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Performing the Nation
Swahili Music and Cultural Politics in Tanzania
Av Kelly Askew
Inbunden, 2002
473 kr
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Since its founding in 1964, the United Republic of Tanzania has used music, dance, and other cultural productions as ways of imagining and legitimizing the new nation. Focusing on the politics surrounding Swahili musical performance, Kelly Askew demonstrates the crucial role of popular culture in …
Day for the Hunter, a Day for the Prey
Popular Music and Power in Haiti
Av Gage Averill
Häftad, 1997
714 kr
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The history of Haiti has been marked by oppression at the hands of colonial and dictatorial overlords, but there has also been a history of resistance and sometimes triumph. This study aims to show that Haiti's vibrant and expressive music has been a important element in the struggle, in which …
Thinking in Jazz
The Infinite Art of Improvisation
Häftad, 1994
4,7 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (3)
420 kr
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This text reveals how musicians, both individually and collectively, learn to improvise. It aims to illuminate the distinctive creative processes that comprise improvisation. Chronicling leading musicians from their first encounters with jazz to the development of a unique improvisatory voice, Paul …
Awakening Spaces
French Caribbean Popular Songs, Music, and Culture
Inbunden, 2000
876 kr
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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 Poglo 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 …
Awakening Spaces
French Caribbean Popular Songs, Music, and Culture
Häftad, 2000
315 kr
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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 Poglo 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 …
Knowing Music, Making Music
Javanese Gamelan and the Theory of Musical Competence and Interaction
Inbunden, 1995
1565 kr
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How do musicians know what they know? This study explores the nature of musical competence. Using the collaborative structure of gamelan - Javanese ensemble music - as a point of departure, this work lays the foundation for a comprehensive theory of musical competence and interaction. Using …
Performing Democracy
Bulgarian Music and Musicians in Transition
Inbunden, 2005
964 kr
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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 Vaclav Havel, Lech …
Composing Japanese Musical Modernity
Häftad, 2014
306 kr
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When we think of composers like Mozart or Beethoven, we usually envision an isolated artist separate from the orchestra - someone alone in a study, surrounded by staff paper - and in Europe and America this image generally has been accurate. For most of Japan's musical history, however, no such …
Music, Culture, and Experience
Selected Papers of John Blacking
Av John Blacking, Reginald Byron
Inbunden, 1995
979 kr
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One of the most important ethnomusicologists of the century, John Blacking is known for his interest in the relationship of music to biology, psychology, dance and politics. He attempted to document the ways in which music-making expresses the human condition, how it transcends social divisions and …
Music, Culture, and Experience
Selected Papers of John Blacking
Av John Blacking, Reginald Byron
Häftad, 1995
439 kr
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One of the most important ethnomusicologists of the century, John Blacking is known for his interest in the relationship of music to biology, psychology, dance and politics. He attempted to document the ways in which music-making expresses the human condition, how it transcends social divisions and …
Mande Music
Traditional and Modern Music of the Maninka and Mandinka of Western Africa
Av Eric Charry
Häftad, 2000
464 kr
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With "Mande Music", Eric Charry offers the most comprehensive source available on one of Africa's 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 music lessons and …
Palestinian Arab Music
A Maqam Tradition in Practice
Av Dalia Cohen, Ruth Katz
Inbunden, 2005
2462 kr
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This long-awaited project presents the results of a major research effort to determine the parameters of the stylistic variability of Arab folk music in Israel. Central to this old and highly improvised musical tradition is a unique modal framework that combines the concept of maqam—the foundation …
Palestinian Arab Music
A Maqam Tradition in Practice
Av Dalia Cohen, Ruth Katz
Häftad, 2005
1203 kr
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This long-awaited project presents the results of a major research effort to determine the parameters of the stylistic variability of Arab folk music in Israel. Central to this old and highly improvised musical tradition is a unique modal framework that combines the concept of maqam—the foundation …
In the Time of Cannibals
The Word Music of South Africa's Basotho Migrants
Häftad, 1995
332 kr
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The workers who migrate from Lesotho to the mines and cities of neighbouring South Africa have developed a rich genre of sung oral poetry - "word music" - that focuses on the experiences of migrant life. This music provides a culturally reflexive and consciously artistic account of what it is to be …
"The Voice of Egypt"
Umm Kulthum, Arabic Song, and Egyptian Society in the Twentieth Century
Häftad, 1998
306 kr
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Umm Kuthum was a celebrated musical performer in the Arab world, and her songs still permeate the international airwaves. This, the first English-language biography, chronicles her life and career. In particular, it examines her popularity in a society which discouraged women from public …
African Stars
Studies in Black South African Performance
Av Veit Erlmann
Häftad, 1991
297 kr
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In recent years black South African music and dance have become ever more popular in the West, where they are now widely celebrated as expressions of opposition to discrimination and repression. Less well known is the rich history of these arts, which were shaped by several generations of black …
Jazz Worlds/World Jazz
Av Philip V. Bohlman, Goffredo Plastino
Häftad, 2016
341 kr
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Many regard jazz as the soundtrack of America, born and raised in its cities and echoing throughout its tumultuous century of progress. So when Ernest Hemingway wrote about seeing jazz in 1920s Paris, and when British colonial officials danced to jazz in the clubs of Calcutta in the waning years of …
Dancing Prophets
Musical Experience in Tumbuka Healing
Inbunden, 1996
876 kr
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For the Tumbuka people of Malawi, traditional medical practices are filled with music. This ethnography explores a health care system populated by dancing prophets, singing patients and drummed spirits. Tumbuka healers diagnose diseases by enacting divination trances in which they "see" the causes …
Dancing Prophets
Musical Experience in Tumbuka Healing
Häftad, 1996
306 kr
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For the Tumbuka people of Malawi, traditional medical practices are filled with music. This ethnography explores a health care system populated by dancing prophets, singing patients and drummed spirits. Tumbuka healers diagnose diseases by enacting divination trances in which they "see" the causes …
Remains of Ritual
Northern Gods in a Southern Land
Inbunden, 2009
876 kr
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"Remains of Ritual", Steven M. Friedson's second book on the critical role of music in African ritual, focuses on the Brekete/Gorovodu religion of the Ewe people. Friedson analyzes their practices through a historical and ethnographic study of one of the dominant ritual sites on the southern coast …
Remains of Ritual
Northern Gods in a Southern Land
Häftad, 2009
297 kr
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"Remains of Ritual", Steven M. Friedson's second book on the critical role of music in African ritual, focuses on the Brekete/Gorovodu religion of the Ewe people. Friedson analyzes their practices through a historical and ethnographic study of one of the dominant ritual sites on the southern coast …
Fiddling for Norway
Revival and Identity
Häftad, 1997
358 kr
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This is a portrait of a fiddle-based folk revival in Norway, one that in many ways parallels contemporary folk institutions and festivals throughout the world, including American fiddling. It is a detailed case study in the politics of culture, the causes and purposes of folk revivals, and the …
Zouk
World Music in the West Indies
Inbunden, 1993
780 kr
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With its irresistible dance beat, strong bass line, and straightforward harmonies and lyrics, zouk has become wildly popular in the Caribbean, Africa, and Europe. This book--complete with a compact disc and numerous illustrations and musical examples--provides a thorough introduction to the sound, …
Zouk
World Music in the West Indies
Häftad, 1993
332 kr
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With its irresistible dance beat, strong bass line, and straightforward harmonies and lyrics, zouk has become wildly popular in the Caribbean, Africa, and Europe. This book—complete with a compact disc and numerous illustrations and musical examples—provides a thorough introduction to the sound, …
Governing Sound
The Cultural Politics of Trinidad's Carnival Musics
Inbunden, 2007
1266 kr
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Calypso music is an integral part of Trinidad's national identity. When, for instance, Franklin D. Roosevelt asked the great Trinidadian musician Roaring, Lion where he was from, Lion famously replied "the land of calypso." But in a nation as diverse as Trinidad, why is it that calypso has emerged …
Governing Sound
The Cultural Politics of Trinidad's Carnival Musics
Häftad, 2007
332 kr
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Calypso music is an integral part of Trinidad's national identity. When, for instance, Franklin D. Roosevelt asked the great Trinidadian musician Roaring, Lion where he was from, Lion famously replied "the land of calypso." But in a nation as diverse as Trinidad, why is it that calypso has emerged …
Lost Paradise
Andalusi Music in Urban North Africa
Inbunden, 2016
876 kr
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For more than a century, urban North Africans have sought to protect and revive Andalusi music, a prestigious Arabic-language performance tradition said to originate in the “lost paradise” of medieval Islamic Spain. Yet despite the Andalusi repertoire’s enshrinement as the national classical music …
P'ungmul
South Korean Drumming and Dance
Inbunden, 2006
1266 kr
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Composed of a core set of two drums and two gongs, p'ungmul is a South Korean tradition of rural folk percussion. Steeped in music, dance, theater, and pageantry, but centrally focused on rhythm, such ensembles have been an integral part of village life in South Korea for centuries, serving as a …
SamulNori
Contemporary Korean Drumming and the Rebirth of Itinerant Performance Culture
Häftad, 2012
306 kr
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In 1978, four musicians crowded into a cramped basement theater in downtown Seoul, where they, for the first time, brought the rural percussive art of p'ungmul to a burgeoning urban audience. In doing so, they began a decades-long reinvention of tradition, one that would eventually create an …
Kwaito's Promise
Music and the Aesthetics of Freedom in South Africa
Häftad, 2016
288 kr
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In mid-1990s South Africa, apartheid ended, Nelson Mandela was elected president, and the country’s urban black youth developed kwaito—a form of electronic music (redolent of North American house) that came to represent the post-struggle generation. In this book, Gavin Steingo examines kwaito as it …
