Sound Sculpture - Intersections in sound and sculpture in Australian artworks by Ros Bandt
$30.00 NZD
Category: Sculpture | Reading Level: very good
Music Archiving in the World - Pepers presented at the Conference on the Occasion of the 100th Anniversary of the Berlin Phonogramm-Archiv by Gabriele Berlin (ed.); Artur Simon (ed.)
$35.00 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: very good
The Tabla of Lucknow - A Cultural Analysis of a Musical Tradition by James Kippen
$40.00 NZD
Category: Music | Series: Cambridge Studies in Ethnomusicology | Reading Level: very good
The cultural psyche of Lucknow is heavily informed by a deeply sentimental nostalgia for past glories. Although the modern image of the city continues to learn heavily on qualities such as eloquent speech, refined manners, elegent poetry, subtle and sophisticated music and dance, and a host of rarefied ...Show more
The Rags of North Indian Music - Their Structure and Evolution by Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy
$85.00 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: very good
Musical Instruments and Their Symbolism in Western Art by Emanuel Winternitz
$18.00 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: good-very good
This book first appeared in 1967. In the years since then, it has spawned the new academic sub-discipline of musical iconology, which belongs equally to the histories of art and of music. Emmanuel Winternitz, who was for thirty-one years Curator of Musical Collections at the Metropolitan Museum of Art ...Show more
Percussion Instruments and Their History by James Blades
$45.00 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: good-very good
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