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9780028645728, titled "American Song: The Complete Musical Theatre Companion : 1877-1995 : T-Z and Indexes" | 2nd edition (Schirmer Books, June 1, 1996), cover price $75.00 | also contains American Song: The Complete Musical Theatre Companion : 1877-1995 : T-Z and Indexes
Paperback:
9780226043814 | Univ of Chicago Pr, August 1, 1994, cover price $37.50
Product Description: A landmark in jazz studies, Thinking in Jazz reveals as never before how musicians, both individually and collectively, learn to improvise. Chronicling leading musicians from their first encounters with jazz to the development of a unique improvisatory voice, Paul Berliner documents the lifetime of preparation that lies behind the skilled improviser's every idea...read more
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9780226043807 | Univ of Chicago Pr, August 1, 1994, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: A landmark in jazz studies, Thinking in Jazz reveals as never before how musicians, both individually and collectively, learn to improvise.
This sensitive, scholarly portrayal of Shona musicians and the African Musical tradition is highly engaging and comprehensive in its range of data. Paul Berliner provides the complete cultural context for the music and an intimate, precise account of the meaning of the instrument and its music."Paul Berliner's The Soul of Mbira is probably the best ethnography ever written about an African musical tradition. It is a complete classic . . . . I know of no other instrument with the range of the mbira, and the book is equal to the instrument."âJohn Chernoff"[The Soul of Mbira] illustrates the fact that Shona mbira music in its beauty, subtlety, and virtuosity demands the same kind of respect that we might hold for any other classical music."âDavid Reck, Parabola"The book is a model of ethnomusicological thinking and investigation and it suggests a specific way of approaching a complex socio-musical system."âJohn Baily, Popular Music"When next someone asks 'What is ethnomusicology?' or 'What do ethnomusicologists do?' I shall suggest this book. . . . This is a landmark in ethnomusicological literature. Berliner succeeds in conveying both the joy that goes with mbira playing and the mystic relationship between the player and his instrument. In short, this is humanized ethnomusicology."âK.A. Gourlay, Ethnomusicology
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9780520033153, titled "Soul of Mbira: Music and Traditions of the Shona People of Zimbabwe" | Univ of California Pr, February 1, 1979, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: This sensitive, scholarly portrayal of Shona musicians and the African Musical tradition is highly engaging and comprehensive in its range of data.
Paperback:
9780226043791 | Reprint edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, April 1, 1993), cover price $21.00
9780520042681 | Univ of California Pr, July 1, 1981, cover price $1.98 | About this edition: A scholarly portrayal of Shona musicians and the African Musical tradition.
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