Ethnomusicology category: 491 books
Babylon East
Performing Dancehall, Roots Reggae, and Rastafari in Japan
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2010
An important center of dancehall reggae performance, sound clashes are contests between rival sound systems: groups of emcees, tune selectors, and sound engineers. In World Clash 1999, held in Brooklyn, Mighty Crown, a Japanese sound system and the only non-Jamaican competitor, stunned the international...
Steelpan Ambassadors
The US Navy Steel Band, 1957–1999
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017
"Maybe you won't like steel band. It's possible. But it's been said that the Pied Piper had a steel band helping him on his famous visit to Hamelin." When the US Navy distributed this press release, anxieties and tensions of the impending Cold War felt palpable. As President Eisenhower cast...
by Christopher Morris
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Adopting and transforming the Romantic fascination with mountains, modernism in the German-speaking lands claimed the Alps as a space both of resistance and of escape. This new 'cult of mountains' reacted to the symptoms and alienating forces associated with modern culture, defining and reinforcing...
by Vesa Kurkela, Markus Mantere
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
During the past two decades, there has emerged a growing need to reconsider the objects, axioms and perspectives of writing music history. A certain suspicion towards Francois Lyotard’s grand narratives, as a sign of what he diagnosed as our ’postmodern condition’, has become more or less an...
Why You Love Music
From Mozart to Metallica--The Emotional Power of Beautiful Sounds
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
A delightful journey through the psychology and science of music, WHY YOU LOVE MUSIC is the perfect book for anyone who loves a tune.
Music plays a hugely important role in our emotional, intellectual, and even physical lives. It impacts the ways we work, relax, behave, and feel. It can make...
Heartbeat, Warble, and the Electric Powwow
American Indian Music
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2016
Despite centuries of suppression and oppression, American Indian music survives today as a profound cultural force. Heartbeat, Warble, and the Electric Powwow celebrates in depth the vibrant soundscape of Native North America, from the “heartbeat” of intertribal drums and “warble” of Native...
by Andrew Shahriari
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2017
Popular World Music, Second Edition introduces students to popular music genres and artists from around the world. Andrew Shahriari discusses international music styles familiar to most students—Reggae, Salsa, K-Pop, and more—with a comprehensive listening-oriented introduction to mainstream musical...
Folk Songs Hawaii Sings
A Collection of Songs from Polynesia and Asia for Piano and Voice
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2011
Folk Songs Hawaii Sings is a sparkling compilation of melodies from the islands of Polynesia together with a variety of folk songs that countless Asian people have brought with them to their new home in the Hawaiian Islands.
In one sense it is a musical picture of the renowned harmonious blend...
by Marcel Cobussen, Nanette Nielsen
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
It seems self-evident that music plays more than just an aesthetic role in contemporary society. In addition, music's social, political, emancipatory, and economical functions have been the subject of much recent research. Given this, it is surprising that the subject of ethics has often been neglected...
by Kathryn Woodard
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2011
This essay discusses the interpretation of an American Industrial folk song in a solo piano work by Frederic Rzewski (b. 1938). The author discusses ways the piano work evokes the meaning of the text without relying on the actual sung lyrics. She also discusses performances of the work in certain...
by Kofi Agawu
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
The world of Sub-Saharan African music is immensely rich and diverse, containing a plethora of repertoires and traditions. In The African Imagination in Music, renowned music scholar Kofi Agawu offers an introduction to the major dimensions of this music and the values upon which it rests. Agawu leads...
Shared Meanings in the Film Music of Philip Glass
Music, Multimedia and Postminimalism
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
The study of music within multimedia contexts has become an increasingly active area of scholarly research. However, the application of such studies to musical genres outside the 'classical' film canon, or in television and other media remains largely unexplored in any detail. Tristian Evans demonstrates...
Listening for Africa
Freedom, Modernity, and the Logic of Black Music's African Origins
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2017
In Listening for Africa David F. Garcia explores how a diverse group of musicians, dancers, academics, and activists engaged with the idea of black music and dance’s African origins between the 1930s and 1950s. Garcia examines the work of figures ranging from Melville J. Herskovits, Katherine Dunham,...
Music of Azerbaijan
From Mugham to Opera
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
This book traces the development of Azerbaijani art music from its origins in the Eastern, modal, improvisational tradition known as mugham through its fusion with Western classical, jazz, and world art music. Aida Huseynova places the fascinating and little-known history of music in Azerbaijan against...