Music-Ethnomusicology

"Folk-Songs of the South" is a seminal collection of traditional music and oral literature gathered under the auspices of the West Virginia Folk-Lore Society. This comprehensive volume serves as a vital record of the musical heritage of the Southern United States, with a particular...

"I can't teach you, but I can show you." With these words, Kentucky balladeer Doc Hopkins shared his musical knowledge with a willing student, summoning an independent streak deeply embedded in the American character. His words capture the informal creativity and colloquial practice that...

Childhood and the Operatic Imaginary since 1900 addresses a stark reality: Opera Studies has neglected its children. Opera scholarship has been complicit in othering children and childhoods, disregarding repertoire for, by, and about children as well as its creators. This volume tilts Opera Studies...

This unique ethnographic work at the intersection of cultural, media and music studies covers a wide spectrum of music-related activities embedded in the daily lives of two Japanese cohorts.Author: Rafal ZaborowskiISBN-10: 1041183216ISBN-13: 9781041183211Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/2025Pages: 224Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.71lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.48d

Relating Sound & Time is a practical and philosophical guide to understandingrhythm-not as a mechanical skill, but as a living, breathing language.Drawing from African, Indian, and Western traditions, Jerry Leake distillsdecades of performance, study, and teaching into an accessible framework that empowers musicians, dancers,...

This collection includes sea chantey variations, sea songs, work songs, parodies, light verse, forecastle songs, and the occasional ballads culled over the last year from newspapers, libraries, and online sources. Most of the songs originated between 1850 and 1930. The need for clipper ships...

The Safavid era (1501-1722) is one of the most important in the history of Persian culture, celebrated especially for its architecture and art, including miniature paintings that frequently represent singers and instrumentalists. Their presence reflects a sophisticated tradition of music making that was an...

The only sourcebook that provides information necessary to make Gospel Hymns Nos. 1 to 6 Complete a useful research tool and an aid to the study of popular culture in the United States during the last half of the 19th century. For the first...

"The Morris Book" is a definitive exploration of one of England's most enduring and vibrant folk traditions. Authored by the renowned musicologist and folklorist Cecil J. Sharp, this work serves as both a historical record and a practical guide to the art of Morris...

Why do we disentangle music and religion? How are music and religion entangled in the worlds of practitioners and scholars? What can ethnomusicologists offer to all students of religion by attending to religion's audibility or inaudibility? In this book, author Jeffers Engelhardt engages generations-old...

"The Rhythm of the Redman; In Song, Dance and Decoration" is an insightful exploration into the vibrant cultural and spiritual traditions of North American Indigenous peoples. This work delves deep into the heart of Native American expression, documenting the intricate relationship between rhythm, movement,...

"Canadian Folk Songs" is a landmark collection that documents the rich and diverse musical heritage of Canada. This anthology serves as a vital record of the traditional melodies and lyrics that have defined the nation's cultural identity across generations. The work features a wide...

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...

In the wake of intense globalisation and commercialisation in the 1990s, China saw the emergence of a vibrant popular culture. Drawing on sixteen years of research, Jeroen de Kloet explores the popular music industry in Beijing, Hong Kong and Shanghai, providing a fascinating history...

At the height of Tim Maia's soaring fame, he joined a radical, extraterrestrial-obsessed cult and created two plus albums of some of Brazil's-and the globe's-best funk and soul music. This book explores the career of the man often hailed as the James Brown or...

More than simply a paragon of Brazilian samba, Dona (Lady) Ivone Lara's 1981 Sorriso Negro (translated to Black Smile) is an album deeply embedded in the political and social tensions of its time. Released less than two years after the Brazilian military dictatorship approved...

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 were questions he'd been asking throughout his career. Properly heard, the album throws...

This collection brings together an anthology of articles by Thomas Christensen, one of the leading historians of music theory active today. Published over the span of the past 25 years, the selected articles provide a historical conspectus about a range of vital topics in...

This book considers the activities and writings of early song collectors and proto-ethnomusicologists, memoirists, and other "musical travelers" in 19th-century France. Each of the book's discrete but interrelated chapters is devoted to a different geographic and discursive site of empire, examining French representations of...

The Turkic soundscape is both geographically huge and culturally diverse (twenty-eight countries, republics and districts extending from Eastern Europe through the Caucasus and throughout Central Asia). Although the Turkic peoples of the world can trace their linguistic and genetic ancestries to common sources, their...

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 1930s and 1950s. Garcia examines the work of figures ranging from Melville J....

The essays contained in this volume address some of the most visible, durable and influential of African American musical styles as they developed from the mid-1960s into the 21st-century. Soul, funk, pop, R&B and hip hop practices are explored both singly and in their...

Music and Traditions of the Arabian Peninsula provides a pioneering overview of folk and traditional urban music, along with dance and rituals, of Saudi Arabia and the Upper Gulf States of Kuwait, Bahrain, and Qatar. The nineteen chapters introduce variegated regions and subcultures and...

Issues in African American Music: Power, Gender, Race, Representation is a collection of twenty-one essays by leading scholars, surveying vital themes in the history of African American music. Bringing together the viewpoints of ethnomusicologists, historians, and performers, these essays cover topics including the music...

Listening according to mood is likely to be what most people do when they listen to music. We want to take part in, or even be part of, the emerging world of the musical work. Erik Wallrup explores this vague and elusive phenomenon, which...

Author: Richard HoughtonISBN-10: 1915858135ISBN-13: 9781915858139Publisher: Spenwood Books LimitedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/03/2026Pages: 336Format: Hardcover

Eurovision Song Night Quiz - Steve Kerr is your ultimate companion in the countdown to the final __________________________Across 9 distinctive quizzes, this book invites you to test your Eurovision knowledge -- perfect for one-to-one challenges, larger group gatherings, or simply indulging your own curiosity....

"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...

The Oxford Handbook of Orchestration Studies takes a new approach to the subject of orchestration, or the aspect of crafting a musical work that involves choosing and combining instruments and other sound sources to create combinations of tone colors (timbres). While most existing books...

If noise has become the water you swim in, here is a clearer current. This book shows how simple sound practices can steady attention, soften mood, and reconnect scattered days to purpose. Across traditions, readers will find how sacred sound works in the body,...

A new understanding of the birth of jazz through a fine-grained social history of early African American musiciansWinner of the 2025 Robert M. Stevenson Award, presented by the American Musicological Society (AMS)Winner of the Harry and Claire Brook Award, bestowed by the Harry Brook...

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Any study of colonial...

Harmony and Normalization: US-Cuban Musical Diplomacy explores the channels of musical exchange between Cuba and the United States during the eight-year presidency of Barack Obama, who eased the musical embargo of the island and restored relations with Cuba. Musical exchanges during this period act...

Song and dance style--viewed as nonverbal communications about culture--are here related to social structure and cultural historyAuthor: Alan LomaxISBN-10: 1138523623ISBN-13: 9781138523623Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/02/2017Pages: 388Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.51lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.88d

Situating Salsa offers the first comprehensive consideration of salsa music and its social impact, in its multiple transnational contexts.Author: Lise WaxerISBN-10: 0815340206ISBN-13: 9780815340201Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/03/2002Pages: 350Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.05lbsSize: 9.18h x 6.08w x 0.74d

Unlock the Invisible Instrument: A Practical Beginner's Guide to Expressive Theremin PlayingHave you ever wanted to make music without touching an instrument?Curious how simple hand movements can shape pitch, tone, and emotion?Ready to turn uncertainty into confident, expressive sound?You stand in a quiet room,...

"The Book of American Negro Spirituals" is a seminal collection of religious folk songs that captures a profound aspect of the American musical and cultural heritage. Compiled and edited by the distinguished Harlem Renaissance writer and civil rights leader James Weldon Johnson, this volume...

In this pioneering, erudite study of a pivotal era in the arts, Walter Frisch examines music and its relationship to early modernism in the Austro-German sphere. Seeking to explore the period on its own terms, Frisch questions the common assumption that works created from...

In Music at the Threshold from the Sacred to the Dangerous, author Sean Williams explores the connection of liminality to musical culture by focusing on how performance practices tend to occur at liminal places and times, and often by potentially marginalized people who are,...

Music, Dance and the Archive reimagines records of performance cultures from the archive through collaborative and creative research. In this edited volume, Amanda Harris, Linda Barwick and Jakelin Troy bring together performing artists, cultural leaders and interdisciplinary scholars to highlight the limits of archival...

The ICTM Study Group Music and Minorities was founded officially in 1997 and is thus one of the youngest Study Groups within the ICTM. The volume Manifold Identities: Studies on Music and Minorities is a collection of the papers of the second Study Group...

Music of Japan Today examines cross-cultural confluences in contemporary Japanese art-music through multiple approaches from twenty international composers, performers, and scholars. Like the format of the MOJT symposia (1992-2007) held in the United States, the book is in two parts. In Part I, three...

For the Achi, one of the several Mayan ethnic groups indigenous to Guatemala, the music of the marimba serves not only as a form of entertainment but also as a form of communication, a vehicle for memory, and an articulation of cultural identity. Sergio...

This book focuses on two main topics related to the essence of music, the first of which problematizes the ontological unity of music, philosophy and mathematics. The second concern of the text is the direction of social ontology or the existence of music in...

Author: T. Michael MboyaISBN-10: 1527526747ISBN-13: 9781527526747Publisher: Cambridge Scholars PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/25/2019Pages: 163Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 8.20h x 5.80w x 0.60d

The use of music in therapeutic practice in Turkey and the surrounding geographical regions is not a new phenomenon. Until recently, however, the music therapy profession, as it is known in the modern world, had not been institutionalized as a scientific discipline in Turkey....

This collection of eleven essays provides the reader with some valuable insights into the richness of sources dealing with music and musical performance scattered over 3000 years and covering a wide range of geographies, from Syria to Iberia, through Greece and Rome. The volume,...

This book is concerned with the repertory of traditional urban song and music of the Korçë area in general and more specifically the karakteristike (characteristic) or â ~distinctiveâ (TM) song associated with Korçë city, Albania. The first half of the 20th century marked the...

As Timothy McGee says in his introduction, 'It is not an exaggeration to say that John Beckwith has been the single most important influence on Canadian music over the past forty years.' Beckwith's career as a composer, performer, teacher, administrator, author, editor, and promoter...

This volume explores various kinds of love and the way music reflects them. It is about romantic love, ethnic pride and love, love and the media, and various other loves we have, especially love for popular culture. Throughout, special focus is given to the...