Ethnomusicology category: 491 books
by Callender Press
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2012
What is music and how can we study it?
In this third volume of her forthcoming series 'In Search of Human Culture', the eminent anthropologist offers her own answers. she draws on both on her own first-hand work in Africa, the South Pacific and England and on extensive documentary sources, and provides a guide to the vast literature on the issues.
Transnational Memory and Popular Culture in East and Southeast Asia
Amnesia, Nostalgia and Heritage
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016
Transnational Memory and Popular Culture in East and Southeast Asia explores the significance of transnational popular culture in the formation and mediation of collective memories across the region. It looks at case studies including: the politics of cinematic remembering of Hong Kong films on Southeast...
Greeted With Smiles
Bukharian Jewish Music and Musicians in New York
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
As the Soviet Union stood on the brink of collapse, thousands of Bukharian Jews left their homes from across the predominantly Muslim cities of Central Asia, to reestablish their lives in the United States, Israel and Europe. Today, about thirty thousand Bukharian Jews reside in New York City, settled...
Popular Music of Vietnam
The Politics of Remembering, the Economics of Forgetting
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
Based on the author’s research in Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi, and other urban areas in Vietnam, this study of contemporary Vietnamese popular music explores the ways globalization and free market economics have influenced the music and subcultures of Vietnamese youth, focusing on the conflict between...
Widening the Horizon
Exoticism in Post-War Popular Music
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 1999
During the 1950s and early 1960s, the musical exotica produced by performers such as Les Baxter, Martin Denny, and Arthur Lyman enjoyed international success. Widening the Horizon is the first in-depth analysis of the music and its cultural context.
Hip Hop and Social Change in Africa
Ni Wakati
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
This book examines social change in Africa through the lens of hip hop music and culture. Artists engage their African communities in a variety of ways that confront established social structures, using coded language and symbols to inform, question, and challenge. Through lyrical expression, dance,...
by Kim Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
This work investigates and documents the different technical, musical and organizational steps by which the steelband movement was born and grew to maturity.
Transported by Song
Corsican Voices from Oral Tradition to World Stage
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2007
The traditions of the Mediterranean island of Corsica have been well preserved and revitalized, yet little has been written about it in scholarly circles. This work represents the first treatise on Corsican music in the English language. Transported by Song: Corsican Voices from Oral Tradition to...
Musical Performance and the Changing City
Post-industrial Contexts in Europe and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
A contribution to the field of urban music studies, this book presents new interdisciplinary approaches to the study of music in urban social life. It takes musical performance as its key focus, exploring how and why different kinds of performance are evolving in contemporary cities in the interaction...
Manele in Romania
Cultural Expression and Social Meaning in Balkan Popular Music
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2016
This edited volume examines manele (sing. manea), an urban Romanian song-dance ethnopop genre that combines local traditional and popular music with Balkan and Middle Eastern elements. The genre is performed primarily by male Romani musicians at weddings and clubs and appeals especially to Romanian...
by Anne Rasmussen
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2010
Women, the Recited Qur'an, and Islamic Music in Contemporary Indonesia takes readers to the heart of religious musical praxis in Indonesia, home to the largest Muslim population in the world. Anne K. Rasmussen explores a rich public soundscape, where women recite the divine texts of the Qur'an, and...
Music and Traditions of the Arabian Peninsula
Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, and Qatar
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Music and Traditions of the Arabian Peninsula provides a pioneering overview of folk and traditional urban music, along with dance and rituals, of Saudi Arabia and the Upper Gulf States of Kuwait, Bahrain, and Qatar. The nineteen chapters introduce variegated regions and subcultures and their rich...
Musical Exodus
Al-Andalus and Its Jewish Diasporas
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
For nearly eight centuries — from the Muslim conquest of Spain in 711 to the final expulsion of the Jews in 1492 — Muslims, Jews and Christians shared a common Andalusian culture under alternating Muslim and Christian rule. Following their expulsion, the Spanish and Arabic- speaking Jews joined...
Cairo Pop
Youth Music in Contemporary Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Cairo Pop is the first book to examine the dominant popular music of Egypt, shababiyya. Scorned or ignored by scholars and older Egyptians alike, shababiyya plays incessantly in Cairo, even while Egyptian youth joined in mass protests against their government, which eventually helped oust longtime Egyptian...