Other global and regional music styles

Since its formation as a girl group in 2005, AKB48 has become a phenomenal success and institution in Japan.

Salsa is one of the most popular types of music listened to and danced to in the United States.

Salsa is one of the most popular types of music listened to and danced to in the United States.

This book is an exploration into the history, aesthetics, social reality, regulation, and transformation of dance and dance music in Egypt.

Niemen Enigmatic is the fourth album in the career of Czeslaw Niemen, arguably one of the greatest Polish musicians of all time (from pop and rock to jazz-rock and avant-garde).

A history of Hindi film music recounted from a list of 50 of Lata Mangeshakar's songs that she chose as her favorites.

Michael Brown undertakes a thorough study of Eyeliner's BUY NOW, a vaporwave homage to the kitsch electronic sounds of the 1980s and 1990s.

Bollywood Sounds focuses on the songs of Indian films in their historical, social, commercial, and cinematic contexts.

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Black Metal, Trauma, Subjectivity and Sound: Screaming the Abyss weaves together trauma, black metal performance and disability into a story of both pain and freedom.

The grand narratives of European music history are informed by the dichotomy of placements and displacements.

This is the first book to tackle the diverse styles and multiple histories of popular music in India.

Russian composer Alexander Skryabin's life spanned the late romantic era and the momentous early years of the twentieth century, but was cut short before the end of the first world war.

How does the immediate experience of musical sound relate to processes of meaning construction and discursive mediation?

In the late 1920s, Dmitry Shostakovich emerged as one of the first Soviet film composers.

Origins of Cuban Music and Dance: Changui is the first in-depth study of changui, a style of music and dance in Guantanamo, Cuba.

Divi Zheni identifies itself as a Bulgarian women's chorus and band, but it is located in Boston and none of its members come from Bulgaria.

"KRAUTROCK ist ein Buch für Fans, Entdecker, Freunde origineller, schrulliger, schräger, einzigartiger und unglaublicher Musik made in Germany, die sich nicht nur für Fakten, sondern auch für das Phänomen, die Atmosphäre und den Zeitgeist interessieren.

Noch hinter den höchsten Bergen, in den größten Wüsten und auf den kleinsten Inseln finden sich ein paar wackere Metalheads, die sich zu Bands zusammengeschlossen haben, Konzerte geben und Metal-Kultur leben.

Music is one of the most distinctive cultural characteristics of Latin American countries.

Tony Allen is the autobiography of legendary Nigerian drummer Tony Allen, the rhythmic engine of Fela Kuti's Afrobeat.

In the twenty-first century, Senegalese hip hop--"e;Rap Galsen"e;--has reverberated throughout the world as an exemplar of hip hop resistance in its mobilization against government corruption during a series of tumultuous presidential elections.

By gathering historical and musical fragments from a Europe torn apart by the Second World War and the Cold War, East German playwright Heiner Muller and West German composer Heiner Goebbels created Wolokolamsker Chaussee as a musical panorama that stretched across modern European history at a moment of international crisis.

Through the study of a large variety of musical practices from the U.

An ethnographic study of music, performance, migration, and circulation, Singing Across Divides examines how forms of love and intimacy are linked to changing conceptions of political solidarity and forms of belonging, through the lens of Nepali dohori song.

The voice of Amalia Rodrigues (1920-1999), the "e;Queen of Fado"e; and Portugal's most celebrated diva, was extraordinary for its interpretive power, soul wrenching timbre, and international reach.

Mobutu Sese Seko, who ruled Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of Congo) from 1965 until 1997, was fond of saying "e;happy are those who sing and dance,"e; and his regime energetically promoted the notion of culture as a national resource.

In mid-1990s South Africa, apartheid ended, Nelson Mandela was elected president, and the country's urban black youth developed kwaito-a form of electronic music (redolent of North American house) that came to represent the post-struggle generation.

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Bella Ciao is the album that kick-started the Italian folk revival in the mid-1960s, made by Il Nuovo Canzoniere Italiano, a group of researchers, musicians, and radical intellectuals.

Over the past four decades, the "e;globalized"e; aspects of cultural circulation have received the majority of scholarly-and consumer-attention, particularly in the study of South Asian music.

Listening to the sound practices of bands and musicians such as the Asian Dub Foundation or M.

Building on the strengths of the first edition, the second edition of Latin American Classical Composers: A Biographical Dictionary presents expanded and updated coverage of its topic with an aim to be comprehensive.

Listening to the sound practices of bands and musicians such as the Asian Dub Foundation or M.

In 1997 the rap group Racionais MCs (the 'Rational' MCs) recorded the album Sobrevivendo no Inferno (Surviving in Hell), subsequently changing the hip-hop scene in Sao Paulo and firmly establishing itself as the point of reference for youth across Brazil.

Immerse students in the music traditions of the Irish, one of North America's largest ethnic populations.

This book is an exploration into the history, aesthetics, social reality, regulation, and transformation of dance and dance music in Egypt.

New York City has long been a generative nexus for the transnational Latin music scene.

Refazenda connects a remarkable album by one of the 20th and 21st centuries' great musicians to a dazzling, often unexpected, array of people and places spread across the globe from Brazil to England to Chile to Japan.

Introduces the richly varied musical traditions of the Caribbean from interdisciplinary perspectives that will support decolonised curricula and research.

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Bangtan Remixed delves into the cultural impact of celebrated K-Pop boy band BTS, exploring their history, aesthetics, fan culture, and capitalist moment.

Koza Dabasa explores Okinawa's island culture and its ghosts of war through the lens of Nenes, a four-woman pop group that draws on the distinctiveness and exoticism of Okinawan musical tradition.

Salsa is one of the most popular types of music listened to and danced to in the United States.

Gamelan and American academic institutions have maintained their close association for more than sixty years.

From countercultural resistance to world music craze, Balkan music captured the attention of global audiences.

Since 1997, the war in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo has taken more than 6 million lives and shapes the daily existence of the nation's residents.