Ethnomusicology category: 491 books
Music in the Marketplace
A social economics approach
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Much recent economic work on the music industry has been focused on the impact of technology on demand, with predictions being made of digital copyright infringement leading to the demise of the industry. In fact, there have always been profound cyclical swings in music media sales owing to the fact...
by Richard Chase
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
Ever heard the story about the hoe-handle that was bitten by a snake? Or the one about the man in the kraut tub? These and many more tales of wry complexion are included in this collection of uninhibited tales and ballads of the Anglo-American tradition. Collected in the Appalachians, the folklore...
by Michael Wright
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
The jews-harp is a distinctive musical instrument of international importance, yet it remains one of those musical instruments, like the ocarina, kazoo or even the art of whistling, that travels beneath the established musical radar. The story of the jews-harp is also part of our musical culture,...
To the Break of Dawn
A Freestyle on the Hip Hop Aesthetic
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2007
2007 Arts Club of Washington’s National Award for Arts Writing - Finalist
**SEE ALSO: Pimps Up, Ho’s Down: Hip Hop’s Hold on Young Black Women by T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting.**With roots that stretch from West Africa through the black pulpit, hip-hop emerged in the streets of the South Bronx...
Taiko Boom
Japanese Drumming in Place and Motion
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
With its thunderous sounds and dazzling choreography, Japanese taiko drumming has captivated audiences in Japan and across the world, making it one of the most successful performing arts to emerge from Japan in the past century. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted among taiko groups in Japan,...
Made in Japan
Studies in Popular Music
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
Made in Japan serves as a comprehensive and rigorous introduction to the history, sociology, and musicology of contemporary Japanese popular music. Each essay, written by a leading scholar of Japanese music, covers the major figures, styles, and social contexts of pop music in Japan and provides adequate...
Tango
Sex and Rhythm of the City
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
Born on the unlit streets of Buenos Aires, tango was inspired by the music of European immigrants who crossed the ocean to Argentina, lured by the promise of a better life. It found its home in the city’s marginal districts, where it was embraced and shaped by young men who told stories of prostitutes,...
The Artistry of Afro-Cuban Batá Drumming
Aesthetics, Transmission, Bonding, and Creativity
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2013
An iconic symbol and sound of the Lucum'/Santer'a religion, Afro-Cuban batá are talking drums that express the epic mythological narratives of the West African Yoruba deities known as orisha. By imitating aspects of speech and song, and by metaphorically referencing salient attributes of the deities,...
by Moshe Morad
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
The ‘Special Period’ in Cuba was an extended era of economic depression starting in the early 1990s, characterized by the collapse of revolutionary values and social norms, and a way of life conducted by improvised solutions for survival, including hustling and sex-work. During this time there...
Voice of the Leopard
African Secret Societies and Cuba
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2009
In Voice of the Leopard: African Secret Societies and Cuba, Ivor L. Miller shows how African migrants and their political fraternities played a formative role in the history of Cuba. During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, no large kingdoms controlled Nigeria and Cameroon's multilingual Cross...
Slash They Ass Up
A Black Punk Manifesto
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Slash is a memoir of experiences and solutions regarding how black people with in the punk rock subculture deal with racism, discrimination and harassment. Much of the subject matter is not limited to only black people but in most cases is transactional/intersectional
From Pac-Man to Pop Music
Interactive Audio in Games and New Media
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Digital interactive audio is the future of audio in media - most notably video games, but also web pages, theme parks, museums, art installations and theatrical events. Despite its importance to contemporary multi-media, this is the first book that provides a framework for understanding the history,...
Tambú
Curaçao's African-Caribbean Ritual and the Politics of Memory
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
As contemporary Tambú music and dance evolved on the Caribbean island of Curaçao, it intertwined sacred and secular, private and public cultural practices, and many traditions from Africa and the New World. As she explores the formal contours of Tambú, Nanette de Jong discovers its variegated history...
by Jose S. Buenconsejo
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.