Ethnomusicology category: 491 books
The Women of Quyi
Liminal Voices and Androgynous Bodies
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
Why has the female voice—as the resonant incarnation of the female body—inspired both fascination and ambivalence? Why were women restricted from performing on the Chinese public stage? How have female roles and voices been appropriated by men throughout much of the history of Chinese theatre?...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
It is undeniable that technology has made a tangible impact on the nature of musical listening. The new media have changed our relationship with music in a myriad of ways, not least because the experience of listening can now be prolonged at will and repeated at any time and in any space. Moreover,...
The Singer-Songwriter in Europe
Paradigms, Politics and Place
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
The Singer-Songwriter in Europe is the first book to explore and compare the multifaceted discourses and practices of this figure within and across linguistic spaces in Europe and in dialogue with spaces beyond continental borders. The concept of the singer-songwriter is significant and much-debated...
The Gypsy Caravan
From Real Roma to Imaginary Gypsies in Western Music
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2004
A formidable challenge to the study of Roma (Gypsy) music is the muddle of fact and fiction in determining identity. This book investigates "Gypsy music" as a marked and marketable exotic substance, and as a site of active cultural negotiation and appropriation between the real Roma and...
Gongs and Pop Songs
Sounding Minangkabau in Indonesia
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
Scholarship on the musical traditions of Indonesia has long focused on practices from Java and Bali, including famed gamelan traditions, at the expense of the wide diversity of other musical forms within the archipelago. Jennifer A. Fraser counters this tendency by exploring a little-known gong tradition...
by Allan F. Moore
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
The musicological study of popular music has developed, particularly over the past twenty years, into an established aspect of the discipline. The academic community is now well placed to discuss exactly what is going on in any example of popular music and the theoretical foundation for such analytical...
Punk Aesthetics and New Folk
Way Down the Old Plank Road
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Joanna Newsom, Will Oldham (a.k.a. 'Bonnie Prince Billy'), and Devendra Banhart are perhaps the best known of a generation of independent artists who use elements of folk music in contexts that are far from traditional. These (and other) so called ’new folk’ artists challenge our notions of 'finished...
Ritual and Music of North China
Volume 2: Shaanbei
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
This second volume of Stephen Jones' work on ritual and musical life in north China, again with an accompanying DVD, gives an impression of music-making in daily life in the poor mountainous region of Shaanbei, northwest China. It conveys some of the diverse musical activities there around 2000, from...
by Sang-Hie Lee
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
Scholarly Research for Musicians presents a range of research methods and techniques, incorporating both the common elements of traditional music research methodologies with innovative research strategies endemic to the fields of social science, education, and performance science. The author’s collaborative...
by Larry Crook
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Focus: Music of Northeast Brazil examines the historical and contemporary manifestations of the music of Brazil, a country with a musical landscape that is layered with complexity and diversity. Based on the author’s field research during the past twenty years, the book describes and analyzes the...
Music, Masculinity and the Claims of History
The Austro-German Tradition from Hegel to Freud
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
What does it mean to think of Western Art music - and the Austro-German contribution to that repertory - as a tradition? How are men and masculinities implicated in the shaping of that tradition? And how is the writing of the history (or histories) of that tradition shaped by men and masculinities?...
by Tia DeNora
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Taking a cue from Erving Goffman’s classic work, Asylums, Tia DeNora develops a novel interdisciplinary framework for music, health and wellbeing. Considering health and illness both in medical contexts and in the often-overlooked realm of everyday life, DeNora argues that these identities are by...
Renegotiating French Identity
Musical Culture and Creativity in France during Vichy and the German Occupation
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
In Renegotiating French Identity, Jane Fulcher addresses the question of cultural resistance to the German occupation and Vichy regime during the Second World War. Nazi Germany famously stressed music as a marker of national identity and cultural achievement, but so too did Vichy. From the opera to...
Greek Orthodox Music in Ottoman Istanbul
Nation and Community in the Era of Reform
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
During the late Ottoman period (1856–1922), a time of contestation about imperial policy toward minority groups, music helped the Ottoman Greeks in Istanbul define themselves as a distinct cultural group. A part of the largest non-Muslim minority within a multi-ethnic and multi-religious empire,...