Ethnomusicology category: 491 books
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Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
This volume brings together for the first time book chapters, articles and position pieces from the debates on music and identity, which seek to answer classic questions such as: how has music shaped the ways in which we understand our identities and those of others? In what ways has scholarly writing...
Improvisation and Composition in Balinese Gendér Wayang
Music of the Moving Shadows
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
This book is an examination of the music of the Balinese gendér wayang, the quartet of metallophones - gendér - that accompanies the Balinese shadow puppet play - wayang kulit. The book focuses on processes of musical variation, the main means of creating new music in this genre, and the implications...
Making Waves
Traveling Musics in Hawai‘i, Asia, and the Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
Musical sounds are some of the most mobile human elements, crossing national, cultural, and regional boundaries at an ever-increasing pace in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Whole musical products travel easily, though not necessarily intact, via musicians, CDs (and earlier, cassettes),...
Representations of the Orient in Western Music
Violence and Sensuality
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
This book focuses on the cultural, political and religious representations of the Orient in Western music. Dr Nasser Al-Taee traces several threads in a vast repertoire of musical representations, concentrating primarily on the images of violence and sensuality. Al-Taee argues that these prevailing...
by Thomas Hilder
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
In Sámi Musical Performance and the Politics of Indigeneity in Northern Europe , ethnomusicologist Thomas Hilder offers the first book-length study of this diverse and dynamic music scene and its intersection with the politics of indigeneity. Based on extensive ethnographic research, Hilder provides...
Turkic Soundscapes
From Shamanic Voices to Hip-Hop
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
The Turkic soundscape is both geographically huge and culturally diverse (twenty-eight countries, republics and districts extending from Eastern Europe through the Caucasus and throughout Central Asia). Although the Turkic peoples of the world can trace their linguistic and genetic ancestries to common...
Live from Dar es Salaam
Popular Music and Tanzania's Music Economy
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2011
When socialism collapsed in Tanzania, the government-controlled music industry gave way to a vibrant independent music scene. Alex Perullo explores the world of the bands, music distributors, managers, and clubs that attest to the lively and creative music industry in Dar es Salaam. Perullo examines...
by Peter K. Marsh
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2008
Few other nations have undergone as profound a change in their social, political, and cultural life as Mongolia did in the twentieth century. Beginning the century as a largely rural, nomadic, and tradition-oriented society, the nation was transformed by the end of this century into a largely urban,...
Bulgarian Harmony
In Village, Wedding, and Choral Music of the Last Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
An in-depth study of the Bulgarian harmonic system is long overdue. More than two decades since the Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares choir was awarded a Grammy (1990), there is no scholarly study of the captivating sounds of Bulgarian vertical sonorities. Kalin Kirilov traces the gradual formation of...
by Eckehard Pistrick
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Migration studies is an area of increasing significance in musicology as in other disciplines. How do migrants express and imagine themselves through musical practice? How does music help them to construct social imaginaries and to cope with longings and belongings? In this study of migration music...
Making Music Indigenous
Popular Music in the Peruvian Andes
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2019
When thinking of indigenous music, many people may imagine acoustic instruments and pastoral settings far removed from the whirl of modern life. But, in contemporary Peru, indigenous chimaycha music has become a wildly popular genre that is even heard in the nightclubs of Lima. In Making Music Indigenous,...
by Haekyung Um
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
P’ansori is the quintessential traditional Korean musical drama, in which epic tales are sung and narrated by a solo singer accompanied by a drummer. Drawing on her extensive research in Korea and its diasporas, Haekyung Um describes and analyses the creative processes of p’ansori, weaving into...
Singing Yoruba Christianity
Music, Media, and Morality
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
Singing the same song is a central part of the worship practice for members of the Cherubim and Seraphim Christian Church in Lagos, Nigeria. Vicki L. Brennan reveals that by singing together, church members create one spiritual mind and become unified around a shared set of values. She follows parishioners...
Polkabilly
How the Goose Island Ramblers Redefined American Folk Music
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2006
A freewheeling blend of continental European folk music and the songs, tunes, and dances of Anglo and Celtic immigrants, polkabilly has enthralled American musicians and dancers since the mid-19th century. From West Virginia coal camps and east Texas farms to the Canadian prairies and America's Upper...