Ethnomusicology category: 491 books
Music and Globalization
Critical Encounters
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2011
World music" emerged as a commercial and musical category in the 1980s, but in some sense music has always been global. Through the metaphor of encounters, Music and Globalization explores the dynamics that enable or hinder cross-cultural communication through music. In the stories told by the contributors,...
by Sondra Wieland Howe
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Although women have been teaching and performing music for centuries, their stories are often missing from traditional accounts of the history of music education. In Women Music Educators in the United States: A History, Sondra Wieland Howe provides a comprehensive narrative of women teaching music...
Becoming a Garamut Player in Baluan, Papua New Guinea
Musical Analysis as a Pathway to Learning
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
The garamut is a log idiophone that is found in many of the coastal and island areas of Papua New Guinea. The instrument’s primary use is as a speech surrogate and in some regions the garamut is also used in large ensembles to play complex music for dancing. In Baluan Island, within the Manus Province,...
by Monica Kang
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
The book explores cellular pivots as a new means of progression, functional tonality having disappeared in much of contemporary music. Béla Bartók can be seen as a kind of father figure to the other two composers, Chen Yi and George Crumb, in terms of their stylistic, technical, and even philosophical...
by Joanna C. Colcord
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1964
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1964
In the old days when American sailing ships still plowed the seas, it was the custom of their sailors to enliven both their work and their leisure time with song. The songs they used were not, generally speaking, those current and popular ashore at the same period, but were traditional compositions...
Music in the World
Selected Essays
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
In music studies, Timothy D. Taylor is known for his insightful essays on music, globalization, and capitalism. Music in the World is a collection of some of Taylor’s most recent writings—essays concerned with questions about music in capitalist cultures, covering a historical span that begins...
by Alison McQueen Tokita
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Alison McQueen Tokita presents a series of case studies that demonstrate the persistence of Japanese sung narratives in a multiplicity of genres over ten centuries, including the way they flourished and declined, together with factors contributing to development and change in narrative performance....
To the Ends of the Earth
Northern Soul and Southern Nights in Western Australia
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Northern Soul is a cultural phenomenon twice removed from its original source in Britain in the late 1960s. Rooted in gospel and rhythm and blues music, with pounding “four-to-the floor” beats, it is often accompanied by swirling strings, vibraphone flourishes, and infectious clapping. Since the...
Walking the Line
Country Music Lyricists and American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
An insightful and wide-ranging look at one of America’s most popular genres of music, Walking the Line: Country Music Lyricists and American Culture examines how country songwriters engage with their nation’s religion, literature, and politics. Country fans have long encountered the concept of...
A Way of Music Education
Classic Chinese Wisdoms
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
Moving back through Dewey, Heidegger, Nietzsche, and Rousseau, the lineage of Western music education finds its origins in Plato and Pythagoras. Yet theories not rooted in the ancient Greek tradition are all but absent. A Way of Music Education provides a much-needed intervention, integrating ancient...
Experimentalisms in Practice
Music Perspectives from Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Experimentalisms in Practice explores the multiple sites in which experimentalism emerges and becomes meaningful beyond Eurocentric interpretative frameworks. Challenging the notion of experimentalism as defined in conventional narratives, contributors take a broad approach to a wide variety of Latin@...
The African Diaspora
A Musical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
The African Diaspora presents musical case studies from various regions of the African diaspora, including Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America, North America, and Europe, that engage with broader interdisciplinary discussions about race, gender, politics, nationalism, and music. Featured here are...
Music Mediating Politics in Turkey
The Case of Ahmed Adnan Saygun
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
As a proponent of musical reforms following the founding of the republic in 1923, Ahmed Adnan Saygun became a figurehead of Turkish nationalism, and his music came to represent the reform-era political ideology that sought closer ties with Europe. In conjunction with compositional strategies that...
Playing across a Divide
Israeli-Palestinian Musical Encounters
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2009
In the last decade of the twentieth century and on into the twenty-first, Israelis and Palestinians saw the signing of the Oslo Peace Accords, the establishment of the Palestinian Authority, the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, and the escalation of suicide bombings and retaliations...