Current Research in Ethnomusicology: Outstanding Dissertations – serie
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19 produkter
Gypsy Caravan
From Real Roma to Imaginary Gypsies in Western Music
Häftad, 2014
844 kr
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A formidable challenge to the study of Roma (Gypsy) music is the muddle of fact and fiction in determining identity. This book investigates Gypsy music as a marked and marketable exotic substance, and as a site of active cultural negotiation and appropriation between the real Roma and the idealized …
Newly Composed Folk Music of Yugoslavia
Häftad, 2016
755 kr
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This book challenges the monolithic portrayals of folk music and social change under communism by making a case for "people's music" and shows how new folk music embodies an inherently pluralistic concept of Yugoslavia's culture.
Newly Composed Folk Music of Yugoslavia
Inbunden, 2002
3262 kr
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In Western political discourse, Yugoslavia was frequently referred to as a “buffer zone,” its independence from the Soviet bloc being the single most salient factor making it politically atypical. Another enduring metaphor, that of a crossroads between East and West, was often invoked to describe …
Of Mermaids and Rock Singers
Placing the Self and Constructing the Nation THrough Belarusan Contemporary Music
Inbunden, 2002
2578 kr
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This book examines the roles, functions, and interpretations of rock music as part of the initial push towards exploring national and personal identities in a newly independent Belarus. It also includes a summary of rock concert activity in Belarus.
Song from the Land of Fire
Azerbaijanian Mugam in the Soviet and Post-Soviet Periods
Inbunden, 2003
2879 kr
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Song from the Land of Fire explores Azerbaijanian musical culture, a subject previously unexamined by American and European scholars. This book contains notations of mugham performance--a fusion of traditional poetry and musical improvisation--and analysis of hybrid genres, such as mugham-operas …
Maracatu Atomico
Tradition, Modernity, and Postmodernity in the Mangue Movement of Recife, Brazil
Inbunden, 2002
2578 kr
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"Maracatu Atômico" is the first academic work to investigate the mangue movement, one of Brazil's most vital pop culture trends of the last thirty years, and the related "new music scene" of Northeast Brazil. Contending with the widespread poverty and social problems, mangue places a renewed value …
Songs and Gifts at the Frontier
Inbunden, 2002
2578 kr
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This book investigates the particular history and social experience by a marginalized society in Mindanao Island, Philippines, through an analysis of the speech, song and dance in spirit possession ritual. Using the concepts of exchange and reciprocity, Buenconsejo connects the performativity of …
Balinese Discourses on Music and Modernization
Village Voices and Urban Views
Inbunden, 2003
2818 kr
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While many Western scholars have discussed the technical aspects of Balinese music or the traditional contexts for performance, little has been written in Western languages about Balinese discourses on their music. This dissertation seeks to understand the experience of music in Bali according to …
Cantaoras
Music, Gender and Identity in Flamenco Song
Av Loren Chuse
Inbunden, 2003
2578 kr
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This book provides an in-depth ethnographic investigation of the greatly underestimated and underappreciated contributions of women singers, the cantaoras, to the creation, transmission and innovation in flamenco song. Situating the study of flamenco in the context of social and political currents …
Baakisimba
Gender in the Music and Dance of the Baganda People of Uganda
Av Sylvia Antonia Nannyonga-Tamusuza
Inbunden, 2005
2190 kr
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Originally a royal court dance, baakisimba asserted the authority of the king as the head of Baganda society. After the abolition of kingship in 1967, baakisimba dance began to be performed in other contexts, with women sometimes playing the accompanying drums-traditionally a man's role-and with …
Shaped by Japanese Music
Kikuoka Hiroaki and Nagauta Shamisen in Tokyo
Inbunden, 2004
2736 kr
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Shaped by Japanese Music is an in-depth analysis of the musical world of an individual performer, composer, and teacher. Using an ethnographic approach, this study situates musical analysis in the context of its creation, demonstrating that traditional Japanese music is hardly an archaic song form …
Gypsy Caravan
From Real Roma to Imaginary Gypsies in Western Music
Inbunden, 2004
2578 kr
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A formidable challenge to the study of Roma (Gypsy) music is the muddle of fact and fiction in determining identity. This book investigates "Gypsy music" as a marked and marketable exotic substance, and as a site of active cultural negotiation and appropriation between the real Roma and the …
Horse-head Fiddle and the Cosmopolitan Reimagination of Tradition in Mongolia
Inbunden, 2008
2504 kr
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Few other nations have undergone as profound a change in their social, political, and cultural life as Mongolia did in the twentieth century. Beginning the century as a largely rural, nomadic, and tradition-oriented society, the nation was transformed by the end of this century into a largely …
Baakisimba
Gender in the Music and Dance of the Baganda People of Uganda
Av Sylvia Antonia Nannyonga-Tamusuza
Häftad, 2015
2190 kr
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Originally a royal court dance, baakisimba asserted the authority of the king as the head of Baganda society. After the abolition of kingship in 1967, baakisimba dance began to be performed in other contexts, with women sometimes playing the accompanying drums-traditionally a man's role-and with …
Shaped by Japanese Music
Kikuoka Hiroaki and Nagauta Shamisen in Tokyo
Häftad, 2014
849 kr
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Shaped by Japanese Music is an in-depth analysis of the musical world of an individual performer, composer, and teacher. Using an ethnographic approach, this study situates musical analysis in the context of its creation, demonstrating that traditional Japanese music is hardly an archaic song form …
Balinese Discourses on Music and Modernization
Village Voices and Urban Views
Häftad, 2014
844 kr
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While many Western scholars have discussed the technical aspects of Balinese music or the traditional contexts for performance, little has been written in Western languages about Balinese discourses on their music. This dissertation seeks to understand the experience of music in Bali according to …
Horse-head Fiddle and the Cosmopolitan Reimagination of Tradition in Mongolia
Häftad, 2014
874 kr
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Few other nations have undergone as profound a change in their social, political, and cultural life as Mongolia did in the twentieth century. Beginning the century as a largely rural, nomadic, and tradition-oriented society, the nation was transformed by the end of this century into a largely …
Song from the Land of Fire
Azerbaijanian Mugam in the Soviet and Post-Soviet Periods
Häftad, 2015
943 kr
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Song from the Land of Fire explores Azerbaijanian musical culture, a subject previously unexamined by American and European scholars. This book contains notations of mugham performance--a fusion of traditional poetry and musical improvisation--and analysis of hybrid genres, such as mugham-operas …
Maracatu Atomico
Tradition, Modernity, and Postmodernity in the Mangue Movement of Recife, Brazil
Häftad, 2015
844 kr
Lägg i varukorg
"Maracatu Atômico" is the first academic work to investigate the mangue movement, one of Brazil's most vital pop culture trends of the last thirty years, and the related "new music scene" of Northeast Brazil. Contending with the widespread poverty and social problems, mangue places a renewed value …
