The Sulu Zone: A Maritime Cultural Complex is a collection of essays exploring the unique facets which contribute to the identity of the Sulu Zone. With 15 peer-reviewed scholarly essays and an interview with academic and musician Ric Trimillos at the end, this book dives into various subjects such as the Sulu Zones history and formation.
China's Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) produced propaganda music that still stirs unease and, at times, evokes nostalgia. Lei X. Ouyang uses selections from revolutionary songbooks to untangle the complex interactions between memory, trauma, and generational imprinting among those who survived the period of extremes. Interviews combine with ......
K-pop (Korean popular music) reigns as one of the most popular music genres in the world today, a phenomenon that appeals to listeners of all ages and nationalities. In Soul in Seoul: African American Popular Music and K-pop, Crystal S. Anderson examines the most important and often overlooked aspect of K-pop: the music itself. She demonstrates ......
The Aga Khan Music Programme's Quest to Revitalize Cultural Heritage
Musical Argonauts of Central Asia tells the story of the Aga Khan Music Programme (AKMP) and its sustained efforts to revitalize Central Asian musical heritage in the wake of seven decades of Soviet rule. Theodore Levin has worked with the program since its inception and offers an insider's account of how the AKMP's development tactics and ......
The Aga Khan Music Programme's Quest to Revitalize Cultural Heritage
Musical Argonauts of Central Asia tells the story of the Aga Khan Music Programme (AKMP) and its sustained efforts to revitalize Central Asian musical heritage in the wake of seven decades of Soviet rule. Theodore Levin has worked with the program since its inception and offers an insider's account of how the AKMP's development tactics and ......
Popular Music in Contemporary Dominican/Dominicanyork Literature
How music depicted in literature shapes Dominican and Dominican New Yorkers' identities and links the homeland to the diaspora. Music has played a large role in recent Dominican literature, whether of the island or the diaspora. Bridging Sonic Borders explores this sonic connection linking the homeland and far-flung locales-especially New York, ......
Popular Music in Contemporary Dominican/Dominicanyork Literature
How music depicted in literature shapes Dominican and Dominican New Yorkers' identities and links the homeland to the diaspora. Music has played a large role in recent Dominican literature, whether of the island or the diaspora. Bridging Sonic Borders explores this sonic connection linking the homeland and far-flung locales-especially New York, ......
The Gramophone Industry and Music Genres in East and Southeast Asia
Histories of phonographic technologies and industries have long overlooked the East and Southeast Asian contributions to the sonic dimension of global modernity. Fumitaka Yamauchi and Ying-fen Wang address this one-side perspective with a collection of essays that show the nations of East and Southeast Asia as vibrant contributors to and ......
In Queens of Afrobeat, the women of Afrobeat music--a unique blend of jazz, soul, highlife, and West African rhythms--are finally given the recognition they deserve. This extensive study takes a multifaceted view of the storied lives of the women behind Fela Kuti's activist music. Dotun Ayobade's wide-ranging research pulls from interviews with ......
