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  • The Lost Paradise

    Andalusi Music in Urban North Africa

    by Jonathan Glasser ...
    Series series Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology
    For more than a century, urban North Africans have sought to protect and revive Andalusi music, a prestigious Arabic-language performance tradition said to originate in the “lost paradise” of medieval Islamic Spain. Yet despite the Andalusi repertoire’s enshrinement as the national classical music of postcolonial North Africa, its devotees continue to describe it as being in danger of ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

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    The History of Gaddafi's Pariah State

    by John Oakes ...
    For more than four decades, Libya has been something of an enigma to outsiders. Ruled by the despotic and unstable Muammar Gaddafi since he led a military coup in 1969, it has vast oil wealth and one of the highest standards of living in Africa. Yet it has also been one of the most prolific state sponsors of terrorism (supplying arms and explosives to the IRA, perpetrating the Lockerbie bombing) ... Read more

    $9.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Living the Hiplife

    Celebrity and Entrepreneurship in Ghanaian Popular Music

    by Jesse Weaver Shipley ...
    Hiplife is a popular music genre in Ghana that mixes hip-hop beatmaking and rap with highlife music, proverbial speech, and Akan storytelling. In the 1990s, young Ghanaian musicians were drawn to hip-hop's dual ethos of black masculine empowerment and capitalist success. They made their underground sound mainstream by infusing carefree bravado with traditional respectful oratory and familiar ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Focus: Music of South Africa

    by Carol A. Muller ...
    Series series Focus on World Music Series
    Focus: Music of South Africa provides an in-depth look at the full spectrum of South African music, a musical culture that epitomizes the enormous ethnic, religious, linguistic, class, and gender diversity of the nation itself. Drawing on extensive field and archival research, as well as her own personal experiences, noted ethnomusicologist and South African native Carol A. Muller looks at how ... Read more

    $116.99 CAD

  • Listening to War

    Sound, Music, Trauma, and Survival in Wartime Iraq

    by J. Martin Daughtry ...
    To witness war is, in large part, to hear it. And to survive it is, among other things, to have listened to it--and to have listened through it. Listening to War: Sound, Music, Trauma, and Survival in Wartime Iraq is a groundbreaking study of the centrality of listening to the experience of modern warfare. Based on years of ethnographic interviews with U.S. military service members and Iraqi ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD

  • The Importance of Music to Girls

    by Lavinia Greenlaw ...
    'A rare and quite beautiful book' Observer'A poetic, evocative exploration of music and identity' Sunday Times'A wry reflection on the way in which music weaves its way in and out of childhood' Sunday TelegraphFrom the award-winning poet and novelist Lavinia Greenlaw comes a vivid and engaging portrait of what music means to us as we grow up.If I had not kissed ... ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • Pieces of the Musical World: Sounds and Cultures

    by Rachel Harris, Rowan Pease ...
    Pieces of the Musical World: Sounds and Cultures is a fieldwork-based ethnomusicology textbook that introduces a series of musical worlds each through a single "piece." It focuses on a musical sound or object that provides a springboard from which to tell a story about a particular geographic region, introducing key aspects of the cultures in which it is embedded, contexts of performance, the ... Read more

    $136.99 CAD

  • Tambú

    Curaçao's African-Caribbean Ritual and the Politics of Memory

    by Nanette de Jong ...
    Series series Ethnomusicology Multimedia
    As contemporary Tambú music and dance evolved on the Caribbean island of Curaçao, it intertwined sacred and secular, private and public cultural practices, and many traditions from Africa and the New World. As she explores the formal contours of Tambú, Nanette de Jong discovers its variegated history and uncovers its multiple and even contradictory origins. De Jong recounts the personal stories ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Composing the Canon in the German Democratic Republic

    Narratives of Nineteenth-Century Music

    by Elaine Kelly ...
    When the German Democratic Republic (GDR) was founded in 1949, its leaders did not position it as a new state. Instead, they represented East German socialism as the culmination of all that was positive in Germany's past. The GDR was heralded as the second German Enlightenment, a society in which the rational ideals of progress, Bildung, and revolution that had first come to fruition with Goethe ... Read more

    $62.39 CAD

  • Focus: Music, Nationalism, and the Making of the New Europe

    by Philip V. Bohlman ...
    Series series Focus on World Music Series
    Two decades after the fall of communism in Eastern Europe and one decade into the twenty-first century, European music remains one of the most powerful forces for shaping nationalism. Using intensive fieldwork throughout Europe -- from participation in alpine foot pilgrimages to studies of the grandest music spectacle anywhere in the world, the Eurovision Song Contest -- Philip V. Bohlman reveals ... Read more

    $130.99 CAD

  • Algerian Diary

    Frank Kearns and the "Impossible Assignment" for CBS News

    by Gerald Davis ...
    Frank Kearns was the go-to guy at CBS News for danger- ous stories in Africa and the Middle East in the 1950s, ‘60s, and early ‘70s. By his own account, he was nearly killed 114 times. He took stories that nobody else wanted to cover and was challenged to get them on the air when nobody cared about this part of the world. But his stories were warning shots for conflicts that play out in the ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Spiders of the Market

    Ghanaian Trickster Performance in a Web of Neoliberalism

    by David Afriyie Donkor ...
    Series series African Expressive Cultures
    An analysis of the trickster spider character from West African folklore, performance, and Ghanian politics.The Ghanaian trickster-spider, Ananse, is a deceptive figure full of comic delight who blurs the lines of class, politics, and morality. David Afriyie Donkor identifies social performance as a way to understand trickster behavior within the shifting process of political legitimization in ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus