Kategoria BISAC: Music >> Ethnomusicology

Cultural Histories of Noise, Sound and Listening in Europe, 1300-1918 presents a range of historical case studies on the sounding worlds of the European past. The chapters in this volume explore ways of thinking about sound historically, and seek to understand how people have understood and negotiated their relationships with the sounding world in Europe from the Middle Ages through to the early twentieth century. They consider, in particular: sound and music in the later Middle Ages; the politics of sound in the early modern period; the history of the body and perception during...

Der Band versammelt Vortrage, die auf der 4. Jahrestagung der Carl-Stumpf-Gesellschaft gehalten wurden. Die Tagung fand im Ethnologischen Museum Berlin und dort an dem von Carl Stumpf 1900 gegrundeten Phonogrammarchiv statt. Dementsprechend behandeln die meisten Beitrage Forschungen der Musikethnologie aus unterschiedlichen erkenntnistheoretischen Perspektiven. Der Band prasentiert sowohl aktuelle Arbeiten als auch Untersuchungen, die an die Forschungen von Stumpf oder seinen Schulern anknupfen. Daneben diskutieren die Autoren Schriften von Stumpf zur Psychoakustik sowie zur...

The Hutchinson Family Singers, the Northeast's most popular middle-class singing group during the mid-nineteenth century, is perhaps the best example of the first...

Tracing the connections between music making and built space in both historical and contemporary times, Music, Sound, and Architecture in Islam brings together domains of intellectual reflection that have rarely been in dialogue to promote a greater understanding of the centrality of sound production in constructed environments in Muslim religious and cultural expression.

Representing the fields of ethnomusicology, anthropology, art history, architecture, history of architecture, religious studies, and Islamic studies, the volume's contributors consider sonic performances...

The study of South Asian music falls under the purview of ethnomusicology, whereas that of South Asian literature falls under South Asian studies. As a consequence of this academic separation, scholars rarely take notice of connections between South Asian song and poetry. Modernizing Composition overcomes this disciplinary fragmentation by examining the history of Sinhala-language song and poetry in...

In this book Sara Le Menestrel explores the role of music in constructing, asserting, erasing, and negotiating differences based on the notions of race, ethnicity, class, and region. She discusses established notions and brings to light social stereotypes and hierarchies at work in the evolving French Louisiana music field. She also draws attention to the interactions between oppositions such as black and white, urban and rural, differentiation and creolization, and local and global.

Le Menestrel emphasizes the importance of desegregating the understanding of French Louisiana music and...