Comparative Musicology and Anthropology of Music

• Paperback | Engels | Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology
• Nineteen scholars from five countries explore significant issues in the history of ethnomusicology and its methodological and theoretical foundations,... Lees meer

Theory of African Music, Volume II

Gerhard Kubik

• Boek | Engels | Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology | nr. 2
• Erudite and exhaustive, Gerhard Kubik's Theory of African Music provides an authoritative account of its subject. Over the course of two volumes, Kubi... Lees meer

The Republic of Love

Martin Stokes

• Paperback | Engels | Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology
• At the heart of The Republic of Love are the voices of three musicians-queer nightclub star Zeki Müren, arabesk originator Orhan Gencebay, and pop div... Lees meer

Kwaito's Promise

Gavin Steingo

• Paperback | Engels | Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology
• In mid-1990s South Africa, apartheid ended, Nelson Mandela was elected president, and the country's urban black youth developed kwaito -a form of elec... Lees meer

Music and Musical Thought in Early India

Lewis Rowell

• Paperback | Engels | Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology
• Offering a broad perspective of the philosophy, theory, and aesthetics of early Indian music and musical ideology, this study makes a unique contribut... Lees meer

The Scattered Court

Richard David Williams

• Hardcover | Engels | Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology
• Presents a new history of how Hindustani court music responded to the political transitions of the nineteenth century. How far did colonialism transfo... Lees meer

Saying Something

Ingrid Monson

• Hardcover | Engels | Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology
• This fresh look at the neglected rhythm section in jazz ensembles shows that the improvisational interplay among drums, bass, and piano is just as inn... Lees meer

Sing and Sing On

Kay Kaufman Shelemay

• Paperback | Engels | Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology
• A sweeping history of Ethiopian musicians during and following the 1974 Ethiopian revolution. Sing and Sing On is the first study of the forced migrat... Lees meer

In the Course of Performance

• Paperback | Engels | Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology
• In the Course of Performance is the first book in decades to illustrate and explain the practices and processes of musical improvisation. Improvisatio... Lees meer

Music and Gender

• Paperback | Engels | Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology
• Although scholars have long been aware of the crucial roles that gender plays in music, and vice versa, the contributors to this volume are among the ... Lees meer

A Day for the Hunter, a Day for the Prey

Gage Averill

• Paperback | Engels | Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology | nr. 1997
• The history of Haiti throughout the twentieth century has been marked by oppression at the hands of colonial and dictatorial overlords. But set agains... Lees meer

Ambient Sufism

Richard C Jankowsky

• Hardcover | Engels | Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology
• Ambient Sufism is a study of the intertwined musical lives of several ritual communities in Tunisia that invoke the healing powers of long-deceased Mu... Lees meer

D'Albuquerque's Children

Margaret Sarkissian

• Paperback | Engels | Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology
• When the Portuguese seafarer Afonso de Albuquerque conquered the bustling port of Malacca in 1511, he effectively gained control of the entire South C... Lees meer

Vodou Nation

Michael Largey

• Paperback | Engels | Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology
• While the Haitian musical tradition is probably best known for the Vodou-inspired roots music that helped topple the two-generation Duvalier dictators... Lees meer

Love Songs in Motion

Christina J Woolner

• Paperback | Engels | Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology
• An intimate account of everyday life in Somaliland, explored through an ever-evolving musical genre of love songs. At first listen, both music and tal... Lees meer

Ambient Sufism

Richard C Jankowsky

• Paperback | Engels | Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology
• Ambient Sufism is a study of the intertwined musical lives of several ritual communities in Tunisia that invoke the healing powers of long-deceased Mu... Lees meer

Voices of the Magi

Suzel Reily

• Paperback | Engels | Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology
• Voices of the Magi explores the popular Catholic musical ensembles of southeastern Brazil known as folias de reis (companies of kings). Composed predo... Lees meer

Music, Race, and Nation

Peter Wade

• Paperback | Engels | Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology
• Long a favorite on dance floors in Latin America, the porro, cumbia, and vallenato styles that make up Colombia's música tropical are now enjoying int... Lees meer

The Voice of the Rural

Alessandra Ciucci

• Paperback | Engels | Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology
• A moving portrait of the contemporary experiences of migrant Moroccan men. Umbria is known to most Americans for its picturesque rolling hills and med... Lees meer

Sonic Mobilities

Adam Kielman

• Paperback | Engels | Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology
• A fascinating look at how the popular musical culture of Guangzhou expresses the city's unique cosmopolitanism. Guangzhou is a large Chinese city like... Lees meer

Stambeli

Richard C Jankowsky

• Paperback | Engels | Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology
• In Stambeli , Richard C. Jankowsky presents a vivid ethnographic account of the healing trance music created by the descendants of sub-Saharan slaves ... Lees meer

Awakening Spaces

Brenda F Berrian

• Paperback | Engels | Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology
• The fast-paced 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... Lees meer

Cassette Culture

Peter Manuel

• Paperback | Engels | Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology
• In Cassette Culture, Peter Manuel tells how a new mass medium-the portable cassette player-caused a major upheaval in popular culture in the world's s... Lees meer

Moving Away from Silence

Thomas Turino

• Paperback | Engels | Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology
• Increasingly popular in the United States and Europe, Andean panpipe and flute music draws its vitality from the traditions of rural highland villages... Lees meer