Ethnomusicology
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Custom Made Woman: A Life in Traditional Music
$30.00 Add to cartAlice Gerrard, an award-winning and storied folk and bluegrass musician for over 50 years, is one of the notable few women in a heavily male genre. Custom Made Woman tells Gerrard’s story through the
- Series: American Music: New Roots
- Author: Gerrard, Alice
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: December 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1469690365
- Language: English
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Music Autoethnographies: Making Autoethnography Sing/Making Music Personal
$39.95 Add to cartMusic Autoethnographies explores an intersection of autoethnographic approaches with studies of music. Written through the eyes, ears, emotions, experiences and stories of music and autoethnography pr… [more below]
- Author: Bartleet, Brydie-Leigh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 02 2010
- ISBN10: 1921513403
- Language: English
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Women Behind The Mic: Curators of The Culture Volume Two “The Hip-Hop Edition”
$16.99 Add to cartWOMEN BEHIND THE MIC:
Curators of The Culture
Volume Two “The Hip-Hop Edition”
Volume Two “The Hip-Hop Edition” from the WOMEN BEHIND THE MIC series contains the stories of 21 veteran executives who
- Author: Brookshire, Lajoyce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1584410086
- Language: English
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From the Bronx to the Bosphorus: Klezmer and Other Displaced Musics of New York
$34.95 Add to cartDiscover the vibrant journey of music from New York’s melting pot to the mystical shores of the Bosphorus
From the Bronx to the Bosphorus explores the vibrant, yet largely concealed, musical culture o- Author: Feldman, Walter Zev
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1531509762
- Language: English
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Wired for Music: A Search for Health and Joy Through the Science of Sound
$27.95 Read more“Beautifully written… a riveting account of how melodies and rhythms connect us, and help us deal with alienation and anxiety.”–Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, author of The Body Keeps the Score
In this ca
- Author: Barton, Adriana
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1771645547
- Language: English
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Queer Arrangements: Billy Strayhorn and Midcentury Jazz Collaboration
$24.95 Read moreQueer Arrangements is a new study of Billy Strayhorn that examines his music and career at the intersection of jazz and Black queer history
The legacy of Black queer composer, arranger, and pianist Bil
- Series: Music / Culture
- Author: Barg, Lisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 081950064X
- Language: English
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The Schubert Treatment: A Story of Music and Healing
$24.95 Add to cartFor readers of Oliver Sacks and Being Mortal by Atul Gawande comes “a luminous ode to the ‘mysterious ways music… moves’ patients with such conditions as dementia and autism… Assured and lyrical, … [more below]
- Author: Oppert, Claire
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1778400809
- Language: English
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Harp Making in Late-Georgian London
$72.99 Add to cartAt the end of the eighteenth century, after the French Revolution, the centre of pedal-harp making moved from Paris to London. There, building on the work of its Bavarian originators and Parisian deve
- Author: Baldwin, Mike
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 428
- Publish Date: August 21 2020
- ISBN10: 1527265110
- Language: English
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Tejano Proud: Tex-Mex Music in the Twentieth Century
$24.95 Add to cartFrom the dance halls to the main stage, from small town Texas to the big cities, and from treasured local cultural traditions to the national display of Mexican Texas’ finest talent, m俍ica tejana is
- Series: Fronteras Series, Sponsored by Texas A&m International Unive #1
- Author: San Miguel, Guadalupe, Jr.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 19 2018
- ISBN10: 1585441880
- Language: English
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Ethnomusicology
$12.99 Add to cartEthnomusicologists believe that all humans, not just those we call musicians, are musical, and that musicality is one of the essential touchstones of the human experience. This insight raises big ques… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Rice, Timothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: December 27 2013
- ISBN10: 0199794375
- Language: English
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Wayfaring Strangers: The Musical Voyage from Scotland and Ulster to Appalachia
$32.00 Add to cartFrom the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries, a steady stream of Scots migrated to Ulster and eventually onward across the Atlantic to resettle in the United States. Many of these Scots-Irish… [more below]
- Author: Ritchie, Fiona
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1469664186
- Language: English
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Ocean of Sound: Ambient Sound and Radical Listening in the Age of Communication
$15.95 Add to cartDavid Toop’s extraordinary work of sonic history travels from the rainforests of Amazonas to the megalopolis of Tokyo via the work of artists as diverse as Brian Eno, Sun Ra, Erik Satie, Kate Bush, Kr… [more below]
- Author: Toop, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 30 2018
- ISBN10: 1788160304
- Language: English
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Wired for Music: A Search for Health and Joy Through the Science of Sound
$18.95 Add to cart“Beautifully written… a riveting account of how melodies and rhythms connect us, and help us deal with alienation and anxiety.”–Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, author of The Body Keeps the Score
In this ca
- Author: Barton, Adriana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 8, 2023
- ISBN10: 1778401112
- Language: English
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High Bias: The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape
$21.00 Add to cartThe cassette tape was revolutionary. Cheap, portable, and reusable, this small plastic rectangle changed music history. Make your own tapes! Trade them with friends! Tape over the ones you don’t like!… [more below]
- Author: Masters, Marc
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1469675986
- Language: English
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Oh, Didn’t They Ramble: Rounder Records and the Transformation of American Roots Music
$28.00 Add to cartWhat is American roots music? Any definition must account for a kaleidoscope of genres from bluegrass to blues, western swing to jazz, soul and gospel to rock and reggae, Cajun to Celtic. It must enco
- Author: Menconi, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 17, 2023
- ISBN10: 1469674998
- Language: English
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Women Behind The Mic: Curators of Pop Culture – Volume One – “Word To The Wise”
$16.99 Add to cartWomen Behind The Mic: Curators of Pop Culture Volume One “Word To The Wise” contains the stories of 22 veteran Executives who were the engines behind the most iconic artists of all time. They are the
- Author: Brookshire, Lajoyce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 254
- Publish Date: February 14, 2023
- ISBN10: 158441006X
- Language: English
