Ethnomusicology category: 491 books
Female Highlife Performers in Ghana
Expression, Resistance, and Advocacy
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2018
This book offers a detailed analysis of the history of female musicians in the Highlife music tradition of the Republic of Ghana, particularly the challenges and constraints these women faced and overcame. Highlife – a form of West African music infusing Ghana’s traditional Akan dance rhythms...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
This volume gathers together a cross-section of essays and book chapters dealing with the ways in which musicians and their music have been pressed into the service of political, nationalist and racial ideologies. Arranged chronologically according to their subject matter, the selections cover Western...
Musical Pathways in Recovery
Community Music Therapy and Mental Wellbeing
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2016
"Music triggered a healing process from within me. I started singing for the joy of singing myself and it helped me carry my recovery beyond the state I was in before I fell ill nine years ago to a level of well-being that I haven't had perhaps for thirty years."
This book explores...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
Popular music has come to play a significant role in the political and cultural history of the Nordic countries. Research on the region's culture has largely followed national narratives created by political and economic institutions, even as cultural life in the region--which spans a large area of...
Local Fusions
Folk Music Experiments in Central Europe at the Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2018
In Local Fusions, author Barbara Rose Lange explores musical life in Hungary, Slovakia, and Austria between the end of the Cold War and the world financial crisis of 2008. With case studies from Budapest, Bratislava, and Vienna, the book looks at the ways that artists generated social commentary and...
The Lost Paradise
Andalusi Music in Urban North Africa
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
For more than a century, urban North Africans have sought to protect and revive Andalusi music, a prestigious Arabic-language performance tradition said to originate in the “lost paradise” of medieval Islamic Spain. Yet despite the Andalusi repertoire’s enshrinement as the national classical...
by Christopher C. King
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
**A Wall Street Journal Best Book of 2018
In the tradition of Patrick Leigh Fermor and Geoff Dyer, a Grammy-winning producer discovers a powerful and ancient folk music tradition.**
In a gramophone shop in Istanbul, renowned record collector Christopher C. King uncovered some of the...
Being Musically Attuned
The Act of Listening to Music
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Listening according to mood is likely to be what most people do when they listen to music. We want to take part in, or even be part of, the emerging world of the musical work. Using the sources of musical history and philosophy, Erik Wallrup explores this extremely vague and elusive phenomenon, which...
Music and Coexistence
A Journey across the World in Search of Musicians Making a Difference
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2014
*Music and Coexistence:*A Journey across the World in Search of Musicians Making a Difference is both study and travelogue, as author Osseily Hanna explores the courageous work of musicians who compose and perform with their ostensible enemies or in extraordinary social situations. He documents the...
Theorizing the Local
Music, Practice, and Experience in South Asia and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2009
Over the past four decades, the "globalized" aspects of cultural circulation have received the majority of scholarly-and consumer-attention, particularly in the study of South Asian music. As a result, a broad range of community-based and other locally focused performance traditions in the regions...
Música de Chiloé
Folklore, Syncretism, and Cultural Development in a Chilean Aquapelago
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2018
The islands of Chiloé, in southern Chile, have developed a distinct culture over several centuries, blending indigenous traditions and Spanish settler heritage to create a vibrant pattern of folklore, music, dance, and related creative practices. This cultural heritage has become an important aspect...
Lyrical Nationalism in Post-Apartheid Namibia
Kings, Christians, and Cosmopolitans in Catholic Youth Songs
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2014
Lyrical Nationalism in Post-Apartheid Namibia explores how young people living in a former ethnic homeland in post-apartheid Namibia imagine the nation through songs they compose and perform. The author argues that these Oshiwambo-speaking youth draw on conflicting ideologies—hierarchical and egalitarian,...
by Mariella Colantuono
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 29, 2014
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 29, 2014
Quando pensiamo all'America, musicalmente parlando, la nostra mente ci rimanda subito al jazz, al sax, alla musica dei sobborghi. Non saremmo, però, capaci di dare una chiara immagine di essa, di individuarne la precisa nascita, un musicista grazie al quale essa sia diventata identificativa della...
Recording Culture
Powwow Music and the Aboriginal Recording Industry on the Northern Plains
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Recording is central to the musical lives of contemporary powwow singers yet, until now, their aesthetic practices when recording have been virtually ignored in the study of Native American expressive cultures. Recording Culture is an exploration of the Aboriginal music industry and the powwow social...