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1	Excursions in World Music more books like this by Bruno Nettl add to wishlist For one semester/ quarter courses in World Music and Introductory Ethnomusicology, and for use as a supplementary text in general Music Appreciation courses. This dynamic introductory text takes students on a vivid exploration into the major musical cultures of the world by first presenting a lively vignette of a musical occasion, and then placing ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $15.00! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Disciplining Music: Musicology and Its Canons more books like this by Katherine Bergeron (Editor), Philip V Bohlman (Editor) add to wishlist Provocative and timely, Disciplining Music confronts a topic that has sparked considerable debate in recent years: how do musicians and music scholars "discipline" music in their efforts to confer order and meaning on it? This collection of essays addresses this issue by formulating questions about music's canons--rules that measure and order, ... see all copies from $19.24! new only from $24.46!
3	"The Land Where Two Streams Flow": Music in the German-Jewish Community of Israel more books like this by Philip V Bohlman add to wishlist see all copies from $2.00! new only from $6.99! \| first editions
4	World Music more books like this by Philip Vilas Bohlman add to wishlist 'World music' emerged as an invention of the West from encounters with other cultures. This book draws readers into a remarkable range of these historical encounters, in which music had the power to evoke the exotic and to give voice to the voiceless. In the course of the volume's eight chapters the reader witnesses music's involvement in the ... see all copies from $4.99! new only from $6.55! \| SVS
5	Music in American Religious Experience more books like this by Bohlman (Editor), Blumhofer (Editor), Maria Chow (Editor) add to wishlist Musical experience intersects with religious experience, posing challenging questions about the ways in which Americans, historical communities and new immigrants, and racial and ethnic groups, construct their sense of self. This book studies the ways in which music shapes the distinctive presence of religion in the United States. The twenty ... see all copies from $9.58! new only from $24.96! \| SVS
6	The Study of Folk Music in the Modern World more books like this by Philip V. Bohlman add to wishlist Bohlman examines folk music as a genre of folklore from a broadly cross-cultural perspective and espouses a more expansive view of folk music, stressing its vitality in non-Western cultures as well as Western, in the present as well as the past. see all copies from $6.49! new only from $21.67! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Jewish Music and Modernity more books like this by Philip Vilas Bohlman add to wishlist Is there really such a thing as Jewish music? And how does it survive as a practice of worship and cultural expression even in the face of the many brutal aesthetic and political challenges of modernity? In Jewish Music and Modernity, Philip V. Bohlman imparts these questions with a new light that transforms the very historiography of Jewish ... see all copies from $37.56! new only from $37.56!
8	Comparative Musicology and Anthropology of Music: Essays on the History of Ethnomusicology more books like this by Bruno Nettl (Editor), Philip Vilas Bohlman add to wishlist Nineteen scholars from five countries explore significant issues in the history of ethnomusicology and its methodological and theoretical foundations, while providing a critique of the discipline. "This is a useful and enriching collection of articles of interest to musicologists and ethnomusicologists...The authors manage to cover much ground, ... see all copies from $27.34! new only from $37.00! \| SVS
9	Jewish Musical Modernism, Old and New more books like this by Philip Vilas Bohlman (Editor), Professor Sander L Gilman (Foreword by) add to wishlist Tackling the myriad issues raised by Sander L. Gilman's provocative opening salvo - "Are Jews Musical?" - this volume's distinguished contributors present a series of essays that trace the intersections of Jewish history and music from the late nineteenth century to the present.Covering the sacred and the secular, the European and the non-European ... see all copies from $27.21! new only from $27.21! \| SVS
10	Central European Folk Music more books like this by Philip Vilas Bohlman, Bohlman Philip add to wishlist This is the first annotated bibliography, in German or English, to gather the rich sources for German-language folk-music scholarship. It presents a comprehensive view of both historical and contemporary trends in a field embracing folkloristics and ethnomusicology, as well as philological and cultural studies. Beginning with early theories of ... see all copies from $37.50! new only from $86.13! \| first editions
11 view cover	Land Without Nightingales: Music in the Making of German-America more books like this by Philip Vilas Bohlman (Editor), Otto Holzapfel (Editor) add to wishlist This volume explores the variety of musical expression among German-speaking immigrants to America and their descendants from the 18th century onwards. Topics range from Moravian music in colonial America to musical life among 21st-century Candadian Hutterites. There is a companion CD. see all copies from $38.46! new only from $38.46!
12	The World Centre for Jewish Music in Palestine, 1936-1940: Jewish Musical Life on the Eve of World War II more books like this by Philip V Bohlman add to wishlist Using the documents assembled by the World Centre for Jewish Music in Palestine (WCJMP) during the half decade of its activities in the late 1930s, this volume examines the history of European Jewish music on the eve of its destruction. The many voices of the musicians and intellectuals forced to flee from the growing spectre of Nazism speak in ... see all copies from $78.00! new only from $158.59!
13	Excursions in World Music, Third Edition by Philip V. Bohlman Charles Capwell, Isabel K.F. Wong, Thomas Turino Bruno Nettl add to wishlist see all copies from $9.50!
14 view cover	The Music of European Nationalism: Cultural Identity and Modern History more books like this by Philip Vilas Bohlman, Michael B Bakan (Editor) add to wishlist This volume surveys the intersection of music and nationalism by tracing its historical development and interpreting its most recent forms. Several types of music are offered as examples of how music becomes a language and agent for nationalism, such as folk music in the 19th century, and popular music in the post-World War II era. The book also ... see all copies from $110.98! new only from $124.35!

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