Ethnomusicology category: 491 books
Dancing Revolution
Bodies, Space, and Sound in American Cultural History
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2019
Throughout American history, patterns of political intent and impact have linked the wide range of dance movements performed in public places. Groups diverse in their cultural or political identities, or in both, long ago seized on dancing in our streets, marches, open-air revival meetings, and theaters,...
by Morwenna Assaf
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
Mosaic of Music: This book is for all followers and anyone interested in the art of belly dancing, Arabic music or percussion. Learn to understand the music and the rhythms that evolve areound the dance. Play cymbals better and understand the music completely so you can be a vision of the music.
Playing Along
Digital Games, YouTube, and Virtual Performance
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2012
Why don't Guitar Hero players just pick up real guitars? What happens when millions of people play the role of a young black gang member in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas? How are YouTube-based music lessons changing the nature of amateur musicianship? This book is about play, performance, and participatory...
Bad Vibrations
The History of the Idea of Music as a Cause of Disease
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Music has been used as a cure for disease since as far back as King David's lyre, but the notion that it might be a serious cause of mental and physical illness was rare until the late eighteenth century. At that time, physicians started to argue that excessive music, or the wrong kind of music, could...
China and the West
Music, Representation, and Reception
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Western music reached China nearly four centuries ago, with the arrival of Christian missionaries, yet only within the last century has Chinese music absorbed its influence. As China and the West demonstrates, the emergence of “Westernized” music from China—concurrent with the technological...
Two Men and Music
Nationalism in the Making of an Indian Classical Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2005
A provocative account of the development of modern national culture in India using classical music as a case study. Janaki Bakhle demonstrates how the emergence of an "Indian" cultural tradition reflected colonial and exclusionary practices, particularly the exclusion of Muslims by the Brahmanic elite,...
by David P. Appleby
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2014
Here is the most comprehensive history of Brazilian music available in English. Concise yet remarkably detailed, it provides professional musicologists and music lovers alike with a clear outline of the major trends, important composers, and currents of thought that have shaped the folk, popular,...
by Eva Moreda Rodriguez
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
The early years of the Franco regime saw the formation of a strong governmental propaganda apparatus. Through expansive press laws that solidified state control over public and private media outlets alike, the Franco government directly influenced what information was made available to the public....
by Simon Barker
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
For over a century, drummers have been turning to a variety of percussive traditions as prompts for the creation of new expressive possibilities on the drumset. In this book, Simon Barker sets out in detail the developmental processes he has followed creating an improvisational language for the drumset...
Different Drummers
Rhythm and Race in the Americas
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2010
Long a taboo subject among critics, rhythm finally takes center stage in this book's dazzling, wide-ranging examination of diverse black cultures across the New World. Martin Munro’s groundbreaking work traces the central—and contested—role of music in shaping identities, politics, social history,...
by Abigail Wood
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
The dawn of the twenty-first century marked a turning period for American Yiddish culture. The 'Old World' of Yiddish-speaking Eastern Europe was fading from living memory - yet at the same time, Yiddish song enjoyed a renaissance of creative interest, both among a younger generation seeking reengagement...
Revival and Reconciliation
Sacred Music in the Making of European Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
Sacred music has long contributed fundamentally to the making of Europe. The passage from origin myths to history, the sacred journeys that have mobilized pilgrims, crusaders, and colonizers, the politics and power sounded by the vox populi—all have joined in counterpoint to shape Europe’s historical...
Tropical Renditions
Making Musical Scenes in Filipino America
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
In Tropical Renditions Christine Bacareza Balance examines how the performance and reception of post-World War II Filipino and Filipino American popular music provide crucial tools for composing Filipino identities, publics, and politics. To understand this dynamic, Balance advocates for a "disobedient...
The Ethnomusicologists' Cookbook
Complete Meals from Around the World
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Named one of New York Times Top-20 Cookbooks of 2006.
Have you ever wanted to host a full evening of Indian food, culture, and music? How about preparing a traditional Balinese banquet? Or take a trip to Cairo and enjoy an Egyptian feast? The Ethnomusicologists' Cookbook takes you around...