'This book has rekindled memories of how we made the music and the pleasure and excitment we felt when playing it' - Christy Moore

Presents an ethnography of a group of female musicians from the Dzigbordi community dance-drumming club from the rural town of Dzodze, located in South-Eastern Ghana. This book addresses important methodological shifts in ethnomusicology that outline a humanistic perspective of music cultures. It includes a DVD documentary.

The Border Ballads were long regarded as primitive poems. James Reed's selection restores their identity within the oral tradition, setting them in the context of their time and place with the aid of maps and a glossary.

This book is a major collection of traditional Irish Slow airs that captures the essence and beauty of traditional Irish music. Includes 2 CDs with more than 100 of the most beautiful Irish Airs played on different instruments.

Offers a look at the attitudes of Protestant performers to Traditional music in Northern Ireland. This work reflects on Protestant community views of the music through their eyes, and considers the impact of historical literature, political statements and other interventions which have affected and shaped Traditional music.

Started by the National Life and Accident Insurance Company in 1925, WSM became one of the most influential radio stations in the history of broadcasting. Introducing colourful artists and businessmen from the station's history, this volume invites the reader to reflect on the status of Nashville, radio, and country music in American culture.

Explores Indigenous music and dance in the Torres Strait and the tropical regions of the Northern Territory. This book shows how traditional music and dance have responded to colonial control in the past. It looks at musical pasts and presents as a continuum of creativity.

This volume describes the extraordinarily rich and varied music of the people from all the countries south of the Rio Grande river. Including native American cultures and the pop music of Mexico, Brazil and the Caribbean Islands.

Written by a personal acquaintance of several of its members, this is a history the band, Jethro Tull, through to 2001. A chronology of all the band's recordings as well as information on all accompanying tours is included.

This volume brings together eight of Blacking's most important theoretical papers which reveal his theoretical themes such as the innateness of musical ability and the properties of music as a symbolic or quasi-linguistic system.

A scholarly portrayal of Shona musicians and the African Musical tradition. l Berliner provides the complete cultural context for the music and an intimate, precise account of the meaning of the instrument and its music.