Ethnomusicology category: 491 books
by Garland Encyclopedia of World Music
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
The Concise Garland Encyclopedia of World Music comprises two volumes, and can only be purchased as the two-volume set.
To purchase the set please go to:
http://www.routledge.com/9780415972932
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Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2011
The Garland Handbook of Southeast Asian Music is comprised of essays from The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: Volume 4, Southeast Asia (1998). Largely revised and updated, the essays offer detailed, regional studies of the different musical cultures of Southeast Asia and examine the ways in...
RASA
Affect and Intuition in Javanese Musical Aesthetics
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2010
The complex notion of "rasa," as understood by Javanese musicians, refers to a combination of various qualities, including: taste, feeling, affect, mood, sense, inner meaning, a faculty of knowing intuitively, and deep understanding. This leaves us with a number of questions: how is rasa expressed...
by Mervyn McLean, Margaret Orbell
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2004
This classic study of indigenous Polynesian music, conducted in the 1960s, includes a survey of traditional songs in different styles that embody the fundamental values of Maori culture in New Zealand. Musical transcriptions, Maori texts, English translations, and extensive notes on more than 50 traditional...
To Tatau Waka
In Search of Maori Music
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
This account of an ethnomusicologist's experience conducting fieldwork offers a glimpse into the life of New Zealand's Maori people through his documentation of traditional songs. The audio recordings included span 1958 through 1979, a time when many of the culture's traditions were fading. Sensitive...
Musical Minorities
The Sounds of Hmong Ethnicity in Northern Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Musical Minorities is the first English-language monograph on the performing arts of an ethnic minority in Vietnam. Living primarily in the northern mountains, the Hmong have strategically maintained their cultural distance from foreign invaders and encroaching state agencies for almost two centuries....
by Charlotte Vignau
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2013
Modernity, Complex Societies, and the Alphorn provides a fascinating examination of the musical instrument the alphorn, alphorn music and its performance. Indeed, it is the first book about this extraordinary instrument to appear in English. It analyses the alphorn phenomenon as a symbol of the Swiss...
Vitrolas, rocolas y radioteatros
Hábitos de escucha de la música popular en Medellín, 1930-1950
Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 3, 2014
Más que un elemento accesorio que cambia con la moda, la música popular durante el siglo XX fue un aspecto esencial a través del cual América Latina construyó narraciones de sí misma y de lo que significa ser "colombiano", "paisa", o cualquier otra adscripción que es a la...
The Blues Come to Texas
Paul Oliver and Mack McCormick's Unfinished Book
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2019
From October 1959 until the mid-1970s, Paul Oliver and Mack McCormick collaborated on what they hoped to be a definitive history and analysis of the blues in Texas. Both were prominent scholars and researchers—Oliver had already established an impressive record of publications, and McCormick was...
World of the Teton Sioux Indians
Their Music, Life, and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Sometime in August of 1913, two Sioux warriors, Old Buffalo and Swift Dog, met with Frances Densmore at a makeshift recording site in McLaughlin, South Dakota. What Old Buffalo and Swift Dog said that day—about life as they knew it before the reservation era began—lives on still in the pages of this...
Vocal Music and Contemporary Identities
Unlimited Voices in East Asia and the West
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
Looking at musical globalization and vocal music, this collection of essays studies the complex relationship between the human voice and cultural identity in 20th- and 21st-century music in both East Asian and Western music. The authors approach musical meaning in specific case studies against the...
Bollywood Sounds
The Cosmopolitan Mediations of Hindi Film Song
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2014
Bollywood Sounds focuses on the songs of Indian films in their historical, social, commercial, and cinematic contexts. Author Jayson Beaster-Jones takes readers through the highly collaborative compositional process, highlighting the contributions of film directors, music directors (composers), lyricists,...
One with the Music
Cape Breton Step Dance Tradition and Transmission
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Swedish-born traditional dancer and researcher Mats Melin has worked and performed extensively in the Scottish Highlands, the Hebrides, Orkney and Shetland, in their schools and communities promoting Scottish traditional dance. He has also taught and performed in Sweden, Canada, USA, Russia and New...
Recasting Folk in the Himalayas
Indian Music, Media, and Social Mobility
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2017
Colonialist, nationalist, and regionalist ideologies have profoundly influenced folk music and related musical practices among the Garhwali and Kumaoni of Uttarakhand. Stefan Fiol blends historical and ethnographic approaches to unlock these influences and explore a paradox: how the œfolk designation...