Ethnomusicology category: 491 books
by Christin Hoene
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
This book examines the role of music in British-South Asian postcolonial literature, asking how music relates to the construction of postcolonial identity. It focuses on novels that explore the postcolonial condition in India, Pakistan, and the United Kingdom: Vikram Seth's A Suitable Boy, Amit Chaudhuri's...
by Zoe C. Sherinian
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2014
Zoe C. Sherinian shows how Christian Dalits (once known as untouchables or outcastes) in southern India have employed music to protest social oppression and as a vehicle of liberation. Her focus is on the life and theology of a charismatic composer and leader, Reverend J. Theophilus Appavoo, who drew...
Sonidos Negros
On the Blackness of Flamenco
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2018
How is the politics of Blackness figured in the flamenco dancing body? What does flamenco dance tell us about the construction of race in the Atlantic world? Sonidos Negros traces how, in the span between 1492 and 1933, the vanquished Moor became Black, and how this figure, enacted in terms of a minstrelized...
Dust of the Zulu
Ngoma Aesthetics after Apartheid
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
In Dust of the Zulu Louise Meintjes traces the political and aesthetic significance of ngoma, a competitive form of dance and music that emerged out of the legacies of colonialism and apartheid in South Africa. Contextualizing ngoma within South Africa's history of violence, migrant labor, the HIV...
Singing the Rite to Belong
Ritual, Music, and the New Irish
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
This book explores the way in which singing can foster experiences of belonging through ritual performance. Based on more than two decades of ethnographic, pedagogical and musical research, it is set against the backdrop of "the new Ireland" of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Charting Ireland's...
Palestinian Music and Song
Expression and Resistance since 1900
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Drawing from a long history of indigenous traditions and incorporating diverse influences of surrounding cultures, music in Palestine and among the millions of Palestinians in diaspora offers a unique window on cultural and political events of the past century. From the perspective of scholars, performers,...
Performing al-Andalus
Music and Nostalgia across the Mediterranean
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
Performing al-Andalus explores three musical cultures that claim a connection to the music of medieval Iberia, the Islamic kingdom of al-Andalus, known for its complex mix of Arab, North African, Christian, and Jewish influences. Jonathan Holt Shannon shows that the idea of a shared Andalusian heritage...
by Francesca R. Sborgi Lawson
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
In studying one of the world's oldest and most enduring musical cultures, academics have consistently missed one of the richest forms of Chinese cultural expression: performed narratives. Francesca R. Sborgi Lawson explores the relationships between language and music in the performance of four narrative...
Burma, Kipling and Western Music
The Riff from Mandalay
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
For decades, scholars have been trying to answer the question: how was colonial Burma perceived in and by the Western world, and how did people in countries like the United Kingdom and United States form their views? This book explores how Western perceptions of Burma were influenced by the popular...
Sounds of Crossing
Music, Migration, and the Aural Poetics of Huapango Arribeño
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
In Sounds of Crossing Alex E. Chávez explores the contemporary politics of Mexican migrant cultural expression manifest in the sounds and poetics of huapango arribeño, a musical genre originating from north-central Mexico. Following the resonance of huapango's improvisational performance within...
Songs of Seoul
An Ethnography of Voice and Voicing in Christian South Korea
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2013
Songs of Seoul is an ethnographic study of voice in South Korea, where the performance of Western opera, art songs, and choral music is an overwhelmingly Evangelical Christian enterprise. Drawing on fieldwork in churches, concert halls, and schools of music, Harkness argues that the European-style...
by Marcus Aldredge
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Singer-Songwriters and Musical Open Mics is an ethnographic exploration of New York City’s live music events where musicians signup and perform short sets. This sociological study dispels the common assumption that open mics are culturally monolithic and reserved for novice musicians. Open mics...
Resounding Transcendence
Transitions in Music, Religion, and Ritual
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
Resounding Transcendence is a pathbreaking set of ethnographic and historical essays by leading scholars exploring the ways sacred music effects cultural, political, and religious transitions in the contemporary world. With chapters covering Christian, Muslim, Jewish, and Buddhist practices in East...
by Catherine Haworth, Lisa Colton
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
From the perennially young, precocious figure of 'little orphan Annie' to the physical and vocal ageing of the eighteenth-century castrato, interlinked cultural constructions of age and gender are central to the historical and contemporary depiction of creative activity and its audiences. Gender,...