Music-Ethnomusicology

Portrays the complex politics of gender, sex, class, and race in Puerto Rican salsa music.Winner of the MLA's Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize for an outstanding book published in English in the field of Latin American and Spanish literatures and culture (1999) Winner of IASPM's...

Investigates the life of the body in Indian vocal musicIndian vocalists trace intricate shapes with their hands while improvising melody. Although every vocalist has an idiosyncratic gestural style, students inherit ways of shaping melodic space from their teachers, and the motion of the hand...

Music is central to human cultural and intellectual experience. It is vitally important for the welfare of human society and - this book argues - should become more widely accepted in our community as a mainstream educational and therapeutic tool. This book explores the...

The Hammond organ has long distinguished the Black church. Masters of the instrument, often Blackqueer men, invented and advanced gospel music, pioneered new modes of worship, and helped define Black life in the twentieth century. But when AIDS crisis struck, churches vociferously rejected all...

"Papago Music" is a seminal work of ethnomusicology that documents the rich musical traditions of the Papago (Tohono O'odham) people of the American Southwest. Authored by the pioneering researcher Frances Densmore, this study provides an exhaustive record of the songs, rhythms, and cultural practices...

The story of the reinvention of punk rock's most misunderstood subgenre, featuring Algernon Cadwallader, Title Fight, Modern Baseball, and the dozens of other bands who saved emo from implosion. Emo didn't start with the rise of bands like Fall Out Boy and My Chemical...

When the Catholic Church realized the itching urge to inject more African Culture in her Christian worship to revitalize the Liturgy and Mass in the 1960s, Mr. A.K. Younge, alias "Master Younge," in a solo effort revolutionized the Roman Catholic Church musical scene by...

Step into the vibrant world of early modern England, where the rhythms of street life and the pulse of popular sentiment were captured in song. A Pepysian Garland gathers a rare anthology of black-letter broadside ballads from the years 1595 to 1639, offering a...

Step into the haunting beauty and raw emotion of the British Isles with The English And Scottish Popular Ballads (Part X) by Francis James Child. Every page echoes with the voices of centuries past. Here, traditional ballads come alive-tales of love, betrayal, courage, and...

Presenting a Japanese-Austrian music-project that took place in Utsunomiya (Japan), the study offers a new view on children's imagination, their different family cultures and the role of parents in raising successful children.Author: Tatsuo Yamamura,Hanns StekelISBN-10: 3631662971ISBN-13: 9783631662977Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der WLanguage:...

This book represents the proceedings of the International Musicological Conference Musical Romania and Neighbouring Cultures. Traditions, Influences, Identities. The diverse topics include ancient Romanian, Balkan or East-European music, music iconography, Byzantine and folkloristic traditions as well as modern and contemporary music.Author: Maciej GolabISBN-10: 3631648804ISBN-13:...

For 31 months between 1979 and 1995, James F. Weiner conducted anthropological research amongst the Foi people in Southern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea. This book contains the transcriptions, translations, and descriptions of the songs he recorded. The texts of women's sago songs (obedobora),...

The extraordinary rise of musicology in Ireland over the last 20 years has generated an increased interest in the sister discipline of music theory and analysis. Irish Musical Analysis highlights this development and presents a substantial cross-section of the current state of the discipline...

The contributors to Sounds of Vacation examine the commodification of music and sound at popular vacation destinations throughout the Caribbean in order to tease out the relationships between political economy, hospitality, and the legacies of slavery and colonialism. Drawing on case studies from Barbados,...

The Sri Lankan culture is rich with art, music, and design, nearly all of which have been excluded from Christian use for centuries. The Protestant Church in Sri Lanka almost exclusively looks, sounds, and feels Western. Local Christians have, however, in recent times begun...

Popular music has long understood that human rights, if attainable at all, involve a struggle without end. The right to imagine an individual will, the right to some form of self-determination and the right to self-legislation have long been at the forefront of popular...

It seems self-evident that music plays more than just an aesthetic role in contemporary society. It is thus surprising that the subject of ethics is often neglected in discussions about music. Music and Ethics examines different ways in which music can contribute to theoretical...

The Wana people of Morowali accept the experiences of pain, illness and loss and transform them into something positive: rituals that celebrate life, friendship and the community. Through fieldwork with the Wana people of Morowali, Central Sulawesi, Giorgio Scalici shows how music serves as...

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...

This study situates musical analysis in the context of its creation, demonstrating that traditional Japanese music is an active socio- cultural system that has been reproduced in Japan from the seventeenth century to the present day.Author: Jay Davis KeisterISBN-10: 1138810193ISBN-13: 9781138810198Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/03/2014Pages:...

Turkish Metal uncovers the emergence, evolution, and especially the social implications of this controversial musical genre in a Muslim society. Above all, the book investigates the Turkish metal scene's potential for contesting Islamic concepts of morality, its relevance within the field of female emancipation,...

Setting out to address a range of approaches to theorizing music and promulgating modes of analysis across a wide range of repertories, the essays in this collection can be read as a coming of age of critical musicology through its active dialogue with other...

While we are used to looking around us, we are less used to listening to what happens around us. And yet, the noises we produce reveal our way of life, and learning to master them is a necessity. This book aims at drawing the...

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....

This easily accessible book offers a pioneering study about the alphorn, its music, and its performance, based on extensive field research in Switzerland and other countries. It also offers new insights about the technique of filmmaking for musical ethnography. Being the first book on...

This book discusses the concept of multifaceted musicality in post-colonial Nigeria. It shows how musical synthesis actually began with intra-cultural practices from pre-colonial Africa to the nineteenth century when modern intercultural music developed from foreign imprints emanating from colonization, the Islamic conquest, and the...

This volume makes available, for the first time in English, some of the major writings of the Romanian ethnomusicologist Constantin Brailoiu. Despite the size and importance of his work and the fact that he was one of the leading ethnomusicologists of his day, Brailoiu...

Saibara ('Drover's Songs') is the title of a genre of measured Japanese court song, traditionally believed to have been derived from the songs of pack-horse drivers bringing tribute from the provinces to the Heian capital and known to have formed part of the official...

This book traces the unique attraction Scotland has had for the great eighteenth- and nineteenth-century composers. It is not about Scottish composers, but rather about the music that for two centuries was written and performed outside Scotland by musicians of other countries who had...

This book theorizes musical aspects of changes that have overtaken major cities in the developed world over past decades. Drawing on musicology, music theory, urban geography and historical materialism, Krims maps changes in how music represents cities and also in how music sounds and...

This book studies the effects of repetitive musical rhythm on the brain and nervous system, and in doing so integrates diverse fields including ethnomusicology, psychology, neuroscience, anthropology, religious studies, music therapy, and human health. It presents aspects of musical rhythm and biological rhythms, and...

This book traces Dàdàkúàdá's history and artistic vision and discusses its vibrancy as the most popular traditional Yoruba oral art form in Islamic Africa. This book will be of interest to scholars of traditional African culture, African art history, performance studies and Islam in...

Offering a rare look at the musical life of Russia Abroad as it unfolded in New York City, Natalie K. Zelensky examines the popular music culture of the post-Bolshevik Russian emigration and the impact made by this group on American culture and politics. Performing...

Singing the same song is a central part of the worship practice for members for the Cherubim and Seraphim Christian Church in Lagos, Nigeria. Vicki L. Brennan reveals that by singing together, church members create one spiritual mind and become unified around a shared...

Oliver "Tuku" Mtukudzi, a Zimbabwean guitarist, vocalist, and composer, has performed worldwide and released some 50 albums. One of a handful of artists to have a beat named after him, Mtukudzi blends Zimbabwean traditional sounds with South African township music and American gospel and...

Why is classical music predominantly the preserve of the white middle classes? Contemporary associations between classical music and social class remain underexplored, with classical music primarily studied as a text rather than as a practice until recent years. In order to answer this question,...

On March 20, 2026, seven voices return.BTS named their comeback album after a six-hundred-year-old Korean folk song - a word that even Korean linguists cannot fully translate. Four million pre-orders in the first week. A world tour spanning thirty-four cities. The entire planet is...

'From The Lost Letters Sent' - Memoirs From An Invisible Songwriter is a four-book series written about the life and times of Lord Chester L. Baldwin II (Lord Baldwin) as he went about creating his, 'Archive Series' of 38 albums, comprising over 320 songs...

A study of rap in Egypt as a multi-layered form of expression This ethnographic study of the Egyptian underground hip-hop scene examines the artists who collectively molded the scene and analyzes their practices and explores how these artists have interacted with and responded to...

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...

Taking a cue from Erving Goffman's classic work, Asylums, Tia DeNora develops a novel interdisciplinary framework for music, health and wellbeing. Adopting a holistic, interactionist focus, Music Asylums reconnects states of wellness and wellbeing to encounters with others and - critically - to opportunities...

Disaster Songs as Intangible Memorials in Atlantic Canada draws on a collection of over 500 Atlantic Canadian songs relating to disasters from 1891 up until the present, and describes the characteristics that define them as intangible memorials. Author: Heather SparlingISBN-10: 1032111208ISBN-13: 9781032111209Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

"WHAT WHISTLE WOULD YOU PLAY AT YOUR MOTHER'S FUNERAL? - L.E. McCullough's Writings on Irish Traditional Music, 1974-2016, Vols. I & II" presents the full collection of Irish music scholarship the prolific musician/composer has published in 40+ years of teaching and research. Volume I...

Now in paperback with a new foreword by the authorEvery year, on a weekend before Christmas, the small Caribbean island of Carriacou, Grenada, holds its annual Parang Festival, featuring concerts, performances of local quadrille dance, Hosannah band (a cappella singing) competitions, and the climactic...

This book is an ethnomusicological investigation into traditional and contemporary music in Corsica, with a critical analysis of associated theoretical and ideological issues, focusing particularly on the evolution of musical activity and discourse since 1970.Author: Caroline BithellISBN-10: 0810854392ISBN-13: 9780810854390Publisher: Scarecrow PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/25/2007Pages: 404Format:...

A study of a dance rite on the island of Carriacou, Grenada, that reflects African-Caribbean religion dating back to the early 1700sThe Big Drum is the lively ancient dance rite of the small island of Carriacou, Grenada. This book introduces 120 of the ceremonial...

Women Unsilenced: Hope, Freedom, and Music in Palestine explores how Palestinian women use music to express, protest, and celebrate their identities. Author: Sommer Helweh ForresterISBN-10: 104106926XISBN-13: 9781041069263Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/17/2026Pages: 178Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.59lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.41d

This is the first volume devoted specifically to the revitalisation of ancestral Indigenous singing practices in Australia. These traditions are at severe risk in many parts of the country, and this book investigates the strategies currently being implemented to reverse the damage. In some...

Mzilikazi Khumalo (1932-2021), an iconic figure in choral music in South Africa, rose to prominence as one of Africa's leading composers of art music. This is a work of music history.Biographical essays on Khumalo's major works, including those for choir, orchestra, and opera are...

Break the mold with this collection of 300 progressive and genre-bending chord combinations. Designed for songwriters who want to experiment with fresh, innovative sounds, Creative Chords will help you stand out with progressions that push boundaries. Why You Need This Book: Instant Inspiration: Over...