Journeys of a Sufi Musician by Kudsi Erguner
$15.00 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: very good
In 1968, Turkish whirling dervishes accepted an invitation by UNESCO to perform in Paris for the first time, to the delight and fascination of French audiences. Kudsi Erguner, a Sufi musician specialising in the ney (reed flute), was amongst them, and accompanied the dervishes throughout their subsequen ...Show more
A Survey of Musical Instruments by Sybil Marcuse
$16.00 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: very good
The Music of the Bauls of Bengal by Charles Capwell
$14.00 NZD
Category: Music | Series: World Music Ser. | Reading Level: good-very good
Music in Ancient Israel/Palestine - Archaeological, Written and Comparative Sources by Joachim Braun; Douglas W Stott (translator)
$20.00 NZD
Category: Music | Series: The Bible in Its World | Reading Level: very good
This book contains the first study of the musical culture of ancient Israel/Palestine based primarily on the archaeological record. Noted musicologist Joachim Braun explores the music of the Holy Land region of the Middle East, tracing its form and development from its beginning in the Stone Age to the ...Show more
Griots and Griottes - Masters of Words and Music by Thomas A. Hale
$25.00 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: very good
On May 17, 1967, the American writer Alex Haley went to Juffure, a village in The Gambia on what was once the western fringe of the Mali empire. There he met a griot, or jali, who recounted a story about Haley's roots in Africa. Haley was trying to reconstruct his past, an African heritage which had bee ...Show more
Sound and Sentiment - Birds, Weeping, Poetics and Song in Kaluli Expression by Steven Feld
$20.00 NZD
Category: Music | Series: Conduct and Communication Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Now in its second edition, Sound and Sentiment is an ethnographic study of sound as a cultural system--that is, a system of symbols--among the Kaluli people of Papua New Guinea. It shows how an analysis of modes and codes of sound communication leads to an understanding of life in Kaluli society. By stu ...Show more
Echoes of History - Naxi Music in Modern China by Helen Rees
$14.00 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: very good
Based on extensive fieldwork and documentary research in China, this book is a chronicle of the musical history of Lijiang County in China's southern Yunnan Province. It focuses on Dongjing music, a repertoire borrowed from China's Han ethnic majority by the indigenous Naxi inhabitants ofLijiang County. ...Show more
Songprints - The Musical Experience of Five Shoshone Women by Judith Vander
$16.00 NZD
Category: Music | Series: Music in American Life Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Songprints explores the musical lives of Native American women as they navigate a century of cultural change and constancy among the Shoshone of Wyoming's Wind River Reservation. Judith Vander captures the distinct personalities of five generations of Shoshone women as they describe their thoughts, feel ...Show more
Folk Music of China - Living Instrumental Traditions Text and CD by Stephen Jones
$40.00 NZD
Category: Music | Series: Clarendon Paperbacks Ser. | Reading Level: very good
This book opens the door on the magnificent living traditions of folk music in rural China. Stephen Jones's book illustrates the beauty and variety of these folk traditions, from the plangent shawm bands of the rugged north to the more mellifluous string ensembles of the southeastern coast. Working clos ...Show more
The Korean Singer of Tales by Marshall R Pihl
$25.00 NZD
Category: Music | Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Ser. | Reading Level: very good
P'ansori, the traditional oral narrative of Korea, is sung by a highly trained soloist to the accompaniment of complex drumming. The singer both narrates the story and dramatizes all the characters, male and female. Performances require as long as six hours and make extraordinary vocal demands. In the f ...Show more
Traditional Samoan Music by Richard Moyle
$95.00 NZD
Category: rare & collectable | Reading Level: very good
This companion volume to Moyle's acclaimed 1987 book Tongan Music provides the most comprehensive published account of the music of western Polynesia's largest island group. Combining extensive fieldwork and exhaustive coverage of historical sources and museum holdings, the book features a thorough exam ...Show more