Ethnomusicology category: 491 books
Soundscapes from the Americas
Ethnomusicological Essays on the Power, Poetics, and Ontology of Performance
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Dedicated to the late Gerard Béhague (1937-2005), whose pioneering work in Latin American music, popular culture, and performance studies contributed extensively to ethnomusicological discourse in the 1970s-1990s, this anthology offers comparative perspectives on the evolving legacy of performance...
Becoming an Ethnomusicologist
A Miscellany of Influences
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Becoming an Ethnomusicologist centers on the life and education of the author, Bruno Nettl, a well-known ethnomusicologist. Focusing on eleven individuals who influenced him significantly, it follows their roles through his career from his childhood in Czechoslovakia and his family's forced departure...
by Timothy Rice
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2013
Ethnomusicologists believe that all humans, not just those we call musicians, are musical, and that musicality is one of the essential touchstones of the human experience. This insight raises big questions about the nature of music and the nature of humankind, and ethnomusicologists argue that to...
by Rachel Harris, Rowan Pease
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Pieces of the Musical World: Sounds and Cultures is a fieldwork-based ethnomusicology textbook that introduces a series of musical worlds each through a single "piece." It focuses on a musical sound or object that provides a springboard from which to tell a story about a particular geographic...
Empire of Song
Europe and Nation in the Eurovision Song Contest
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013
The Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) is more than a musical event that ostensibly “unites European people” through music. It is a spectacle: a performative event that allegorically represents the idea of “Europe.” Since its beginning in the Cold War era, the contest has functioned as a symbolic...
Ethnomusicology
A Research and Information Guide
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
First published in 2011. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Theory and Practice in the Music of the Islamic World
Essays in Honour of Owen Wright
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
This volume of original essays is dedicated to Owen Wright in recognition of his formative contribution to the study of music in the Islamic Middle East. Wright’s work, which comprises, at the time of writing, six field-defining volumes and countless articles, has reconfigured the relationship between...
Beyond the Roof of the World
Music, Prayer, and Healing in the Pamir Mountains
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2008
While Western medicine has conventionally separated music, science, and religion into distinct entities, traditional cultures throughout the world have always viewed music as a bridge that connects the physical with the spiritual. Now, as people in even the most technologically advanced nations across...
Essential Song
Three Decades of Northern Cree Music
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2017
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Essential Song: Three Decades of Northern Cree Music, a study of subarctic Cree hunting songs, is the first detailed ethnomusicology of the northern Cree of Quebec and Manitoba. The result of more than two decades spent in the North learning from the Cree,...
Music, Science, and the Rhythmic Brain
Cultural and Clinical Implications
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
This book studies the effects of repetitive musical rhythm on the brain and nervous system, and in doing so integrates diverse fields including ethnomusicology, psychology, neuroscience, anthropology, religious studies, music therapy, and human health. It presents aspects of musical rhythm and biological...
by Jim Samson, Nicoletta Demetriou
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Music in Cyprus draws its authors from both sides of the divided island to give a rounded picture of musical culture from the beginning of the British colonial period (1878-1960) until today. The book crosses conventional scholarly divides between musicology and ethnomusicology in order to achieve...
by Ruth M. Stone
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
For courses in ethnomusicological theory. This book covers ethnomusicological theory, exploring some of the underpinnings of different approaches and analyzing differences and commonalities in these orientations. This text addresses how ethnomusicologists have used and applied these theories in ethnographic research.
Fiddling Way Out Yonder
The Life and Music of Melvin Wine
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2002
From a small mountain town in West Virginia, elder fiddler Melvin Wine has inspired musicians and music enthusiasts far beyond his homeplace. Music, community, and tradition influence all aspects of life in this rural region. Fiddling Way Out Yonder: The Life and Music of Melvin Wine shows how in Wine's...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2019
Music and Modernity among First Peoples of North America is a collaboration between Indigenous and settler scholars from both Canada and the United States. The contributors explore the intersections between music, modernity, and Indigeneity in essays addressing topics that range from hip-hop to powwow,...