Ethnomusicology category: 491 books
by Graham St John
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010
This lively textual symposium offers a collection of formative research on the culture of global psytrance (psychedelic trance). As the first book to address the diverse transnationalism of this contemporary electronic dance music phenomenon, the collection hosts interdisciplinary research addressing...
Cajun and Zydeco Dance Music in Northern California
Modern Pleasures in a Postmodern World
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Queen Ida. Danny Poullard. Documentary filmmaker Les Blank. Chris Strachwitz and Arhoolie Records. These are names that are familiar to many fans of Cajun music and zydeco, and they have one other thing in common--longtime residence in the San Francisco Bay Area. They are all part of a vibrant scene...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2017
Throughout history and across the globe, governments have taken a strong hand in censoring music. Whether in the interests of "safeguarding" the moral and religious values of their citizens or of promoting their own political goals, the character and severity of actions taken to suppress and control...
The Tango Machine
Musical Culture in the Age of Expediency
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2016
In Argentina, tango isn’t just the national music—it’s a national brand. But ask any contemporary Argentine if they ever really listen to it and chances are the answer is no: tango hasn’t been popular for more than fifty years. In this book, Morgan James Luker explores that odd paradox by...
Rhythms of the Afro-Atlantic World
Rituals and Remembrances
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2010
"Collecting essays by fourteen expert contributors into a trans-oceanic celebration and critique, Mamadou Diouf and Ifeoma Kiddoe Nwankwo show how music, dance, and popular culture turn ways of remembering Africa into African ways of remembering. With a mix of Nuyorican, Cuban, Haitian, Kenyan,...
Origins of Cuban Music and Dance
Changüí
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2008
Origins of Cuban Music and Dance: Changüí is the first in-depth study of changüí, a style of music and dance in Guantánamo, Cuba. Changüí is analogous to blues in the United States and is a crucible of Cuban Creole culture. Benjamin Lapidus describes changüí and its relationship to the roots...
Staging Ghana
Artistry and Nationalism in State Dance Ensembles
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2015
The Ghana Dance Ensemble takes Ghana’s national culture and interprets it in performance using authentic dance forms adapted for local or foreign audiences. Often, says Paul Schauert, the aims of the ensemble and the aims of the individual performers work in opposition. Schauert discusses the history...
by Carmelo Esterrich, John R. Baldwin, Phillip J. Chidester
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Song & Social Change in Latin America offers seven essays from a diverse group of scholars on the topic of music as a reflection of the many social-political upheavals throughout Latin America from the 20th century to the present. Topics covered include: the Tropicália movement in Brazil, the...
Schweizer Jahrbuch fuer Musikwissenschaft- Annales Suisses de Musicologie- Annuario Svizzero di Musicologia
Neue Folge / Nouvelle Série / Nuova Serie- 32 (2012)- Redaktion / Rédaction / Redazione: Luca Zoppelli
Language: French
Release Date: July 25, 2014
Der 32. Band des Schweizer Jahrbuchs für Musikwissenschaft stellt das vielfältige Spektrum der musikwissenschaftlichen Forschung in der Schweiz vor. Er beinhaltet ebenso Beiträge von im Ausland tätigen Kollegen. Dazu gehören insbesondere die Überlegungen von Fabrizio Della Seta zu Aspekten der...
Neapolitan Postcards
The Canzone Napoletana as Transnational Subject
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2016
Neapolitan Postcards gathers a diverse group of international scholars to investigate unexplored transnational aspects of the intimate yet globally popular canzone napoletana. Performed and beloved worldwide in almost every language, the style had hits such as “Funiculì funiculà” (1880) and...
Composing for the State
Music in Twentieth-Century Dictatorships
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2016
Under the dictatorships of the twentieth century, music never ceased to sound. Even when they did not impose aesthetic standards, these regimes tended to favour certain kinds of art music such as occasional works for commemorations or celebrations, symphonic poems, cantatas and choral settings. In...
Music Theory in Mamluk Cairo
The ġāyat al-maṭlūb fī ‘ilm al-adwār wa-’l-ḍurūb by Ibn Kurr
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
The ġāyat al-maṭlūb fī ‘ilm al-adwār wa-'l-ḍurūb by Ibn Kurr is the only theoretical text of any substance that can be considered representative of musicological discourse in Cairo during the first half of the fourteenth century CE. Indeed, nothing comparable survives from the whole Mamluk...
Music's Immanent Future
The Deleuzian Turn in Music Studies
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
The conversations generated by the chapters in Music's Immanent Future grapple with some of music's paradoxes: that music of the Western art canon is viewed as timeless and universal while other kinds of music are seen as transitory and ephemeral; that in order to make sense of music we need descriptive...
Perspectives on the Music of Christopher Fox
Straight Lines in Broken Times
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Christopher Fox (1955) has emerged as one of the most fascinating composers of the post-war generation. His spirit of experimentalism pervades an oeuvre in which he has blithely created his own version of a range of contemporary musical practices. In his work many of the major expressions of European...