Blake Wilson 
Singing to the Lyre in Renaissance Italy [EPUB ebook] 
Memory, Performance, and Oral Poetry

Sounds of the Borderland is the first book-length study of how popular music became a medium for political communication and contested identification during and after Croatia”s war of independence f …

While we are used to looking around us, we are less used to listening to what happens around us. And yet, the noises we produce reveal our way of life, and learning to master them is a necessity. Thi …

Punk Rock Warlord explores the relevance of Joe Strummer within the continuing legacies of both punk rock and progressive politics. It is aimed at scholars and general readers interested in The Clash …

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 …

Though individual pieces from the late fifteenth century are widely accepted as being written for instruments rather than voices, they are traditionally considered as exceptions within the context of …

Thai classical singing is a genre that blossomed during the golden age of music in the royal court at Bangkok during the nineteenth century. It took a variety of forms including unaccompanied songs u …

Deems Taylor (1885-1966) was a composer, music critic, author, commentator, translator, and artist. He was the first American composer commissioned to write an opera by New York’s Metropolitan Opera, …

Bob Marley was the undisputed sovereign of reggae music and the revolutionary soul-prophet whose music had – and continues to have – a massive impact on people of throughout the world. "Catch A …

In recent years, the assumption that traditional songs originated from a primarily oral tradition has been challenged by research into ‘street literature’. Not only are some traditional singers known …