Music
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Roots in Reverse: Senegalese Afro-Cuban Music and Tropical Cosmopolitanism [Paperback]
Richard M. Shain (Author)
£23.00ISBN: 9780819577092
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Series: Music/Culture
Not yet published - available for pre-order
Roots in Reverse explores how Latin music contributed to the formation of the négritude movement in the 1930s. Taking Senegal and Cuba as its primary research areas, this work uses oral histories, participant observation, and archival research to ... .... Learn More -
Citizen Azmari: Making Ethiopian Music in Tel Aviv [Paperback]
Ilana Webster-Kogen (Author)
£25.00ISBN: 9780819578334
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Series: Music/Culture
Not yet published - available for pre-order
In the thirty years since their immigration from Ethiopia to the State of Israel, Ethiopian-Israelis have put music at the center of communal and public life, using it alternatingly as a mechanism of protest and as appeal for integration. Ethiopia... .... Learn More -
Jarmila Novotná: My Life in Song [Hardback]
Jarmila Novotná (Author); William V. Madison (Editor); Brian Kellow (Author)
£30.00ISBN: 9780813176116
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
A legendary beauty, hailed as one of the greatest singing actors of her time, Jarmila Novotná (1907--1994) was an internationally known opera soprano from the former Czechoslovakia. Best known for her performances in Der Rosenkavalier, The Marria... .... Learn More -
Dynamic Korea and Rhythmic Form [Hardback]
Katherine In-Young Lee (Author)
£75.00ISBN: 9780819577054
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Series: Music/Culture
Not yet published - available for pre-order
The South Korean percussion genre, samul nori, is a world phenomenon whose rhythmic form is the key to its popularity and mobility. Based on both ethnographic research and close formal analysis, author Katherine In-Young Lee focuses on the kinetic... .... Learn More -
Dynamic Korea and Rhythmic Form [Paperback]
Katherine In-Young Lee (Author)
£23.00ISBN: 9780819577061
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Series: Music/Culture
The South Korean percussion genre, samul nori, is a world phenomenon whose rhythmic form is the key to its popularity and mobility. Based on both ethnographic research and close formal analysis, author Katherine In-Young Lee focuses on the kinetic... .... Learn More -
Roots in Reverse: Senegalese Afro-Cuban Music and Tropical Cosmopolitanism [Hardback]
Richard M. Shain (Author)
£75.00ISBN: 9780819577085
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Series: Music/Culture
Not yet published - available for pre-order
Roots in Reverse explores how Latin music contributed to the formation of the négritude movement in the 1930s. Taking Senegal and Cuba as its primary research areas, this work uses oral histories, participant observation, and archival res... .... Learn More -
Citizen Azmari: Making Ethiopian Music in Tel Aviv [Hardback]
Ilana Webster-Kogen (Author)
£75.00ISBN: 9780819578327
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Series: Music/Culture
Not yet published - available for pre-order
In the thirty years since their immigration from Ethiopia to the State of Israel, Ethiopian-Israelis have put music at the center of communal and public life, using it alternatingly as a mechanism of protest and as appeal for integration. Ethiopia... .... Learn More -
Animal Musicalities: Birds, Beasts, and Evolutionary Listening [Hardback]
Rachel Mundy (Author)
£28.00ISBN: 9780819578068
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Series: Music/Culture
Over the past century and a half, the voices and bodies of animals have been used by scientists and music experts as a benchmark for measures of natural difference. Animal Musicalities traces music’s taxonomies from Darwin to digital bird guides t... .... Learn More -
American Music Documentary: Five Case Studies of Ciné-Ethnomusicology [Hardback]
Benjamin J. Harbert (Author)
£80.00ISBN: 9780819578006
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Series: Music/Interview
Not yet published - available for pre-order
Documentary filmmakers have been making films about music for a half-century. American Music Documentary looks at five key films to begin to imagine how we might produce, edit, and watch films from an ethnomusicological point of view. Reconsiderin... .... Learn More -
American Music Documentary: Five Case Studies of Ciné-Ethnomusicology [Paperback]
Benjamin J. Harbert (Author)
£26.00ISBN: 9780819578013
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Series: Music/Interview
Documentary filmmakers have been making films about music for a half-century. American Music Documentary looks at five key films to begin to imagine how we might produce, edit, and watch films from an ethnomusicological point of view. Reconsiderin... .... Learn More
