Author: Rommen, Timothy Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "Mek Some Noise", Timothy Rommen's ethnographic study of Trinidadian gospel music, engages the multiple musical styles circulating in the nation's Full Gospel community and illustrates the carefully n...
Author: Garcia, David Publisher: Temple University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Arsenio RodrÃguez was one of the most important Cuban musicians of the twentieth century. In this first scholarly study, ethnomusicologist David F. GarcÃa examines RodrÃguez's life, including the c...
Author: Munro, Martin Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: ""Munro argues in an informed and imaginative way that greater attention should be paid to the recurring sonic elements of black cultures in the new world. Different Drummers provides profound insight...
Author: Munro, Martin Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Long a taboo subject among critics, rhythm finally takes center stage in this book's dazzling, wide-ranging examination of diverse black cultures across the New World. Martin Munro's groundbreaking wo...
Author: Diehl, Keila Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In Echoes from Dharamsala, Keila Diehl uses music to understand the experiences of Tibetans living in Dharamsala, a town in the Indian Himalayas that for more than forty years has been home to Tibet's...
Author: Djedje, Jacqueline Cogdell Publisher: Indiana University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Fiddling has had a lengthy history in Africa which has long been ignored. Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje corrects this oversight with an expansive study on fiddling in the Fulbe, Hausa, and Dagbamba cultur...
Author: Wallach, Jeremy Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: What happens to "local" sound when globalization exposes musicians and audiences to cultural influences from around the world? Jeremy Wallach explores this question as it plays out in the eclectic, ev...
Author: N/A Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: ""Both original and stimulating, this book presents widely known material in a highly theorized and organized manner. Very few authors write about the experiences ethnomusicologists confront while tea...
Author: Regev, Motti / Seroussi, Edwin Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A unique Israeli national culture-indeed, the very nature of "Israeliness"-remains a matter of debate, a struggle to blend vying memories and backgrounds, ideologies and wills. Identifying popular mus...
Author: N/A Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The rich conceptual and experiential relays between music and philosophy—echoes of what Theodor W. Adorno once called Klangfiguren, or "sound figures"—resonate with heightened intensity during the p...
Author: Galm, Eric A. Publisher: University Press of Mississippi Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The Brazilian berimbau, a musical bow, is most commonly associated with the energetic martial art/dance/game of capoeira. This study explores the berimbau's stature from the 1950s to the present in di...
Author: Strom, Yale Publisher: Chicago Review Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Klezmer is Yiddish music, the music of the Jews of Europe and America, a music of laughter and tears, of weddings and festivals, of dancing and prayer. Born in the Middle Ages, it came of age in the s...
Author: Marsh, Peter K. Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book examines the processes of cultural modernization in Mongolia, using as its focus the folk instrument known as the "horse-head fiddle" ( morin khuur ).
Author: Taruskin, Richard Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: ""Taruskin's autobiographical reflections of his engagement with Russian music are fascinating. The author's pre-eminent stature in this field of studies is justification enough for issuing such a col...
Description: The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Music is an outstanding guide and reference source to the key topics, subjects, thinkers and debates in philosophy and music. Essential reading for anyone int...
Author: Perlman, Marc Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The gamelan music of Central Java is one of the world's great orchestral traditions. Its rich sonic texture is not based on Western-style harmony or counterpoint, but revolves around a single melody. ...
Author: Rasmussen, Anne Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Women, the Recited Qur'an, and Islamic Music in Contemporary Indonesia takes readers to the heart of religious musical praxis in Indonesia, home to the largest Muslim population in the world. Anne K. ...
Author: DeWitt, Mark F. Publisher: University Press of Mississippi Format: Adobe PDF
Description: 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 thi...
Author: Herbert, Ruth Publisher: Ashgate Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In what ways does listening to music shape everyday perception? Is music particularly effective in promoting shifts in consciousness? Is there any difference perceptually between contemplating one's s...
Author: Wetzel, Richard Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book contextualizes a globalization process that has since ancient times involved the creation, use, and world-wide movement of song, instrumental music, musical drama, music with dance, concert,...
Author: Wetzel, Richard Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: This book contextualizes a globalization process that has since ancient times involved the creation, use, and world-wide movement of song, instrumental music, musical drama, music with dance, concert,...
Description: Cutting across countries, genres, and time periods, this volume explores topics ranging from hip hop's influence on Maasai identity in current day Tanzania to jazz in Bulawayo during the interwar year...
Author: N/A Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Cutting across countries, genres, and time periods, this volume explores topics ranging from hip hop's influence on Maasai identity in current day Tanzania to jazz in Bulawayo during the interwar year...
Author: N/A Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Performing Ethnomusicology is the first book to deal exclusively with creating, teaching, and contextualizing academic world music performing ensembles. Considering the formidable theoretical, ethical...
Author: Schenbeck, Lawrence Publisher: University Press of Mississippi Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Racial Uplift and American Music 1878-1943 traces the career of racial uplift ideology as a factor in elite African Americans' embrace of classical music around the turn of the previous century, from ...
Author: Wong, Deborah Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "Speak It Louder: Asian Americans Making Music" documents the variety of musics-from traditional Asian through jazz, classical, and pop-that have been created by Asian Americans. This book is not abou...
Author: N/A Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "The African Diaspora" presents musical case studies from various regions of the African Diaspora, including Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America, and Europe, that engage with broader interdisciplinar...
Author: Galm, Eric A. Publisher: University Press of Mississippi Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: The Brazilian berimbau, a musical bow, is most commonly associated with the energetic martial art/dance/game of capoeira. This study explores the berimbau's stature from the 1950s to the present in di...
Author: Crump, John Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Socialism first gained a major foothold in Japan after the revolution and the subsequent Meiji restoration of 1868. Against the background of the rapid development of capitalism in Japan after the rev...
Author: N/A Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Music is an outstanding guide and reference source to the key topics, subjects, thinkers and debates in philosophy and music. Over fifty entries by an interna...
Description: The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Music is an outstanding guide and reference source to the key topics, subjects, thinkers and debates in philosophy and music. Over fifty entries by an interna...
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