Ethnomusicology

In Making Value, Timothy D. Taylor examines how people’s conceptions of value inform and shape their production and consumption of music. Drawing on anthropological value theory, Taylor theorizes music’s economic and noneconomic forms of value both...

In Making Value, Timothy D. Taylor examines how people’s conceptions of value inform and shape their production and consumption of music. Drawing on anthropological value theory, Taylor theorizes music’s economic and noneconomic forms of value both...

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...

'Cultural mapping' has become a central keyword in the UNESCO strategy to protect natural and world cultural heritage, including music traditions. As a tool to increase the awareness of cultural diversity it transforms the concept of intangible cultural...

This volume provides a transnational study of the impact of musical cultures in the Eastern Baltics-Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, and Russia-at the end of the Cold War and in the early post-Communist period. Throughout the book, the contributors explore and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781797860Author Anja BrunnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Equinox Publishing (Indonesia)Publisher Equinox Publishing (Indonesia)

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781797853Author Anja BrunnerFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Equinox Publishing (Indonesia)Publisher Equinox Publishing (Indonesia)

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781649032317Author Ellen R WeisFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint American University in Cairo PressPublisher American University in Cairo Press

Minas Gerais is a state in southeastern Brazil deeply connected to the nation's slave past and home to many traditions related to the African diaspora. Addressing a wide range of traditions helping to define the region, ethnomusicologist Jonathon Grasse...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781479806881Author Mark Anthony NealFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint New York University PressPublisher New York University PressWeight(grams) 6g

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438493107Author Guy L. BeckFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

Out of Bounds examines Kay Kaufman Shelemay's impact as a pioneer of musical diaspora studies on a generation of scholars. The wide-ranging essays treat such diverse topics as cantorial life in America, gender and fertility among Ethiopians in Israel,...

In On Site, In Sound Kirstie A. Dorr examines the spatiality of sound and the ways in which the sonic is bound up in perceptions and constructions of geographic space. Focusing on the hemispheric circulation of South American musical cultures, Dorr shows...

In Listening for Africa David F. Garcia explores how a diverse group of musicians, dancers, academics, and activists engaged with the idea of black music and dance's African origins between the 1930s and 1950s. Garcia examines the work of figures ranging...

Audible Empire rethinks the processes and mechanisms of empire and shows how musical practice has been crucial to its spread around the globe. Music is a means of comprehending empire as an audible formation, and the contributors highlight how it has...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393906011Author Kay Kaufman ShelemayPage Count 528Imprint W. W. Norton & CompanyPublisher W. W. Norton & CompanyWeight(grams) 907g

Music in the American Diasporic Wedding explores the complex cultural adaptations, preservations, and fusions that occur in weddings between couples and families of diverse origins. Discussing weddings as a site of negotiations between generations,...

In Hip Hop Ukraine, we enter a world of urban music and dance competitions, hip hop parties, and recording studio culture to explore unique sites of interracial encounters among African students, African immigrants, and local populations in eastern...

Gamelan and American academic institutions have maintained their close association for more than sixty years. Elizabeth A. Clendinning illuminates what it means to devote one's life to world music ensemble education by examining the career and community...

Responding to the development of a lively hip hop culture in Central and Eastern European countries, this interdisciplinary study demonstrates how a universal model of hip hop serves as a contextually situated platform of cultural exchange and becomes...

On the coast of Washington and British Columbia sit the misty forests and towering mountains of Cascadia. With archipelagos surrounding its shores and tidal surges of the Salish Sea trundling through the interior, this bioregion has long attracted...

This book traces the development of Azerbaijani art music from its origins in the Eastern, modal, improvisational tradition known as mugham through its fusion with Western classical, jazz, and world art music. Aida Huseynova places the fascinating and...

This unique anthology presents a wide variety of approaches to an ethnomusicology of Inuit and Native North American musical expression. Contributors include Native and non-Native scholars who provide erudite and illuminating perspectives on aboriginal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780252044038Author John Holmes McDowellFormat HardbackPage Count 296Imprint University of Illinois PressPublisher University of Illinois PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780252044021Author Carlos SandroniFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint University of Illinois PressPublisher University of Illinois PressWeight(grams) 156g

Traditionally gnawa musicians in Morocco played for all-night ceremonies where communities gathered to invite spirits to heal mental, physical, and social ills untreatable by other means. Now gnawa music can be heard on the streets of Marrakech, at...

This book presents a social history of the music of the Jewish community in Palestine from the beginnings of Jewish immigration to Palestine in 1880 to the declaration of the State of Israel in 1948. The story is a fascinating case study of a small...

Oliver "Tuku" Mtukudzi, a Zimbabwean guitarist, vocalist, and composer, has performed worldwide and released some 50 albums. One of a handful of artists to have a beat named after him, Mtukudzi blends Zimbabwean traditional sounds with South...

How conflicts between science and the humanities have shaped our understanding of the line between art and animal behaviorOver the past century and a half, the voices and bodies of animals have been used by scientists and music experts as a benchmark for...

In The Race of Sound Nina Sun Eidsheim traces the ways in which sonic attributes that might seem natural, such as the voice and its qualities, are socially produced. Eidsheim illustrates how listeners measure race through sound and locate racial...

2007 Arts Club of Washington's National Award for Arts Writing - Finalist SEE ALSO: Pimps Up, Ho's Down: Hip Hop's Hold on Young Black Women by T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting. An inside look into the beats, lyrics, and flow of hip-hop's history With roots...

In The Past Is Always Present, Tore Tvarno Lind examines the musical revival of Greek Orthodox chant at the monastery of Vatopaidi within the monastic society of Mount Athos, Greece. In particular, Lind focuses on the musical activities at the monastery...

This resource aims to introduce Western audiences to what is perhaps the least known, heard or discussed urban folk-music in Europe. Although this music-Albanian urban song-is the most prominent of Albanian musical genres, it has continuously been...

"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 negotiated and contested spaces that they...

While the musical culture in the Arabian Gulf and Peninsula is often misunderstood, Music in Arabia extends and challenges existing narratives of the region's distinctive music to reveal diverse contributions to centuries-old heritage. Contributors to...

In Moravian Soundscapes, Sarah Eyerly contends that the study of sound is integral to understanding the interactions between German Moravian missionaries and Native communities in early Pennsylvania. In the mid-18th century, when the frontier between...

Stories are the backbone of ethnographic research. During fieldwork, subjects describe their lives through stories. Afterward ethnographers come home from their journeys with stories of their own about their experiences in the field. Storytime in...

Offering a rare look at the musical life of Russia Abroad as it unfolded in New York City, Natalie K. Zelensky examines the popular music culture of the post-Bolshevik Russian emigration and the impact made by this group on American culture and politics...

Chile had long forgotten about the existence of the country's Black population when, in 2003, the music and dance called the tumbe carnaval appeared on the streets of the city of Arica. Featuring turbaned dancers accompanied by a lively rhythm played on...