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  • Perspectives on Korean Music

    Volume 2: Creating Korean Music: Tradition, Innovation and the Discourse of Identity

    by Keith Howard ...
    Series series SOAS Studies in Music
    With the rise of nationalism in the Republic of Korea, music has come to play a central role in the discourse of identity. This volume asks what Koreans consider makes music Korean, and how meaning is ascribed to musical creation. Keith Howard explores specific aspects of creativity that are designed to appeal to a new audience that is increasingly westernized yet proud of its indigenous heritage ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Songs for "Great Leaders"

    Ideology and Creativity in North Korean Music and Dance

    by Keith Howard ...
    Famously reclusive and secretive, North Korea can be seen as a theatre that projects itself through music and performance. The first book-length account of North Korean music and dance in any language other than Korean, Songs for "Great Leaders" pulls back the curtain on this theatre for the first time. Renowned ethnomusicologist Keith Howard moves from the first songs written in the northern part ... Read more

    $82.79 USD

  • Perspectives on Korean Music

    Volume 1: Preserving Korean Music: Intangible Cultural Properties as Icons of Identity

    by Keith Howard ...
    Series series SOAS Studies in Music
    As Korea has developed and modernized, music has come to play a central role as a symbol of national identity. Nationalism has been stage managed by scholars, journalists and, from the beginning of the 1960s, by the state, as music genres have been documented, preserved and promoted as 'Intangible Cultural Properties'. Practitioners have been appointed 'holders' or, in everyday speech, 'Human ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • SamulNori: Korean Percussion for a Contemporary World

    by Keith Howard ...
    Series series SOAS Studies in Music
    SamulNori is a percussion quartet which has given rise to a genre, of the same name, that is arguably Korea’s most successful ’traditional’ music of recent times. Today, there are dozens of amateur and professional samulnori groups. There is a canon of samulnori pieces, closely associated with the first founding quartet but played by all, and many creative evolutions on the basic themes, made by ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Love Game

    by Keith Howard ...
    Below the dormitory, Hai Minh was holding a huge bouquet of roses, ostentatiously pursuing me. When he saw me appear, he smiled brightly and called my name so loudly that the neighboring rooms all came out to see. Looking at Hai Minh, I was not moved or had any emotions, just indifferently turned back inside. Tien stood behind me, her mouth wide open in disbelief.- Hey, why did you reject someone ... Read more

    $6.87 USD

  • Theory and Method in Historical Ethnomusicology

    Historical ethnomusicology is increasingly acknowledged as a significant emerging subfield of ethnomusicology due to the fact that historical research requires a different set of theories and methods than studies of contemporary practices and many historiographic techniques are rapidly transforming as a result of new technologies. In 2005, Bruno Nettl observed that “the term ‘historical ... Read more

    $64.79 USD

  • Re-thinking Children's Work in Churches

    A Practical Guide

    Drawing on current scholarship and research by authors with experience of a range of International contexts who are experts in their field, this accessible guide focuses on approaches that encourage spiritual, physical, mental and emotional development in children.By outlining a range of lenses through which readers can reflect on their ministry with children and their families. this book offers ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • Political Bubbles

    Financial Crises and the Failure of American Democracy

    How governmental failure led to the 2008 financial crisis—and what needs to be done to avoid another similar eventBehind every financial crisis lurks a "political bubble"—policy biases that foster market behaviors leading to financial instability. Rather than tilting against risky behavior, political bubbles—arising from a potent combination of beliefs, institutions, and interests—aid, abet, and ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Polarized America, second edition

    The Dance of Ideology and Unequal Riches

    Series series Walras-Pareto Lectures
    Updated analysis of how the increasing polarization of American politics has been accompanied and accelerated by greater income inequality.The idea of America as politically polarized—that there is an unbridgeable divide between right and left, red and blue states—has become a cliché. What commentators miss, however, is that increasing polarization has been closely accompanied by fundamental ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming

    Unabridged

    10 hours 16 min

    Lucid Dreaming—conscious awareness during the dream state—is an exhilarating experience. Because the world you are experiencing is one of your own creation, you can do the impossible and consciously influence the outcome of your dreams.Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming goes far beyond the confines of pop dream psychology, establishing a scientifically researched framework for using lucid ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Analyzing Spatial Models of Choice and Judgment

    Series series Chapman & Hall/CRC Statistics in the Social and Behavioral Sciences
    With recent advances in computing power and the widespread availability of preference, perception and choice data, such as public opinion surveys and legislative voting, the empirical estimation of spatial models using scaling and ideal point estimation methods has never been more accessible.The second edition of Analyzing Spatial Models of Choice and Judgment demonstrates how to estimate and ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Wisden: Tea in the Pavilion

    The Cricketing World of Wisden brought to Life - A Full-Cast Production

    Series series

    Unabridged

    2 hours 17 min

    WISDEN comes to life as we relive the finest, the strangest and the most dramatic moments of cricketing history in this entertaining portrait of the English game. Take your seat on the boundary as we enjoy some of the most colourful and intriguing English cricket matches in the history of the game, as King George VI takes a hat trick in the grounds of Windsor castle, a cricket-loving vicar escapes ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus