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  • - Rap, Reggaeton, and Revolution in Havana
    af Geoffrey Baker
    374,95 - 1.113,95 kr.

    Geoffrey Baker traces the trajectory of the Havana hip hop scene from the late 1980s to the present and analyzes its partial eclipse by reggaeton.

  • af Jonathan Leal
    311,95 - 1.180,95 kr.

  • - Crooning in American Culture
    af Allison McCracken
    379,95 - 1.280,95 kr.

    Allison McCracken charts the rise and fall of crooners between 1925 and 1934, showing how the backlash against crooners' perceived sexual and gender deviance created stylistically masculine norms for white male pop singers that continue to exist today.

  • - Filipino American Mobile DJ Crews in the San Francisco Bay Area
    af Oliver Wang
    309,95 - 1.090,95 kr.

    Oliver Wang chronicles the history of the San Francisco Bay Area Filipino American mobile DJ scene of the late 1970s through the mid-1990s. He shows how DJ crews helped unify the Bay Area's Filipino American community, gave its members social status and brotherhood, and drew huge crowds.

  • - The Autobiography of Randy Weston
    af Randy Weston & Willard Jenkins
    298,95 - 443,95 kr.

    The autobiography of the pianist, composer, and bandleader Randy Weston, one of the worlds most influential jazz musicians and a remarkable storyteller.

  • - Listening for Gender in Jazz Studies
     
    1.198,95 kr.

    In jazz circles, players and listeners with "big ears" hear and engage complexity in the moment, as it unfolds. Taking gender as part of the intricate, unpredictable action in jazz culture, this title explores the terrain opened up by listening, with big ears, for gender in jazz.

  • - Performance Geographies in America Latina
    af Kirstie A. Dorr
    313,95 - 1.092,95 kr.

    Focusing on the hemispheric circulation of South American musical cultures, Kirstie A. Dorr examines the spatiality of sound and the ways in which the sonic is bound to perceptions and constructions of geographic space, showing how people can use music and sound to challenge and transform dominant conceptions of place.

  • - Performances of Cuban Music
    af Alexandra T. Vazquez
    349,95 - 1.110,95 kr.

    Contending that the music is not a knowable entity but a spectrum of dynamic practices that elude definition, Alexandra T. Vazquez models a new way of writing about music and the meanings assigned to it.

  • - Hip Hop and Raced Citizenship in Neoliberal Cuba
    af Marc D. Perry
    324,95 - 1.096,95 kr.

    In Negro Soy Yo Marc D. Perry explores how Cuban raperos (black-identified rappers) in Havana craft notions of black Cuban identity and racial citizenship in the face of continuing racism and marginalization during an era in which the Cuban economy, society, and nationhood have been under constant flux.

  • - Making Musical Scenes in Filipino America
    af Christine Bacareza Balance
    311,95 - 1.090,95 kr.

    In Tropical Renditions Christine Bacareza Balance examines how the performance and reception of post-World War II Filipino and Filipino American popular music provide crucial tools for composing Filipino identity, publics, and politics as well as challenge dominant racial stereotypes.

  • - Gender and Voice in Puerto Rican Music
    af Licia Fiol-Matta
    337,95 - 1.145,95 kr.

    Using a theoretical framework built on Lacan and Foucault, Licia Fiol-Matta traces the careers of four iconic female Puerto Rican singers to explore how their voices, performance style, physical appearance, and subject matter of their songs challenged social and cultural norms.

  • af Barry Shank
    348,95 - 1.110,95 kr.

    Shows how musical acts and performances generate their own aesthetic and political force, creating, however fleetingly, a shared sense of the world among otherwise diverse listeners. This book argues that communities grounded in the act and experience of listening can give rise to new political ideas and expression.

  • - Popular Music and the Politics of Work
    af Matt Stahl
    263,95 - 998,95 kr.

    Asserts that the labor issues in the music industry can stimulate insights about the political-economic and imaginative challenges currently facing working people of all kinds

  • - Jazz, Rock, Funk, and the Creation of Fusion
    af Kevin Fellezs
    335,95 - 998,95 kr.

    An analysis of the emergence, reception, and legacy of fusion, experimental music that emerged in the late 1960s and 1970s as musicians combined jazz, rock, and funk in new ways.

  • - Conversations with Unjustly Obscure Rock 'n' Soul Eccentrics
     
    342,95 kr.

    The best of the cult-favorite music magazine Roctobers conversations with overlooked or forgotten artists, from the Outlaw Country singer David Allan Coe to the frustrated interstellar glam act Zolar X.

  • - Conversations with Unjustly Obscure Rock 'n' Soul Eccentrics
     
    998,95 kr.

    The best of the cult-favorite music magazine Roctobers conversations with overlooked or forgotten artists, from the Outlaw Country singer David Allan Coe to the frustrated interstellar glam act Zolar X.

  • - The Form and Function of Paul Robeson
    af Shana L. Redmond
    298,95 - 1.029,95 kr.

    Shana L. Redmond traces Paul Robeson's continuing cultural resonances in popular culture and politics, showing how he remains a vital force and presence for all those he inspired.

  • - South Asian Americans, Blackness, and a Global Race Consciousness
    af Nitasha Tamar Sharma
    345,95 - 1.023,95 kr.

    An ethnography exploring the aesthetics and politics of South Asian American (desi) hip hop artists.

  • - The Rise of the Country Music Industry
    af Diane Pecknold
    378,95 - 998,95 kr.

    Tracing the rise of a large and influential network of country fan clubs, this title highlights the significant promotional responsibilities assumed by club organizers until the early 1970s, when many of their tasks were taken over by professional publicists.

  • - Rhythm and Blues Remakes and the Struggle for Artistic Identity (Aretha Franklin, Al Green, Phoebe Snow)
    af Michael Awkward
    368,95 - 958,95 kr.

    Cultural and literary study of the construction of racial and artistic identity in soul cover albums of three popular artists--Aretha Franklin, Al Green, and Phoebe Snow.

  • - Western Music and the World
    af Timothy Dean Taylor
    263,95 - 998,95 kr.

    Considers how western cultures' understandings of racial, ethnic, and cultural difference have been reflected in music from seventeenth-century operas to the scores of late-twentieth-century television advertisements, arguing that the commonly used term "exoticism" glosses over such differences in many studies of western music.

  • af Fred Moten
    222,95 - 833,95 kr.

    This fourth collection of poetry from the literary and cultural critic Fred Moten is an elegy to his mother and an inquiry into language, music, performance, improvisation, and the black radical tradition.

  • - Listening for Gender in Jazz Studies
     
    387,95 kr.

    In jazz circles, players and listeners with "big ears" hear and engage complexity in the moment, as it unfolds. Taking gender as part of the intricate, unpredictable action in jazz culture, this title explores the terrain opened up by listening, with big ears, for gender in jazz.

  • - South African Women Thinking in Jazz
    af Carol Ann Muller & Sathima Bea Benjamin
    273,95 - 1.068,95 kr.

    The life story of the outstanding jazz vocalist Sathima Bea Benjamin sheds light on South African jazz history, women in jazz, and American music as a transnational art form.

  • - Popular Music, Dance, and Urban Culture in Los Angeles, 1935-1968
    af Anthony Macías
    365,95 - 1.158,95 kr.

    A study of the creation of jazz, swing, and R & B music within the multicultural, multiethnic terrain of Los Angeles

  • - Brass Bands in the Streets of New Orleans
    af Matt Sakakeeny
    243,95 - 1.054,95 kr.

    Roll With It is a firsthand account of the contradictory lives of New Orleans brass-band musicians. They are celebrated as cultural icons within the music scene; outside it, they are treated as faceless black males-subject to poverty, racial marginalization, and urban violence.

  • - Music, Global Politics, Critique
     
    1.113,95 kr.

    Audible Empire's contributors rethink the mechanisms of empire, showing how musical practice has been important to its spread around the globe. The volume's fifteen interdisciplinary essays cover large swaths of genre, time, politics, and geography to put forth music as a means of comprehending empire as an audible formation.

  • - Powwow Music and the Aboriginal Recording Industry on the Northern Plains
    af Christopher A. Scales
    254,95 - 1.008,95 kr.

    Drawing on his ethnographic research at powwow grounds and in recording studios, Christopher A. Scales examines the ways that powwow drum groups have utilized recording technology in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, the unique aesthetic principles of recorded powwow music, and the relationships between drum groups and the Native music labels and recording studios.

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    369,95 kr.

    This collection offers the first critical assessment of the music and culture of reggaeton, a popular genre that blends reggae and rap, Spanish-language lyrics, and Latin-Caribbean aesthetics.

  • - Inventing Folk and Pop Music in the Age of Jim Crow
    af Karl Hagstrom Miller
    273,95 - 1.068,95 kr.

    A cultural history describing how folklore studies and the music industry helped to create a "musical color line" in the South, associating certain genres with particular racial and ethnic identities.

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