Ethnomusicology: A Contemporary Reader is designed to supplement a textbook for an introductory course in ethnomusicology. It offers a cross section of the best new writing in the field from the las……続きを見る
著者:Marc Benamou
出版社: Oxford University Press
発売日: 2016年05月31日
The complex notion of "rasa," as understood by Javanese musicians, refers to a combination of various qualities, including: taste, feeling, affect, mood, sense, inner meaning, a faculty of knowing i……続きを見る
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 ……続きを見る
著者:Joshua Tucker
出版社: University of Chicago Press
発売日: 2013年04月19日
Exploring Peru’s lively music industry and the studio producers, radio DJs, and program directors that drive it, Gentleman Troubadours and Andean Pop Stars is a fascinating account of the deliberate……続きを見る
著者:Eric A. Galm
出版社: University Press of Mississippi
発売日: 2010年02月09日
The Brazilian berimbau, a musical bow, is most commonly associated with the energetic martial art/dance/game of capoeira. This study explores the berimbau's stature from the 1950s to the present in ……続きを見る
著者:I-to Loh
出版社: Gia Publications
発売日: 2013年08月01日
A new, highly authoritative reference for all things related to Asian Christian hymnody, this tome examines the hymns of Sound the Bamboo in their historical, cultural, and spiritual contexts of 22 ……続きを見る
著者:Kenneth Schweitzer
出版社: University Press of Mississippi
発売日: 2013年03月11日
An iconic symbol and sound of the Lucum'/Santer'a religion, Afro-Cuban batá are talking drums that express the epic mythological narratives of the West African Yoruba deities known as orisha. By imi……続きを見る
The Garland Handbook of African Music is comprised of essays from The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: Volume 1, Africa, (1997). Revised and updated, the essays offer detailed, regional studies ……続きを見る
著者:Mark F. DeWitt
出版社: University Press of Mississippi
発売日: 2012年05月04日
Queen Ida. Danny Poullard. Documentary filmmaker Les Blank. Chris Strachwitz and Arhoolie Records. These are names that are familiar to many fans of Cajun music and zydeco, and they have one other t……続きを見る
著者:Drew Beisswenger
出版社: University Press of Mississippi
発売日: 2011年12月21日
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 ……続きを見る
Raï music is often called the voice of the voiceless in Algeria, a society currently swept by tragic conflict. Raï is the voice of Algerian men, young men caught between generations and classes, in ……続きを見る
Two decades after the fall of communism in Eastern Europe and one decade into the twenty-first century, European music remains one of the most powerful forces for shaping nationalism. Using intensiv……続きを見る
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 deta……続きを見る
著者:Lisa Gilman
出版社: Temple University Press
発売日: 2009年04月10日
Election campaigns, political events, and national celebration days in Malawi usually feature groups of women who dance and perform songs of praise for politicians and political parties. These livel……続きを見る
著者:John Szwed
出版社: Penguin Publishing Group
発売日: 2010年12月30日
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, ethnomus……続きを見る
The Culture of AIDS in Africa enters into the many worlds of expression brought forth across this vast continent by the ravaging presence of HIV/AIDS. Africans and non-Africans, physicians and socia……続きを見る
著者:Adam Krims
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2012年07月26日
Music and Urban Geography is the first book to theorize musical aspects of the tremendous changes that have overtaken major cities in the developed world over the past few decades. Drawing on musico……続きを見る
In Beyond Exoticism, Timothy D. Taylor considers how western cultures’ understandings of racial, ethnic, and cultural differences have been incorporated into music from early operas to contemporary ……続きを見る
著者:Byron Dueck
出版社: Oxford University Press
発売日: 2016年05月31日
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 musi……続きを見る
Why have all human cultures - today and throughout history - made music? Why does music excite such rich emotion? How do we make sense of musical sound?
These are questions that have, until recently……続きを見る
著者:Lynn Whidden
出版社: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
発売日: 2009年07月28日
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Essential Song: Three Decades of Northern Cree Music, a study of subarctic Cree hunting songs, is the first detailed ethnomusicology of the northern Cree of Quebec ……続きを見る
著者:Alexander Dent
出版社: Duke University Press
発売日: 2009年10月05日
River of Tears is the first ethnography of Brazilian country music, one of the most popular genres in Brazil yet least-known outside it. Beginning in the mid-1980s, commercial musical duos practicin……続きを見る
著者:Lavinia Greenlaw
出版社: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
発売日: 2009年05月26日
The Importance of Music to Girls is the story of the adventures that music leads us intoーhow it forms and transforms us. As a soundtrack, it's there in the background while we go about the thrillin……続きを見る
著者:Ivor L. Miller
出版社: University Press of Mississippi
発売日: 2012年08月06日
In Voice of the Leopard: African Secret Societies and Cuba, Ivor L. Miller shows how African migrants and their political fraternities played a formative role in the history of Cuba. During the eigh……続きを見る
著者:Paja Faudree
出版社: Duke University Press
発売日: 2013年05月29日
Singing for the Dead chronicles ethnic revival in Oaxaca, Mexico, where new forms of singing and writing in the local Mazatec indigenous language are producing powerful, transformative political eff……続きを見る
著者:Oliver Sacks
出版社: Pan Macmillan
発売日: 2011年06月16日
‘A humane discourse on the fragility of our minds, of the bodies that give rise to them, and of the world they create for us. This book is filled with wonders’ Daily Telegraph
Oliver Sacks’ compassi……続きを見る
Every culture on Earth has music. Every culture that's ever existed has had it, but we don't exactly know why. Music is not like food, shelter, or having opposable thumbs. We don't need it to live, ……続きを見る
The African Diaspora presents musical case studies from various regions of the African diaspora, including Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America, and Europe, that engage with broader interdisciplinar……続きを見る
"A book to cherish permanently." ー The New York Times.
With this ample collection of authentic ballads and songs, you can immerse yourself in the rich tradition and heritage of American folk music.……続きを見る
出版社: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
発売日: 2010年04月19日
Music Traditions, Cultures, and Contexts is a tribute to the ethnomusicologist Beverley Diamond in recognition of her outstanding scholarly accomplishments. The volume includes essays by leading eth……続きを見る