Ethnomusicology category: 491 books
Negotiating Difference in French Louisiana Music
Categories, Stereotypes, and Identifications
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2014
Sara Le Menestrel explores the role of music in constructing, asserting, erasing, and negotiating differences based on the notions of race, ethnicity, class, and region. She discusses established notions and brings to light social stereotypes and hierarchies at work in the evolving French Louisiana...
Global Metal Music and Culture
Current Directions in Metal Studies
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
This book defines the key ideas, scholarly debates, and research activities that have contributed to the formation of the international and interdisciplinary field of Metal Studies. Drawing on insights from a wide range of disciplines including popular music, cultural studies, sociology, anthropology,...
by Adam Krims
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
Music and Urban Geography is the first book to theorize musical aspects of the tremendous changes that have overtaken major cities in the developed world over the past few decades. Drawing on musicology, music theory, urban geography, and historical materialism, Krims maps changes not only in how...
The Cultural Study of Music
A Critical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
What is the relationship between music and culture? The first edition of The Cultural Study of Music: A Critical Introduction explored this question with groundbreaking rigor and breadth. Now this second edition refines that original analysis while examining the ways the field has developed in the...
Sounds of the Underground
A Cultural, Political and Aesthetic Mapping of Underground and Fringe Music
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
In basements, dingy backrooms, warehouses, and other neglected places around the world music is being made that doesn't fit neatly into popular or classical categories and genres, whose often extreme sounds and tiny concerts hover on the fringes of these commercial and cultural mainstreams.
The...
Living the Hiplife
Celebrity and Entrepreneurship in Ghanaian Popular Music
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013
Hiplife is a popular music genre in Ghana that mixes hip-hop beatmaking and rap with highlife music, proverbial speech, and Akan storytelling. In the 1990s, young Ghanaian musicians were drawn to hip-hop's dual ethos of black masculine empowerment and capitalist success. They made their underground...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2007
The Garland Handbook of Latin American Music is comprised of essays from The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: Volume 2, South America, Mexico, Central America, and the Carribean, (1998). Revised and updated, the essays offer detailed, regional studies of the different musical cultures of Latin...
New Orleans
Creolization and all that Jazz
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
Ralph Ellison once wrote that the rules of performance in American culture are jazz-shaped. This book explores the Afro-creole core culture of New Orleans as the mainspring of this energizing music. Much of the cultural capital of the city is buried in a complex, tripartite racial history, which threatens...
The Jazz Republic
Music, Race, and American Culture in Weimar Germany
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2017
The Jazz Republic examines jazz music and the jazz artists who shaped Germany’s exposure to this African American art form from 1919 through 1933. Jonathan O. Wipplinger explores the history of jazz in Germany as well as the roles that music, race (especially Blackness), and America played in German...
Baltic Musics/Baltic Musicologies
The Landscape Since 1991
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
This volume is the first to bring together music scholars working on Baltic topics from throughout Europe, North America, and the Middle East for the purpose of exploring the impact of Nazi and Soviet occupation (1940-91) and the restoration of republican independence upon the production of musicological...
Social Functions of Synagogue Song
A Durkheimian Approach
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
Social Functions of Synagogue Song: A Durkheimian Approach by Jonathan L. Friedmann paints a detailed picture of the important role sacred music plays in Jewish religious communities. This study explores one possible way to approach the subject of music’s intimate connection with public worship:...
Geographies of Cubanidad
Place, Race, and Musical Performance in Contemporary Cuba
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2015
Derived from the nationalist writings of José Martí, the concept of Cubanidad (Cubanness) has always imagined a unified hybrid nation where racial difference is nonexistent and nationality trumps all other axes identities. Scholars have critiqued this celebration of racial mixture, highlighting...
On Site, In Sound
Performance Geographies in América Latina
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
In On Site, In Sound Kirstie A. Dorr examines the spatiality of sound and the ways in which the sonic is bound up in perceptions and constructions of geographic space. Focusing on the hemispheric circulation of South American musical cultures, Dorr shows how sonic production and spatial formation...
What She Go Do
Women in Afro-Trinidadian Music
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
In the 1990s, expressive culture in the Caribbean was becoming noticeably more feminine. At the annual Carnival of Trinidad and Tobago, thousands of female masqueraders dominated the street festival on Carnival Monday and Tuesday. Women had become significant contributors to the performance of calypso...