Ethnomusicology category: 491 books
What Makes Music European
Looking beyond Sound
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2011
We seldom consider how much we mistakenly presume in hewing to definitions of music that differ dramatically from the standpoint of other cultures. In What Makes Music European, Marcello Sorce Keller examines the limitations of accepted wisdom about the concept of music in Euro-Western culture. His...
by Lavinia Greenlaw
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009
The Importance of Music to Girls is the story of the adventures that music leads us into—how it forms and transforms us. As a soundtrack, it's there in the background while we go about the thrilling and mortifying business of growing up: raging, falling in love, wanting to change the world. Lavinia...
by John M. Schechter
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
A musical instrument that has played a vital role in Latin American music cultures—the harp—is the subject of this new work, the first study of its kind to be published in English. John Schechter presents a history of the harp in Spain, traces its introduction into colonial Latin America, and...
Tracing Tangueros
Argentine Tango Instrumental Music
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
Tracing Tangueros offers an inside view of Argentine tango music in the context of the growth and development of the art form's instrumental and stylistic innovations. Rather than perpetuating the glamorous worldwide conceptions that often only reflect the tango that left Argentina nearly 100 years...
by Jason Harry
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2018
Whether your goal is to start Salsa dancing, or to simply improve your skills on the dance floor, this book is for you! Here you will find a lot of useful tips and unique concepts that can help you make progress faster and take your Salsa dancing to the next level. Dance instructors can teach...
Playing with Something That Runs
Technology, Improvisation, and Composition in DJ and Laptop Performance
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2014
Winner of the 2015 PMIG Outstanding Publication Award from the Society of Music Theory The DJs and laptop performers of electronic dance music use preexistent elements such as vinyl records and digital samples to create fluid, dynamic performances. These performances are also largely improvised, evolving...
Socialist and Labor Songs
An International Revolutionary Songbook
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014
Compiled from several generations in America and from around the world, the songs and sheet music in this compendium were originally written in English, Danish, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian and Yiddish. From Industrial Workers of the World anthems such as “The Preacher and the Slave”...
by Michael Tenzer
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 1998
This book presents an introduction to more than a dozen different types of Balinese gamelan, each with its own established tradition, repertoire and social or religious context. The instruments and basic principles underlying the gamelan are introduced, thus providing listeners with the means to better...
Brutality Garden
Tropicália and the Emergence of a Brazilian Counterculture
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
In the late 1960s, Brazilian artists forged a watershed cultural movement known as Tropicalia. Music inspired by that movement is today enjoying considerable attention at home and abroad. Few new listeners, however, make the connection between this music and the circumstances surrounding its creation,...
The Other Classical Musics
Fifteen Great Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
Winner of the Royal Philharmonic Society Music Award for Creative Communication 2015 There is a treasure trove of underappreciated music out there; this book will convince many to explore it. The Economist What is classical music? This book answers the question in a manner never before attempted,...
Hymnal Companion to Sound the Bamboo
Asian Hymns in Their Cultural and Liturgical Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
A new, highly authoritative reference for all things related to Asian Christian hymnody, this tome examines the hymns of Sound the Bamboo in their historical, cultural, and spiritual contexts of 22 countries. Noted hymnologist I-to Loh has gathered and assembled his studies and experiences and that...
African Diaspora
A Musical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
The African Diaspora presents musical case studies from various regions of the African diaspora, including Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America, and Europe, that engage with broader interdisciplinary discussions about race, gender, politics, nationalism, and music.
Audible Empire
Music, Global Politics, Critique
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016
Audible Empire rethinks the processes and mechanisms of empire and shows how musical practice has been crucial to its spread around the globe. Music is a means of comprehending empire as an audible formation, and the contributors highlight how it has been circulated, consumed, and understood through...
Oliver Mtukudzi
Living Tuku Music in Zimbabwe
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
Oliver "Tuku" Mtukudzi, a Zimbabwean guitarist, vocalist, and composer, has performed worldwide and released some 50 albums. One of a handful of artists to have a beat named after him, Mtukudzi blends Zimbabwean traditional sounds with South African township music and American gospel and soul, to...