Ethnomusicology category: 491 books
Global Minstrels
Voices of World Music
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
As the fastest growing sector of the U.S. music market, world music has embedded itself in the fabric of American life. Artists such as Peter Gabriel, Paul Simon and the Talking Heads have all utilized characteristics of the "world" sound in their music, while international performers are...
Excursions in World Music, Seventh Edition
eBook & mp3 Value Pack
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Excursions in World Music is a comprehensive introductory textbook to world music, creating a panoramic experience for students by engaging the many cultures around the globe and highlighting the sheer diversity to be experienced in the world of music. At the same time, the text illustrates the often...
by Lewis Rowell
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2015
Offering a broad perspective of the philosophy, theory, and aesthetics of early Indian music and musical ideology, this study makes a unique contribution to our knowledge of the ancient foundations of India's musical culture. Lewis Rowell reconstructs the tunings, scales, modes, rhythms, gestures,...
The Culture of AIDS in Africa
Hope and Healing Through Music and the Arts
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
The Culture of AIDS in Africa enters into the many worlds of expression brought forth across this vast continent by the ravaging presence of HIV/AIDS. Africans and non-Africans, physicians and social scientists, journalists and documentarians share here a common and essential interest in understanding...
Musical Romania and the Neighbouring Cultures
Traditions Influences Identities- Proceedings of the International Musicological Conference- July 47 2013, Iaşi (Romania)
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2014
This book represents the volume of the International Musicological Conference «Musical Romania and Neighbouring Cultures. Traditions, Influences, Identities», which took place in Iaşi (Romania) and was organised by the George Enescu University of Arts Iaşi in collaboration with the International...
Singing For Life
HIV/AIDS and Music in Uganda
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
by Carol A. Muller
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
Focus: Music of South Africa provides an in-depth look at the full spectrum of South African music, a musical culture that epitomizes the enormous ethnic, religious, linguistic, class, and gender diversity of the nation itself. Drawing on extensive field and archival research, as well as her own personal...
Jazz Transatlantic, Volume II
Jazz Derivatives and Developments in Twentieth-Century Africa
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
A CHOICE 2018 Outstanding Academic Title
In Jazz Transatlantic, Volume II, renowned scholar Gerhard Kubik extends and expands the epic exploration he began in Jazz Transatlantic, Volume I. This second volume amplifies how musicians influenced by swing, bebop, and post-bop in Africa from the...
Jazz Transatlantic, Volume I
The African Undercurrent in Twentieth-Century Jazz Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
A CHOICE 2018 Outstanding Academic Title
In Jazz Transatlantic, Volume I, renowned scholar Gerhard Kubik takes the reader across the Atlantic from Africa to the Americas and then back in pursuit of the music we call jazz. This first volume explores the term itself and how jazz has been defined...
by John A. Lomax
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Growing up beside the Chisholm Trail, captivated by the songs of passing cowboys and his bosom friend, an African American farmhand, John A. Lomax developed a passion for American folk songs that ultimately made him one of the foremost authorities on this fundamental aspect of Americana. Across many...
by Philip V. Bohlman
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
Two decades after the fall of communism in Eastern Europe and one decade into the twenty-first century, European music remains one of the most powerful forces for shaping nationalism. Using intensive fieldwork throughout Europe -- from participation in alpine foot pilgrimages to studies of the grandest...
Beyond Exoticism
Western Music and the World
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2007
In Beyond Exoticism, Timothy D. Taylor considers how western cultures’ understandings of racial, ethnic, and cultural differences have been incorporated into music from early operas to contemporary television advertisements, arguing that the commonly used term “exoticism” glosses over such differences...
Centre and Periphery, Roots and Exile
Interpreting the Music of István Anhalt, György Kurtág, and Sándor Veress
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
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Rachelle Chiasson-Taylor
Firstly, Rachelle Chiasson-Taylor’s presents a much-needed update of Helmut Kallmann’s introduction to the...
by Katherine L. Turner
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
The use of irony in music is just beginning to be defined and critiqued, although it has been used, implied and decried by composers, performers, listeners and critics for centuries. Irony in popular music is especially worthy of study because it is pervasive, even fundamental to the music, the business...