Ethnomusicology category: 491 books
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Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Lore, music, narratives, dozens of drawings by Indians themselves from an authoritative and important survey of native culture among Plains, Southwestern, Lake, and Pueblo Indians. Standard work in popular ethnomusicology. Features 149 songs in full notation. Includes 23 drawings and 23 photos.
Small Musical Worlds in the Mediterranean
Ethnicity, Globalization and Greek Cypriot Children's Musical Identities
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Small Musical Worlds in the Mediterranean is a pioneering book-length study of the complex topics of identity, ethnicity and global processes in children’s musical lives in the Republic of Cyprus - a Mediterranean country during its post-colonial era. What is it about this country’s musical enculturation...
Highlife Saturday Night
Popular Music and Social Change in Urban Ghana
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
Highlife Saturday Night captures the vibrancy of Saturday nights in Ghana—when musicians took to the stage and dancers took to the floor—in this penetrating look at musical leisure during a time of social, political, and cultural change. Framing dance band "highlife" music as a central medium...
Singing the Congregation
How Contemporary Worship Music Forms Evangelical Community
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2018
Contemporary worship music shapes the way evangelical Christians understand worship itself. Author Monique M. Ingalls argues that participatory worship music performances have brought into being new religious social constellations, or "modes of congregating". Through exploration of five of these modes--concert,...
Community Music in Oceania
Many Voices, One Horizon
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
Community Music in Oceania: Many Voices, One Horizon makes a distinctive contribution to the field of community music through the experiences of its editors and contributors in music education, ethnomusicology, music therapy, and music performance. Covering a wide range of perspectives from Australia,...
Tin Pan Alley and the Philippines
American Songs of War And Love, 1898-1946, A Resource Guide
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
In this innovative resource guide, Thomas P. Walsh has compiled a unique collection of some 1,400 published and unpublished American musical compositions relating in some way to the Philippines during the American colonial era in the country from 1898 to 1946. In preparing the guide, Walsh surveyed...
The Tangible in Music
The Tactile Learning of a Musical Instrument
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
In the age of digital music it seems striking that so many of us still want to produce music concretely with our bodies, through the movement of our limbs, lungs and fingers, in contact with those materials and objects which are capable of producing sounds. The huge sales figures of musical instruments...
Hearing the Future
The Music and Magic of the Sanguma Band
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2016
During the turbulent decades of the 1970s and 1980s, Papua New Guinea gained political independence from a colonial hold that had lasted almost a century. It was an exciting time for a diverse group of pioneering musicians who formed a band they named "Sanguma." These Melanesian artists...
Make Arts for a Better Life
A Guide for Working with Communities
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
Make Arts for a Better Life: A Guide for Working with Communities provides a ground-breaking model for arts advocacy. Drawing upon methods and theories from disciplines such as ethnomusicology, anthropology, folklore, community development, and communication studies, the Guide presents an in-depth...
by Anna Morcom
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Since their beginnings in the 1930s, Hindi films and film songs have dominated Indian public culture in India, and have also made their presence felt strongly in many global contexts. Hindi film songs have been described on the one hand as highly standardized and on the other as highly eclectic. Anna...
Hearing the Crimean War
Wartime Sound and the Unmaking of Sense
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2018
What does sound, whether preserved or lost, tell us about nineteenth-century wartime? Hearing the Crimean War: Wartime Sound and the Unmaking of Sense pursues this question through the many territories affected by the Crimean War, including Britain, France, Turkey, Russia, Italy, Poland, Latvia, Dagestan,...
Check the Technique
Liner Notes for Hip-Hop Junkies
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2009
A Tribe Called Quest • Beastie Boys • De La Soul • Eric B. & Rakim • The Fugees • KRS-One • Pete Rock & CL Smooth • Public Enemy • The Roots • Run-DMC • Wu-Tang Clan • and twenty-five more hip-hop immortals
It’s a sad fact: hip-hop album liners have always been...
Alan Lomax
The Man Who Recorded the World
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2010
The remarkable life and times of the man who popularized American folk music and created the science of song
Folklorist, archivist, anthropologist, singer, political activist, talent scout, ethnomusicologist, filmmaker, concert and record producer, Alan Lomax is best remembered as the man who...
Wherever the Sound Takes You
Heroics and Heartbreak in Music Making
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2019
David Rowell is a professional journalist and an impassioned amateur musician. He’s spent decades behind a drum kit, pondering the musical relationship between equipment and emotion. In Wherever the Sound Takes You, he explores the essence of music’s meaning with a vast spectrum of players, trying...