The Book Company: New Products - Ethnomusicology

Being Musically Attuned (The Act of Listening to Music)

Sat, 31 Oct 2026 16:22:36 +0000

Listening according to mood is likely to be what most people do when they listen to music. We want to take part in, or even be part of, the emerging world of the musical work. Erik Wallrup explores this vague and elusive phenomenon, which is held to be fundamental to musical hearing. He unfolds th..

Price: $233.99

Voicing Girlhood in Popular Music (Performance, Authority, Authenticity)

Wed, 28 Oct 2026 17:07:11 +0000

This book explores the girl’s voice and the construction of girlhood in contemporary popular music, visiting girls as musicians, activists, and performers. It illuminates the way ideals of girlhood are historically specific, and the way adults frame and construct girlhood to both valorize and v..

Price: $249.99

Supporting Vulnerable Performance Traditions (Keeping it Going in Contexts of Continuity and Change)

Wed, 28 Oct 2026 17:02:44 +0000

Supporting Vulnerable Performance Traditions: Keeping it Going in Contexts of Continuity and Change explores endangered forms of performance from across the world, and the aspirations of practitioners, community members and researchers to keep these traditions going.

Price: $233.99

Haunted Soundscapes (Transcultural Perspectives on Music, Sound and Power in Turkey)

Wed, 28 Oct 2026 16:38:52 +0000

Haunted Soundscapes: Transcultural Perspectives on Music, Sound and Power in Türkiye fills this gap. Drawing on hauntology, critical soundscape theory, and concepts of transculturality, it examines the haunted soundscapes of Türkiye —sonic spaces where unexamined past traumas permeate th..

Price: $233.99

Islamic Themes in US Hip-Hop Culture

Wed, 28 Oct 2026 03:05:24 +0000

Islam has been a part of hip-hop culture since it sprang from New York’s street culture in the 1970s. Today hip-hop has evolved into a truly global artform with a diversity of Muslim Islamic discourses expressed. Using tools from the field of social semiotics, this book examines how Islamic themes..

Price: $110.00

The Routledge Companion to Popular Music and Humor

Sat, 24 Oct 2026 18:42:34 +0000

An essential part of human expression, humor plays a role in all forms of art, and humorous and comedic aspects have always been part of popular music. The Routledge Companion to Popular Music and Humor draws together scholarship exploring how the element of humor interacts with the arti..

Price: $350.00

Disability and Music Performance

Sat, 24 Oct 2026 17:13:22 +0000

This book provides a reading of the performing aspects of classical music in the context of the disabled body, conceptualising disability in music as valuable difference and diversity rather than as a deficit and an endpoint.

Price: $233.99

Austral Jazz (The Localization of a Global Music Form in Sydney)

Sat, 24 Oct 2026 16:45:03 +0000

Austral Jazz: The Localization of a Global Music Form in Sydney proposes a new theoretical framework for understanding local jazz communities as they develop outside the United States, demonstrating such processes in action by applying the framework to a significant period of the history ..

Price: $233.99

Music as Intangible Cultural Heritage (Policy, Ideology, and Practice in the Preservation of East Asian Traditions)

Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:32:23 +0000

Focussing on music traditions, these essays explore the policy, ideology and practice of preservation and promotion of East Asian intangible cultural heritage. For the first time, Japan, Korea, China and Taiwan - states that were among the first to establish legislation and systems for indigenous ..

Price: $233.99

Made in Japan (Studies in Popular Music)

Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:04:29 +0000

Made in Japan serves as a comprehensive and rigorous introduction to the history, sociology, and musicology of contemporary Japanese popular music. Each essay, written by a leading scholar of Japanese music, covers the major figures, styles, and social contexts of pop music in Japan an..

Price: $249.99