Discover information, advice, and prices for Study of Ethnomusicology Twenty nine sold for 50.3 $ , available in the Books & Magazines category; this product is sold by Abebooks.com and made by .
100 Satisfaction is Guaranteed For New condition books in our store You will be the first user You will be the first to open the book cover For Used condition books in our store It shows signs of wear from consistent use but it remains in good condition and works perfectly All pages and cover are intact but may have aesthetic issues such as price clipping nicks scratches and scuffs Pages may include some notes and highlighting For all our books Cargo will be delivered in the required time There are no problems in page content and in the paper There are no problems except minor faults
Condition: new
Disponibility: in_stock
Shipping: -1
Find tips, reviews, and features on Dastgah Concept in Persian Music sold for 34.34 $ , available in the Books & Magazines category; this product belongs to and is sold by Abebooks.com.
The tradition of Persian art music embodies twelve modal systems known as dastgahs Each dastgah represents a complex of skeletal melodic models on the basis of which a performer produces extemporised pieces The dastgahs revolve around unspecified central nuclear melodies which the individual musician comes to know through experience and absorption It is a personal and elusive tradition of great subtlety and depth Through extensive research including interviews with leading musicians and recording over one hundred hours of music Hormoz Farhat has unravelled the art of the dastgah In his study Professor Farhat analyses the intervallic structure melodic patterns modulations and improvisations within each dastgah and examines the composed pieces which have become a part of the classical repertoire in recent times
Condition: used
Disponibility: in_stock
Shipping: -1
Explore tips, opinions, and features on Music of Death and New sold at 90.19 $ ; this product is listed in the Books & Magazines category, produced by , and sold by Abebooks.com.
For centuries the gamelan beleganjur percussion orchestra has been an indispensable part of political social and spiritual life on the island of Bali Traditionally associated with warfare and rituals for the dead the music has recently given rise to an exciting new musical style featured in contests that are attended by thousands Ethnomusicologist Michael Bakan draws us into these intensely competitive events in which political corruption conflicting notions of identity and irrepressible creativity rupture the smooth surface of cultural order Building from his own experiences as a beleganjur drummer Bakan also takes us inside a distant musical world and into the lives of musicians connecting across vast cultural divides Rich with musical examples photographs and an accompanying compact disc Music of Death and New Creation is an unprecedented exploration of how music embodies and shapes life in contemporary Indonesia and beyond
Condition: new
Disponibility: in_stock
Shipping: -1
Discover information, advice, and prices for Awakening Spaces French Caribbean Popular, priced at 25.05 $ : it belongs to the Books & Magazines category; this product is sold by Abebooks.com and made by .
The fastpaced zouk of Kassav the romantic biguine of Malavoi the jazz of Fal Frett the ballads of Mona and reggae of Kali and Pôglo are all part of the burgeoning popular music scene in the French Caribbean In this lively book Brenda F Berrian chronicles the rise of this music which has captivated the minds and bodies of the Francophone world and elsewhere Based on personal interviews and discussions of song texts Berrian shows how these musicians express their feelings about current and past events about themselves their islands and the French Through their lyrical themes these songs create metaphorical spaces that evoke narratives of desire exile subversion and Creole identity and experiences Berrian opens up these spaces to reveal how the artists not only engage their listeners and effect social change but also empower and identify themselves She also explores the music as it relates to the art of drumming and to genres such as African American and Latin jazz and reggae With Awakening Spaces Berrian adds fresh insight into the historical struggles and arts of the French Caribbean
Condition: new
Disponibility: in_stock
Shipping: -1
Find tips, reviews, and features on Performing Democracy Bulgarian Music and sold for 44.57 $ , available in the Books & Magazines category; this product belongs to and is sold by Abebooks.com.
The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 signaled the onset of tumultuous political economic and social reforms throughout Eastern Europe In Czechoslovakia Poland and the Soviet Union these changes were linked to the activities and philosophies of political figures such as Václav Havel Lech Walesa and Mikhail Gorbachev In Bulgaria however these changes were first heralded and even facilitated by particular musicians and shifting musical styles Based on fieldwork conducted between 1988 and 1996 with professional Bulgarian folk musicians Donna A Buchanans PerformingDemocracy argues that the performances of traditional music groups may be interpreted not only as harbingers but as agents of Bulgarias political transition Many of the musicians in socialist Bulgarias state folk ensembles served as official cultural emissaries for several decades Through their reminiscences and repertoires Buchanan reveals the evolution of Bulgarian musical life as it responded to and informed the political process By modifying their art to accommodate changing political ideologies these musicians literally played out regime change on the worlds stages performing their countrys democratization musically at home and abroadPerforming Democracy and its accompanying CDROM featuring traditional Bulgarian music lyrics notation and photos will fascinate any reader interested in the many ways art echoes and influences politics
Condition: new
Disponibility: in_stock
Shipping: -1
Find tips, reviews, and features on Theory of African Music Volume sold for 30.48 $ , available in the Books & Magazines category; this product belongs to and is sold by Abebooks.com.
Taken together these comprehensive volumes offer an authoritative account of the music of Africa One of the most prominent experts on the subject Gerhard Kubik draws on his extensive travels and three decades of study in many parts of the continent to compare and contrast a wealth of musical traditions from a range of culturesIn the first volume Kubik describes and examines xylophone playing in southern Uganda and harp music from the Central African Republic compares multipart singing from across the continent and explores movement and sound in eastern Angola And in the second volume he turns to the cognitive study of African rhythm Yoruba chantefables the musical Kachamba family of Malaŵi and African conceptions of space and timeEach volume features an extensive number of photographs and is accompanied by a compact disc of Kubiks own recordings Erudite and exhaustive Theory of African Music will be an invaluable reference for years to come
Condition: used
Disponibility: in_stock
Shipping: -1
Discover information, advice, and prices for Ethnomusicology Historical and Regional sold for 50.61 $ , available in the Books & Magazines category; this product is sold by Abebooks.com and made by .
Traces the development of the field describes the intellectual trends that led to its creation and reviews the current state of research around the world
Condition: new
Disponibility: in_stock
Shipping: -1
Find tips, reviews, and features on Engendering Song Singing and Subjectivity sold for 41.25 $ , available in the Books & Magazines category; this product belongs to and is sold by Abebooks.com.
For Prespa Albanians both at home in Macedonia and in the diaspora the most opulent extravagant and socially significant events of any year are wedding ceremonies During days and weeks of festivities wedding celebrants interact largely through singing defining and renegotiating as they do so the very structure of their social world and establishing a profound cultural touchstone for Prespa communities around the world Combining photographs song texts and vibrant recordings of the music with her own evocative descriptions ethnomusicologist Jane C Sugarman focuses her account of Prespa weddings on notions of gendered identity demonstrating the capacity of singing to generate and transform relations of power within Prespa society Engendering Song is an innovative theoretical work with a scholarly importance extending far beyond southeast European studies It offers unique and timely contributions to the analysis of music and gender music in diaspora cultures and the social constitution of self and subjectivity
Condition: new
Disponibility: in_stock
Shipping: -1
Discover information, advice, and prices for In the Time of Cannibals, priced at 22 $ : it belongs to the Books & Magazines category; this product is sold by Abebooks.com and made by .
The workers who migrate from Lesotho to the mines and cities of neighboring South Africa have developed a rich genre of sung oral poetryword musicthat focuses on the experiences of migrant life This music provides a culturally reflexive and consciously artistic account of what it is to be a migrant or part of a migrants life It reveals the relationship between these Basotho workers and the local and South African powers that be the cannibals who live off of the workers labor David Coplan presents a moving collection of material that for the first time reveals the expressive genius of these tenacious but disenfranchised people Coplan discusses every aspect of the Basotho musical literature taking into account historical conditions political dynamics and social forces as well as the styles artistry and occasions of performance He engages the postmodern challenge to decolonize our representation of the ethnographic subject and demonstrates how performance formulates local knowledge and communicates its shared understandings Complete with transcriptions of full male and female performances this book develops a theoretical and methodological framework crucial to anyone seeking to understand the relationship between orality and literacy in the context of performance This work is an important contribution to South African studies to ethnomusicology and anthropology and to performance studies in general
Condition: new
Disponibility: in_stock
Shipping: -1
Discover information, advice, and prices for May It Fill Your Soul sold for 44.21 $ , available in the Books & Magazines category; this product is sold by Abebooks.com and made by .
In this vivid musical ethnography Timothy Rice documents and interprets the history of folk music song and dance in Bulgaria over a seventyyear period of dramatic change From 1920 to 1989 Bulgaria changed from a nearly medieval village society to a Stalinist planned industrial economy to a chaotic mix of capitalist and socialist markets and culturesIn the context of this history Rice brings Bulgarian folk music to life by focusing on the biography of the Varimezov family including the musician Kostadin and his wife Todora a singer Combining interviews with his own experiences of learning how to play sing and dance Bulgarian folk music Rice presents one of the most detailed accounts of traditional aural learning processes in the ethnomusicological literatureUsing a combination of traditionally dichotomous musicological and ethnographic approaches Rice tells the story of how individual musicians learned their tradition how they lived it during the preCommunist era of family farming how the tradition changed with industrialization brought under Communism and finally how it flourished and evolved in the recent unstable political climateThis workcomplete with a compact disc and numerous illustrations and musical examplescontributes not only to ethnomusicological theory and method but also to our understanding of Slavic folklore Eastern European anthropology and cultural processes in Socialist states
Condition: new
Disponibility: in_stock
Shipping: -1
Explore tips, opinions, and features on Music and Musical Thought in sold at 25 $ ; this product is listed in the Books & Magazines category, produced by , and sold by Abebooks.com.
Offering a broad perspective of the philosophy theory and aesthetics of early Indian music and musical ideology this study makes a unique contribution to our knowledge of the ancient foundations of Indias musical culture Lewis Rowell reconstructs the tunings scales modes rhythms gestures formal patterns and genres of Indian music from Vedic times to the thirteenth century presenting not so much a history as a thematic analysis and interpretation of Indias magnificent musical heritage In Indian culture music forms an integral part of a broad framework of ideas that includes philosophy cosmology religion literature and science Rowell works with the known theoretical treatises and the oral tradition in an effort to place the technical details of musical practice in their full cultural context Many quotations from the original Sanskrit appear here in English translation for the first time and the necessary technical information is presented in terms accessible to the nonspecialist These features combined with Rowells glossary of Sanskrit terms and extensive bibliography make Music and Musical Thought in Early India an excellent introduction for the general reader and an indispensable reference for ethnomusicologists historical musicologists music theorists and Indologists
Condition: new
Disponibility: in_stock
Shipping: -1
Explore tips, opinions, and features on Mande Music Traditional and Modern sold at 38.19 $ ; this product is listed in the Books & Magazines category, produced by , and sold by Abebooks.com.
With Mande Music Eric Charry offers the most comprehensive source available on one of Africas richest and most sophisticated music cultures Using resources as disparate as early Arabic travel accounts oral histories and archival research as well as his own extensive studies in Mali Guinea Senegal and the Gambia Charry traces this music culture from its origins in the thirteenthcentury Mali empire to the recording studios of Paris and New York He focuses on the four major spheres of Mande musichunters music music of the jelis or griots jembe and other drumming and guitarbased modern musicexploring how each evolved the types of instruments used the major artists and how each sphere relates to the others With its maps illustrations and musical transcriptions as well as an exhaustive bibliography discography and videography this book is essential reading for those seeking an indepth look at one of the most exciting innovative and deeprooted phenomena on the world music scene A compact disc is available separately
Condition: new
Disponibility: in_stock
Shipping: -1
Explore tips, opinions, and features on New York Klezmer in the sold at 153.14 $ ; this product is listed in the Books & Magazines category, produced by , and sold by Abebooks.com.
Like New condition Great condition but not exactly fully crisp The book may have been opened and read but there are no defects to the book jacket or pages 178
Condition: used
Disponibility: in_stock
Shipping: -1
Discover information, advice, and prices for The Study of Ethnomusicology Thirty sold for 49.13 $ , available in the Books & Magazines category; this product is sold by Abebooks.com and made by .
The first edition of this book The Study of Ethnomusicology TwentyNine Issues and Concepts has become a classic in the field This revised edition written twentytwo years after the original continues the tradition of providing engagingly written analysis that offers the most comprehensive discussion of the field available anywhere x000BThis book looks at the field of ethnomusicologydefined as the study of the worlds musics from a comparative perspective and the study of all music from an anthropological perspectiveas a field of research Nettl selects thirtyone concepts and issues that have been the subjects of continuing debate by ethnomusicologists and he adds four entirely new chapters and thoroughly updates the text to reflect new developments and concerns in the field x000BEach chapter looks at its subject historically and goes on to make its points with case studies many taken from Nettls own field experience Drawing extensively on his field research in the Middle East Western urban settings and North American Indian societies as well as on a critical survey of the available literature Nettl advances our understanding of both the diversity and universality of the worlds music This revised editions four new chapters deal with the doing and writing of musical ethnography the scholarly study of instruments aspects of womens music and women in music and the ethnomusicologists study of his or her own culture
Condition: new
Disponibility: in_stock
Shipping: -1
Explore tips, opinions, and features on Music of Hindu Trinidad Songs sold at 58.66 $ ; this product is listed in the Books & Magazines category, produced by , and sold by Abebooks.com.
Like many other small towns in Trinidad Felicity is populated almost entirely by East Indians In their Caribbean exile the residents of Felicity have created and recreated the music of their Hindu ancestors Music of Hindu Trinidad is a fascinating account of the history and cultural significance of Hindu music that explores its symbolic aesthetic and psychological aspects while asking the larger question of how this music has contributed to the formation of identity in the midst of their great diasporaMyers details the musical repertory of Felicity which is based largely on north Indian genres including the traditional Bhojpuri folk songs and drumming styles brought by the first indentured laborers in 1845 In her engaging exploration of the fate of Indian classical music and new popular styles such as Hindi calypso soca and chutney she even finds herself at the ancestral home of Trinidadian V S Naipaul in India Copiously illustrated and accompanied by a compact disk Music of Hindu Trinidad is a model ethnographic study
Condition: used
Disponibility: in_stock
Shipping: -1
Discover information, advice, and prices for Cassette Culture Popular Music and sold for 23 $ , available in the Books & Magazines category; this product is sold by Abebooks.com and made by .
In Cassette Culture Peter Manuel tells how a new mass mediumthe portable cassette playercaused a major upheaval in popular culture in the worlds secondlargest country The advent of cassette technology in the 1980s transformed Indias popular music industry from the virtual monopoly of a single multinational LP manufacturer to a freeforall among hundreds of local cassette producers The result was a revolution in the quantity quality and variety of Indian popular music and its patterns of dissemination and consumption Manuel shows that the cassette revolution however has brought new contradictions and problems to Indian culture While inexpensive cassettes revitalized local subcultures and community values throughout the subcontinent they were also a vehicle for regional and political factionalism new forms of commercial vulgarity and disturbingly the most provocative sorts of hatemongering and religious chauvinism Cassette Culture is the first scholarly account of Indian popular music and the first case study of a technological revolution now occurring throughout the world It will be an essential resource for anyone interested in modern India communications theory world popular music or contemporary global culture
Condition: new
Disponibility: in_stock
Shipping: -1
Discover information, advice, and prices for Vodou Nation Haitian Art Music sold for 45.36 $ , available in the Books & Magazines category; this product is sold by Abebooks.com and made by .
While the Haitian musical tradition is probably best known for the Vodouinspired roots music that helped topple the twogeneration Duvalier dictatorship the nations troubled history of civil unrest and its tangled relationship with the United States is more intensely experienced through its art music which combines French and German elements of classical music with Haitis indigenous folk music Vodou Nation examines art music by Haitian and African American composers who were inspired by Haitis history as a nation created by slave revolt Around the time of the United Statess occupation of Haiti in 1915 African American composers began to incorporate Vodouinspired musical idioms to showcase black artistry and protest white oppression Together with Haitian musicians these composers helped create what Michael Largey calls the Vodou Nation an ideal vision of Haiti that championed its Africanbased culture as a bulwark against Americas imperialism Highlighting the contributions of many Haitian and African American composers who wrote music that brought rhythms and melodies of the Vodou ceremony to local and international audiences Vodou Nation sheds light on a black cosmopolitan musical tradition that was deeply rooted in Haitian culture and politics
Condition: new
Disponibility: in_stock
Shipping: -1
Discover information, advice, and prices for Imaging Sound An Ethnomusicological Study, priced at 29.36 $ : it belongs to the Books & Magazines category; this product is sold by Abebooks.com and made by .
The rulers of the Mughal Empire of India who reigned from 1526 to 1858 spared no expense as patrons of the arts They left as their legacy an extraordinarily rich body of commissioned artistic projects including illustrated manuscripts and paintings that represent musicmaking in numerous spheres of Mughal court life particularly that of women These images form the basis of Bonnie C Wades study of how musicians of Hindustan encountered and Indianized music from the Persian cultural sphereCombining ethnomusicological and art historical methods with history and lore Wade focuses first on paintings for Akbar showing how political and cultural agendas intertwined in the portrayal of his life and that of his grandfather Babur and father Humayun Wade then follows the depictions of musicmaking through paintings for Akbars successors Jahangir and Shah Jahan to trace the gradual synthesis of Persian and Indian culture Richly illustrated with reproductions of rare Mughal paintings this work will appeal broadly to anyone interested in Indian history ethnomusicology and art history
Condition: used
Disponibility: in_stock
Shipping: -1
Discover information, advice, and prices for Music of Afghanistan Professional Musicians sold for 147.5 $ , available in the Books & Magazines category; this product is sold by Abebooks.com and made by .
Good Hardcover Withdrawn library copy with the standard library markings Moderate overall wear to the covers with sunfading along top edges Library stamps to the endpapers Text pages are clean unmarked The binding is good with a straight spine This book will be shipped in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding MediumLarge Format Quatro 975 1075 tall Green cloth covers with title in gold lettering on a black background 1989 Cambridge University Press 200 pages Music of Afghanistan Professional Musicians in the City of Herat Cambridge Studies in Ethnomusicology by John Baily
Condition: used
Disponibility: in_stock
Shipping: -1
Discover information, advice, and prices for Music and the Racial Imagination sold for 41.14 $ , available in the Books & Magazines category; this product is sold by Abebooks.com and made by .
A specter lurks in the house of music and it goes by the name of race write Ronald Radano and Philip Bohlman in their introduction Yet the intimate relationship between race and music has rarely been examined by contemporary scholars most of whom have abandoned it for the more enlightened notions of ethnicity and culture Here a distinguished group of contributors confront the issue head on Representing an unusually broad range of academic disciplines and geographic regions they critically examine how the imagination of race has influenced musical production reception and scholarly analysis even as they reject the objectivity of the concept itself Each essay follows the lead of the substantial introduction which reviews the history of race in European and American nonWestern and global musics placing it within the contexts of the colonial experience and the more recent formation of world music Offering a bold new revisionist agenda for musicology in a postmodern postcolonial world this book will appeal to students of culture and race across the humanities and social sciences
Condition: new
Disponibility: in_stock
Shipping: -1