Ethnomusicology category: 491 books
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Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Cutting across countries, genres, and time periods, this volume explores topics ranging from hip hop’s influence on Maasai identity in current day Tanzania to jazz in Bulawayo during the interwar years, using music to tell a larger story about the cultures and societies of Africa.
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Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
Exploring the origins, organization, subject matter, and performance contexts of singers and singing, Women's Songs from West Africa expands our understanding of the world of women in West Africa and their complex and subtle roles as verbal artists. Covering Côte d'Ivoire, the Gambia, Mali, Niger,...
The Dance of Politics
Gender, Performance, and Democratization in Malawi
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2009
Election campaigns, political events, and national celebration days in Malawi usually feature groups of women who dance and perform songs of praise for politicians and political parties. These lively performances help to attract and energize throngs of prospective voters. However, as Lisa Gilman explains,...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2010
The Garland Handbook of African Music is comprised of essays from The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: Volume 1, Africa, (1997). Revised and updated, the essays offer detailed, regional studies of the different musical cultures of Africa and examine the ways in which music helps to define the...
How Music Dies (or Lives)
Field Recording and the Battle for Democracy in the Arts
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
All recordings document life, arising from a specific time and place, and if that place is artificial, the results will be as well. Culled from a lifetime of learning through failure and designed to provoke thought and inspiration for artists in every medium, How Music Dies (or Lives) is a virtual...
by Janet Sturman
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
The Course of Mexican Music provides students with a cohesive introductory understanding of the scope and influence of Mexican music. The textbook highlights individual musical examples as a means of exploring the processes of selection that led to specific musical styles in different times and...
How to Live for Love & Hip Hop
Learn to Live Your Passion as Ms. Hennessey speaks to World Star Hip Hop Artists
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
This book is your opportunity to see into the real life of creatives and artists. You will see how we connect and how important great conversations are. Maybe you’re reading this book because your passion is Hip Hop. Maybe you’d like to take the insights from the creatives you will read about...
by Pete Dale
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
For more than three decades, a punk underground has repeatedly insisted that 'anyone can do it'. This underground punk movement has evolved via several micro-traditions, each offering distinct and novel presentations of what punk is, isn't, or should be. Underlying all these punk micro-traditions...
Noise Uprising
The Audiopolitics of a World Musical Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
A radically new reading of the origins of recorded music
Noise Uprising brings to life the moment and sounds of a cultural revolution. Between the development of electrical recording in 1925 and the outset of the Great Depression in the early 1930s, the soundscape of modern times unfolded in...
by Peter Dayan
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
In 1877, Ruskin accused Whistler of ’flinging a pot of paint in the public’s face’. Was he right? After all, Whistler always denied that the true function of art was to represent anything. If a painting does not represent, what is it, other than mere paint, flung in the public’s face? Whistler’s...
Sound Play
Video Games and the Musical Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
Video games open portals to fantastical worlds where imaginative play and enchantment prevail. These virtual settings afford us considerable freedom to act out with relative impunity. Or do they? Sound Play explores the aesthetic, ethical, and sociopolitical stakes of people's creative engagements...
Lions of the North
Sounds of the New Nordic Radical Nationalism
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2017
Often labeled "neo-Nazis" or "right-wing extremists," radical nationalists in the Nordic countries have always relied on music to voice their opposition to immigration and multiculturalism. These actors shook political establishments throughout Sweden, Denmark, and Norway during...
Mémoire sur les Danses Chinoises d'après Confucius suivi de L'ancienne Musique Chinoise, par Ly-Koang-Ty
traduit par François Arnaud
Language: French
Release Date: April 30, 2019
L’abbé Arnaud publia ses oeuvres complètes au début du XIXe siècle, ainsi que de remarquables articles sur la musique ancienne comme sur les mœurs et les coutumes des Chinois, et plus particulièrement les danses chinoises.
Nous avons choisi d’en publier deux articles remarquables,...
Chances and Choices
Exploring the Impact of Music Education
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2012
In Chances and Choices, Stephanie Pittssurveys the aims and impact of formative musical experiences, evaluating the extent to which music education of various kinds provides a foundation for lifelong involvement and interest in music. Pitts draws upon rich qualitative data from her own extensive original...