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  • Tuk Music Tradition in Barbados

    de Sharon Meredith ...
    Series series SOAS Studies in Music
    Barbados is a small Caribbean island better known as a tourist destination rather than for its culture. The island was first claimed in 1627 for the English King and remained a British colony until independence was gained in 1966. This firmly entrenched British culture in the Barbadian way of life, although most of the population are descended from enslaved Africans taken to Barbados to work on ... Leer más

    $61.99 USD

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  • Ethnomusicology

    A Very Short Introduction

    de Timothy Rice ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    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 properly address these questions, we must study music in all its geographical and historical diversity ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • Focus: Music of South Africa

    de Carol A. Muller ...
    Series series Focus on World Music Series
    Focus: Music of South Africa provides an in-depth look at the full spectrum of South African music, a musical culture that epitomizes the enormous ethnic, religious, linguistic, class, and gender diversity of the nation itself. Drawing on extensive field and archival research, as well as her own personal experiences, noted ethnomusicologist and South African native Carol A. Muller looks at how ... Leer más

    $84.99 USD

  • Pieces of the Musical World: Sounds and Cultures

    de Rachel Harris, Rowan Pease ...
    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 region, introducing key aspects of the cultures in which it is embedded, contexts of performance, the ... Leer más

    $98.99 USD

  • The Cape Breton Fiddle Companion

    de Liz Doherty, PhD ...
    Celtic music scholar and musician Liz Doherty is no stranger to Cape Breton music – in fact, she has made a study of it. Doherty’s exposure to, and research of, the island’s music traditions was the germination for this compendium on the Cape Breton fiddle: its history, its people, the tunes, the recordings. The fiddle music of Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, has its own sound, artistic standards ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Flowing Tides

    History and Memory in an Irish Soundscape

    de Gearóid Ó hAllmhuráin ...
    Despite its isolation on the western edge of Europe, Ireland occupies vast amounts of space on the music maps of the world. Although deeply rooted in time and place, Irish songs, dances and instrumental traditions have a history of global travel that span the centuries. Whether carried by exiles, or distributed by commercial networks, Irish traditional music is one of the most popular World Music ... Leer más

    $62.99 USD

  • Focus: Scottish Traditional Music

    de Simon McKerrell ...
    Series series Focus on World Music Series
    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 social and performative contexts, outlining vocal traditions such as lullabies, mining songs, ... Leer más

    $70.99 USD

  • Global Minstrels

    Voices of World Music

    de Elijah Wald ...
    As the fastest growing sector of the U.S. music market, world music has embedded itself in the fabric of American life. Artists such as Peter Gabriel, Paul Simon and the Talking Heads have all utilized characteristics of the "world" sound in their music, while international performers are enjoying unexpected fame in the U.S. At the same time, in an era of unprecedented immigration and ... Leer más

    $57.99 USD

  • Music in Cyprus

    de Jim Samson, Nicoletta Demetriou ...
    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 a panorama of music, culture and politics. Shared practices of traditional music and dance are ... Leer más

    $61.99 USD

  • Necessary Noise

    Music, Film, and Charitable Imperialism in the East of Congo

    de Chérie Rivers Ndaliko ...
    Since 1997, the war in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo has taken more than 6 million lives and shapes the daily existence of the nation's residents. While the DRC is often portrayed in international media as an unproductive failed state, the Congolese have turned increasingly to art-making to express their experience to external eyes. Author Chérie Rivers Ndaliko argues that ... Leer más

    $33.99 USD

  • Fiddling Way Out Yonder

    The Life and Music of Melvin Wine

    de Drew Beisswenger ...
    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 playing and teaching all three have created a vital and enduring legacy.Wine has been honored ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

  • The Garland Handbook of Southeast Asian Music

    Edición de Terry Miller, Sean Williams ...
    Series series Garland Handbooks of World Music
    The Garland Handbook of Southeast Asian Music is comprised of essays from The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: Volume 4, Southeast Asia (1998). Largely revised and updated, the essays offer detailed, regional studies of the different musical cultures of Southeast Asia and examine the ways in which music helps to define the identity of this particular area.Part one provides an in-depth ... Leer más

    $107.99 USD