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Animal Tales from the Caribbean (Paperback)
George List; Edited by John Holmes McDowell, Juan Sebastian Rojas E; Contributions by Hasan M.El- Shamy
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R1,294
R1,227
Discovery Miles 12 270
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These twenty-one animal tales from the Colombian Caribbean coast
represent a sampling of the traditional stories that are told
during all-night funerary wakes. The tales are told in the
semi-sacred space of the patio (backyard) of homes as part of the
funerary ritual that includes other aesthetic and expressive
practices such as jokes, song games, board games, and prayer. In
this volume these stories are situated within their performance
contexts and represent a highly ritualized corpus of oral knowledge
that for centuries has been preserved and cultivated by
African-descendant populations in the Americas. Ethnomusicologist
George List collected these tales throughout his decades-long
fieldwork amongst the rural costenos, a chiefly African-descendent
population, in the mid-20th century and, with the help of a
research team, transcribed and translated them into English before
his death in 2008. In this volume, John Holmes McDowell and Juan
Sebastian Rojas E. have worked to bring this previously unpublished
manuscript to light, providing commentary on the transcriptions and
translations, additional cultural context through a new
introduction, and further typological and cultural analysis by
Hasan M. El-Shamy. Supplementing the transcribed and translated
texts are links to the original Spanish recordings of the stories,
allowing readers to follow along and experience the traditional
telling of the tales for themselves.
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Animal Tales from the Caribbean (Hardcover)
George List; Edited by John Holmes McDowell, Juan Sebastian Rojas E; Contributions by Hasan M.El- Shamy
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R2,936
R2,689
Discovery Miles 26 890
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These twenty-one animal tales from the Colombian Caribbean coast
represent a sampling of the traditional stories that are told
during all-night funerary wakes. The tales are told in the
semi-sacred space of the patio (backyard) of homes as part of the
funerary ritual that includes other aesthetic and expressive
practices such as jokes, song games, board games, and prayer. In
this volume these stories are situated within their performance
contexts and represent a highly ritualized corpus of oral knowledge
that for centuries has been preserved and cultivated by
African-descendant populations in the Americas. Ethnomusicologist
George List collected these tales throughout his decades-long
fieldwork amongst the rural costenos, a chiefly African-descendent
population, in the mid-20th century and, with the help of a
research team, transcribed and translated them into English before
his death in 2008. In this volume, John Holmes McDowell and Juan
Sebastian Rojas E. have worked to bring this previously unpublished
manuscript to light, providing commentary on the transcriptions and
translations, additional cultural context through a new
introduction, and further typological and cultural analysis by
Hasan M. El-Shamy. Supplementing the transcribed and translated
texts are links to the original Spanish recordings of the stories,
allowing readers to follow along and experience the traditional
telling of the tales for themselves.
In Following the Elephant, Bruno Nettl edits articles drawn from
fifty years of the pioneering journal Ethnomusicology. The roster
of acclaimed scholars hail from across generations, using other
works in the collection as launching points for dialogues on the
history and accomplishments of the field. Nettl divides the
collection into three sections. In the first, authors survey
ethnomusicology from perspectives that include thoughts on defining
and conceptualizing the field and its concepts. The second section
offers milestones in the literature that critique major works. The
authors look at what separates ethnomusicology from other forms of
music research and discuss foundational issues. The final section
presents scholars considering ethnomusicology--including recent
trends--from the perspective of specific, but abiding, strands of
thought. Contributors: Charlotte J. Frisbie, Mieczylaw Kolinski,
Gerhard Kubik, George List, Alan P. Merriam, Bruno Nettl, David
Pruett, Adelaida Reyes, Timothy Rice, Jesse D. Ruskin, Kay Kaufman
Shelemay, Gabriel Solis, Jeff Todd Titon, J. Lawrence Witzleben,
and Deborah Wong
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