Ethnomusicology category: 491 books
Globalization and Popular Music in South Korea
Sounding Out K-Pop
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2015
This book offers an in-depth study of the globalization of contemporary South Korean idol pop music, or K-Pop, visiting K-Pop and its multiple intersections with political, economic, and cultural formations and transformations. It provides detailed insights into the transformative process in and around...
Qupai in Chinese Music
Melodic Models in Form and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
Presenting the latest research in the area, this volume explores the fundamental concept of qupai 曲牌, melodic models upon which most traditional Chinese instrumental music (and some vocal music) is based. The greater part of the traditional instrumental repertoire has emerged from qupai models...
Fiddling Way Out Yonder
The Life and Music of Melvin Wine
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2009
From a small mountain town in West Virginia, elder fiddler Melvin Wine has inspired musicians and music enthusiasts far beyond his homeplace.
Music, community, and tradition influence all aspects of life in this rural region. Fiddling Way Out Yonder: The Life and Music of Melvin Wine shows...
Greek Rebetiko from a Psychocultural Perspective
Same Songs Changing Minds
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Greek Rebetiko from a Psychocultural Perspective: Same Songs Changing Minds examines the ways in which audiences in present-day Greece and Turkey perceive and use the Greek popular song genre rebetiko to cultivate specific cultural habits and identities. In the past, rebetiko has been associated chiefly...
Digital Tradition
Arrangement and Labor in Istanbul's Recording Studio Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Istanbul is home to a multimillion dollar transnational music industry, which every year produces thousands of digital music recordings, including widely distributed film and television show soundtracks. Today, this centralized industry is responding to a growing global demand for Turkish, Kurdish,...
Listening to War
Sound, Music, Trauma, and Survival in Wartime Iraq
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
To witness war is, in large part, to hear it. And to survive it is, among other things, to have listened to it--and to have listened through it. Listening to War: Sound, Music, Trauma, and Survival in Wartime Iraq is a groundbreaking study of the centrality of listening to the experience of modern...
Critical Musicological Reflections
Essays in Honour of Derek B. Scott
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
This collection of original essays is in tribute to the work of Derek Scott on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday. As one of the leading lights in Critical Musicology, Scott has helped shape the epistemological direction for music research since the late 1980s. There is no doubt that the path taken...
Schooling New Media
Music, Language, and Technology in Children's Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Popular music and digital media are constantly entwined in elementary and middle-school children's talk, interactions, and relationships, and offer powerful cultural resources to children in their everyday struggles over institutionalized language, literacy, and expression in school. In Schooling...
Drumming Asian America
Taiko, Performance, and Cultural Politics
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
With its dynamic choreographies and booming drumbeats, taiko has gained worldwide popularity since its emergence in 1950s Japan. Harnessed by Japanese Americans in the late 1960s, taiko's sonic largesse and buoyant energy challenged stereotypical images of Asians in America as either model minorities...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
The essays in this volume offer rich and diverse perspectives on the encounter between Indigenous music and digital technologies. They explore how digital media -- whether on CD, VCD, the Internet, mobile technology, or in the studio -- have transformed and become part of the fabric of Indigenous...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
While grief is suffered in all cultures, it is expressed differently all over the world in accordance with local customs and beliefs. Music has been associated with the healing of grief for many centuries, with Homer prescribing music as an antidote to sorrow as early as the 7th Century BC. The changing...
Bantu Contribution in Brazilian Popular Music
Ethnomusicological Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
Bantu Contribution in Brazilian Popular Music: Ethnomusicological Perspectives is a seminal work that spearheaded the new trend in ethnomusicology, when this discipline shifted the focus of its objective from music in human history to music in culture contact, and from the comparative method of analysis...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
What does it mean for music to be considered local in contemporary Christian communities, and who shapes this meaning? Through what musical processes have religious beliefs and practices once ‘foreign’ become ‘indigenous’? How does using indigenous musical practices aid in the growth of local...
Music in Kenyan Christianity
Logooli Religious Song
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
This sensitive study is a historical, cultural, and musical exploration of Christian religious music among the Logooli of Western Kenya. It describes how new musical styles developed through contact with popular radio and other media from abroad and became markers of the Logooli identity and culture....