Ethnomusicology category: 491 books
The Globalization of Musics in Transit
Music Migration and Tourism
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
This book traces the particularities of music migration and tourism in different global settings, and provides current, even new perspectives for ethnomusicological research on globalizing musics in transit. The dual focus on tourism and migration is central to debates on globalization, and their...
Hip Hop's Inheritance
From the Harlem Renaissance to the Hip Hop Feminist Movement
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
Hip Hop's Inheritance arguably offers the first book-length treatment of what hip hop culture has, literally, 'inherited' from the Harlem Renaissance, the Black Arts movement, the Feminist Art movement, and 1980s and 1990s postmodern aesthetics. By comparing and contrasting the major motifs of the...
Representing African Music
Postcolonial Notes, Queries, Positions
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
The aim of this book is to stimulate debate by offering a critique of discourse about African music. Who writes about African music, how, and why? What assumptions and prejudices influence the presentation of ethnographic data? Even the term "African music" suggests there is an agreed-upon...
by Travis D. Stimeling
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Now in its sixth decade, country music studies is a thriving field of inquiry involving scholars working in the fields of American history, folklore, sociology, anthropology, musicology, ethnomusicology, cultural studies, and geography, among many others. Covering issues of historiography and practice...
Music Commodities, Markets, and Values
Music as Merchandise
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
This bookexamines music stores as sites of cultural production in contemporary India. Analyzing social practices of selling music in a variety of retail contexts, it focuses upon the economic and social values that are produced and circulated by music retailers in the marketplace. Based upon research...
Nor-tec Rifa!
Electronic Dance Music from Tijuana to the World
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2008
At the dawn of the twenty-first century, the Nor-tec phenomenon emerged from the border city of Tijuana and through the Internet, quickly conquered a global audience. Marketed as a kind of "ethnic" electronic dance music, Nor-tec samples sounds of traditional music from the north of Mexico,...
Sustainable Futures for Music Cultures
An Ecological Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
The sustainability of music and other intangible expressions of culture has been high on the agenda of scholars, governments and NGOs in recent years. However, there is a striking lack of systematic research into what exactly affects sustainability across music cultures. By analyzing case studies...
Speak it Louder
Asian Americans Making Music
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2004
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 about "Asian American music" but rather about Asian Americans making music. This key distinction...
This Thing Called Music
Essays in Honor of Bruno Nettl
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
The most fundamental subject of music scholarship provides the common focus of this volume of essays: music itself. For the distinguished scholars from the field of musicology and related areas of the humanities and social sciences, the search for music itself—in its vastly complex and diverse forms...
West African Drumming and Dance in North American Universities
An Ethnomusicological Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2014
More than twenty universities and twenty other colleges in North America (USA and Canada) offer performance courses on West African ethnic dance drumming. Since its inception in 1964 at both UCLA and Columbia, West African drumming and dance has gradually developed into a vibrant campus subculture...
by Jonathan Dueck
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
Congregational Music, Conflict and Community is the first study of the music of the contemporary 'worship wars' – conflicts over church music that continue to animate and divide Protestants today – to be based on long-term in-person observation and interviews. It tells the story of the musical...
Resounding Afro Asia
Interracial Music and the Politics of Collaboration
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
Cultural hybridity is a celebrated hallmark of U.S. American music and identity. Yet hybrid music is all too often marked -and marketed - under a single racial label. Resounding Afro Asia examines music projects that counter this convention; these projects instead foreground racial mixture in players,...
by Andrew Alter
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
In the Central Himalayan region of Garhwal, the gods (devtas) enjoy dancing. Musicians - whether ritual specialists or musical specialists - are therefore an indispensable part of most entertainment and religious events. In shamanistic ceremonies, their incantations, songs and drumming 'make' the...
Spirit Song
Afro-Brazilian Religious Music and Boundaries
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2016
In Spirit Song: Afro-Brazilian Religious Music and Boundaries, Marc Gidal investigates how and why a multi-faith community in southern Brazil utilizes music to combine and segregate three Afro-Brazilian religions: Umbanda, Quimbanda, and Batuque. Combining ethnomusicology and symbolic boundary studies,...