Alan Durant 
Conditions of Music [PDF ebook] 

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 …

Social Partner Dance: Body, Sound, and Space is an ethnographic theory of social partner dancing built on participant observation and interviews with instructors of tango, lindy hop, salsa, blues, an …

A wry, funny and fascinating memoir from the German prince who fuelled the success of the Rolling Stones ”This is one of the funniest rock books I”ve read” New Statesman ” Unusually frank, enjoya …

Made in Italy serves as a comprehensive and rigorous introduction to the history, sociology, and musicology of contemporary Italian popular music. Each essay, written by a leading scholar of Italian …

‘Maracatu Atômico’ is the first academic work to investigate the mangue movement, one of Brazil”s most vital pop culture trends of the last thirty years, and the related ‘new music scene’ of Northea …

A History of Twentieth-Century Music in a Theoretic-Analytical Context is an integrated account of the genres and concepts of twentieth-century art music, organized topically according to aesthetic, …

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 …

At a time when fundamentalism is on the rise, traditional religions are in decline and postmodernity has challenged any system that claims to be all-defining, young people have left their traditional …

From French Composer Claude Debussy”s popular 1909 Cakewalk for Easy Piano A Silver Tonalities Arrangement!Easy Note Style Sheet Music Letter Names of Notes embedded in each Notehead! …

From German Composer, Felix Mendelssohn for Easy Piano A Silver Tonalities Arrangement!Easy Note Style Sheet Music Letter Names of Notes embedded in each Notehead! …