Music-Ethnomusicology

"Music in Ancient Arabia and Spain" is a comprehensive scholarly exploration of the historical and cultural links between the musical traditions of the Arab world and the Iberian Peninsula. This work examines the profound influence of Moorish music on the development of Spanish musical...

"Music in Ancient Arabia and Spain" is a comprehensive scholarly exploration of the historical and cultural links between the musical traditions of the Arab world and the Iberian Peninsula. This work examines the profound influence of Moorish music on the development of Spanish musical...

The Voice of Kenedougou invites readers into the world of Neba Solo (né Souleymane Traoré), a singer, bala virtuoso, and one of Mali's most renowned musicians. Born in the Kenedougou region of southeastern Mali, Solo has long been celebrated for his modernization of traditional...

Musicologist Georgia J. Cowart explores how Antoine Watteau's late paintings reimagine the symbolic order of absolutism in the wake of Louis XIV's death.Antoine Watteau has long been known for the theatricality of his paintings, but what that theatricality signifies has remained elusive. In After...

This is a major work, at once synthetic and analytical. The author has drawn on previous studies of Irish music and general melodic theory to describe the inner workings of a rich melodic tradition. Irish folk music, resting upon monophonic melodies which are varied...

World Music Compilation includes: Resolmilafatimila (Form Figure No. 1), Pattern, Chords & Analysis, 3stavesWorld Music Mastery, Patterns for playing with anyone, Piano, Chords, Guitar Fret-boards & Analysis, 1pLatin Piano (Montuno) 101, C I-IV-V-IV major & minor (with I-ii-V-ii variation), 2sMontuno Circles Makes Blues Scale,...

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe...

Author: Julian HenriquesISBN-10: 1478039957ISBN-13: 9781478039952Publisher: Duke University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/11/2027Pages: 400Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.98lbs

Author: Sergio Sanchez HerreroISBN-13: 9798160299327Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/05/2026Pages: 198Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.42d

Music is not made of notes. It is made of relationships.When a music disappears, far more than a repertoire is lost. A distinctive intelligence of time, the body, memory, and human connection may vanish with it. An irreplaceable way of hearing the world and...

The Voice of Kenedougou invites readers into the world of Neba Solo (né Souleymane Traoré), a singer, bala virtuoso, and one of Mali's most renowned musicians. Born in the Kenedougou region of southeastern Mali, Solo has long been celebrated for his modernization of traditional...

In Wild Tongue, writer, scholar, and musician Jonathan Leal invites readers to the Texas borderlands to witness contemporary sonic cultures and expressive forms of Latine struggle and world-making. Blending autoethnography, music criticism, and border theory into an epistolary mixtape, Leal depicts the borderlands as...

Explores the forging of global community through Caribbean music and danceBuscando la gozadera / Seeking Pleasure traces the rise and global journey of timba music and culture from its beginnings in 1980s Havana to its vibrant presence in 2010s New York City and beyond....

In Sonorous Passages, Meina Yates-Richard demonstrates how, within Black Atlantic literary and cultural productions, the sounds of Black maternal figures function as mediators of liberatory thought. Under the press of chattel slavery, Black mothers were discursively rendered as points of passage between freedom and...

Bach's choral works are the soul of the Baroque era, their melodies echoing through centuries of sacred music history. In Bach's Chorals (Part I): The Hymns and Hymn Melodies of the Passions and Oratorios, Charles Sanford Terry guides readers into the heart of Johann...

Tracing the Mbira Sound Archive in Zimbabwe analyses the revitalisation and repatriation of historical recordings from the largest sound archive in Africa, the International Library of African Music (ILAM). It provides a postcolonial study on the African sound archive divided into three historical periods:...

Armenian Sacred Music in Organ Arrangements presents a collection of Armenian sacred melodies in arrangements for organ solo and voice and organ, together with Grigor Arakelian's original "Mashtots" Preludes.Drawing on the rich heritage of Armenian sacred music and composers such as Mesrop Mashtots, Sahak...

This XpressRead Cram Edition of Spiritual Folk-Songs of Early America pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic. "Spiritual Folk-Songs of Early America: Two Hundred and Fifty Tunes and Texts With an Introduction and Notes"...

Popular World Music, Third Edition introduces students to popular music genres and artists from around the world. Andrew Shahriari discusses international music styles familiar to most students--reggae, salsa, K-pop, and more--with a comprehensive listening-oriented introduction to mainstream musical culture emanating primarily from the United...

This book is about the history and practice of recording Irish traditional music and dance, and the variety of documents that exist as a result of the activities of collectors both in Ireland and in North America.Essay topics range from analyses of nineteenth-century printed...

Musical media and the audio recording industry have an important and complex history in Newfoundland and Labrador: professional musicians, community songwriters, local institutions, and even politicians have gone on record. The result is a widespread body of work that undercuts the idea of recorded...

In Transounding, Daniel da Silva examines the work of popular music artists from Portugal, Brazil, and Angola whose singing and performances blur boundaries of gender and genre. These artists engage in collaborations that traverse uneven, transatlantic, Lusophone geographies and complicate North-South and South-South axes,...

This is not a history of Neapolitan music. It is an exposé of how one of the most complex sonic civilizations on Earth has been reduced to a postcard, and of how it continues to survive underground, in the hands of musicians nobody books...

"Old Songs Hymnal" is a landmark collection of spirituals and traditional hymns compiled and arranged by Dorothy G. Bolton and the pioneering African American composer Harry T. Burleigh. This volume serves as a vital cultural record, preserving the authentic melodies and lyrics of the...

Musical Capital: Sound and Power in Washington, D.C. brings together a collection of thirteen essays developed by twenty-nine authors and musicians to create an expansive story of musical life in Washington, D.C. It examines D.C.'s music as an articulation of both the city's symbolic...

Explores the forging of global community through Caribbean music and danceBuscando la gozadera / Seeking Pleasure traces the rise and global journey of timba music and culture from its beginnings in 1980s Havana to its vibrant presence in 2010s New York City and beyond....

Transatlantic Malagueñas and Zapateados is an exploration of two fandango dances, recording the circulations of people, imagery, music, and dance across what were once the Spanish and Portuguese Empires. Although these dance-musics seem to be mirror images, the unbreachable space between them reflects the...

Music narrates personal, communal and national experiences. It is a rich repository of a people's deepest fears, hopes, and achievements, especially as it communicates spirituality, economic, and political realities. This volume examines the multiple roles of music in Zimbabwe, showing how Zimbabwean music has...

Jews and Jazz: Improvising Ethnicity explores the meaning of Jewish involvement in the world of American jazz. It focuses on the ways prominent jazz musicians like Stan Getz, Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, Lee Konitz, Dave Liebman, Michael Brecker, and Red Rodney have engaged with...

Want to learn how to play the bongos from scratch? Looking for a simple and practical bongo drumming guide designed specifically for adult beginners? Want to improve your rhythm, timing, hand coordination, and percussion skills without complicated lessons? Ready to start creating enjoyable bongo...

Have you always wanted to play the beautiful lyre harp but didn't know where to begin? Are you looking for a simple, step-by-step lyre harp guide that makes learning easy for children, teens, adults, and seniors alike? Would you love to play soothing melodies,...

The stretch of coast between Accra and Lagos is home to four distinct national communities who identify as descendants of Brazilians: the Tabom in Ghana, the Brésiliens in Togo, the Agudas in Benin, and the Amaros in Nigeria. These communities were established by people...

What makes sounds religious? How are communities shaped by the things they hear, play, or listen to? This book foregrounds connections between sounds, bodies, and media in the private and public life of communities beyond the Global North, analyzing diverse configurations of the category...

Franz Boas's "The Central Eskimo" remains a landmark study of Inuit culture and society. This meticulously reproduced edition of Boas's Sixth Annual Report to the Smithsonian Institution offers unparalleled insights into the lives of the Central Eskimo people during the late 19th century. A...

"The Bowed-Harp: A Study in the History of Early Musical Instruments" is an authoritative and meticulously researched examination of the development of stringed instruments. Written by the distinguished musicologist Otto Andersson and edited by Kathleen Schlesinger, this work provides a comprehensive overview of the...

Interprets music as a systemic process which is inherently in motion, a living art, emphasizing music's continuity with nature. All the teeming life of nature, as this book argues, is mirrored in the practice of music. Musical repertoires behave like ecosystems, and music and...

"Rinnce Na Eirann: National Dances of Ireland" is a comprehensive collection of twenty-five traditional Irish dances, meticulously gathered from original sources across Ireland. Curated by Elizabeth Burchenal, a renowned figure in the folk dance movement, this work serves as an essential record of the...

Black Song: A Manifesto for Music and Justice centers acts of musical creation and performance that emerge from Black experiences, affirm Black humanity, and connect to Black communities. Written for scholars, performers, and music fans, the book shows that learning about Black Song and...

The island is a powerful metaphor in everyday speech which extends almost naturally into several academic disciplines, including musicology. Islands are imagined as isolated and unique places where strange, exotic, different and unexpected treasures can be found by daring adventurers. The magic inherent within...

Teklife, Ghettoville, Eski argues that Black electronic dance music produces sonic ecologies of Blackness that expose and reorder the contemporary racialization of the urban--ecologies that can never be reduced simply to their geographical and racial context. Dhanveer Singh Brar makes the case for Black...

- Are you ready to master the jazz vibraphone with confidence, creativity, and professional technique?- Have you been searching for a complete vibraphone method that teaches improvisation, four-mallet coordination, jazz harmony, and real performance skills in one easy-to-follow guide?- Do you want to develop...

"Folk Songs of French Canada" is a comprehensive and scholarly exploration of the rich musical heritage found within the French-speaking communities of North America. Co-authored by the esteemed anthropologists and linguists Edward Sapir and Marius Barbeau, this collection serves as both a musical anthology...

A hush falls over a candlelit sanctuary as voices rise, weaving together the hopes, doubts, and convictions of a new religious era. In the heart of nineteenth-century America, a group of hymn writers shaped the spiritual soundscape of congregational singing, giving voice to the...

In the early 2000s, Atlanta was solidified as a node of US hip-hop, spearheading a Southern hip-hop boom that would define hip-hop of the 21st century. Crunk, its signature hip-hop subgenre at the time, came to represent the city's stylistic and performative intervention on...

House Music 101: The History, Volume I An Oral Archive of the ArchitectsYou think you know House music. You don't. What you have is incomplete. The truth in these pages hits like bass drop. House Music 101: The History goes back to before the...

The History continues from Volume 1.Expansion. Pressure. Movement.House refuses to stay local. It crosses borders.Pioneers: Jovonn, K. Alexi Shelby, Merlin Bobb, Ray "Pinky" Velazquez, and Robert Williams trace how the House sound evolved across cities, clubs and studios, without surrendering its soul.From The Warehouse,...

"Rinnce Na Eirann: National Dances of Ireland" is a comprehensive collection of twenty-five traditional Irish dances, meticulously gathered from original sources across Ireland. Curated by Elizabeth Burchenal, a renowned figure in the folk dance movement, this work serves as an essential record of the...

"Blues: An Anthology" is a seminal collection that captures the soul and structure of one of America's most influential musical genres. This comprehensive volume features the complete words and music for 53 iconic songs, providing an invaluable resource for musicians, historians, and enthusiasts of...

This book charts the transoceanic history of South Asian women in California through their speech and songs across the twentieth century.Nicole Ranganath reimagines the history of the South Asian diaspora through an examination of gender and the dynamic interplay of water and land in...

The book covers the history of Singapore National songs, starting with the search for folk songs that could be considered a National song. It follows the history of Majulah Singapura written by Zubir Said, which was officially adopted as Singapore's national anthem in 1959....