Music-Ethnomusicology

Classical music has been a cultural mainstay in Haiti throughout the nation's history, and it continues to serve as an enduringly powerful source of community in the present moment. Every summer, foreign volunteers visit Haiti to teach music in the Western art tradition in...

Discover how fun and easy music can be with the relaxing sound of the Kalimba - even if you've never played an instrument before.Kalimba For Teen Beginners is the modern beginner-friendly guide designed to help teens and young players quickly learn easy songs, build...

Rediscover creativity, relaxation, and peaceful self-expression through the calming sound of the Kalimba - even if you've never played music before.Kalimba For Women Over 40 is the beginner-friendly guide designed to help women enjoy a soothing musical hobby while reducing stress, improving emotional balance,...

Learn to play peaceful worship music on the Kalimba with confidence - even if you've never played an instrument before.Kalimba For Beginners: Easy Christian Worship Songs For Adults is the beginner-friendly step-by-step guide designed to help adults learn simple praise melodies, gospel-inspired tunes, and...

Learn to play peaceful worship music on the Kalimba with confidence using simple step-by-step lessons designed especially for beginners and church musicians.Kalimba Worship Guide For Beginners is the beginner-friendly guide created to help new players learn praise songs, gospel arrangements, and uplifting worship melodies...

Create beautiful romantic moments through the soft and peaceful sound of the Kalimba with easy beginner melodies designed for weddings, special occasions, and heartfelt performances.Wedding Songs For Kalimba is the beginner-friendly songbook created to help new players perform relaxing love songs, romantic melodies, and...

Experience peaceful worship through the gentle sound of the Kalimba with easy Christian hymns designed especially for beginners.Kalimba Hymns For Beginners is the beginner-friendly guide created to help you play beautiful worship melodies, relaxing church songs, and faith-filled devotional music using simple number notation,...

Learn how to create smooth, beautiful Kalimba music using simple chord patterns and beginner-friendly progressions - even if you've never played music before.Kalimba Chords For Beginners is the easy step-by-step guide designed to help complete beginners understand simple song structures, improve finger coordination, and...

As African and Caribbean nations gained independence from Britain in the 1950s and 1960s, many young musicians, students, and professionals crossed the Atlantic in search of new opportunities and built vibrant communities. Pan-African Resonance: Music, Migration, and Everyday Practice in London and Accra traces...

In "old-style" Central Javanese wayang, still known to many shadow-puppet performers and musicians in Java today, the male dhalang and his primary accompanist, usually a female gender player, are gendered embodiments of a Javanese aesthetic that has its origins in early Java. Analysis of...

Author: Glen SalvadorISBN-13: 9798271837241Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/27/2025Pages: 80Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.26lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.17d

Author: Glen SalvadorISBN-13: 9798271825767Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/27/2025Pages: 76Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.25lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.16d

Unlock the soulful rhythms of the kalimba with this all-in-one beginner's guide designed to help you master the basics, play your first songs, and develop confidence in your musical journey. Playing Kalimba for Beginners is your ultimate learning companion-crafted for absolute beginners and those...

Author: Michael FinkISBN-13: 9798314091470Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/14/2025Pages: 100Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.24lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.21d

The Story of the explosion of didjeridu playing around the world from the mid-nineties on. Told through interviews with the members of the didjeridu community. Starting in around 1997, Ed Drury began interviewing didjeridu players, teachers, instrument makers, healers and others about every aspect...

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...

As African and Caribbean nations gained independence from Britain in the 1950s and 1960s, many young musicians, students, and professionals crossed the Atlantic in search of new opportunities and built vibrant communities. Pan-African Resonance: Music, Migration, and Everyday Practice in London and Accra traces...

An interdisciplinary history of auditory attention that demonstrates the central role of audition in shaping our conceptions of focus and distraction Over the past decade, attention and its perceived opposite, distraction, have become sites of sustained anxiety and debate. Questions around attentive economies, histories,...

The book draws on extensive archival research of print and audio-visual media as well as original interviews with the key figures, including Shane MacGowan, Johnny Marr, Kevin Rowland and Cait O'Riordan. Combining its assiduous research with fresh critical insights, the book offers new analyses...

Author: Andrew B. ArmstrongISBN-10: 1807581071ISBN-13: 9781807581077Publisher: Berghahn BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/15/2026Pages: 204Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.62lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.43d

This book explores the profound influence of Hindustani music on the cultural identity of the Indo-Caribbean diaspora. Through meticulous historical research, personal interviews, and digital ethnography, it illuminates how music bridges ancestral heritage with contemporary realities. It examines how Indo- Caribbean communities use music...

An Afro-Colombian community in the Caribbean, the scourge of violence, a process of collective reparation, and cultural leaders brimming with spirit and creativity--in Libertad, a rural area of San Onofre on the northern coast of Colombia, the revitalization of traditional music has been a...

Discover the captivating sound and cultural beauty of the baglama while building real musical confidence from your very first practice session. Whether you are completely new to string instruments or searching for a clear, beginner-friendly path into traditional music, this practical guide is designed...

The EPMOW Genre volumes contain entries on the genres of music that have been or currently are popular in countries and communities all over the world. Included are discussions on cultural, historical and geographic origins; technical musical characteristics; instrumentation and use of voice; lyrics...

Women played an essential role in the creation and incorporation of the Society for Ethnomusicology. Charlotte J. Frisbie uses participant observation, multiple voices and lenses, and a wide range of interviews to chronicle the women of the era, their contributions to the emerging discipline,...

The Ottoman Tanbur provides a detailed study of the history of this long-necked lute-like instrument, its role in Ottoman music, construction and playing technique.Tanburs are played in the art, Sufi, and folk musical traditions along the Silk Road and beyond. In Turkey, the name...

Arab Music: A survey of its history and modern practice is primarily meant for the general Western reader with some basic knowledge of music and music notation. It aims at correcting the still prevalent romantic image of Arab music, spread in the 19th century,...

1976, Rio de Janeiro. Revered Brazilian pop musician Jorge Ben Jor, known for his 'samba-rock' fusions and hits such as 'País Tropical' and 'Mas que Nada', picks up the electric guitar and records the album África Brasil. With grooves structured around guitar and horn...

In Composing for the Revolution: Nie Er and China's Sonic Nationalism, Joshua Howard explores the role the songwriter Nie Er played in the 1930s proletarian arts movement and the process by which he became a nationalist icon. Composed only months before his untimely death...

The emergence of modernity has typically focused on Western male actors and privileged politics and economy over culture. The contributors to this volume successfully unsettle such perspectives by emphasizing the social history, artistic practices, and symbolic meanings of female performers in popular music of...

During the turbulent decades of the 1970s and 1980s, Papua New Guinea gained political independence from a colonial hold that had lasted almost a century. It was an exciting time for a diverse group of pioneering musicians who formed a band they named "Sanguma."...

Phonographic Memories is the first book to perform a sustained analysis of the narrative and thematic influence of Caribbean popular music on the Caribbean novel. Tracing a region-wide attention to the deep connections between music and memory in the work of Lawrence Scott, Oscar...

The richness, variety, and complexity of the culture of the Hausa city-states are illustrated in microcosm in Glossary of Hausa Music and Its Social Contexts, in which several hundred Hausa terms for music are collected. David W. Ames and Anthony V. King concentrate on...

Hip Hop's Inheritance arguably offers the first book-length treatment of what hip hop culture has, literally, "inherited" from the Harlem Renaissance, the Black Arts movement, the Feminist Art movement, and 1980s and 1990s postmodern aesthetics. By comparing and contrasting the major motifs of the...

Seachanges brings together original essays examining human and cultural mobility from a musical perspective. Musicians have always been migratory frontrunners, and musical encounters have always generated nodes of cultural complexity. But hearing past musicking that took place in diaspora and foreign lands requires new...

Bluegrass has found an unlikely home, and avid following, in the Czech Republic. The music's emergence in Central Europe places it within an increasingly global network of communities built around bluegrass activities. Lee Bidgood offers a fascinating study of the Czech bluegrass phenomenon that...

Gamelan and American academic institutions have maintained their close association for more than sixty years. Elizabeth A. Clendinning illuminates what it means to devote one's life to world music ensemble education by examining the career and community surrounding the Balinese-American performer and teacher I...

The Creolization of American Culture examines the artworks, letters, sketchbooks, music collection, and biography of the painter William Sidney Mount (1807-1868) as a lens through which to see the multiethnic antebellum world that gave birth to blackface minstrelsy. As a young man living in...

In Becoming Beautiful, Joanna Bosse explores the transformations undergone by the residents of a Midwestern town when they step out on the dance floor for the very first time. Bosse uses sensitive fieldwork as well as her own immersion in ballroom culture to lead...

We Still Here maps the edges of hip-hop culture and makes sense of the rich and diverse ways people create and engage with hip-hop music within Canadian borders. Contributors to the collection explore the power of institutions, mainstream hegemonies, and the processes of historical...

When we think of composers, we usually envision an isolated artist separate from the orchestra--someone alone in a study, surround by staff paper--and in Europe and America this image generally has been accurate. For most of Japan's musical history, however, no such role existed--composition...

This book locates the experiences of German Irish traditional-music practitioners in the broader framework of modern European history. Drawing upon extensive fieldwork, it illustrates the ongoing centrality of cultural capital and acquired technical prowess in installing gatekeeping mechanisms of inclusivity in the primary performance...

Ready to finally learn guitar but don't know where to start?Have you been searching for a simple, beginner-friendly guitar book that actually makes learning easy?Do you want to play real songs, master chords, and build confidence without feeling overwhelmed?Looking for a complete step-by-step guitar...

The Female Musician's Guide to Surviving the Road by Shauney Recke is a powerful and deeply personal reflection on life as a woman navigating the music industry, touring life, creativity, identity, and purpose. Drawing from more than three decades of experience as a professional...

Bring your family together through the peaceful and uplifting sound of worship music with easy Kalimba songs designed for beginners of all ages.Praise And Worship Kalimba Songbook For Families is the beginner-friendly guide created to help families enjoy meaningful worship moments, relaxing devotion time,...

For over a century, geographies of transmission through historic migration routes have been carved out by migrants from Mexico to the United States in search of economic prosperity. In the twentieth century, many Oaxacan migrants who made their way to California found that leaving...

This book explores how five community choirs construct and imagine collective identity formations in Northern Ireland. Original insight is provided through ethnographic research conducted between 2013-2018. Working with five choirs in disparate locations, with different repertoires and demographics resulted in the creation of an...

Women played an essential role in the creation and incorporation of the Society for Ethnomusicology. Charlotte J. Frisbie uses participant observation, multiple voices and lenses, and a wide range of interviews to chronicle the women of the era, their contributions to the emerging discipline,...

What if the universe itself is singing a mystical tune, resonating through the stars and galaxies?In "Rhythms of the Cosmos: Decoding Extraterrestrial Music", author Gabriel Leonard Baker embarks on a transcendent journey to unveil the symphonic heartbeat of the universe. From the primordial sound...

Community Music in Oceania: Many Voices, One Horizon makes a distinctive contribution to the field of community music through the experiences of its editors and contributors in music education, ethnomusicology, music therapy, and music performance. Covering a wide range of perspectives from Australia, Timor-Leste,...