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By Robert Walser (editor)

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9780819576392 | Wesleyan Univ Pr, July 12, 2016, cover price $75.00

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9780819576408 | Wesleyan Univ Pr, July 12, 2016, cover price $22.95

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Product Description: This book defines the key ideas, scholarly debates, and research activities that have contributed to the formation of the international and interdisciplinary field of Metal Studies. Drawing on insights from a wide range of disciplines including popular music, cultural studies, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, and ethics, this volume offers new and innovative research on metal musicology, global/local scenes studies, fandom, gender and metal identity, metal media, and commerce...read more
By Andy R. Brown (editor), Keith Kahn-Harris (editor), Niall W. R. Scott (editor) and Karl Spracklen (editor)

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9781138822382 | Routledge, April 8, 2016, cover price $140.00 | About this edition: This book defines the key ideas, scholarly debates, and research activities that have contributed to the formation of the international and interdisciplinary field of Metal Studies.

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Product Description: Resounding Transcendence is a pathbreaking set of ethnographic and historical essays by leading scholars exploring the ways sacred music effects cultural, political, and religious transitions in the contemporary world. With chapters covering Christian, Muslim, Jewish, and Buddhist practices in East and Southeast Asia, the Indian subcontinent, North America, the Caribbean, North Africa, and Europe, the volume establishes the theoretical and methodological foundations for music scholarship to engage in current debates about modern religion and secular epistemologies...read more
By Philip V. Bohlman (editor) and Jeffers Engelhardt (editor)

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9780199737642 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, March 30, 2016, cover price $99.00 | About this edition: Resounding Transcendence is a pathbreaking set of ethnographic and historical essays by leading scholars exploring the ways sacred music effects cultural, political, and religious transitions in the contemporary world.

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9780199737659 | Oxford Univ Pr, March 30, 2016, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Resounding Transcendence is a pathbreaking set of ethnographic and historical essays by leading scholars exploring the ways sacred music effects cultural, political, and religious transitions in the contemporary world.

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9780226311838 | Univ of Chicago Pr, December 29, 2015, cover price $90.00

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9780226311975 | Univ of Chicago Pr, December 29, 2015, cover price $30.00

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Product Description: Pierre Bourdieu has been an extraordinarily influential figure in the sociology of music. For over four decades, his concepts have helped to generate both empirical and theoretical interventions in the field of musical study. His impact on the sociology of music taste, in particular, has been profound, his ideas directly informing our understandings of how musical preferences reflect and reproduce inequalities between social classes, ethnic groups, and men and women...read more

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9781472448293 | Ashgate Pub Co, February 29, 2016, cover price $119.95 | About this edition: Pierre Bourdieu has been an extraordinarily influential figure in the sociology of music.

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Product Description: This book addresses the issue of music consumption in the digital era of technologies. It explores how individuals use music in the context of their everyday lives and how, in return, music acquires certain roles within everyday contexts and more broadly in their life narratives...read more

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9781137492555 | Palgrave Macmillan, October 19, 2015, cover price $95.00 | About this edition: This book addresses the issue of music consumption in the digital era of technologies.

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Product Description: Representation in Western Music offers a comprehensive study of the roles of representation in the composition, performance and reception of Western music. In recent years, there has been increasing academic interest in questions of musical interpretation and meaning and in music's interactions with other artistic media, and yet no book has dealt extensively with representation's important role in these processes...read more
By Joshua S. Walden (editor)

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9781107021570 | Cambridge Univ Pr, May 27, 2013, cover price $99.99

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9781316601082 | Cambridge Univ Pr, August 27, 2015, cover price $36.99 | About this edition: Representation in Western Music offers a comprehensive study of the roles of representation in the composition, performance and reception of Western music.

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Product Description: Music is an accumulation of mediators: instruments, languages, sheets, performers, scenes, media and so on. There is no musical object ’in itself’; music must always be made again. In this innovative book, Hennion turns the elusiveness of music into a resource for a pragmatic analysis: by which collective process do we make music appear among us? Rather than offering a sociology of music, The Passion for Music listens to the lesson provided by the case of music - this art of infinite mediations...read more
By Peter Collier (trans)

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9781472418104 | Ashgate Pub Co, June 26, 2015, cover price $129.95 | About this edition: Music is an accumulation of mediators: instruments, languages, sheets, performers, scenes, media and so on.

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Product Description: What in the World is Music? is an undergraduate, interactive e-textbook that incorporates more than 300 video and audio links to music from around the world. The text investigates the nature and meaning of music as a universal human practice, while providing students with strong points of connection to the ways it affects their own lives...read more

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9781138790254 | Pap/psc edition (Routledge, August 18, 2015), cover price $95.00 | About this edition: What in the World is Music?

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By Kyle Devine (editor)

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9780415855464 | Routledge, March 20, 2015, cover price $175.00
9780306773129, titled "Household Songs" | Da Capo Pr, June 1, 1973, cover price $37.00 | also contains Household Songs

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9781138856363 | Routledge, March 24, 2015, cover price $72.95
9780394400600, titled "Random House Italian Dictionary" | Random House Inc, cover price $4.95 | also contains Random House Italian Dictionary

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Product Description: Music, Sound, and Space is the first collection to integrate research from musicology and sound studies on music and sound as they mediate everyday life. Music and sound exert an inescapable influence on the contemporary world, from the ubiquity of MP3 players to the controversial use of sound as an instrument of torture...read more
By Georgina Born (editor)

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9780521764247 | Cambridge Univ Pr, February 25, 2013, cover price $120.00

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9781107504127 | Cambridge Univ Pr, March 5, 2015, cover price $32.99 | About this edition: Music, Sound, and Space is the first collection to integrate research from musicology and sound studies on music and sound as they mediate everyday life.

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Product Description: Taking a cue from Erving Goffman’s classic work, Asylums, Tia DeNora develops a novel interdisciplinary framework for music, health and wellbeing. Considering health and illness both in medical contexts and in the often-overlooked realm of everyday life, DeNora argues that these identities are by no means mutually exclusive...read more

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9781409437598 | Ashgate Pub Co, September 28, 2013, cover price $149.95

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9781472455987 | Reprint edition (Ashgate Pub Co, February 3, 2015), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Taking a cue from Erving Goffman’s classic work, Asylums, Tia DeNora develops a novel interdisciplinary framework for music, health and wellbeing.

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By Jeffrey Kallberg (editor)

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9781107026674 | Cambridge Univ Pr, February 28, 2015, cover price $115.00

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Product Description: As a uniquely hybrid form of artistic output, straddling music and theatre and high and popular culture, opera offers vast research possibilities not only in the field of music studies but also in the fields of media and cultural studies...read more
By Naomi Segal (editor)

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9783034317825 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, December 16, 2014, cover price $72.95 | About this edition: As a uniquely hybrid form of artistic output, straddling music and theatre and high and popular culture, opera offers vast research possibilities not only in the field of music studies but also in the fields of media and cultural studies.

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Product Description: Social networks are critical for the creation and consumption of music. This edited collection, Social Networks and Music Worlds, introduces students and scholars of music in society to the core concepts and tools of social network analysis...read more
By Paul Widdop (editor)

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9780415718882 | Routledge, August 5, 2014, cover price $145.00 | About this edition: Social networks are critical for the creation and consumption of music.

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Product Description: Rap and Hip Hop Culture traces the ideological, social, historical, and cultural influences on a musical genre that first came to prominence in the mid-1970s in one of New York's toughest neighborhoods, the South Bronx. Orejuela describes how the arts of DJing, MCing, breakin' [b-boying], and graffiti developed as a way for this community's struggle to find its own voice...read more

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9780199987733 | Oxford Univ Pr, August 1, 2014, cover price $54.95 | About this edition: Rap and Hip Hop Culture traces the ideological, social, historical, and cultural influences on a musical genre that first came to prominence in the mid-1970s in one of New York's toughest neighborhoods, the South Bronx.

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Product Description: From our first social bonding as infants to the funeral rites that mark our passing, music plays an important role in our lives, bringing us closer to one another. In The Music between Us, philosopher Kathleen Marie Higgins investigates this role, examining the features of human perception that enable music’s uncanny ability to provoke, despite its myriad forms across continents and throughout centuries, the sense of a shared human experience...read more

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9780226333281 | Univ of Chicago Pr, June 1, 2012, cover price $48.00 | About this edition: From our first social bonding as infants to the funeral rites that mark our passing, music plays an important role in our lives, bringing us closer to one another.

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9780226142852 | Univ of Chicago Pr, May 8, 2014, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: From our first social bonding as infants to the funeral rites that mark our passing, music plays an important role in our lives, bringing us closer to one another.

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