Ethnomusicology category: 491 books
by Mervyn McLean
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1997
This book is the best introduction available to Maori music – the instruments played, the songs and dance styles and what they were used for, performance, composition, teaching, etc. Based on 30 years of fieldwork that yielded 1300 recorded songs and hundred of pages of interviews and eyewitness accounts, this is a classic book.
Russian Folk Songs
Musical Genres and History
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2002
"Russian folk songs are a living history of the Russian people, rich, vivid and truthful, revealing their entire life," wrote the great Russian writer Nikolai Gogol.
Russian folk songs have always played an essential part in Russian life, culture, and music. They have played an important...
Flowing Tides
History and Memory in an Irish Soundscape
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
Despite its isolation on the western edge of Europe, Ireland occupies vast amounts of space on the music maps of the world. Although deeply rooted in time and place, Irish songs, dances and instrumental traditions have a history of global travel that span the centuries. Whether carried by exiles,...
Wayfaring Strangers
The Musical Voyage from Scotland and Ulster to Appalachia
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2014
Throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, a steady stream of Scots migrated to Ulster and eventually onward across the Atlantic to resettle in the United States. Many of these Scots-Irish immigrants made their way into the mountains of the southern Appalachian region. They brought with them...
by Sharon Meredith
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Barbados is a small Caribbean island better known as a tourist destination rather than for its culture. The island was first claimed in 1627 for the English King and remained a British colony until independence was gained in 1966. This firmly entrenched British culture in the Barbadian way of life,...
by Richard Jones-Bamman
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2017
Banjo music possesses a unique power to evoke a bucolic, simpler past. The artisans who build banjos for old-time music stand at an unusual crossroads ”asked to meet the modern musician's needs while retaining the nostalgic qualities so fundamental to the banjo's sound and mystique. Richard Jones-Bamman...
"To Everything There is a Season"
Pete Seeger and the Power of Song
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2009
Author or coauthor of such legendary songs as "If I Had a Hammer," "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" and "Turn, Turn, Turn," Pete Seeger is the most influential folk singer in the history of the United States. In "To Everything There Is a Season": Pete Seeger and the Power of Song, Allan Winkler...
Everyday Music
Exploring Sounds and Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Native American drumming and chant; Czech and German polka; country fiddling; African American spirituals, blues and jazz; cowboy songs; Mexican corridos; zydeco; and the sounds of a Cambodian New Year’s celebration — all are part of the amazing cultural patchwork of traditional music in Texas....
Balkan Fascination
Creating an Alternative Music Culture in America
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2007
Divi Zheni identifies itself as a Bulgarian women's chorus and band, but it is located in Boston and none of its members come from Bulgaria. Zlatne Uste is one of the most popular purveyors of Balkan music in America, yet the name of the band is grammatically incorrect. The members of Sviraci hail...
Funky Nassau
Roots, Routes, and Representation in Bahamian Popular Music
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2011
This book examines the role music has played in the formation of the political and national identity of the Bahamas. Timothy Rommen analyzes Bahamian musical life as it has been influenced and shaped by the islands’ location between the United States and the rest of the Caribbean; tourism; and Bahamian...
by Chris Goertzen
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
George P. Knauff's Virginia Reels (1839) was the first collection of southern fiddle tunes and the only substantial one published in the nineteenth century. Knauff's activity could not anticipate our modern contest-driven fiddle subcultures. But the fate of the Virginia Reels pointed in that direction,...
The Transformation of Black Music
The rhythms, the songs, and the ships of the African Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Powerful and embracive, The Transformation of Black Music explores the full spectrum of black musics over the past thousand years as Africans and their descendants have traveled around the globe making celebrated music both in their homelands and throughout the Diaspora. Authors Samuel A. Floyd, Melanie...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013
Scholars have long known that world music was not merely the globalized product of modern media, but rather that it connected religions, cultures, languages and nations throughout world history. The chapters in this History take readers to foundational historical moments – in Europe, Oceania, China,...
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
Protest Music After Fukushima
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
Nuclear power has been a contentious issue in Japan since the 1950s, and in the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster, the conflict has only grown. Government agencies and the nuclear industry continue to push a nuclear agenda, while the mainstream media adheres to the official line...