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Pickering provides a fascinating and multifaceted overview of blackface minstrelsy in Britain... an enlightening and very readable history of minstrelsy in Britain — The Journal of Popular Music More…

Working as a session musician in Jamaica since the early 1980s, Ray Hitchins is uniquely placed to comment on the island's studio practices. ... Hitchins interviewed key studio personnel to... — MOJO More…

Washabaugh has an uncanny ability to locate, synthesize, and explicate a wide array of critical issues related to flamenco. He meticulously surveys both historical and contemporary readings,... — Ethnomusicology Review More…

impressive two-volume set... At his best, Howard provides detailed and historically informed analyses of the pertinent issues, agents, and materials central to understanding the current Korean... — Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies More…

Dusadee Swangviboonpong has made a marvelous contribution to the small but growing body of Western-language empirical scholarship devoted to the classical music of Thailand... Swangviboonpong's... — Notes: Journal of the Music Library Association More…

read this book and you'll understand nueva canciA(3)n, Cuban son, flamenco, and some steamy Cuban Latin slang much, much better — Songlines More…