Ethnomusicology category: 491 books
Music Entries at Stationers' Hall, 1710–1818
from lists prepared for William Hawes, D.W. Krummel and Alan Tyson and from other sources
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
The British Copyright Act of 1709 protected proprietors of books and music printed after 10 April 1710 who gave copies to the Company of Stationers in London. Upon receipt of a copy, usually within days of its first publication, the Stationers' Hall warehouse keeper entered details into a register....
Spiders of the Market, Enhanced Ebook
Ghanaian Trickster Performance in a Web of Neoliberalism
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2016
The Ghanaian trickster-spider, Ananse, is a deceptive figure full of comic delight who blurs the lines of class, politics, and morality. David Afriyie Donkor identifies social performance as a way to understand trickster behavior within the shifting process of political legitimization in Ghana, revealing...
by Andy Nercessian
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2001
The book is an outline of the Armenian duduk, a cylindrical double-reed aerophone made of apricot-wood, and its relation to the Armenian identity. It attempts to deepen our understanding of musical instruments not only through an examination of musical and constructional features, but also through...
Music as Intangible Cultural Heritage
Policy, Ideology, and Practice in the Preservation of East Asian Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Focussing on music traditions, these essays explore the policy, ideology and practice of preservation and promotion of East Asian intangible cultural heritage. For the first time, Japan, Korea, China and Taiwan - states that were amongst the first to establish legislation and systems for indigenous...
Jewish Religious Music in Nineteenth-Century America
Restoring the Synagogue Soundtrack
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2019
In Jewish Religious Music in Nineteenth-Century America: Restoring the Synagogue Soundtrack, Judah M. Cohen demonstrates that Jews constructed a robust religious musical conversation in the United States during the mid- to late-19th century. While previous studies of American Jewish music history...
Chicago Hustle and Flow
Gangs, Gangsta Rap, and Social Class
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
On September 4, 2012, Joseph Coleman, an eighteen-year-old aspiring gangsta rapper, was gunned down in the Englewood neighborhood of Chicago. Police immediately began investigating the connections between Coleman’s murder and an online war of words and music he was having with another Chicago rapper...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
John Wallis (1616-1703), was one of the foremost British mathematicians of the seventeenth century, and is also remembered for his important writings on grammar and logic. An interest in music theory led him to produce translations into Latin of three ancient Greek texts - those of Ptolemy, Porphyry...
Global Perspectives on Orchestras
Collective Creativity and Social Agency
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2017
Offering innovative approaches to thinking about orchestras, Global Perspectives on Orchestras: Collective Creativity and Social Agency adopts ethnographic, historical and comparative perspectives on a variety of traditions, including symphony, Caribbean steel, Indonesian gamelan, Indian film and...
by Angelique Mouyis
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
This book explores how Theodorakis' music, such as the soundtrack for Zorba the Greek, has contrirbuted to the development of the modern Greek identity.
Romani Routes
Cultural Politics and Balkan Music in Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2011
Now that the political and economic plight of European Roma and the popularity of their music are objects of international attention, Romani Routes provides a timely and insightful view into Romani communities both in their home countries and in the diaspora. Over the past two decades, a steady stream...
Shaped by Japanese Music
Kikuoka Hiroaki and Nagauta Shamisen in Tokyo
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
Shaped by Japanese Music is an in-depth analysis of the musical world of an individual performer, composer, and teacher. Using an ethnographic approach, this study situates musical analysis in the context of its creation, demonstrating that traditional Japanese music is hardly an archaic song form...
by Josiah H. Combs
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
“The spirit of balladry is not dead, but slowly dying. The instincts, sentiments, and feelings which it represents are indeed as immortal as romance itself, but their mode of expression, the folksong, is fighting with its back to the wall, with the odds against it in our introspective age.” This...
by Ray Hitchins
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Vibe Merchants offers an insider’s perspective on the development of Jamaican Popular Music, researched and analysed by a thirty-year veteran with a wide range of experience in performance, production and academic study. This rare perspective, derived from interviews and ethnographic methodologies,...
Singing Across Divides
Music and Intimate Politics in Nepal
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
An ethnographic study of music, performance, migration, and circulation, Singing Across Divides examines how forms of love and intimacy are linked to changing conceptions of political solidarity and forms of belonging, through the lens of Nepali dohori song. The book describes dohori: improvised,...