<![CDATA[The Book Company: New Products - Ethnic]]> https://www.thebookco.com Fri, 19 Jun 2026 07:08:14 +0000 <![CDATA[From Bomba to Hip-Hop (Puerto Rican Culture and Latino Identity)]]> https://www.thebookco.com/from-bomba-to-hip-hop-9780231110778 Thu, 18 Jun 2026 22:50:20 +0000 https://www.thebookco.com/from-bomba-to-hip-hop-9780231110778 From Bomba to Hip-Hop (Puerto Rican Culture and Latino Identity) by Juan Flores, 9780231110778Neither immigrants nor ethnics, neither foreign nor "hyphenated Americans" in the usual sense of that term, Puerto Ricans in New York have created a distinct identity both on the island of Puerto Rico and in the cultural landscape of the United States. Juan Flores considers the uniqueness of Puert..

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]]> From Bomba to Hip-Hop (Puerto Rican Culture and Latino Identity) by Juan Flores, 9780231110778Neither immigrants nor ethnics, neither foreign nor "hyphenated Americans" in the usual sense of that term, Puerto Ricans in New York have created a distinct identity both on the island of Puerto Rico and in the cultural landscape of the United States. Juan Flores considers the uniqueness of Puert..

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]]> <![CDATA[The Gift of Song (Performing Exchange in Western Arnhem Land)]]> https://www.thebookco.com/the-gift-of-song-9781032106502 Wed, 27 May 2026 17:35:34 +0000 https://www.thebookco.com/the-gift-of-song-9781032106502 The Gift of Song (Performing Exchange in Western Arnhem Land) by Reuben Brown, 9781032106502

The Gift of Song: Performing Exchange in Western Arnhem Land draws on first-person ethnographic fieldwork, to examine how Bininj/Arrarrkpi (Aboriginal people of this region) enact change and innovate their performance practices through ceremonial exchange.

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]]> The Gift of Song (Performing Exchange in Western Arnhem Land) by Reuben Brown, 9781032106502

The Gift of Song: Performing Exchange in Western Arnhem Land draws on first-person ethnographic fieldwork, to examine how Bininj/Arrarrkpi (Aboriginal people of this region) enact change and innovate their performance practices through ceremonial exchange.

Price: $61.99

]]> The Gift of Song: Performing Exchange in Western Arnhem Land draws on first-person ethnographic fieldwork, to examine how Bininj/Arrarrkpi (Aboriginal people of this region) enact change and innovate their performance practices through ceremonial exchange.

]]> <![CDATA[Music, Poetry and Identity in Badakhshan, Tajikistan (Singing and Sounding Community)]]> https://www.thebookco.com/music-poetry-and-identity-in-badakhshan-tajikistan-9781399533898 Thu, 14 May 2026 01:48:07 +0000 https://www.thebookco.com/music-poetry-and-identity-in-badakhshan-tajikistan-9781399533898 Music, Poetry and Identity in Badakhshan, Tajikistan (Singing and Sounding Community) by Chorshanbe Goibnazarov, 9781399533898In the riverine valleys of the Pamir Mountains of Tajik Badakhshan, a thriving millennium-old community of Nizari Ismaili Muslims created a unique spiritual culture in which the performance of music and poetry plays a central role. This book focuses on the central musical and poetic tradition of t..

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]]> Music, Poetry and Identity in Badakhshan, Tajikistan (Singing and Sounding Community) by Chorshanbe Goibnazarov, 9781399533898In the riverine valleys of the Pamir Mountains of Tajik Badakhshan, a thriving millennium-old community of Nizari Ismaili Muslims created a unique spiritual culture in which the performance of music and poetry plays a central role. This book focuses on the central musical and poetic tradition of t..

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]]> <![CDATA[The Routledge Companion to Diasporic Jazz Studies]]> https://www.thebookco.com/the-routledge-companion-to-diasporic-jazz-studies-9781032080390 Tue, 28 Apr 2026 17:37:03 +0000 https://www.thebookco.com/the-routledge-companion-to-diasporic-jazz-studies-9781032080390 The Routledge Companion to Diasporic Jazz Studies by Ádám Havas, Bruce Johnson, David Horn, 9781032080390

The Routledge Companion to Diasporic Jazz Studies recognizes the proliferation of jazz as global music in the 21st century. It illustrates the multi-vocality of contemporary jazz studies, combining local narratives, global histories and cultural criticism.

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]]> The Routledge Companion to Diasporic Jazz Studies by Ádám Havas, Bruce Johnson, David Horn, 9781032080390

The Routledge Companion to Diasporic Jazz Studies recognizes the proliferation of jazz as global music in the 21st century. It illustrates the multi-vocality of contemporary jazz studies, combining local narratives, global histories and cultural criticism.

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]]> The Routledge Companion to Diasporic Jazz Studies recognizes the proliferation of jazz as global music in the 21st century. It illustrates the multi-vocality of contemporary jazz studies, combining local narratives, global histories and cultural criticism.

]]> <![CDATA[The Routledge Handbook of Popular Music and Politics of the Balkans]]> https://www.thebookco.com/the-routledge-handbook-of-popular-music-and-politics-of-the-balkans-9781032357164 Fri, 27 Mar 2026 21:19:54 +0000 https://www.thebookco.com/the-routledge-handbook-of-popular-music-and-politics-of-the-balkans-9781032357164 The Routledge Handbook of Popular Music and Politics of the Balkans by Catherine Baker, 9781032357164

The Routledge Handbook of Popular Music and Politics of the Balkans is a comprehensive overview of major topics, established debates and new directions in the study of popular music and politics in this region.

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]]> The Routledge Handbook of Popular Music and Politics of the Balkans by Catherine Baker, 9781032357164

The Routledge Handbook of Popular Music and Politics of the Balkans is a comprehensive overview of major topics, established debates and new directions in the study of popular music and politics in this region.

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]]> The Routledge Handbook of Popular Music and Politics of the Balkans is a comprehensive overview of major topics, established debates and new directions in the study of popular music and politics in this region.

]]> <![CDATA[Easily Slip into Another World (A Life in Music) - 9780593081846]]> https://www.thebookco.com/easily-slip-into-another-world-9780593081846 Sat, 25 Oct 2025 11:42:44 +0000 https://www.thebookco.com/easily-slip-into-another-world-9780593081846 Easily Slip into Another World (A Life in Music) - 9780593081846 by Henry Threadgill, Brent Hayes EdwardsA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • Winner of the 2024 American Book Award and the 2024 JJA Jazz Award • An autobiography of one of the towering figures of contemporary American music and a powerful meditation on history, race, capitalism, and art.

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]]> Easily Slip into Another World (A Life in Music) - 9780593081846 by Henry Threadgill, Brent Hayes EdwardsA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • Winner of the 2024 American Book Award and the 2024 JJA Jazz Award • An autobiography of one of the towering figures of contemporary American music and a powerful meditation on history, race, capitalism, and art.

A Best Book of the Year:..

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]]> A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • Winner of the 2024 American Book Award and the 2024 JJA Jazz Award • An autobiography of one of the towering figures of contemporary American music and a powerful meditation on history, race, capitalism, and art.

A Best Book of the Year:..]]> <![CDATA[Arab Techno for the People (Sonic Responses to Orientalism in Toronto and Montreal)]]> https://www.thebookco.com/arab-techno-for-the-people-sonic-responses-to-orientalism-in-toronto-and-montreal/ Tue, 05 Aug 2025 23:06:53 +0000 https://www.thebookco.com/arab-techno-for-the-people-sonic-responses-to-orientalism-in-toronto-and-montreal/ Arab Techno for the People (Sonic Responses to Orientalism in Toronto and Montreal) by Jillian Fulton-Melanson, 9781771127080

An ethnographic look at the techno and house music of the Arab diaspora in Canada


This book analyses electronic music soundscapes as a way of exploring the lived experiences of cosmopolitan, Arab-identified individuals living in Toronto and Montreal. By deconstruc..

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]]> Arab Techno for the People (Sonic Responses to Orientalism in Toronto and Montreal) by Jillian Fulton-Melanson, 9781771127080

An ethnographic look at the techno and house music of the Arab diaspora in Canada


This book analyses electronic music soundscapes as a way of exploring the lived experiences of cosmopolitan, Arab-identified individuals living in Toronto and Montreal. By deconstruc..

Price: $52.99

]]> An ethnographic look at the techno and house music of the Arab diaspora in Canada


This book analyses electronic music soundscapes as a way of exploring the lived experiences of cosmopolitan, Arab-identified individuals living in Toronto and Montreal. By deconstruc..]]> <![CDATA[Yellow Music (Media Culture and Colonial Modernity in the Chinese Jazz Age)]]> https://www.thebookco.com/yellow-music-media-culture-and-colonial-modernity-in-the-chinese-jazz-age/ Sat, 28 Jun 2025 11:53:08 +0000 https://www.thebookco.com/yellow-music-media-culture-and-colonial-modernity-in-the-chinese-jazz-age/ Yellow Music (Media Culture and Colonial Modernity in the Chinese Jazz Age) by Andrew F. Jones, 9780822326946

Yellow Music is the first history of the emergence of Chinese popular music and urban media culture in early-twentieth-century China. Andrew F. Jones focuses on the affinities between "yellow” or “pornographic" music—as critics derisively referred to the "decadent" fusion of American j..

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]]> Yellow Music (Media Culture and Colonial Modernity in the Chinese Jazz Age) by Andrew F. Jones, 9780822326946
Yellow Music is the first history of the emergence of Chinese popular music and urban media culture in early-twentieth-century China. Andrew F. Jones focuses on the affinities between "yellow” or “pornographic" music—as critics derisively referred to the "decadent" fusion of American j..

Price: $31.95

]]> Yellow Music is the first history of the emergence of Chinese popular music and urban media culture in early-twentieth-century China. Andrew F. Jones focuses on the affinities between "yellow” or “pornographic" music—as critics derisively referred to the "decadent" fusion of American j..]]> <![CDATA[Hip-Hop Japan (Rap and the Paths of Cultural Globalization)]]> https://www.thebookco.com/hip-hop-japan-rap-and-the-paths-of-cultural-globalization/ Sat, 28 Jun 2025 06:47:34 +0000 https://www.thebookco.com/hip-hop-japan-rap-and-the-paths-of-cultural-globalization/ Hip-Hop Japan (Rap and the Paths of Cultural Globalization) by Ian Condry, 9780822338925
In this lively ethnography Ian Condry interprets Japan’s vibrant hip-hop scene, explaining how a music and culture that originated halfway around the world is appropriated and remade in Tokyo clubs and recording studios. Illuminating different aspects of Japanese hip-hop, Condry chronicles ho..

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]]> Hip-Hop Japan (Rap and the Paths of Cultural Globalization) by Ian Condry, 9780822338925
In this lively ethnography Ian Condry interprets Japan’s vibrant hip-hop scene, explaining how a music and culture that originated halfway around the world is appropriated and remade in Tokyo clubs and recording studios. Illuminating different aspects of Japanese hip-hop, Condry chronicles ho..

Price: $34.95

]]> In this lively ethnography Ian Condry interprets Japan’s vibrant hip-hop scene, explaining how a music and culture that originated halfway around the world is appropriated and remade in Tokyo clubs and recording studios. Illuminating different aspects of Japanese hip-hop, Condry chronicles ho..]]> <![CDATA[Singing the Classical, Voicing the Modern (The Postcolonial Politics of Music in South India)]]> https://www.thebookco.com/singing-the-classical-voicing-the-modern-the-postcolonial-politics-of-music-in-south-india/ Sat, 28 Jun 2025 04:00:58 +0000 https://www.thebookco.com/singing-the-classical-voicing-the-modern-the-postcolonial-politics-of-music-in-south-india/ Singing the Classical, Voicing the Modern (The Postcolonial Politics of Music in South India) by Amanda J. Weidman, 9780822336204
While Karnatic music, a form of Indian music based on the melodic principle of raga and time cycles called tala, is known today as South India’s classical music, its status as “classical” is an early-twentieth-century construct, one that emerged in the crucible of colonial moder..

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]]> Singing the Classical, Voicing the Modern (The Postcolonial Politics of Music in South India) by Amanda J. Weidman, 9780822336204
While Karnatic music, a form of Indian music based on the melodic principle of raga and time cycles called tala, is known today as South India’s classical music, its status as “classical” is an early-twentieth-century construct, one that emerged in the crucible of colonial moder..

Price: $39.95

]]> While Karnatic music, a form of Indian music based on the melodic principle of raga and time cycles called tala, is known today as South India’s classical music, its status as “classical” is an early-twentieth-century construct, one that emerged in the crucible of colonial moder..]]>