Ethnomusicology category: 491 books
Music and Youth Culture in Latin America
Identity Construction Processes from New York to Buenos Aires
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Music is one of the most distinctive cultural characteristics of Latin American countries. But, while many people in the United States and Europe are familiar with musical genres such as salsa, merengue, and reggaetón, the musical manifestations that young people listen to in most Latin American...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
Tracing the connections between music making and built space in both historical and contemporary times, Music, Sound, and Architecture in Islam brings together domains of intellectual reflection that have rarely been in dialogue to promote a greater understanding of the centrality of sound production...
by Simon McKerrell
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
Focus: Scottish Traditional Music engages methods from ethnomusicology, popular music studies, cultural studies, and media studies to explain how complex Scottish identities and culture are constructed in the traditional music and culture of Scotland. This book examines Scottish music through their...
by Eleni Kallimopoulou
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Since the 1980s, musicians and audiences in Athens have been rediscovering musical traditions associated with the Ottoman period of Greek history. The result of this revivalist movement has been the urban musical style of 'paradosiaká' ('traditional'). Drawing from a varied repertoire that includes...
Melancholic Modalities
Affect, Islam, and Turkish Classical Musicians
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Today, teachers and performers of Turkish classical music intentionally cultivate melancholies, despite these affects being typically dismissed as remnants of the Ottoman Empire. Melancholic Modalities is the first in-depth historical and ethnographic study of the practices socialized by musicians...
Sense and Sadness
Syriac Chant in Aleppo
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2018
Sense and Sadness is an innovative study of music modality in relation to human emotion and the aesthetics of perception. It is also a musical story of survival through difficulty and pain. Focusing on chant at St George's Syrian Orthodox Church of Aleppo, author Tala Jarjour puts forward the concept...
The Past Is Always Present
The Revival of the Byzantine Musical Tradition at Mount Athos
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2011
In The Past Is Always Present, Tore Tvarnø 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 and the meaning of the past in the monks' efforts...
Music, Travel, and Imperial Encounter in 19th-Century France
Musical Apprehensions
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
This book considers the activities and writings of early song collectors and proto-ethnomusicologists, memoirists, and other "musical travelers" in 19th-century France. Each of the book’s discrete but interrelated chapters is devoted to a different geographic and discursive site of empire,...
by Richard Wetzel
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
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, secular, popular and religious music. Integral to the process have been political, economic, military,...
Audible States
Socialist Politics and Popular Music in Albania
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
During the Cold War, state-sponsored musical performances were central to the diplomatic agendas of the United States and the Soviet Union. But states on the periphery of the conflict also used state-funded performances to articulate their positions in the polarized global network. In Albania in particular,...
The Music of Multicultural America
Performance, Identity, and Community in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2016
The Music of Multicultural America explores the intersection of performance, identity, and community in a wide range of musical expressions. Fifteen essays explore traditions that range from the Klezmer revival in New York, to Arab music in Detroit, to West Indian steelbands in Brooklyn, to Kathak...
Musical Intimacies and Indigenous Imaginaries
Aboriginal Music and Dance in Public Performance
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2013
Musical Intimacies and Indigenous Imaginaries explores several styles performed in the vital aboriginal musical scene in the western Canadian province of Manitoba, focusing on fiddling, country music, Christian hymnody, and step dancing. In considering these genres and the contexts in which they are...
Local Music Scenes and Globalization
Transnational Platforms in Beirut
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
This book offers the first in-depth study of experimental and popular music scenes in Beirut, looking at musicians working towards a new understanding of musical creativity and music culture in a country that is dominated by mass-mediated pop music, and propaganda. Burkhalter studies the generation...
Facing the Music
Shaping Music Education from a Global Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Facing the Music investigates the practices and ideas that have grown from some five decades of cultural diversity in music education, developments in ethnomusicology, and the rise of 'world music'. Speaking from rich, hands-on experience of more than thirty years at various levels of music education...