Lexington Books

Koray Degirmenci's Creating Global Music in Turkey is a study of how 'world music' has been constituted as a new musical category in Turkey since the turn of the millennium. . . . This is a... — Popular Music More…

This slender volume is a probing, elegantly written assessment of a more tightly circumscribed topic than the author advertises with the book's title. . . .Kaminsky, a fine flutist and respected... — Journal of American Folklore More…

Abbey and Helb have collected essays culled from an international group of authors from various disciplines. The common thread of the volume is aggressive music--broadly construed. The topics... — Choice More…

Zubko argues for Bhakti rasa (aesthetic flavor of devotion) in the classical Indian dance form bharata natyam, and suggests, through ethnographic examples, that there are multiple ways of embodying... — Choice More…

McClelland's Ombra can be added to the growing list of studies seeking to identify the various features of a particular musical style and to examine the interaction between this style and what... — Notes: Journal of the Music Library Association More…

Perhaps best known as a scholar of Native American religions, Gill expands his investigations of rituals and myths to include dancing and its significance for religious studies. His research... — Choice More…