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  • River of Tears

    Country Music, Memory, and Modernity in Brazil

    par Alexander Dent ...
    River of Tears is the first ethnography of Brazilian country music, one of the most popular genres in Brazil yet least-known outside it. Beginning in the mid-1980s, commercial musical duos practicing música sertaneja reached beyond their home in Brazil’s central-southern region to become national bestsellers. Rodeo events revolving around country music came to rival soccer matches in attendance. A ... En savoir plus

    $38.99 CAD

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  • Smart Blonde: The Life of Dolly Parton

    par Stephen Miller ...
    Smart Blonde: Dolly Parton is a comprehensive and revealing biography which includes interviews with family members, musicians and producers who have worked with Dolly over the years. This new and fully updated edition includes a detailed section on the superstar's legendary performance at 2014's Glastonbury Festival.This book is a detailed assessment of her music as a singer and songwriter over ... En savoir plus

    $12.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • The Sound of Pictures

    Listening to the Movies, from Hitchcock to High Fidelity

    par Andrew Ford ...
    The Sound of Pictures is an illuminating journey through the soundtracks of more than 400 films. How do filmmakers play with sound? And how does that affect the way we watch their movies? Whether pop or classical, sweeping or sparse, music plays a crucial role in our cinematic experience. Other sounds can be even more evocative: the sounds of nature, of cities and of voices.In The Sound of ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

  • Sensing the City through Television

    Urban identities in fictional drama

    par Peter Billingham ...
    An investigation of the fictional representations of the city in contemporary British and American television drama, assessing their political, sociological and cultural implications. The book draws on the following five key case studies for specific and detailed analysis:* Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City* Homicide & Life on the Street* Queer as Folk* The Cops* Holding OnEach is discussed in ... En savoir plus

    $27.99 CAD

  • Ryan Adams

    Losering, a Story of Whiskeytown

    par David Menconi ...
    Collections series American Music Series
    A chronicle of Adams's rise from alt-country to rock stardom, featuring stories about the making of the albums Strangers Almanac and Heartbreaker.Before he achieved his dream of being an internationally known rock personality, Ryan Adams had a band in Raleigh, North Carolina. Whiskeytown led the wave of insurgent-country bands that came of age with No Depression magazine in the mid-1990s, and for ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Bonfire of Roadmaps

    par Joe Ely ...
    Collections series Brad and Michele Moore Roots Music Series
    Since he first hitched a ride out of Lubbock, Texas, at the age of sixteen, singer-songwriter and Flatlanders band member Joe Ely has been a road warrior, traveling highways and back roads across America and Europe, playing music for "2 hours of ecstasy" out of "22 hours of misery." To stay sane on the road, Ely keeps a journal, penning verses that sometimes morph into songs, and other times ... En savoir plus

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Soul of Rock 'N Roll: A History of African Americans in Rock Music

    par Jeffrey Othello ...
    THE SOUL of ROCK 'N ROLL is a history of African Americans in Rock Music. And it examines and exemplifies the careers of over 50 top pioneering African American performers such as... Chuck Berry Little Richard Big Mama Thornton Muddy Waters B.B. King Bo Diddley John Lee Hooker Ray Charles Ike & Tina Turner Aretha Franklin Smokey Robinson The Supremes The Temptations Otis Redding Jackie Wilson Sam ... En savoir plus

    $13.73 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Applying Karnatic Rhythmical Techniques to Western Music

    par Rafael Reina ...
    Most classical musicians, whether in orchestral or ensemble situations, will have to face a piece by composers such as Ligeti, Messiaen, Varèse or Xenakis, while improvisers face music influenced by Dave Holland, Steve Coleman, Aka Moon, Weather Report, Irakere or elements from the Balkans, India, Africa or Cuba. Rafael Reina argues that today’s music demands a new approach to rhythmical training, ... En savoir plus

    $101.99 CAD

  • Audible Empire

    Music, Global Politics, Critique

    Modifié par Ronald Radano, Tejumola Olaniyan ...
    Collections series Refiguring American Music
    Audible Empire rethinks the processes and mechanisms of empire and shows how musical practice has been crucial to its spread around the globe. Music is a means of comprehending empire as an audible formation, and the contributors highlight how it has been circulated, consumed, and understood through imperial logics. These fifteen interdisciplinary essays cover large swaths of genre, time, politics ... En savoir plus

    $43.99 CAD

  • African Music, Power, and Being in Colonial Zimbabwe

    par Mhoze Chikowero ...
    In this new history of music in Zimbabwe, Mhoze Chikowero deftly uses African sources to interrogate the copious colonial archive, reading it as a confessional voice along and against the grain to write a complex history of music, colonialism, and African self-liberation. Chikowero's book begins in the 1890s with missionary crusades against African performative cultures and African students being ... En savoir plus

    $11.19 CAD

  • Babylon East

    Performing Dancehall, Roots Reggae, and Rastafari in Japan

    par Marvin Sterling ...
    An important center of dancehall reggae performance, sound clashes are contests between rival sound systems: groups of emcees, tune selectors, and sound engineers. In World Clash 1999, held in Brooklyn, Mighty Crown, a Japanese sound system and the only non-Jamaican competitor, stunned the international dancehall community by winning the event. In 2002, the Japanese dancer Junko Kudo became the ... En savoir plus

    $38.99 CAD

  • Flowing Tides

    History and Memory in an Irish Soundscape

    par Gearóid Ó hAllmhuráin ...
    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 ... En savoir plus

    $60.79 CAD