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“timothy j cooley”

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  • Making Music in the Polish Tatras

    Tourists, Ethnographers, and Mountain Musicians

    by Timothy J. Cooley ...
    Challenging myths that mountain isolation and ancient folk customs defined the music culture of the Polish Tatras, Timothy J. Cooley shows that intensive contact with tourists and their more academic kin, ethnographers, since the late 19th century helped shape both the ethnic group known as Górale (highlanders) and the music that they perform. Making Music in the Polish Tatras reveals how the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cultural Sustainabilities

    Music, Media, Language, Advocacy

    by Jeff Todd Titon, Aaron S. Allen, Michael B. Bakan, Robert Baron, Daniel Cavicchi, Timothy J Cooley, Mark F. DeWitt, Barry Dornfeld, Thomas Faux0, Burt Feintuch1, Nancy Guy2, Mary Hufford3, Susan Hurley-Glowa4, Patrick Hutchinson5, Michelle Kisliuk6, Pauleena M. MacDougall7, Margarita Mazo8, Dotan Nitzberg9, Jennifer C. Post0, Tom Rankin1, Roshan Samtani2, Jeffrey A. Summit3, Joshua Tucker4, Rory Turner5, Denise Von Glahn6, Thomas Walker7 ...
    Environmental sustainability and human cultural sustainability are inextricably linked. Reversing damaging human impact on the global environment is ultimately a cultural question, and as with politics, the answers are often profoundly local. Cultural Sustainabilities presents twenty-three essays by musicologists and ethnomusicologists, anthropologists, folklorists, ethnographers, documentary ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Shadows in the Field

    New Perspectives for Fieldwork in Ethnomusicology

    Edited by Gregory F. Barz, Timothy J. Cooley ...
    Ethnomusicological fieldwork has significantly changed since the end of the the 20th century. Ethnomusicology is in a critical moment that requires new perspecitves on fieldwork - perspectives that are not addressed in the standard guides to ethnomusicological or anthropological method. The focus in ethnomusicological writing and teaching has traditionally centered around analyses and ethnographic ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Surfing about Music

    by Timothy J. Cooley ...
    This first major examination the interrelationships of music and surfing explores different ways that surfers combine surfing with making and listening to music. Tim Cooley uses his knowledge and experience as a practicing musician and avid surfer to consider the musical practices of surfers in locations around the world, taking into account ideas about surfing as a global affinity group and the ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

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  • The Avant Garde

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    The Culture of Everyday Life in Socialist Yugoslavia

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  • 'City of the Future'

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  • Performance art in Eastern Europe since 1960

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