Ethnomusicology category: 491 books
by Michael Rofe
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Shostakovich's music is often described as being dynamic, energetic. But what is meant by 'energy' in music? After setting out a broad conceptual framework for approaching this question, Michael Rofe proposes various potential sources of the perceived energy in Shostakovich's symphonies, describing...
Stomp and Swerve
American Music Gets Hot, 18431924
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2003
The early decades of American popular music-Stephen Foster, Scott Joplin, John Philip Sousa, Enrico Caruso-are, for most listeners, the dark ages. It wasn’t until the mid-1920s that the full spectrum of this music-black and white, urban and rural, sophisticated and crude-made it onto records for...
Yogaku
Japanese Music in the 20th Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2002
"This book introduces us to the world of contemporary Japanese music and it guides us towards a better understanding of their world."—Luciano Berio
Yogaku discusses over a century of musical activity in Japan, detailing, in particular, the music that was inspired by Western music...
Necessary Noise
Music, Film, and Charitable Imperialism in the East of Congo
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2016
Since 1997, the war in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo has taken more than 6 million lives and shapes the daily existence of the nation's residents. While the DRC is often portrayed in international media as an unproductive failed state, the Congolese have turned increasingly to art-making...
Cuban Counterpoints
The Legacy of Fernando Ortiz
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2004
While Fernando Ortiz's contribution to our understanding of Cuba and Latin America more generally has been widely recognized since the 1940s, recently there has been renewed interest in this scholar and activist who made lasting contributions to a staggering array of fields. This book is the first...
Reeling Roosters & Dancing Ducks
Celtic Mouth Music
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Though puirt-a-beul are popular with both Gaelic-speaking and non-Gaelic speaking audiences, this book offers the first comprehensive study of the genre. Heather Sparling considers how puirt-a-beul compare to other forms of global mouth music and examines its origins, its musical and lyrical characteristics,...
Voice Lessons
French Mélodie in the Belle Epoque
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2010
Language, education, politics, and music come together in Katherine Bergeron's Voice Lessons, a study of the French mélodie in the Belle Epoque. Close readings of songs by Fauré, Debussy, and Ravel, along with poems, sound recordings, and other historical documents, seek to uncovers the cultural meanings of this art: why it emerged, why it mattered, and why it eventually disappeared.
by Anatole Leikin
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Chopin's twenty-four Préludes remain as mysterious today as when they were newly published. What prompted Franz Liszt and others to consider Chopin's Préludes to be compositions in their own right rather than introductions to other works? What did set Chopin's Préludes so drastically apart from...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2011
The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Music is an outstanding guide and reference source to the key topics, subjects, thinkers and debates in philosophy and music. Over fifty entries by an international team of contributors are organised into six clear sections:
general issues
emotion
history
figures
kinds...
Music and Displacement
Diasporas, Mobilities, and Dislocations in Europe and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2010
The grand narratives of European music history are informed by the dichotomy of placements and displacements. Yet musicology has thus far largely ignored the phenomenon of displacement and underestimated its significance for musical landscapes and music history. Music and Displacement: Diasporas,...
Knowing Jazz
Community, Pedagogy, and Canon in the Information Age
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2011
Ken Prouty argues that knowledge of jazz, or more to the point, claims to knowledge of jazz, are the prime movers in forming jazz's identity, its canon, and its community. Every jazz artist, critic, or fan understands jazz differently, based on each individual's unique experiences and insights. Through...
When Music Migrates
Crossing British and European Racial Faultlines, 1945–2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
When Music Migrates uses rich material to examine the ways that music has crossed racial faultlines that have developed in the post-Second World War era as a consequence of the movement of previously colonized peoples to the countries that colonized them. This development, which can be thought of...
From the chanson française to the canzone d'autore in the 1960s and 1970s
Authenticity, Authority, Influence
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
The similarities between the chanson française and the canzone d'autore have been often noted but never fully explored. Both genres are national forms which involve the figure of the singer-songwriter, both experienced their golden age of production in the post-World War II period and both are...
No Repression
Writings on Roots Music in the Post-Journalism Age
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2016
No Repression: Writings on Roots Music in the Post-Journalism Age is a collection of Gillian Turnbull’s columns published on the website No Depression. Written between 2010-2015, these pieces captured Turnbull’s thoughts on music at a time when the industry was changing rapidly. Turnbull’s perspective...