Sounds of Rio

Music in Mainland Southeast Asia

Music in Mainland Southeast Asia 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 fr...

The Cambridge History of Music-The Cambridge History of World Music

Scholars have long known that world music was not merely the globalized product of modern media, but rather that it connected religions, cultures, languages and nations throughout world history. The c...

The Norton Anthology of Western Music

The anthologies feature outstanding teaching pieces that reveal the sweep of history through changing genres, styles, conventions, forms, techniques, and materials. The Seventh Edition includes new tw...

Rodigan

'THE BOOK THAT EVERY REGGAE FAN SHOULD READ' John Masouri, Echoes 'Rodigan can still claim a currency few presenters of his vintage can match. Perhaps it's because while his wider musical and professi...

In Hip Hop Time

In the twenty-first century, Senegalese hip hop- Rap Galsen -has reverberated throughout the world as an exemplar of hip hop resistance in its mobilization against government corruption during a serie...

Field Guide to the Irish Music Session

This light-hearted look at what happens when Irish folk musicians get together and play describes the musicians' preferred instruments for different musical forms, the difference between a music sessi...

Clandestino

A decade ago, Manu Chao's band, Mano Negra, toured Colombia by train, negotiating with government troops and rebels - an episode described at the time as 'less like a rock'n'roll tour - more like Napo...

Music in the Hispanic Caribbean

Music in the Hispanic Caribbean 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 fro...

Cuban Music from A to Z

Available in English for the first time, Cuban Music from A to Z is an encyclopedic guide to one of the world's richest and most influential musical cultures. It is the most extensive compendium of in...

Music in Mexico

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...

Elvis, September 1958

Music in the Andes

Music in the Andes, a case study in the Global Music Series, introduces the major contemporary indigenous, mestizo, and urban popular musical traditions of this region, underscoring the dynamic interp...