Ethnomusicology category: 491 books
Music as Heritage
Historical and Ethnographic Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2018
As economic, technological and cultural change gathers pace across the world, issues of music heritage and sustainability have become ever more pressing. Discourse on intangible cultural heritage has developed in complex ways in recent years, and musical practices have been transformed by safeguarding...
by Šse Ottosson
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
This detailed ethnographic study explores the intercultural crafting of contemporary forms of Aboriginal manhood in the world of country, rock and reggae music making in Central Australia. Focusing on four different musical contexts – an Aboriginal recording studio, remote Aboriginal settlements,...
Transglobal Sounds
Music, Youth and Migration
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Through a transnational, comparative and multi-level approach to the relationship between youth, migration, and music, the aesthetic intersections between the local and the global, and between agency and identity, are presented through case studies in this book. Transglobal Sounds contemplates migrant...
Island Songs
A Global Repertoire
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2011
Islands are concentrated "instances" of place, in every sense of the term. As such, there are no better candidates for observing and critiquing the dynamics of globalization. Through the close analysis of musical performance and traditions, the scholarly contributors to Island Songs provide...
by Keith Howard
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
SamulNori is a percussion quartet which has given rise to a genre, of the same name, that is arguably Korea’s most successful ’traditional’ music of recent times. Today, there are dozens of amateur and professional samulnori groups. There is a canon of samulnori pieces, closely associated with...
Shbahoth – Songs of Praise in the Babylonian Jewish Tradition
From Baghdad to Bombay and London
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Sara Manasseh brings a significant, but less widely-known, Jewish repertoire and tradition to the attention of both the Jewish community (Ashkenazi, Sephardi, Oriental) and the wider global community. The book showcases thirty-one songs and includes English translations, complete Hebrew texts, transliterations...
by Various Authors
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
This book contains classic material dating back to the 1900s and before. The content has been carefully selected for its interest and relevance to a modern audience. Carefully selecting the best articles from our collection we have compiled a series of historical and informative publications on the...
The German Symphony between Beethoven and Brahms
The Fall and Rise of a Genre
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
It was Carl Dahlhaus who coined the phrase ’dead time’ to describe the state of the symphony between Schumann and Brahms. Christopher Fifield argues that many of the symphonies dismissed by Dahlhaus made worthy contributions to the genre. He traces the root of the problem further back to Beethoven’s...
Music from behind the Bridge
Steelband Aesthetics and Politics in Trinidad and Tobago
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2007
A symbol of Trinidadian culture, the steelband has made an extraordinary transformation since its origins-from junk metal to steel orchestra, and from disparaged underclass pastime to Trinidad and Tobago's national instrument. Now, Shannon Dudley gives the first discerning look at the musical thinking...
Chocolate Surrealism
Music, Movement, Memory, and History in the Circum-Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
In Chocolate Surrealism, Njoroge Njoroge highlights connections among the production, performance, and reception of popular music at critical historical junctures in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The author sifts different origins and styles to place socio-musical movements into a larger...
Singing in Brazilian Portuguese
A Guide to Lyric Diction and Vocal Repertoire
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
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While popular forms of Brazilian music include bossa nova and samba, Brazil also has a rich classical music tradition dating back to the 1500s that exhibits a unique and diverse amalgamation...
Performing Afro-Cuba
Image, Voice, Spectacle in the Making of Race and History
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
Visitors to Cuba will notice that Afro-Cuban figures and references are everywhere: in popular music and folklore shows, paintings and dolls of Santería saints in airport shops, and even restaurants with plantation themes. In Performing Afro-Cuba, Kristina Wirtz examines how the animation of Cuba’s...
Giving Voice to Democracy in Music Education
Diversity and Social Justice in the Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
This book examines how music education presents opportunities to shape democratic awareness through political, pedagogical, and humanistic perspectives. Focusing on democracy as a vital dimension in teaching music, the essays in this volume have particular relevance to teaching music as democratic...
Divine Inspirations
Music and Islam in Indonesia
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2011
Divine Inspirations: Music and Islam in Indonesia brings together the work of 11 international scholars into an unprecedented volume focused on religion and performance in a nation celebrated for its extraordinary arts, religious diversity, and natural beauty. The resulting collection provides a panoramic...