A fine-grained ethnography exploring the sociopolitical power of Kurdish women’s voices in contemporary Turkey. "Raise y......more

This book focuses on researching the chime stone, a percussion instrument carved from stone that originated in ancient C......more

How do we develop social inclusion through musical activities? What is the power of music in enhancing individual inclus......more

Directly addressing the underrepresentation of Black composers in core music curricula, Expanding the Canon: Black Compo......more

French and Soviet Musical Diplomacies in Post-War Austria, 1945-1955 investigates how promoting ’national’ music and mus......more

Disaster Songs as Intangible Memorials in Atlantic Canada draws on a collection of over 500 Atlantic Canadian songs rela......more

Music and Temple Ritual in South India: Performing for Śiva documents the musical practices of the periya mēḷam, a South......more

French and Soviet Musical Diplomacies in Post-War Austria, 1945-1955 investigates how promoting ’national’ music and mus......more

The Fall were one of the most influential bands to emerge in the British post-punk scene. This groundbreaking text is a ......more

A fine-grained ethnography exploring the sociopolitical power of Kurdish women’s voices in contemporary Turkey. "Raise y......more

Most of us the world over do not know much about the nuclear experience, let alone the 70,000 Korean victims of the atom......more

Most of us the world over do not know much about the nuclear experience, let alone the 70,000 Korean victims of the atom......more

This book demonstrates the processes of intercultural musical collaboration and how these processes contribute to facili......more

Sounds of the Pandemic offers one of the first critical analyses of the changes in sonic environments, artistic practice......more

Sounds of the Pandemic offers one of the first critical analyses of the changes in sonic environments, artistic practice......more

In The Dancer’s Voice Rumya Sree Putcha theorizes how the Indian classical dancer performs the complex dynamics of trans......more

In the aftermath of apartheid, South Africa undertook an ambitious revision of its intellectual property system. In Lion......more

In the first edition of The Big Book Of Armenian Songs, you’ll find over 200 songs written by Armenian composers between......more

Engaging with a broad range of research and performance genres, The Oxford Handbook of Hip Hop Dance Studies offers the ......more

Archaic Bamboo Instruments explores how current residents of Bandung, Indonesia, have (re-) adopted bamboo musical instr......more

The Routledge Companion to Ethics and Research in Ethnomusicology is an in-depth survey of the moral challenges and impe......more

Holy Ghost is the first extended study of free jazz saxophonist Albert Ayler, who is seen today as one of the most impor......more

This volume provides a transnational study of the impact of musical cultures in the Eastern Baltics-Lithuania, Latvia, P......more

With great pleasure, we announce the publication of the second book devoted to one of Armenia’s most important ashughs. ......more

At the height of the blues revival, Marina Bokelman and David Evans, young graduate students from California, made two t......more

"Ethnomusicologist Ayyagari shows how professional low-caste musicians from the Thar Desert borderland of Rajasthan, Ind......more

"Ethnomusicologist Ayyagari shows how professional low-caste musicians from the Thar Desert borderland of Rajasthan, Ind......more

"With a new introduction by Cheryl Townsent Gilkes....more

At the height of the blues revival, Marina Bokelman and David Evans, young graduate students from California, made two t......more

Through close readings of documentary film soundscapes, the essays in Music, Sound, and Documentary Film in the Global S......more

Music, Dance and the Archive reimagines records of performance cultures from the archive through collaborative and creat......more

Music, Dance and the Archive reimagines records of performance cultures from the archive through collaborative and creat......more

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization......more

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization......more

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization......more

For more than 150 years, individuals have traveled the countryside with pen, paper, tape recorders, and even video camer......more

Sounding Out the State of Indonesian Music showcases the breadth and complexity of the music of Indonesia. By bringing t......more

Sounding Out the State of Indonesian Music showcases the breadth and complexity of the music of Indonesia. By bringing t......more

Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr., is an award-winning musicologist, music historian, composer, and pianist whose prescient theoret......more

"Beautifully written... a riveting account of how melodies and rhythms connect us, and help us deal with alienation and ......more

Finding the Beat explores humankind’s ability, propensity, and enjoyment in finding the beat in live and recorded experi......more

How do the temporal features of sacred music affect social life in South Asia? Due to new time constraints in commercial......more

A new and accessible introduction to this exciting, controversial, and often misunderstood music, drawing on extensive r......more

This book is an investigation into church music through the lens of performance theory, both as a discipline and as a th......more

By integrating theoretical approaches to the female voice with the musicological investigation of female singers’ practi......more

It is with great pleasure that we announce the publication of one of Armenia’s most important ashoughs’ works in transli......more

A close look at how Taiwanese musicians are using rap music as a creative way to explore and reconcile Taiwanese identit......more

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Music and Digital Media is the first comparative ethnographic study of the impact of digital media on music worldwide, c......more

Music and Digital Media is the first comparative ethnographic study of the impact of digital media on music worldwide, c......more

A close look at how Taiwanese musicians are using rap music as a creative way to explore and reconcile Taiwanese identit......more

Black Sea Sketches is a portrait of some of the diverse musical cultures surrounding the Black Sea and in its hinterland......more

Studying the role of music within religious congregations has become an increasingly complex exercise. The significant v......more

Vibe Merchants offers an insider’s perspective on the development of Jamaican popular music. The book leads to a broaden......more

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From the late 1990s until today, China’s sound practice has been developing in an increasingly globalized socio-politica......more

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This book brings together researchers from twelve countries in Latin America to reflect on the social dimensions of meta......more

The theme of this book is the "Significance of Folk Musical Instruments." I was prompted to write this book because, fro......more

Establishing an intersection between the fields of traditional music studies, English folk music history and the philoso......more

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Music, Communities, Sustainability, edited thoughtfully by Huib Schippers and Anthony Seeger, traces the genesis, implem......more

The dedication of a piece of music is a feature generally overlooked, but it can reveal a great deal about the work, the......more

Analyzes how White American mainline Protestants used the internal musical controversies of the turn-of-the-millennium W......more

Kōshiki (Buddhist ceremonials) belong to a shared ritual repertoire of Japanese Buddhism that began with Tendai Pure Lan......more

An essential exploration of Nordic composers and musicians, and the distinctive culture that continues to shape them Onc......more

This unique anthology presents a wide variety of approaches to an ethnomusicology of Inuit and Native North American mus......more

This is a study of vocal expressions in the borderland between speech and song, based on performances from cultural cont......more

Sonic Ruins of Modernity shows how social, cultural and cognitive phenomena interact in the making and distribution of f......more

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A new history of twentieth-century North Africa, that gives voice to the musicians who defined an era and the vibrant re......more

Building on her earlier work, The Power of Music: A Research Synthesis of the Impact of Actively Making Music on the Int......more

Building on her earlier work, The Power of Music: A Research Synthesis of the Impact of Actively Making Music on the Int......more