Japanese Singers of Tales: Ten Centuries of Performed Narrative
Alison McQueen Tokita presents a series of case studies that demonstrate the persistence of...
EAN: 9780367599553
Tuk Music Tradition in Barbados
Barbadian tuk music, a type of fife and drum music, has been transformed in the post-independence...
EAN: 9780367599430
Critical Music Historiography: Probing Canons, Ideologies and Institutions
Contributors in this edited collection argue that the radical view of the ’impossibility of...
EAN: 9780367599393
Korea and the Western Drumset: Scattering Rhythms
Simon Barker sets out the developmental processes he has followed creating an improvisational...
EAN: 9780367599379
This is the Sound of Irony: Music, Politics and Popular Culture
The use of irony in music is just beginning to be defined and critiqued, irony in popular music...
EAN: 9780367599287
Gender, Age and Musical Creativity
This collection takes an interdisciplinary approach to issues of identity and its representation,...
EAN: 9780367599072
Passion for Music: A Sociology of Mediation
Music is an accumulation of mediators: instruments, languages, sheets, performers, scenes, media...
EAN: 9780367598938
From the chanson francaise to the canzone d'autore in the 1960s and 1970s
The similarities between the chanson fran§aise and the canzone d'autore have been often noted but...
EAN: 9780367598679
Chinese Zheng Zither
The zheng zither is one of the most popular instruments in contemporary China. It is commonly...
EAN: 9780367598648
Small Musical Worlds in the Mediterranean
This is a pioneering study of the complex topics of identity, ethnicity and global processes in...
EAN: 9780367598624
Music and Transcendence
This collection of essays explores the ways in which music relates to transcendence by bringing...
EAN: 9780367598617
Performing Nostalgia: Migration Culture and Creativity in South Albania
How do migrants express and imagine themselves through musical practice? How does music help them...
EAN: 9780367598334
Music in Cyprus
This edited collection draws its authors from both sides of the island to give a rounded picture...
EAN: 9780367598082
Shared Meanings in the Film Music of Philip Glass
The book offers one of the first in-depth studies of Philip Glass's music for film, considering...
EAN: 9780367598044
Media, Materiality and Memory
Media, Materiality and Memory examines the entwinement of material music objects, technology and...
EAN: 9780367597962
SamulNori: Korean Percussion for a Contemporary World
SamulNori is a percussion quartet that has given rise to a genre, of the same name, which is...
EAN: 9780367597900
Mongolian Film Music
In 1936 the Mongolian government decreed the establishment of a film industry with the principal...
EAN: 9780367597894
Bulgarian Harmony
There has been to date no scholarly study of the captivating sounds of Bulgarian vertical...
EAN: 9780367597856
Jews-Harp in Britain and Ireland
Drawing upon previously unknown written sources and piecing together thousands of fragments of...
EAN: 9780367597498
Greek Rebetiko from a Psychocultural Perspective
This study examines the ways in which audiences in present-day Greece and Turkey perceive and use...
EAN: 9780367597320
Eric Bogle, Music and the Great War
This book examines Eric Bogle’s songs about the Great War within the geographies and...
EAN: 9780367593759
Rethinking Difference in Gender, Sexuality, and Popular Music
This book offers critically-oriented case studies that examine the theory and politics of...
EAN: 9780367593148
Educational Change and the Secondary School Music Curriculum in Aotearoa New Zealand
Educational Change and the Secondary School Music Curriculum in Aotearoa New Zealand provides a...
EAN: 9780367592622
