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Celtic Modern
Music at the Global Fringe
Av Martin Stokes, Philip V. Bohlman
E-bok, 2003
963 kr
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The study of ''Celtic'' culture has been locked within modern nationalist paradigms, shaped by contemporary media, tourism, and labor migration. Celtic Modern collects critical essays on the global circulation of Celtic music, and the place of music in the construction of Celtic ''Imaginaries''. It …
Celtic Modern
Music at the Global Fringe
Av Martin Stokes, Philip V. Bohlman
Inbunden, 2003
1616 kr
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The study of 'Celtic' culture has been locked within modern nationalist paradigms, shaped by contemporary media, tourism, and labor migration. Celtic Modern collects critical essays on the global circulation of Celtic music, and the place of music in the construction of Celtic 'Imaginaries'. It …
Celtic Modern
Music at the Global Fringe
Av Martin Stokes, Philip V. Bohlman
Häftad, 2003
885 kr
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The study of 'Celtic' culture has been locked within modern nationalist paradigms, shaped by contemporary media, tourism, and labor migration. Celtic Modern collects critical essays on the global circulation of Celtic music, and the place of music in the construction of Celtic 'Imaginaries'. It …
Albanian Urban Lyric Song in the 1930s
Av Eno Koço
Inbunden, 2004
1094 kr
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This resource aims to introduce Western audiences to what is perhaps the least known, heard or discussed urban folk-music in Europe. Although this music—Albanian urban song—is the most prominent of Albanian musical genres, it has continuously been overlooked by musicologists in favor of rural …
On a Rock in the Middle of the Ocean
Songs and Singers in Tory Island, Ireland
Inbunden, 2005
1891 kr
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Taking as its subject the small Gaelic-speaking community of Tory Island off the Donegal coast of Ireland, On a Rock in the Middle of the Ocean tries to answer the deceptively simple question of why people sing. The book focuses on aspects of song transmission and performance, showing how early …
Mediterranean in Music
Critical Perspectives, Common Concerns, Cultural Differences
Inbunden, 2005
958 kr
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Politically and historically, the Mediterranean has been a space for critical dialogue for competing and often antagonistic voices, and still functions as meeting place for diverse and interdisciplinary approaches. Although other academic disciplines have attempted a unified approach to …
Transported by Song
Corsican Voices from Oral Tradition to World Stage
Häftad, 2007
1177 kr
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The traditions of the Mediterranean island of Corsica have been well preserved and revitalized, yet little has been written about it in scholarly circles. This work represents the first treatise on Corsican music in the English language. Transported by Song: Corsican Voices from Oral Tradition to …
New (Ethno)musicologies
Häftad, 2008
958 kr
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Over the past twenty years, a range of radical developments has revolutionized musicology, leading certain practitioners to describe their discipline as "New." What has happened to ethnomusicology during this period? Have its theories, methodologies, and values remain rooted in the 1970s and 1980s …
Balkan Popular Culture and the Ottoman Ecumene
Music, Image, and Regional Political Discourse
E-bok, 2007
1410 kr
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Since the early twentieth century, "balkanization" has signified the often militant fracturing of territories, states, or groups along ethnic, religious, and linguistic divides. Yet the remarkable similarities found among contemporary Balkan popular music reveal the region as the site of a thriving …
Balkan Refrain
Form and Tradition in European Folk Song
Inbunden, 2010
1384 kr
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While the refrain is a frequent and important feature of folk singing, little has been written on it and what it can achieve. Balkan Refrain: Form and Tradition in European Folk Song attempts to establish what refrain actually is and how it can be defined in folk and scholarly practice based on …
Music and Displacement
Diasporas, Mobilities, and Dislocations in Europe and Beyond
Av Erik Levi, Florian Scheding
Häftad, 2010
1104 kr
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The grand narratives of European music history are informed by the dichotomy of placements and displacements. Yet musicology has thus far largely ignored the phenomenon of displacement and underestimated its significance for musical landscapes and music history. Music and Displacement: Diasporas, …
Music and Displacement
Diasporas, Mobilities, and Dislocations in Europe and Beyond
Av Erik Levi, Florian Scheding
E-bok, 2010
1204 kr
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The grand narratives of European music history are informed by the dichotomy of placements and displacements. Yet musicology has thus far largely ignored the phenomenon of displacement and underestimated its significance for musical landscapes and music history. Music and Displacement: Diasporas, …
What Makes Music European
Looking beyond Sound
Inbunden, 2011
1616 kr
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We seldom consider how much we mistakenly presume in hewing to definitions of music that differ dramatically from the standpoint of other cultures. In What Makes Music European, Marcello Sorce Keller examines the limitations of accepted wisdom about the concept of music in Euro-Western culture. His …
What Makes Music European
Looking Beyond Sound
E-bok, 2011
1766 kr
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We seldom consider how much we mistakenly presume in hewing to definitions of music that differ dramatically from the standpoint of other cultures. In What Makes Music European, Marcello Sorce Keller examines the limitations of accepted wisdom about the concept of music in Euro-Western culture. His …
Past Is Always Present
The Revival of the Byzantine Musical Tradition at Mount Athos
E-bok, 2011
1605 kr
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In The Past Is Always Present, Tore Tvarnø Lind examines the musical revival of Greek Orthodox chant at the monastery of Vatopaidi within the monastic society of Mount Athos, Greece. In particular, Lind focuses on the musical activities at the monastery and the meaning of the past in the monks'' …
Neapolitan Postcards
The Canzone Napoletana as Transnational Subject
Av Goffredo Plastino, Joseph Sciorra
Inbunden, 2016
1616 kr
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Neapolitan Postcards gathers a diverse group of international scholars to investigate unexplored transnational aspects of the intimate yet globally popular canzone napoletana. Performed and beloved worldwide in almost every language, the style had hits such as “Funiculì funiculà” (1880) and “’O …
Musical Exodus
Al-Andalus and Its Jewish Diasporas
Inbunden, 2015
1324 kr
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For nearly eight centuries — from the Muslim conquest of Spain in 711 to the final expulsion of the Jews in 1492 — Muslims, Jews and Christians shared a common Andalusian culture under alternating Muslim and Christian rule. Following their expulsion, the Spanish and Arabic- speaking Jews joined …
Revival and Reconciliation
Sacred Music in the Making of European Modernity
Inbunden, 2013
1763 kr
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Sacred music has long contributed fundamentally to the making of Europe. The passage from origin myths to history, the sacred journeys that have mobilized pilgrims, crusaders, and colonizers, the politics and power sounded by the vox populi—all have joined in counterpoint to shape Europe’s …
Revival and Reconciliation
Sacred Music in the Making of European Modernity
E-bok, 2013
1926 kr
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Sacred music has long contributed fundamentally to the making of Europe. The passage from origin myths to history, the sacred journeys that have mobilized pilgrims, crusaders, and colonizers, the politics and power sounded by the vox populi—all have joined in counterpoint to shape Europe’s …
Becoming an Ethnomusicologist
A Miscellany of Influences
Av Bruno Nettl
Inbunden, 2013
1440 kr
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Becoming an Ethnomusicologist centers on the life and education of the author, Bruno Nettl, a well-known ethnomusicologist. Focusing on eleven individuals who influenced him significantly, it follows their roles through his career from his childhood in Czechoslovakia and his family's forced …
Becoming an Ethnomusicologist
A Miscellany of Influences
Av Bruno Nettl
E-bok, 2013
1572 kr
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Becoming an Ethnomusicologist centers on the life and education of the author, Bruno Nettl, a well-known ethnomusicologist. Focusing on eleven individuals who influenced him significantly, it follows their roles through his career from his childhood in Czechoslovakia and his family''s forced …
Empire of Song
Europe and Nation in the Eurovision Song Contest
Inbunden, 2013
1763 kr
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The Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) is more than a musical event that ostensibly “unites European people” through music. It is a spectacle: a performative event that allegorically represents the idea of “Europe.” Since its beginning in the Cold War era, the contest has functioned as a symbolic realm …
Empire of Song
Europe and Nation in the Eurovision Song Contest
E-bok, 2013
1926 kr
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The Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) is more than a musical event that ostensibly “unites European people” through music. It is a spectacle: a performative event that allegorically represents the idea of “Europe.” Since its beginning in the Cold War era, the contest has functioned as a symbolic realm …
Sámi Musical Performance and the Politics of Indigeneity in Northern Europe
Inbunden, 2014
1616 kr
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The Sámi are Europe’s only recognized indigenous people living across regions of Norway, Sweden, Finland and the Russian Kola peninsula. The subjects of a history of Christianization, land dispossession, and cultural assimilation, the Sámi have through their self-organization since World War II …
This Thing Called Music
Essays in Honor of Bruno Nettl
Av Victoria Lindsay Levine, Philip V. Bohlman
Inbunden, 2015
1031 kr
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The most fundamental subject of music scholarship provides the common focus of this volume of essays: music itself. For the distinguished scholars from the field of musicology and related areas of the humanities and social sciences, the search for music itself—in its vastly complex and diverse …
Manele in Romania
Cultural Expression and Social Meaning in Balkan Popular Music
Av Margaret Beissinger, Speranta Radulescu m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
1616 kr
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This edited volume examines manele (sing. manea), an urban Romanian song-dance ethnopop genre that combines local traditional and popular music with Balkan and Middle Eastern elements. The genre is performed primarily by male Romani musicians at weddings and clubs and appeals especially to Romanian …
New (Ethno)musicologies
E-bok, 2008
1043 kr
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Over the past twenty years, a range of radical developments has revolutionized musicology, leading certain practitioners to describe their discipline as "New." What has happened to ethnomusicology during this period? Have its theories, methodologies, and values remain rooted in the 1970s and 1980s …
Transported by Song
Corsican Voices from Oral Tradition to World Stage
E-bok, 2007
1324 kr
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The traditions of the Mediterranean island of Corsica have been well preserved and revitalized, yet little has been written about it in scholarly circles. This work represents the first treatise on Corsican music in the English language. Transported by Song: Corsican Voices from Oral Tradition to …
Music and Musicians in Crete
Performance and Ethnography in a Mediterranean Island Society
Av Kevin Dawe
Häftad, 2007
483 kr
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The lyra appears to have tremendous symbolic power and significance in Crete, yet Cretan lyra music is hardly known outside of the Greek diaspora. Music and Musicians in Crete_the first book length study of this fascinating music_documents working musicians in Crete during the 1990s and explores …
New (Ethno)musicologies
Inbunden, 2008
738 kr
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Over the past twenty years, a range of radical developments has revolutionized musicology, leading certain practitioners to describe their discipline as "New." What has happened to ethnomusicology during this period? Have its theories, methodologies, and values remain rooted in the 1970s and 1980s …
