Category: New Books

The world knows legendary jazz saxophonist and composer John Coltrane well, while his talented wife, Alice Coltrane, remains somewhat of an enigma. Now, just three…

Bob Marley And The Golden Age of Reggae (Titan Books, ISBN: 97818) will be available in October 20120. Bob Marley And The Golden Age of…

Great Musicians from our First Nations, written by Vincent Schilling, is the latest book in the First Nations Series for Young Readers from Second Story…

Cajun and Zydeco Dance Music in Northern California: Modern Pleasures in a Postmodern World (University Press of Mississippi) traces how the San Francisco Bay Area…

In this first of its kind ethnomusicological study of world film music, editor Mark Slobin brings together a truly global analysis of the subject. Where…

Ventilador Music has published two new books (with CD) with sheet music by the legendary Flamenco guitarist Mario Escudero and contemporary guitarist Juan Lorenzo. Mario…

American writer Estela Zatania has a new book in Spanish titled Flamencos de Gañanía (Ediciones Giralda, 2007), which focuses on the historical cortijos (Andalusian haciendas)…

The Encyclopaedia of Albanian Folk Iso-Polyphony, with text in Albanian and English is now available. Iso-Polyphony is an exceptionally beautiful and uniquely Albanian folk musical…

Middletown (Connecticut), USA – In the new book Traveling Spirit Masters, Deborah Kapchan explores how a group of Moroccan ritual musicians from the sub-Saharan Africa…