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  • What in the World is Music?

    What in the World is Music? Second Edition is an undergraduate, interactive e-textbook that explores the shared ways people engage with music and how humans organize and experience sound. It adopts a global approach, featuring more than 300 streaming videos and 50 streaming audio tracks of music from around the world. Drawing from both musicological and ethnomusicological modes of inquiry, the ... Read more

    $115.99 USD

  • Feelings and Work in Modern History

    Emotional Labour and Emotions about Labour

    Series series History of Emotions
    Work in all its guises is a fundamental part of the human experience, and yet it is a setting where emotions rarely take centre stage. This edited collection interrogates the troubled relationship between emotion and work to shed light on the feelings and meanings of both paid and unpaid labour from the late 19th to the 21st century.Central to this book is a reappraisal of 'emotional labour', now ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music

    South Asia: The Indian Subcontinent

    Edited by Alison Arnold ...
    Series series Garland Encyclopedia of World Music
    In this volume, sixty-eight of the world's leading authorities explore and describe the wide range of musics of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Kashmir, Nepal and Afghanistan. Important information about history, religion, dance, theater, the visual arts and philosophy as well as their relationship to music is highlighted in seventy-six in-depth articles. ... Read more

    $610.99 USD

  • Promoting pollination and pollinators in farming

    Series Book 126 - Burleigh Dodds Series in Agricultural Science
    Reviews recent advances in understanding pollination dynamics and the role of plant-pollinator relationships in agro-ecosystemsProvides a comprehensive assessment of the major threats to economically important pollinators, including the impact of climate change and pest and disease threatExplores best practices for the protection of key pollinators and the ecosystem services they deliver ... Read more

    $170.99 USD

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    The Concise Garland Encyclopedia of World Music comprises two volumes, and can only be purchased as the two-volume set.To purchase the set please go to:http://www.routledge.com/9780415972932 ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Ethnomusicology

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Timothy Rice ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Ethnomusicologists 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 questions about the nature of music and the nature of humankind, and ethnomusicologists argue that to properly address these questions, we must study music in all its geographical and historical diversity ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Hindus

    An Alternative History

    by Wendy Doniger ...
    From one of the world?s foremost scholars on Hinduism, a vivid reinterpretation of its historyAn engrossing and definitive narrative account of history and myth that offers a new way of understanding one of the world?s oldest major religions, The Hindus elucidates the relationship between recorded history and imaginary worlds.Hinduism does not lend itself easily to a strictly chronological account ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Ocean of Sound

    Ambient sound and radical listening in the age of communication

    by David Toop ...
    David 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, Kraftwerk and Brian Wilson.Beginning in 1889 at the Paris exposition when Debussy first heard Javanese music performed, Ocean of Sound channels the competing instincts of 20th century music into an ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Transgender Marxism

    The first collection of its kind, Transgender Marxism is a provocative and groundbreaking union of transgender studies and Marxist theory.Exploring trans lives and movements, the authors delve into the experience of surviving as transgender under capitalism. They explore the pressures, oppression and state persecution faced by trans people living in capitalist societies, their tenuous positions in ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tabla: A Performer's Perspective

    The book focuses on the concept of Indian rhythm, particularly as manifested in North Indian art music, more popularly known as Hindustani music. Indian rhythm and percussive instruments have attracted musicians and music-lovers across cultures and continents. The author has focused his attention on discussing various aspects of the tabla, a twin-drum that has formed an integral part of Hindustani ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 101 Raga-S for the 21St Century and Beyond

    A Music Lover's Guide to Hindustani Music

    by Haresh Bakshi ...
    Indian classical music is so enduring that it is exempt from oblivion. It is destined to live in all ages of this world.This book on North Indian classical music (also known as Hindustani music) tells you, simply and informally, about the most popular 101 raga-s, and 161 topics commonly mentioned in conversation, articles and books on Hindustani music. It is the best tool to learn about and enjoy ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Other Classical Musics

    Fifteen Great Traditions

    Winner of the Royal Philharmonic Society Music Award for Creative Communication 2015There is a treasure trove of underappreciated music out there; this book will convince many to explore it. The EconomistWhatis classical music? This book answers the question in a manner never before attempted, by presenting the history of fifteen parallel traditions, of which Western classical music is just one. ... Read more

    $17.99 USD