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South African Popular Music (Paperback): Lior Phillips South African Popular Music (Paperback)
Lior Phillips
R443 R383 Discovery Miles 3 830 Save R60 (14%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days

From the storied ache of mbube harmonies of the '40s to the electronic boom of kwaito and the amapiano and house explosion of the '00s, this book explores vignettes taken from across South Africa's popular music history. There are moments in time where music can be a mighty weapon in the fight for freedom. Disguised in a danceable hook or shouted for the world to hear, artists have used songs to deliver important truths and bring listeners together in the face of a segregated reality. In the grip of the brutal apartheid era, South Africa crafted its own idiosyncratic popular musical vernacular that operated both as sociopolitical tool and realm of escape. In a country with 11 official languages, music had the power to unite South Africans in protest. Artists bloomed a new idyll from the branches of countless storied musical traditions, and in turn found themselves banned or exiled-the profoundly foolish epiphany that music can exist both within the pleasure of itself and for serving a far greater purpose.

Brazilian Popular Music and Globalization (Paperback, 1st Routledge pbk. ed): Charles A. Perrone, Christopher Dunn Brazilian Popular Music and Globalization (Paperback, 1st Routledge pbk. ed)
Charles A. Perrone, Christopher Dunn
R1,504 Discovery Miles 15 040 Ships in 10 - 15 working days


This collection of articles traces the history of Brazilian pop music through the 20th century. It focuses on how traditional Brazilian musical styles have been influenced by international popular music - including jazz, rock, and rap-to form new hybrid styles. For anyone interested in the history and scope of Brazilian music, this volume is a must read.

The Music of Antonio Carlos Jobim (Paperback): Peter Freeman The Music of Antonio Carlos Jobim (Paperback)
Peter Freeman
R686 Discovery Miles 6 860 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Antonio Carlos Jobim has been called the greatest of all contemporary Brazilian songwriters. He wrote both popular and serious music and was a gifted piano, guitar and flute player. One of the key figures in the creation of the bossa nova style, Jobim's music made a lasting impression worldwide, and many of his songs are now standards of the popular music repertoire. In The Music of Antonio Carlos Jobim, one of the first extensive musicological analyses of the Brazilian composer, Peter Freeman examines the music, philosophy and circumstances surrounding the creation of Jobim's popular songs, instrumental compositions and symphonic works. Freeman attempts to elucidate not only the many musical influences that formed Jobim's musical output, but also the stylistic peculiarities that were as much the product of a gifted composer as the rich musical environment and heritage that surrounded him.

Leipzig After Bach - Church and Concert Life in a German City (Hardcover): Jeffrey S Sposato Leipzig After Bach - Church and Concert Life in a German City (Hardcover)
Jeffrey S Sposato
R2,267 Discovery Miles 22 670 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Leipzig, Germany, is renowned as the city where Johann Sebastian Bach worked as a church musician until his death in 1750, and where Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy directed the famed Gewandhaus orchestra until his own death in 1847. But the century in between these events was critically important as well. During this period, Leipzig's church music enterprise was convulsed by repeated external threats-a growing middle class that viewed music as an object of public consumption, religious and political tumult, and the chaos of the Seven Years and Napoleonic wars. Jeffrey S. Sposato's Leipzig After Bach examines how these forces changed church and concert life in Leipzig. Whereas most European cities saw their public concerts grow out of secular institutions such as a royal court or an opera theater, neither of these existed when Leipzig's first subscription concert series, the Grosse Concert, was started in 1743. Instead, the city had a thriving Lutheran church-music enterprise that had been brought to its zenith by Bach. Paid subscription concerts therefore found their roots in Leipzig's church music tradition, with important and unique results. These included a revolving door between the Thomaskantor position and the Gewandhaus directorship, as well as public concerts with a distinctly sacred flavor. Late in the century, as church attendance faltered and demand for subscription concerts rose, the Gewandhaus dominated the musical life of Leipzig, influencing church music programming in turn. Examining liturgical documents, orchestral programs, and dozens of unpublished works of church and concert music, Leipzig After Bach sheds new light on a century that redefined the relationship between sacred and secular musical institutions.

Dona Ivone Lara's Sorriso Negro (Hardcover): Mila Burns Dona Ivone Lara's Sorriso Negro (Hardcover)
Mila Burns
R2,150 Discovery Miles 21 500 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

More than simply a paragon of Brazilian samba, Dona (Lady) Ivone Lara's 1981 Sorriso Negro (translated to Black Smile) is an album deeply embedded in the political and social tensions of its time. Released less than two years after the Brazilian military dictatorship approved the Lei de Anistia (the "Opening" that put Brazil on a path toward democratic governance), Sorriso Negro reflects the seminal shifts occurring within Brazilian society as former exiles reinforced notions of civil rights and feminist thought in a nation under the iron hand of a military dictatorship that had been in place since 1964. By looking at one of the most important samba albums ever recorded (and one that also happened to be authored by a black woman), Mila Burns explores the pathbreaking career of Dona Ivone Lara, tracing the ways in which she navigated the tense gender and race relations of the samba universe to ultimately conquer the masculine world of samba composers. 33 1/3 Global, a series related to but independent from 33 1/3, takes the format of the original series of short, music-basedbooks and brings the focus to music throughout the world. With initial volumes focusing on Japanese and Brazilian music, the series will also include volumes on the popular music of Australia/Oceania, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and more.

Flamenco Music - History, Forms, Culture (Paperback): Peter Manuel Flamenco Music - History, Forms, Culture (Paperback)
Peter Manuel
R786 Discovery Miles 7 860 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

An expert explains and analyzes the beloved art form An iconic symbol of Spain, flamenco has become a global phenomenon. Peter Manuel offers English-language readers a rare portrait of the music’s history, styles, and cultural impact. Beginning with flamenco’s Moorish and Roma influences, Manuel follows the music’s evolution through its consolidation in the mid-1800s and on to the vibrant contemporary scene. An investigation of flamenco’s major song-types looks at rhythm and compás, guitar technique, and many other aspects of the music while Manuel’s description and analysis of the repertoire range from soleares and bulerías to tangos. His overview of contemporary flamenco culture provides insight into issues that surround the music, including globalization, gender dynamics, notions of ownership, and the ongoing debates on purity versus innovation and the relative roles played by Gitanos and non-Gitanos. Multifaceted and entertaining, Flamenco Music is an in-depth study of the indelible art form that inspires enthusiasts and practitioners around the world.

American Gamelan and the Ethnomusicological Imagination (Hardcover): Elizabeth A. Clendinning American Gamelan and the Ethnomusicological Imagination (Hardcover)
Elizabeth A. Clendinning
R2,284 Discovery Miles 22 840 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Gamelan and American academic institutions have maintained their close association for more than sixty years. Elizabeth A. Clendinning illuminates what it means to devote one's life to world music ensemble education by examining the career and community surrounding the Balinese-American performer and teacher I Made Lasmawan. Weaving together stories of Indonesian and American practitioners, colleagues, and friends, Clendinning shows the impact of academic world music ensembles on the local and transnational communities devoted to education and the performing arts. While arguing for the importance of such ensembles, Clendinning also spotlights how performers and educators use them to create stable and rewarding artistic communities. Cross-cultural ensemble education emerges as a worthy goal for students and teachers alike, particularly at a time when people around the world express more enthusiasm about raising walls to keep others out rather than building bridges to invite them in.

Cornelius's Fantasma (Hardcover, POD Hardback): Martin Roberts Cornelius's Fantasma (Hardcover, POD Hardback)
Martin Roberts
R2,151 Discovery Miles 21 510 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

In Tokyo in the early 1990s, an indie band called Flipper's Guitar was at the forefront of a new wave in Japanese popular music known as Shibuya-kei. The band's founder, Keigo Oyamada, would go on to produce, under the name Cornelius, a series of albums that are among the most innovative in Japanese popular music of the past two decades. Oyamada's third album under his Cornelius alter-ego, Fantasma (1997), played a key role in putting J-pop on the world map for Western music fans, and Oyamada himself is today one of the most respected figures in the Japanese music industry. This book tells the story of Fantasma's emergence from the Shibuya-kei scene and considers the wider impact of Oyamada's work both internationally and on Japanese popular music today. 33 1/3 Global, a series related to but independent from 33 1/3, takes the format of the original series of short, music-based books and brings the focus to music throughout the world. With initial volumes focusing on Japanese and Brazilian music, the series will also include volumes on the popular music of Australia/Oceania, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and more.

The Train of Ice and Fire - Mano Negra in Colombia (Hardcover): Ramon Chao The Train of Ice and Fire - Mano Negra in Colombia (Hardcover)
Ramon Chao; Translated by Ann Wright
R434 Discovery Miles 4 340 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

'Maybe it was the best adventure I ever had.' - Manu Chao Colombia, November 1993: A reconstructed old passenger train, bespangled with yellow butterflies, is carrying one hundred musicians, acrobats and artists on a daring adventure through the heart of a country soaked in violence. The intention is to put on free shows for locals at railway stations along the way: vibrant spectacles involving music, trapeze, tattoo-art, an ice museum and, star of the show, Roberto the fire-breathing dragon. Leading this crusade of hope is Manu Chao with his band Mano Negra. Ramon Chao is on board to chronicle the journey. As the train climbs 1,000 kilometres from Santa Marta on the Caribbean Coast to Bogota in the Altiplano, Ramon keeps one eye on the fluctuating morale of the train's eccentric cargo, and the other on the ever-changing physical and social landscape. As the papa of the train, he endures personal discomfort, internal strife, derailments, stowaways, disease, guerrillas and paramilitaries.When the train arrives in Aracataca, the real-life Macondo of One Hundred Years of Solitude, Mano Negra disintegrates, leaving Manu to pick up the pieces with those determined to see this once-in-a-lifetime adventure through to the end. "The Train of Ice and Fire" is a book about hope and dreams in troubled times. It is about a father accompanying his son through an experience which will change his life. But most of all it is about Colombia, the flora, the fauna, the history, the politics and, more than any of that, it is a book about people.

Dapha: Sacred Singing in a South Asian City - Music, Performance and Meaning in Bhaktapur, Nepal (Hardcover, New Ed): Richard... Dapha: Sacred Singing in a South Asian City - Music, Performance and Meaning in Bhaktapur, Nepal (Hardcover, New Ed)
Richard Widdess
R4,375 Discovery Miles 43 750 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Dapha, or dapha bhajan, is a genre of Hindu-Buddhist devotional singing, performed by male, non-professional musicians of the farmer and other castes belonging to the Newar ethnic group, in the towns and villages of the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal. The songs, their texts, and their characteristic responsorial performance-style represent an extension of pan-South Asian traditions of raga- and tala-based devotional song, but at the same time embody distinctive characteristics of Newar culture. This culture is of unique importance as an urban South Asian society in which many traditional models survive into the modern age. There are few book-length studies of non-classical vocal music in South Asia, and none of dapha. Richard Widdess describes the music and musical practices of dapha, accounts for their historical origins and later transformations, investigates links with other South Asian traditions, and describes a cultural world in which music is an integral part of everyday social and religious life. The book focusses particularly on the musical system and structures of dapha, but aims to integrate their analysis with that of the cultural and historical context of the music, in order to address the question of what music means in a traditional South Asian society.

Performing History - Approaches to History Across Musicology (Hardcover): Nancy November Performing History - Approaches to History Across Musicology (Hardcover)
Nancy November
R2,154 Discovery Miles 21 540 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The fifteen essays of Performing History glimpse the diverse ways music historians "do" history, and the diverse ways in which music histories matter. This book's chapters are structured into six key areas: historically informed performance; ethnomusicological perspectives; particular musical works that "tell," "enact," or "perform" war histories; operatic works that works that "tell," "enact," or "perform" power or enlightenment; musical works that deploy the body and a broad range of senses to convey histories; and histories involving popular music and performance. Diverse lines of evidence and manifold methodologies are represented here, ranging from traditional historical archival research to interviewing, performing, and composing. The modes of analyzing music and its associated texts represented here are as various as the kinds of evidence explored, including, for example, reading historical accounts against other contextual backdrops, and reading "between the lines" to access other voices than those provided by mainstream interpretation or traditional musicology.

Music Scenes and Migrations - Space and Transnationalism in Brazil, Portugal and the Atlantic (Hardcover): David Treece Music Scenes and Migrations - Space and Transnationalism in Brazil, Portugal and the Atlantic (Hardcover)
David Treece
R2,210 Discovery Miles 22 100 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
World Music: A Global Journey - A Global Journey (Paperback, 3rd Edition): Terry E. Miller, Andrew Shahriari World Music: A Global Journey - A Global Journey (Paperback, 3rd Edition)
Terry E. Miller, Andrew Shahriari
R2,906 Discovery Miles 29 060 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

World Music: A Global Journey, Fifth Edition, explores the diversity of musical expression around the world, taking students across the globe to experience cultural traditions that challenge the ear, the mind, and the spirit. It surveys world music within a systematic study of the world’s major cultures, supported by a strong pedagogical framework. Providing historical and cultural overviews of the world’s seven continents, and fortified by in-depth studies of varied musical traditions, World Music: A Global Journey is known for its student-friendly approach and lively visits to “sites” that host musics of the world. The robust companion website with audio is ideal for online coursework.

FEATURES

Easy-to-follow proven chapter structure, organized by geographic region

Listening Guides, detailed maps, and hundreds of colorful photos, with more than two dozen new images

Coverage of an eclectic blend of world musics, including both popular and traditional music

New “Inside Look” entries spotlight distinguished ethnomusicologists and musicians, such as Patricia Shehan-Campbell, Oleg Kruglyakov, Chan E. Park, Vivek Virani, and Mia Gormandy

New “Musical Markers” feature that summarizes key musical elements of each audio example

New site visiting Georgia, a new “Explore More” feature focused on Slovenian Polka, a new track for North Indian Raga with sitar, and much more

New streamed music delivery! Hosted on the book’s dedicated website

Audiobook—extra value! Presented by chapter on the book website

Used in classrooms around the globe, World Music: A Global Journey, Fifth Edition, is an internationally acclaimed and best-selling fundamental resource for students and instructors to begin their exploration of world music and culture.

www.routledge.com/cw/miller

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Before the Trip Begins: Fundamental Issues

Chapter 2: Aural Analysis: Listening to the World’s Musics

Chapter 3: Cultural Considerations: Beyond the Sounds Themselves

Chapter 4: Oceania: Australia, Papua New Guinea, Hawai’i, Kiribati

Chapter 5: South Asia: India, Pakistan

Chapter 6: Southeast Asia: Vietnam, Thailand, Laos and Northeast Thailand, Indonesia (Java and Bali)

Chapter 7: East Asia: China, Mongolia, Korea, Japan, Tibet

Chapter 8: The Middle East: Islam and the Arab World, Iran, Egypt, Turkey, Israel

Chapter 9: Europe: Greece, Spain, Russia, Scotland, Ireland, Hungary, Bulgaria

Chapter 10: Sub-Saharan Africa: Ghana, Nigeria, Central Africa, Zimbabwe, Uganda, Senegal, The Republic of South Africa

Chapter 11: The Caribbean: Haiti, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Puerto Rico, Cuba, The Dominican Republic

Chapter 12: South America and Mexico: The Amazon Rainforest, Peru, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico

Chapter 13: Canada and the United States

Sounds and Colours Argentina (CD): Russell Slater Sounds and Colours Argentina (CD)
Russell Slater; Contributions by Lorna Scott Fox
R354 Discovery Miles 3 540 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
College Music Curricula for a New Century (Paperback): Robin D. Moore College Music Curricula for a New Century (Paperback)
Robin D. Moore
R1,323 Discovery Miles 13 230 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Critiques and calls for reform have existed for decades within music education, but few publications have offered concrete suggestions as to how things might be done differently. Motivated by a desire to do just that, College Music Curricula for a New Century considers what a more inclusive, dynamic, and socially engaged curriculum of musical study might look like in universities. Editor Robin Moore creates a dialogue among faculty, administrators, and students about what the future of college music instruction should be and how teachers, institutions, and organizations can transition to new paradigms. Including contributions from leading figures in ethnomusicology, music education, theory/composition, professional performance, and administration, College Music Curricula for a New Century addresses college-level curriculum reform, focusing primarily on performance and music education degrees, and offer ideas and examples for a more inclusive, dynamic, and socially engaged curriculum of applied musical study. This book will appeal to thoughtful faculty looking for direction on how to enact reform, to graduate students with investment in shaping future music curricula, and to administrators who know change is on the horizon and seek wisdom and practical advice for implementing change. College Music Curricula for a New Century reaches far beyond any musical subdiscipline and addresses issues pertinent to all areas of music study.

Norton Anthology of Western Music (Spiral bound, Eighth Edition): J. Peter Burkholder, Donald Jay Grout, Claude V. Palisca Norton Anthology of Western Music (Spiral bound, Eighth Edition)
J. Peter Burkholder, Donald Jay Grout, Claude V. Palisca
R1,987 Discovery Miles 19 870 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

The definitive survey, combining current scholarship with a vibrant narrative. Carefully informed by feedback from dozens of scholars, it remains the book that students and teachers trust to explain what's important, where it fits and why it matters. Peter Burkholder weaves a compelling story of people, their choices and the western musical tradition that emerged. From chant to hip-hop, he connects past to present to create a context for tomorrow's musicians.

Situating Salsa - Global Markets and Local Meanings in Latin Popular Music (Hardcover): Lise Waxer Situating Salsa - Global Markets and Local Meanings in Latin Popular Music (Hardcover)
Lise Waxer
R4,046 Discovery Miles 40 460 Ships in 18 - 22 working days


Situating Salsa offers the first comprehensive consideration of salsa music and its social impact, in its multiple transnational contexts. It consists of thirteen newly commissioned essays and four reprinted essays that explore the diffusion of this popular sound from its Hispanic Caribbean origins to audiences around the world. Drawing upon interviews, field observations, oral histories, personal memoirs, archival resources, and musical analysis, the volume sheds new light on current debates about race and ethnicity, class hierarchy, gender roles, and generational differences.

Brazilian Folk Tunes for Flute & Guitar - 15 Pieces (Mixed media product): Julian Byzantine Brazilian Folk Tunes for Flute & Guitar - 15 Pieces (Mixed media product)
Julian Byzantine; Ernesto Nazareth, Hedwig Francisca Neves Gonzaga
R586 R530 Discovery Miles 5 300 Save R56 (10%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Oxford Handbook of Critical Improvisation Studies, Volume 1 (Paperback): George E. Lewis, Benjamin Piekut The Oxford Handbook of Critical Improvisation Studies, Volume 1 (Paperback)
George E. Lewis, Benjamin Piekut
R1,552 Discovery Miles 15 520 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Improvisation informs a vast array of human activity, from creative practices in art, dance, music, and literature to everyday conversation and the relationships to natural and built environments that surround and sustain us. The two volumes of The Oxford Handbook of Critical Improvisation Studies gather scholarship on improvisation from an immense range of perspectives, with contributions from more than sixty scholars working in architecture, anthropology, art history, computer science, cognitive science, cultural studies, dance, economics, education, ethnomusicology, film, gender studies, history, linguistics, literary theory, musicology, neuroscience, new media, organizational science, performance studies, philosophy, popular music studies, psychology, science and technology studies, sociology, and sound art, among others.

Voices of Vietnam - A Century of Radio, Red Music, and Revolution (Paperback): Lonan O Briain Voices of Vietnam - A Century of Radio, Red Music, and Revolution (Paperback)
Lonan O Briain
R1,205 Discovery Miles 12 050 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

On September 2, 1945, Ho Chi Minh read out the Vietnamese Declaration of Independence over a makeshift wired loudspeaker system to thousands of listeners in Hanoi. Five days later, Ho's Viet Minh forces set up a clandestine radio station using equipment brought to Southeast Asia by colonial traders. The revolutionaries garnered support for their coalition on air by interspersing political narratives with red music (nhac do). Voice of Vietnam Radio (VOV) grew from these communist and colonial foundations to become one of the largest producers of music in contemporary Vietnam. In this first comprehensive English-language study on the history of radio music in mainland Southeast Asia, Lonan O Briain examines the broadcast voices that reconfigured Vietnam's cultural, social, and political landscape over a century. O Briain draws on a year of ethnographic fieldwork at the VOV studios (2016-17), interviews with radio employees and listeners, historical recordings and broadcasts, and archival research in Vietnam, France, and the United States. From the Indochinese radio clubs of the 1920s to the 75th anniversary celebrations of the VOV in 2020, Voices of Vietnam: A Century of Radio, Red Music, and Revolution offers a fresh perspective on this turbulent period by demonstrating how music production and sound reproduction are integral to the unyielding process of state formation.

From Factory Girls to K-Pop Idol Girls - Cultural Politics of Developmentalism, Patriarchy, and Neoliberalism in South... From Factory Girls to K-Pop Idol Girls - Cultural Politics of Developmentalism, Patriarchy, and Neoliberalism in South Korea's Popular Music Industry (Hardcover)
Gooyong Kim; Foreword by Douglas Kellner
R2,652 Discovery Miles 26 520 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Focusing on female idols' proliferation in the South Korean popular music (K-pop) industry since the late 1990s, Gooyong Kim critically analyzes structural conditions of possibilities in contemporary popular music from production to consumption. Kim contextualizes the success of K-pop within Korea's development trajectories, scrutinizing how a formula of developments from the country' rapid industrial modernization (1960s-1980s) was updated and re-applied in the K-pop industry when the state had to implement a series of neoliberal reformations mandated by the IMF. To that end, applying Michel Foucault's discussion on governmentality, a biopolitical dimension of neoliberalism, Kim argues how the regime of free market capitalism updates and reproduces itself by 1) forming a strategic alliance of interests with the state, and 2) using popular culture to facilitate individuals' subjectification and subjectivation processes to become neoliberal agents. As to an importance of K-pop female idols, Kim indicates a sustained utility/legacy of the nation's century-long patriarchy in a neoliberal development agenda. Young female talents have been mobilized and deployed in the neoliberal culture industry in a similar way to how un-wed, obedient female workers were exploited and disposed on the sweatshop factory floors to sustain the state's export-oriented, labor-intensive manufacturing industry policy during its rapid developmental stage decades ago. In this respect, Kim maintains how a post-feminist, neoliberal discourse of girl power has marketed young, female talents as effective commodities, and how K-pop female idols exert biopolitical power as an active ideological apparatus that pleasurably perpetuates and legitimates neoliberal mantras in individuals' everyday lives. Thus, Kim reveals there is a strategic convergence between Korea's lingering legacies of patriarchy, developmentalism, and neoliberalism. While the current K-pop literature is micro-scopic and celebratory, Kim advances the scholarship by multi-perspectival, critical approaches. With a well-balanced perspective by micro-scopic textual analyses of music videos and macro-scopic examinations of historical and political economy backgrounds, Kim's book provides a wealth of intriguing research agendas on the phenomenon, and will be a useful reference in International/ Intercultural Communication, Political Economy of the Media, Cultural/ Media Studies, Gender/ Sexuality Studies, Asian Studies, and Korean Studies.

Chinese Flute Solos - 15 Traditional and Contemporary Pieces (Sheet music): Jonathan Stock Chinese Flute Solos - 15 Traditional and Contemporary Pieces (Sheet music)
Jonathan Stock
R535 R490 Discovery Miles 4 900 Save R45 (8%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Modernity's Ear - Listening to Race and Gender in World Music (Paperback): Roshanak Kheshti Modernity's Ear - Listening to Race and Gender in World Music (Paperback)
Roshanak Kheshti
R746 Discovery Miles 7 460 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Inside the global music industry and the racialized and gendered assumptions we make about what we hear Fearing the rapid disappearance of indigenous cultures, twentieth-century American ethnographers turned to the phonograph to salvage native languages and musical practices. Prominent among these early "songcatchers" were white women of comfortable class standing, similar to the female consumers targeted by the music industry as the gramophone became increasingly present in bourgeois homes. Through these simultaneous movements, listening became constructed as a feminized practice, one that craved exotic sounds and mythologized the 'other' that made them. In Modernity's Ear, Roshanak Kheshti examines the ways in which racialized and gendered sounds became fetishized and, in turn, capitalized on by an emergent American world music industry through the promotion of an economy of desire. Taking a mixed-methods approach that draws on anthropology and sound studies, Kheshti locates sound as both representative and constitutive of culture and power. Through analyses of film, photography, recordings, and radio, as well as ethnographic fieldwork at a San Francisco-based world music company, Kheshti politicizes the feminine in the contemporary world music industry. Deploying critical theory to read the fantasy of the feminized listener and feminized organ of the ear, Modernity's Ear ultimately explores the importance of pleasure in constituting the listening self.

Manele in Romania - Cultural Expression and Social Meaning in Balkan Popular Music (Hardcover): Margaret Beissinger, Speranta... Manele in Romania - Cultural Expression and Social Meaning in Balkan Popular Music (Hardcover)
Margaret Beissinger, Speranta Radulescu, Anca Giurchescu
R3,093 Discovery Miles 30 930 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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 and Romani youth. It became immensely popular after the collapse of communism, representing for many the newly liberated social conditions of the post-1989 world. But manele have also engendered much controversy among the educated and professional elite, who view the genre as vulgar and even "alien" to the Romanian national character. The essays collected here examine the "manea phenomenon" as a vibrant form of cultural expression that engages in several levels of social meaning, all informed by historical conditions, politics, aesthetics, tradition, ethnicity, gender, class, and geography.

Chinese Violin Solos - A Collection of Music for the Traditional Chinese Two-Stringed Fiddle (English, German, French, Sheet... Chinese Violin Solos - A Collection of Music for the Traditional Chinese Two-Stringed Fiddle (English, German, French, Sheet music)
Jonathan Stock
R541 R495 Discovery Miles 4 950 Save R46 (9%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
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