgetting driven by the capitalist interests of the music industry. Vietnamese youth at the end of the second and beginning of the third millennium are influenced by the challenges generated... Based on the author's research in Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi, and other urban areas in Vietnam, this study of contemporary Vietnamese popular music ex... |
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240,46 zł |
Kräsch! Bum! Bäng! 1: German Language Edition, Book & CD
ISBN: 9783933136213 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 999 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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91,75 zł |
Music in Korea: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture [With CD (Audio)]
ISBN: 9780195368277 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. *** Music in Korea is one of several case-study volumes that can be used along with Thinking Musically, the core book in the Global Music Series. Thinking Musically incorporates music from many diverse cultures and establishes the framework for exploring the practice of music around the world. It sets the stage for an array of case-study volumes, each of which focuses on a single area of the world. Each case study uses the contemporary musical situation as a point of departure, covering historical information and traditions as they relate to the present. ***...
*** Music in Korea is one of several case-study volumes that can be used along with Thinking Musically, the core book in the Global ...
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580,20 zł |
Intertribal Native American Music in the United States: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture [With CDROM] [With CDROM]
ISBN: 9780199764273 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Over time many Native American tribes have developed a shared musical culture that is prominently audible on local, national, and international stages. In Intertribal Native American Music in the United States, ethnomusicologist and GRAMMY(R) Award-winning musician Dr. John-Carlos Perea shows how traditional sounds, such as pow-wow and Native American flute songs, have developed in tandem with increasingly recognizable forms like Native jazz and rock. Perea provides an in-depth look at how Northern and Southern Plains pow-wow practices represent a singular performance encompassing...
Over time many Native American tribes have developed a shared musical culture that is prominently audible on local, national, and international stages...
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580,20 zł |
Challenging the Modern: Conservative Revolution in German Music, 1918-1933
ISBN: 9780197266137 / Angielski / Twarda / 370 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book challenges commonplace conceptions of musical conservatism during Germany's Weimar Republic (1918-1933). Its primary goal is to offer scrutiny of uncritical links often made by musicologists and historians between musical conservatism and political conservatism of the era. It does so through a critical and nuanced application of the term 'conservative revolution', as used throughout the Weimar era and popularised in its historiography after 1945. After an opening discussion of the time-honoured notion of "Weimar Culture" and its tendency to obscure parts of the contemporary...
This book challenges commonplace conceptions of musical conservatism during Germany's Weimar Republic (1918-1933). Its primary goal is to offer scruti...
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369,89 zł |
Jazz Folk Songs for Choirs : 9 songs from around the world
ISBN: 9780193359246 / Angielski / Nuty / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. for SATB and jazz trio or piano solo
This exciting collection gives a jazzy twist to nine favourite folk songs from around the world, including 'Scarborough Fair', 'A la claire fontaine', and 'Waltzing Matilda'. A spiral-bound edition including a jazz-trio backing CD is available separately." for SATB and jazz trio or piano solo
This exciting collection gives a jazzy twist to nine favourite folk songs from around the world, including 'S... |
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69,08 zł |
Jazz Folk Songs for Choirs : 9 songs from around the world
ISBN: 9780193361812 / Angielski / Nuty / 16 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. for bass
This exciting new collection by Bob Chilcott gives a jazzy twist to nine favourite folk songs from around the world. The bass part, which forms part of the jazz-trio accompaniment, is notated with chord symbols and can be played as written or used as a guide from which the player may improvise freely. for bass
This exciting new collection by Bob Chilcott gives a jazzy twist to nine favourite folk songs from around the world. The bass part, which... |
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53,59 zł |
Jazz Folk Songs for Choirs : 9 songs from around the world
ISBN: 9780193361829 / Angielski / Nuty / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. for SATB and jazz trio or piano solo
This exciting collection by Bob Chilcott gives a jazzy twist to nine favourite folk songs from around the world. The spiral-bound edition is accompanied by a fantastic backing CD, allowing choirs to perform with jazz-trio accompaniment. for SATB and jazz trio or piano solo
This exciting collection by Bob Chilcott gives a jazzy twist to nine favourite folk songs from around the wor... |
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103,02 zł |
Let's Make Some Noise: Axé and the African Roots of Brazilian Popular Music
ISBN: 9781617033278 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Clarence Bernard Henry's book is a culmination of several years of field research on sacred and secular influences of ase, the West African Yoruba concept that spread to Brazil and throughout the African Diaspora. Ase is imagined as power and creative energy bestowed upon human beings by ancestral spirits acting as guardians. In Brazil, the West African Yoruba concept of ase is known as axe and has been reinvented, transmitted, and nurtured in Candomble, an Afro-Brazilian religion that is practiced in Salvador, Bahia. The author examines how the concepts of axe and Candomble religion... Clarence Bernard Henry's book is a culmination of several years of field research on sacred and secular influences of ase, the West African Yoruba ... |
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217,76 zł |
Whose Spain?: Negotiating Spanish Music in Paris, 1908-1929
ISBN: 9780199858460 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the very beginning of the nineteenth century, many elements of Spanish culture carried an air of 'exoticism' for the French-and nothing played more important of a role in shaping the French idea of Spain than the country's musical tradition. However, as Samuel Llano argues in Whose Spain?, perceptions and representations of Spanish musical identities changed in the early twentieth century, due to the emergence of the hispanistes. These specialists on Spanish music and culture, who wrote encyclopedic and 'scientific' articles on 'Spanish music, ' strived to endow the...
From the very beginning of the nineteenth century, many elements of Spanish culture carried an air of 'exoticism' for the French-and nothing played mo...
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302,02 zł |
Tripping the World Fantastic: A Journey Through the Music of Our Planet
ISBN: 9781459706545 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A fascinating journey through the world s musical cultures. Every culture on Earth has music. Every culture that s ever existed has had it, but we don t exactly know why. Music is not like food, shelter, or having opposable thumbs. We don t need it to live, and yet we can t seem to live without it. Glenn Dixon travels the globe exploring how and why people make music.From a tour of Bob Marley s house to sitar lessons in India, he experiences music around the world and infuses the stories with the latest in brain research, genetics, and evolutionary psychology. Why does music... A fascinating journey through the world s musical cultures. Every culture on Earth has music. Every culture that s ever existed has ha... |
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116,48 zł |
Music in Mexico: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture [With CD (Audio)] [With CD (Audio)]
ISBN: 9780199812806 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The complex legacy of Mexico's ethnic past and geographic location have shaped the country and its culture. In Music in Mexico, Alejandro L. Madrid uses extensive fieldwork, interviews with performers, eyewitness accounts of performances, and vivid illustrations to guide students through modern-day music practices. Applying three themes-ethnic identity, migration, and media influences-the text explores the music that Mexicans grow up listening to and shows how these traditions are the result of long-standing transnational dialogues. Packaged with a 40-minute audio CD containing...
The complex legacy of Mexico's ethnic past and geographic location have shaped the country and its culture. In Music in Mexico, Alejandro L. ...
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580,20 zł |
Composing the Party Line: Music and Politics in Early Cold War Poland and East Germany
ISBN: 9781557536471 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines the exercise of power in the Stalinist music world as well as the ways in which composers and ordinary people responded to it. It presents a comparative inquiry into the relationship between music and politics in the German Democratic Republic and Poland from the aftermath of World War II through Stalin's death in 1953, concluding with the slow process of de-Stalinization in the mid-to late-1950s. The author explores how the Communist parties in both countries expressed their attitudes to music of all kinds, and how composers, performers, and audiences cooperated with,...
This book examines the exercise of power in the Stalinist music world as well as the ways in which composers and ordinary people responded to it. It p...
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247,66 zł |
Flowing Tides: History and Memory in an Irish Soundscape
ISBN: 9780199380084 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Despite its isolation on the western edge of Europe, Ireland occupies vast amounts of space on the music maps of the world. Although deeply rooted in time and place, Irish songs, dances and instrumental traditions have a history of global travel that span the centuries. Whether carried by exiles, or distributed by commercial networks, Irish traditional music is one of the most popular World Music genres, while Clare, on Ireland's Atlantic seaboard, enjoys unrivaled status as a "Home of the Music," a mecca for tourists and aficionados eager to enjoy the authentic sounds of Ireland. For the...
Despite its isolation on the western edge of Europe, Ireland occupies vast amounts of space on the music maps of the world. Although deeply rooted in ...
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277,78 zł |