Music

This volume reflects the huge upsurge of interest in the Near East and early Islam currently taking place among historians of late antiquity. At the same time, Islamicists and Qur”anic scholars are …

Still today, in South Korea, many people pay for the services of mudang – the intermediaries of Korea”s syncretic folk religion. The majority of mudang are called to the profession by gods; their cl …

Imagine a world where Beatlemania was against the law-recordings scratched onto medical X-rays, merchant sailors bringing home contraband LPs, spotty broadcasts taped from western AM radio late in th …

Sir Paul Mc Cartney first picked up a guitar as a bereaved teenager in 1956. In the fifty years since he”s become the most successful pop music composer in history, enjoying a virtual season ticket …

From Haydn”s Symphony Number 94 for Beginner Piano A Silver Tonalities Arrangement!Easy Note Style Sheet Music Letter Names of Notes embedded in each Notehead! …

Andrei Tarkovsky”s Sounding Cinema adds a new dimension to our understanding and appreciation of the work of Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky (1932–1986) through an exploration of the presence of m …

This book examines the roles, functions, and interpretations of rock music as part of the initial push towards exploring national and personal identities in a newly independent Belarus. It also inclu …

Difference and Division in Music Education enriches existing diversity and social justice discourses by considering the responsibility of music education to respond to rising social discord and tensi …

Heitor Villa-Lobos’s Bachianas Brasileiras demonstrates how the composer achieved his own Brazilian neoclassical style in a group of works, nine suites in total, that is arguably one of the best exam …