Ethnomusicology category: 491 books
Carl Stumpfs Berliner Phonogrammarchiv
Ethnologische, musikpsychologische und erkenntnistheoretische Perspektiven
Language: German
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Der Band versammelt Vorträge, die auf der 4. Jahrestagung der Carl-Stumpf-Gesellschaft gehalten wurden. Die Tagung fand im Ethnologischen Museum Berlin und dort an dem von Carl Stumpf 1900 gegründeten Phonogrammarchiv statt. Dementsprechend behandeln die meisten Beiträge Forschungen der Musikethnologie...
Fado Resounding
Affective Politics and Urban Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
Fado, Portugal's most celebrated genre of popular music, can be heard in Lisbon clubs, concert halls, tourist sites, and neighborhood bars. Fado sounds traverse the globe, on internationally marketed recordings, as the "soul" of Lisbon. A fadista might sing until her throat hurts, the voice...
Discordant Notes
Marginality and Social Control in Madrid, 1850-1930
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2018
Scholarship on urban culture and the senses has traditionally focused on the study of literature and the visual arts. Recent decades have seen a surge of interest on the effects of sound the urban space and its population. These studies analyse how sound generates identities that are often fragmentary...
Music Theory in the Safavid Era
The taqsīm al-naġamāt
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2018
The Safavid era (1501–1722) is one of the most important in the history of Persian culture, celebrated especially for its architecture and art, including miniature paintings that frequently represent singers and instrumentalists. Their presence reflects a sophisticated tradition of music making...
by Alejandro Alberto Téllez Vargas
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
Disability and Music Performance examines discriminatory social practices in music conservatoria, orchestras, music festivals and music competitions, which limit disabled people’s access to music performance at a professional level. Of particular interest are the disabling barriers that musicians...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2019
The contributors to Remapping Sound Studies intervene in current trends and practices in sound studies by reorienting the field toward the global South. Attending to disparate aspects of sound in Africa, South and Southeast Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, Micronesia, and a Southern outpost in...
by Carol A. Hess
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2018
Experiencing Latin American Music draws on human experience as a point of departure for musical understanding. Students explore broad topics—identity, the body, religion, and more—and relate these to Latin American musics while refining their understanding of musical concepts and cultural-historical...
Speaking for Ourselves
Conversations on Life, Music, and Autism
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
Since the advent of autism as a diagnosed condition in the 1940s, the importance of music in the lives of autistic people has been widely observed and studied. Articles on musical savants, extraordinary feats of musical memory, unusually high rates of absolute or "perfect" pitch, and the effectiveness...
by Steven Cornelius, Mary Natvig
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
By taking a thematic approach to the study of music appreciation, Music: A Social Experience, Second Edition demonstrates how music reflects and deepens both individual and cultural understandings. Musical examples are presented within universally experienced social frameworks (ethnicity, gender,...
Conmemoraciones y crisis
Procesos independentistas en iberoamérica y la Nueva Granada
Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 28, 2010
La propuesta principal de este título, el segundo volumen de la Colección 2010, es conectar las historias de conformación de la nación ibérica y las emergentes naciones americanas e identificar las concatenaciones entre las conmemoraciones y las representaciones en imágenes con el fin de crear...
by Héctor González
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 7, 2007
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 7, 2007
La obra realiza un análisis diacrónico de los sustratos que contribuyeron a la formación del vallenato, para tratar de establecer cómo fue afectado por múltiples procesos de hibridación y mestizaje cultural a través del tiempo. Mediante la transcripción y el cotejo musicológico de fragmentos...
Black Lives Matter and Music
Protest, Intervention, Reflection
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2018
Music has always been integral to the Black Lives Matter movement in the United States, with songs such as Kendrick Lamar’s "Alright," J. Cole’s "Be Free," D’Angelo and the Vanguard's "The Charade," The Game’s "Don’t Shoot," Janelle Monae’s "Hell You Talmbout," Usher’s "Chains," and...
Musica indiana
Teoria e approfondimenti da una prospettiva occidentale.
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 26, 2014
Chi si avvicina alla musica indiana incontra una cultura artistica ricca, articolata e particolarmente sofisticata, in cui il fare musica è inteso come un processo creativo che ha un preciso impatto sull'esistenza. L'arte conduce alla trascendenza attraverso l'esperienza estetica e il musicista diventa...
Antropología de la música. Vol. II
De los géneros tribales a la globalización. Teorías de la complejidad
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Este es el primer libro en décadas consagrado a la discusión de las teorías existentes en una disciplina que ha sido puesta en cuestión por el advenimiento de la globalización, la fusión incontrolada de los géneros, la pérdida de las identidades y el surgimiento de las músicas del mundo....