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The New (Ethno)musicologies (Paperback)
Henry Stobart; Contributions by John Baily, Michelle Bigenho, Caroline Bithell, Philip V. Bohlman, …
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R1,680
Discovery Miles 16 800
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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 or
have they also transformed? What directions might or should it take
in the new millennium? The New (Ethno)musicologies seeks to answer
these questions by addressing and critically examining key issues
in contemporary ethnomusicology. Set in two parts, the volume
explores ethnomusicology's shifting relationship to other
disciplines and to its own 'mythic' histories and plots a range of
potential developments for its future. It attempts to address how
ethnomusicology might be viewed by those working both inside and
outside the discipline and what its broader contribution and
relevance might be within and beyond the academy. Henry Stobart has
collected essays from key figures in ethnomusicology and
musicology, including Caroline Bithell, Martin Clayton, Fabian
Holt, Jim Samson, and Abigail Wood, as well as Europea series
editors, Martin Stokes and Philip V. Bohlman. The engaging result
presents a range of perspectives, reflecting on disciplinary
change, methodological developments, and the broader sphere of
music scholarship in a fresh and unique way, and will be a key
source for students and scholars.
Music and the Poetics of Production in the Bolivian Andes is a
musical ethnography of a Quechua-speaking community of northern
PotosA , in the Bolivian Andes. Based on extensive fieldwork, it
explores how music permeates the lives of this group of herders and
agriculturalists, and how it is deeply interwoven with agricultural
and social (re)production. In this harsh highland environment,
persuading the earth to bear fruit is a perpetual challenge, and
music emerges as an especially critical and dynamic medium; one
that provides rich insights into broader social processes and
values. Music and dance orchestrate the seasonal transformation of
the landscape, coordinate processes of life and death, and
articulate relations with outside social groups and the spirit
realm. Through rich and evocative ethnography, the book delves into
the powerful meanings ascribed to sound; charts unfamiliar
aesthetic territories; suggests how modernity can contribute to
indigeneity; and reveals remarkable musical perspectives on llama
husbandry and potato cultivation. As we follow the lives, shifting
fortunes and musical year of this, in many ways, fragile community,
a seasonally shifting array of musical instruments, genres, dances
and tunings is introduced. The book is accompanied by downloadable
resources, photographs, musical transcriptions and explanatory
diagrams.
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Sound (Paperback)
Patricia Kruth, Henry Stobart
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R618
Discovery Miles 6 180
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This highly informative and fascinating book brings together
perspectives on sound by leading experts from a wide variety of
disciplines. These include anthropology, physiology, zoology,
physics, music, phonetics and film. Through crossing disciplinary
boundaries, the volume hopes to inspire a richer and more creative
approach to the acoustic world. Whilst aiming for a general
audience and presented in an accessible style, several chapters
also represent important contributions within their own disciplines
or will serve as core texts for students. The sequence of nine
chapters passes from cultural perspectives on silence, via the
physics of sound, physiology of the ear, songs of birds, and sounds
of human speech, to music. From the reconstruction of medieval
music, via twentieth-century composition and the music of the
Kaluli of Papua New Guinea, the volume concludes with the role of
sound in film. Life will never sound the same again.
Investigates the significance of a range of digital technologies in
contemporary Indigenous musical performance, exploring
interdisciplinary issues of music production, representation, and
transmission. The essays in this volume offer rich and diverse
perspectives on the encounter between Indigenous music and digital
technologies. They explore how digital media -- whether on CD, VCD,
the Internet, mobile technology, or in the studio -- have
transformed and become part of the fabric of Indigenous cultural
expression across the globe. Communication technologies have long
been tools for nation building and imperial expansion, but these
studies reveal how over recent decades digital media have become a
creative and political resource for Indigenous peoples, often
nurturing cultural revival, assisting activism, and complicating
earlier hegemonic power structures. Bringing together thework of
scholars and musicians across five continents, the volume addresses
timely issues of transnationalism and sovereignty, production and
consumption, archives and transmission, subjectivity and ownership,
and virtuality and the posthuman. Music, Indigeneity, Digital Media
is essential reading for scholars working on topics in
ethnomusicology, Indigeneity, and media studies while also offering
useful resources for Indigenous musicians and activists. The volume
provides new perspectives on Indigenous music, refreshes and
extends debates about digital culture, and points to how digital
media shape what it means to be Indigenous in the twenty-first
century. Contributors: Linda Barwick, Beverley Diamond, Thomas R.
Hilder, Fiorella Montero-Diaz, John-Carlos Perea, Henry Stobart,
Shzr Ee Tan, Russell Wallace Thomas R. Hilder is postdoctoral
fellow in musicology at the University of Bergen. Henry Stobart is
reader in music at Royal Holloway, University of London. Shzr Ee
Tan is senior lecturer at Royal Holloway, University of London.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
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