Philip V. Bohlman 
Cambridge History of World Music [PDF ebook] 

This unique study of Turkmen women and their folk songs looks at religion, ritual and family as seen through the eyes of the women and their songs. …

Perhaps we saw the 1950”s movie with Kirk Douglas, or maybe we had the snot scared out of us on the Disney World ride as kids-regardless, 20, 000 Leagues Under the Sea is indelibly etched into the c …

This book is the first to examine in depth the contributions of major British authors such as W. H. Auden and E. M. Forster, as critics and librettists, to the rise of British opera in the twentieth …

For the past two decades ten men from Cornwall”s Port Isaac have met on the village quayside every Friday summer evening to sing rousing sea shanties and traditional folk songs for little more than …

Advancing Music Education in Northern Europe tells the story of a unique organization that has contributed in profound ways to the professional development of music teachers in the Nordic and Baltic …

This title was first published in 2000: Catalan-born composer Roberto Gerhard (1896-1970) left significant legacies – both musical and documentary. Exiled in Cambridge with the onset of the Spanish C …

First Published in 1999, Hermine Weigel Williams’ study draws on more than thirty years of research to fill this noticeable lacuna , and presents here the first full scale life and works of the compo …

Made in Finland: Studies in Popular Music serves as a comprehensive and thorough introduction to the history, culture, and musicology of twentieth and twenty-first century popular music in Finland. T …

In Long Players, fifty of our finest authors write about the albums that changed their lives, from Deborah Levy on Bowie to Daisy Johnson on Lizzo, Ben Okri on Miles Davis to David Mitchell on Joni M …