Ethnomusicology category: 491 books
Hotel Mariachi
Urban Space and Cultural Heritage in Los Angeles
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
In Boyle Heights, gateway to East Los Angeles, sits the 1889 landmark “Hotel Mariachi,” where musicians have lived and gathered on the adjacent plaza for more than half a century. This book is a photographic and ethnographic study of the mariachis, Mariachi Plaza de Los Angeles, and the neighborhood....
Taarab Music in Zanzibar in the Twentieth Century
A Story of ‘Old is Gold’ and Flying Spirits
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
The musical genre of taarab is played for entertainment at weddings and other festive occasions all along the Swahili Coast in East Africa. Taarab contains all the features of a typical 'Indian Ocean' music, combining influences from Egypt, the Arabian Peninsula, India and the West with local musical...
Performing Gender, Place, and Emotion in Music
Global Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
While ethnomusicologists and anthropologists have long recognized the theoretical connections between gender, place, and emotion in musical performance, these concepts are seldom analyzed together. I>Performing Gender, Place, and Emotion in Music is the first book-length study to examine the interweaving...
by Maria Hnaraki
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
"Crete is an island where many people from different countries, cultures and religions have lived and have left their traces. So isn't music in Crete today a product of all these mixtures and cultural elements?"
Dr. Hnaraki's self-posed question is answered in the affirmative as the author...
Composing the Canon in the German Democratic Republic
Narratives of Nineteenth-Century Music
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
When the German Democratic Republic (GDR) was founded in 1949, its leaders did not position it as a new state. Instead, they represented East German socialism as the culmination of all that was positive in Germany's past. The GDR was heralded as the second German Enlightenment, a society in which...
Cajun Breakdown
The Emergence of an American-Made Music
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2009
In 1946, Harry Choates, a Cajun fiddle virtuoso, changed the course of American musical history when his recording of the so-called Cajun national anthem "Jole Blon" reached number four on the national Billboard charts. Cajun music became part of the American consciousness for the first time thanks...
Masters of Contemporary Brazilian Song
MPB, 1965-1985
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
Masters of Contemporary Brazilian Song is a critical study of MPB (música popular brasileira), a term that refers to varieties of urban popular music of the 1960s and 1970s, incorporating samba, Bossa Nova, and new materials.
Representing the Good Neighbor
Music, Difference, and the Pan American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
Winner of the 2015 Robert M. Stevenson Award from the American Musicological Society In Representing the Good Neighbor: Music, Difference, and the Pan American Dream, Carol A. Hess investigates the reception of Latin American art music in the US during the twentieth century. Hers is the first study...
New York Noise
Radical Jewish Music and the Downtown Scene
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
Coined in 1992 by composer/saxophonist John Zorn, "Radical Jewish Culture," or RJC, became the banner under which many artists in Zorn's circle performed, produced, and circulated their music. New York's downtown music scene, part of the once-grungy Lower East Side, has long been the site of cultural...
Tigers of a Different Stripe
Performing Gender in Dominican Music
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
Tigers of a Different Stripe takes readers inside the unique world of merengue típico, a traditional music of the Dominican Republic. While in most genres of Caribbean music women usually participate as dancers or vocalists, in merengue típico they are more often instrumentalists and even bandleaders—something...
The Work of Music Theory
Selected Essays
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
This collection brings together an anthology of articles by Thomas Christensen, one of the leading historians of music theory active today. Published over the span of the past 25 years, the selected articles provide a historical conspectus about a range of vital topics in the history of music theory,...
Ethnomusicologizing
Essays on Music in the New Paradigms
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2015
In Ethnomusicologizing: Essays on Music in the New Paradigms, composer and musicologist brings together a series of essays on music making in contemporary culture. More specifically, it focuses on the myriad ways we engage with music—as makers, as listeners, as consumers, as producers. Banfield...
Turkish Metal
Music, Meaning, and Morality in a Muslim Society
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
Turkish Metal journeys deep into the heart of the Turkish heavy metal scene, uncovering the emergence, evolution, and especially the social implications of this controversial musical genre in a Muslim society. The book applies an ethnographic approach in order to study social and cultural change in...
"The Voice of Egypt"
Umm Kulthum, Arabic Song, and Egyptian Society in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2008
Umm Kulthum, the "voice of Egypt," was the most celebrated musical performer of the century in the Arab world. More than twenty years after her death, her devoted audience, drawn from all strata of Arab society, still numbers in the millions. Thanks to her skillful and pioneering use of...