Cabo Verdean Rhythms examines the rhythms, movements and performances of Kolá San Jon, a performative tradition central to Cabo Verdes festas juninas, as a lens for understanding the ongoing negotiations of social and cultural boundaries in Cabo Ver...Loe edasi...
Weida Wang explores how Western classical music has become increasingly popular in China, framing the industry as a complex entity embedded within Chinas political landscape, cultural economy, and cultural industries. The study delves into the mecha...Loe edasi...
This book explores crafts and performing arts of South Asia through a focus on labour and livelihood and will contribute to Ethnomusicology, Crafts and Design, Economic Anthropology, (Historical) Sociology and (Historical) Economics, Cultural Histor...Loe edasi...
This book looks at one of the most ancient classical musical traditions of India, the Karnatik music system. It also contributes to our understanding of the experience of modernity in India through the prism of music. The developments that influence...Loe edasi...
This ethnographic research project examines the generation of post-tariqa Tasavvuf (Sufism: a spiritual practice and philosophy recognized as the inner dimension of Islam) in a variety of private, semi-public, public, secular, and sacred urban space...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Oct-2023, Kirjastus: Routledge India, ISBN-13: 9781003026648)
This book explores the folk performance genre of Kobigaan, a dialogic song-theatre form in which performers verse-duel, in contemporary West Bengal in India and Bangladesh....Loe edasi...
This book explores art song as an emblem of musical modernity in early twentieth century East Asia and Australia. It appraises the lyrical power of art songa solo song set to a poem in the local language in Western art music style accompanied by pia...Loe edasi...
Dhrupad is believed to be the oldest style of classical vocal music performed today in North India. This detailed study of the genre considers the relationship between the oral tradition, its transmission from generation to generation, and its re-cr...Loe edasi...
Music and Temple Ritual in South India: Performing for iva explores the musical practices of the periya mam, a South Indian instrumental temple ensemble of professional musicians....Loe edasi...
This book demonstrates the processes of intercultural musical collaboration and how these processes contribute to facilitating positive relationships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples in Australia....Loe edasi...
Archaic Bamboo Instruments explores how current residents of Bandung, Indonesia, have (re-) adopted bamboo musical instruments to forge meaningful bridges between their past and presentbetween traditional and modern values....Loe edasi...
The book reproduces more than 250 extracts from important texts, which provide examples of how dance in India was perceived as an art, as well its position in the broader cultural, religious, social, and ethical environment....Loe edasi...
Vikram Sampath sheds light on the role and impact of The Gramophone Companys early recording expeditions on Indian classical music by examining the phenomenon through a socio-cultural, historical and musical lens....Loe edasi...
Sonic Ruins of Modernity shows how social, cultural, and cognitive phenomena interact in the making and distribution of folksongs beyond their time....Loe edasi...
Material Cultures of Music Notation brings together a collection of essays that explore an essential question in the current landscape of musicology: how can writing and reading music be understood as concrete, material practices in a wider cultural...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Dec-2020, Kirjastus: Routledge India, ISBN-13: 9781003093497)
This book explores queer potentialities in the tribal folktales of India. It elucidates the queer elements in the oral narratives of four indigenous communities from East and Northeast India, which are found to be significant repositories of gender...Loe edasi...
Music in Conflict studies the complex relationship of musical culture to political life in Palestine-Israel, where conflict has both shaped and claimed the lives of Palestinians and Jews....Loe edasi...
Music Saved Them, They Say: Social Impacts of Music-Making and Learning in Kinshasa (DR Congo) explores the role music-making has played in community projects run for young people in the poverty-stricken and often violent surroundings of Kinshasa, t...Loe edasi...
