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Book Suggestions for Africa and Cuba

The African Imagination in Music by Kofi Agawu
Call Number: Ebook
ISBN: 9780190263201
Publication Date: 2016-03-02
Conceived as an introduction to a vast, immensely rich and diverse set of repertories, this book explores the sounding forms of Sub-Saharan African music. Aimed at a general musical readership, it describes the major dimensions of African music and the values upon which they are built.
African Music In Ghana by Nketia, J. H. Kwabena
Call Number: ML3760 .N6 1963
ISBN: 9780810101753
Publication Date: 1963
Cuba and Its Music
Call Number: ML207.C8 S83 2004 and available as an ebook
This entertaining history of Cuba and its music begins with Spain's first encounters with Africa and continues through the era of Miguelito Valdés, Arsenio Rodriguez, Benny Moré, and Pérez Prado. It offers a behind-the-scenes examination of music from a Cuban point of view.
On African Music: Techniques, Influences, Scholarship by Kofi Agawu
Call Number: Ebook
ISBN: 9780197664063
Publication Date: 2023-06-02
Composed over a decade and a half and originally delivered to audiences in Europe, Africa, and the US, these lectures celebrate African musical creativity by illuminating selected compositional techniques, key influences, and dominant scholarly themes.

Books on Music from Jamaica and the Caribbean

Rock It Come Over: The Folk Music of Jamaica by Olive Lewin
Call Number: Ebook
ISBN: 9789766400286
Publication Date: 2000-08-01
Rock It Come Over is the most extensive study of Jamaican folk music yet published. It is also an examination of the roots of that music and a record of the folk heritage that is, in spite of many efforts, rapidly retreating before the pressures of life today.
Caribbean Currents: Caribbean Music from Rumba to Reggae by Peter Manuel; Kenneth Bilby (Editor); Michael Largey (Editor)
Call Number: ML3565 .M36 1995
ISBN: 9781566393386
Publication Date: 1995-08-01
A guide to the cultural festivals, traditional culture, musical forms, dances, instruments, music education, government institutions concerned with music, and copyright mechanisms in Belize, the Bahamas, Jamaica, St. Kitts & Nevis, Antigua and Barbado, Montserrat, Dominica, St. Lucia, Barbados, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Grenada, Trinidad & Tobago, and Guyana.

Book Suggestions for South America

The Brazilian Sound: Samba, Bossa Nova, and the Popular Music of Brazil by Chris Mcgowan; Ricardo Pessanha
Call Number: ML3487.B7 M4 2009
ISBN: 9781592139293
Publication Date: 2008-12-28
The Brazilian Sound [is] an encyclopedic survey of Brazilian popular music that ranges over samba, bossa nova, MPB, jazz and instrumental music and tropical rock, as well as the music of the Northeast.
A Latin American Music Reader by Javier F. Leon (Editor); Helena Simonett (Editor)
Call Number: Ebook
ISBN: 9780252040214
Publication Date: 2016-07-31
Javier F. León and Helena Simonett curate a collection of essential writings from the last twenty-five years of Latin American music studies. Chosen as representative, outstanding, and influential in the field, each article appears in English translation. A detailed new introduction by León and Simonett both surveys and contextualizes the history of Latin American ethnomusicology, opening the door for readers energized by the musical forms brought and nurtured by immigrants from throughout Latin America.
Music in Brazil: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture by John P. Murphy
Call Number: ML3487.B7 M85 2006
ISBN: 9780195166842
Publication Date: 2006-01-26
As the largest nation in Latin America, Brazil is home to some of the most celebrated music in the world. Music in Brazil covers a wide spectrum of this music, including samba, bossa nova, Tropicália, and MPB (Música Popular Brasileira); regional traditional and popular music; Brazilian rock, rap, and electronica; and such genres as sertaneja (similar to country-and-western music) and brega (sentimental pop).

The Music of Black Americans

The Music of Black Americans by Eileen Southern
Call Number: ML3556 .S74 1971
ISBN: 9780393971415
Publication Date: 1997-01-17
This survey of the music of black Americans begins with the arrival in 1619 of the first black men in the English colonies. It discusses the work of black composers and performers, the role of the black churches in the North, theatrical activities, the songs of work and play, the development of jazz, and art music.

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MU 503: Music of African Diasporas

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High Library Catalog

Oxford Handbooks in Music

Book Suggestions for Africa and Cuba

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Book Suggestions for South America

The Music of Black Americans

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