Ethnomusicology 14

From joyous gospel to deeply felt blues, this wonderful collection contains vintage songs sung and played through the years by black Americans ー at work, in church, and for pure entertainment. Incl……続きを見る

Few Mexican musicians in the twentieth century achieved as much notoriety or had such an international impact as the popular singer and songwriter Agust?n Lara (1897-1970). Widely known as "el flaco……続きを見る

The Armenian Duduk: A complete guide is probably one of the few books in English that covers all you need to know, to be able to play this elusive and exotically haunting instrument. The book goes o……続きを見る

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 – ……続きを見る

The Music of Malaysia, first published in Malay in 1997 and followed by an English edition in 2004 is still the only history, appreciation and analysis of Malaysian music in its many and varied form……続きを見る

Today, teachers and performers of Turkish classical music intentionally cultivate melancholies, despite these affects being typically dismissed as remnants of the Ottoman Empire. Melancholic Modalit……続きを見る

People have been playing music on homemade instruments for thousands of years. But creating new instruments is much more than an art form. When you want to make a note sound higher or lower, you hav……続きを見る

Why does the University of Illinois campus at Urbana-Champaign look as it does today? Drawing on a wealth of research and featuring more than one hundred color photographs, An Illini Place provides ……続きを見る

Popular music and digital media are constantly entwined in elementary and middle-school children's talk, interactions, and relationships, and offer powerful cultural resources to children in their e……続きを見る

Music theory is often seen as independent from - even antithetical to - performance. While music theory is an intellectual enterprise, performance requires an intuitive response to the music. But th……続きを見る

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, ……続きを見る

Igiaba Scego è la guida appassionata che ci fa incontrare Caetano Veloso, la sua poesia e la sua voce. “Sperimentiamo una resurrezione continua nell’ascoltarlo. Le sue canzoni sono una linfa necessa……続きを見る

“Maybe you won't like steel band. It's possible. But it's been said that the Pied Piper had a steel band helping him on his famous visit to Hamelin.” When the US Navy distributed this press release,……続きを見る

Este es un excelente trabajo sobre movimientos sociales y acción colectiva caracterizado por una gran sofisticación teórica y un impresionante vuelo conceptual. Aunque firmemente anclado a su discip……続きを見る

Más que un elemento accesorio que cambia con la moda, la música popular durante el siglo XX fue un aspecto esencial a través del cual América Latina construyó narraciones de sí misma y de lo que sig……続きを見る

Hay una forma de pensar diferente y complementaria a la ciencia; este libro trata de las bases coceptuales para ello. El autor se da a la tarea de ordenar la ideas y conceptos diversos sobre los que……続きを見る

Los poemas que están reunidos en este libro son un homenaje de Augusto Pinilla a las lecturas que admira y quiere Aparecen Borges, Cortázar, Huidobro, Rimbaud, Whitman y los recuerdos de los años se……続きを見る

La propuesta principal de este título, el segundo volumen de la Colección 2010, es conectar las historias de conformación de la nación ibérica y las emergentes naciones americanas e identificar las ……続きを見る

Popular music has come to play a significant role in the political and cultural history of the Nordic countries. Research on the region's culture has largely followed national narratives created by ……続きを見る

Greek Rebetiko from a Psychocultural Perspective: Same Songs Changing Minds examines the ways in which audiences in present-day Greece and Turkey perceive and use the Greek popular song genre rebeti……続きを見る

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, ethnomusico……続きを見る

What makes a song sound foreign? What makes it sound “American,” or Brazilian? Caetano Veloso's 2004 American songbook album, A Foreign Sound, is a meditation on these questions-but in truth, they w……続きを見る

In Dust of the Zulu Louise Meintjes traces the political and aesthetic significance of ngoma, a competitive form of dance and music that emerged out of the legacies of colonialism and apartheid in S……続きを見る

In Listening for Africa David F. Garcia explores how a diverse group of musicians, dancers, academics, and activists engaged with the idea of black music and dance’s African origins between the 1930……続きを見る

Arrullos y Currulaos es una investigación sobre la música tradicional del Pacífico sur colombiano que consta de un texto y unos archivos de audio y video. A partir de la interrelación del texto escr……続きを見る

Migration studies is an area of increasing significance in musicology as in other disciplines. How do migrants express and imagine themselves through musical practice? How does music help them to co……続きを見る

Robert P. Morgan is one of a small number of music theorists writing in English who treat music theory, and in particular Schenkerian theory, as part of general intellectual life. Morgan‘s writings ……続きを見る

This volume gathers together a cross-section of essays and book chapters dealing with the ways in which musicians and their music have been pressed into the service of political, nationalist and rac……続きを見る

The jews-harp is a distinctive musical instrument of international importance, yet it remains one of those musical instruments, like the ocarina, kazoo or even the art of whistling, that travels ben……続きを見る

John Wallis (1616-1703), was one of the foremost British mathematicians of the seventeenth century, and is also remembered for his important writings on grammar and logic. An interest in music theor……続きを見る