Ethnomusicology category: 491 books
May We Forever Stand
A History of the Black National Anthem
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
The twin acts of singing and fighting for freedom have been inseparable in African American history. May We Forever Stand tells an essential part of that story. With lyrics penned by James Weldon Johnson and music composed by his brother Rosamond, "Lift Every Voice and Sing" was embraced almost immediately...
Intimate Distance
Andean Music in Japan
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012
What does it mean to play "someone else’s music"? Intimate Distance delves into this question through a focus on Bolivian musicians who tour Japan playing Andean music and Japanese audiences, who often go beyond fandom to take up these musical forms as hobbyists and even as professional...
Tripping the World Fantastic
A Journey Through the Music of Our Planet
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2013
Every culture on Earth has music. Every culture that's ever existed has had it, but we don't exactly know why. Music is not like food, shelter, or having opposable thumbs. We don't need it to live, and yet we can't seem to live without it. Glenn Dixon travels the globe exploring how and why people...
Dangdut Stories
A Social and Musical History of Indonesia's Most Popular Music
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2010
A keen critic of culture in modern Indonesia, Andrew N. Weintraub shows how a genre of Indonesian music called dangdut evolved from a debased form of urban popular music to a prominent role in Indonesian cultural politics and the commercial music industry. Dangdut Stories is a social and musical history...
Sounding Off
Rhythm, Music, and Identity in West African and Caribbean Francophone Novels
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2009
Intrigued by "texted" sonorities—the rhythms, musics, ordinary noises, and sounds of language in narratives—Julie Huntington examines the soundscapes in contemporary Francophone novels such as Ousmane Sembene's God's Bits of Wood (Senegal), and Patrick Chamoiseau's Solibo Magnificent...
Musical Life in Guyana
History and Politics of Controlling Creativity
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Musical Life in Guyana is the first in-depth study of Guyanese musical life. It is also a richly detailed description of the social, economic, and political conditions that have encouraged and sometimes discouraged musical and cultural creativity in Guyana. The book contributes to the study of the...
by Alison Hood
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Music theory is often seen as independent from - even antithetical to - performance. While music theory is an intellectual enterprise, performance requires an intuitive response to the music. But this binary opposition is a false one, which serves neither the theorist nor the performer. In Interpreting...
My Voice Is My Weapon
Music, Nationalism, and the Poetics of Palestinian Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2013
In My Voice Is My Weapon, David A. McDonald rethinks the conventional history of the Palestinian crisis through an ethnographic analysis of music and musicians, protest songs, and popular culture. Charting a historical narrative that stretches from the late-Ottoman period through the end of the second...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2012
How can we define the referential systems by which music is determined and through which music gets its own sense and meaning? What is the relation between these systems? Such questions are of particular weight in relation to current music practices, characterized by a great many of analytical procedures...
by Nick Nesbitt
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
It is the contention of the editors and contributors of this volume that the work carried out by Gilles Deleuze, where rigorously applied, has the potential to cut through much of the intellectual sedimentation that has settled in the fields of music studies. Deleuze is a vigorous critic of the Western...
Master Musicians of India
Hereditary Sarangi Players Speak
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Beginning with Ravi Shankar and Ali Akbar Khan, Indian art music is renowned internationally for its improvised raga performance. This ancient tradition has for centuries been transmitted orally within the seclusion of hereditary families. Few such families remain today, and not enough is known about...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2010
Music Traditions, Cultures, and Contexts is a tribute to the ethnomusicologist Beverley Diamond in recognition of her outstanding scholarly accomplishments. The volume includes essays by leading ethnomusicologists and music scholars as well as a biographical introduction.
The book’s contributors...
by Antoine Hennion
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Music is an accumulation of mediators: instruments, languages, sheets, performers, scenes, media and so on. There is no musical object �in itself�; music must always be made again. In this innovative book, Hennion turns the elusiveness of music into a resource for a pragmatic analysis: by which...
The Hallelujah Effect
Philosophical Reflections on Music, Performance Practice, and Technology
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
This book studies the working efficacy of Leonard Cohen's song Hallelujah in the context of today's network culture. Especially as recorded on YouTube, k.d. lang's interpretation(s) of Cohen's Hallelujah, embody acoustically and visually/viscerally, what Nietzsche named the 'spirit of music'. Today,...