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Performing Gender, Place, and Emotion in Music (Eastman/Rochester Studies Ethnomusicology) FREE DOWNLOAD

Series: Eastman/Rochester Studies Ethnomusicology
Hardcover: 216 pages
Publisher: BOYE6 (November 15, 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1580464645
ISBN-13: 978-1580464642

While ethnomusicologists and anthropologists have long recognized the connections between gender, place, and emotion in musical performance, these aspects of performance are seldom analyzed together. Performing Gender, Place, and Emotion in Music is the first book-length study to examine from a cross-cultural perspective the interweaving of these aspects during performance. Drawing on new ethnographic field studies, contributors show how a theoretical focus on any one of the three implicates the others, creating a nexus of performative engagement. This process is examined across different regions around the globe, through two key questions: How are aesthetic, emotional, and imagined relations between performers and places embodied musically? And in what ways is this performance of emotion gendered across quotidian, ritual, and staged events? Through ethnographic case studies, the volume explores issues of emplacement and embodiment in three parts: landscape and emotion; memory and attachment; and nationalism and indigeneity. Part 1 looks at emplaced sentiments in Australasia, treating Vietnamese spirit possession, Balinese dance, and land rights in Aboriginal performance. Part 2 addresses memories of Aboriginal choral singing, belonging in Bavarian music-making, and gender-performativity in Polish song. Part 3 evaluates emotion and fandom around a Korean singer in Japan, and Sámi interconnectivities in traditional and modern musical practices. Beverley Diamond provides a thought-provoking commentary in the afterword. Contributors: Beverley Diamond, Fiona Magowan, Jonathan McIntosh, Barley Norton, Tina K. Ramnarine, Muriel Swijghuisen Reigersberg, Sara R. Walmsley-Pledl, Louise Wrazen, Christine Yano. Fiona Magowan is Professor of Anthropology at Queen's University, Belfast. Louise Wrazen is Associate Professor of Music at York University.

Old-Time Music and Dance: Community and Folk Revival (Readings in African Studies)FREE DOWNLOAD

Series: Readings in African Studies
Paperback: 368 pages
Publisher: Quarry Books (August 31, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 025334638X
ISBN-13: 978-0253346384

In the summer of 1972, a group of young people in Bloomington, Indiana, began a weekly gathering with the purpose of reviving traditional American old-time music and dance. In time, the group became a kind of accidental utopia, a community bound by celebration and deliberately void of structure and authority. In this joyful and engaging book, John Bealle tells the lively history of the Bloomington Old-Time Music and Dance Group--how it was formed, how it evolved its unique culture, and how it grew to shape and influence new waves of traditional music and dance. Broader questions about the folk revival movement, social resistance, counter culture, authenticity, and identity intersect this delightful history. More than a story about the people who forged the group or an extraordinary convergence of talent and creativity, Old-Time Music and Dance follows the threads of American folk culture and the social experience generated by this living tradition of music and dance.

Music, Style, and Aging: Growing Old Disgracefully? FREE DOWNLOAD

Paperback: 226 pages
Publisher: Temple University Press (January 4, 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1439908087
ISBN-13: 978-1439908082

The image of the aging rock-and-roller is not just Paul McCartney and Mick Jagger on stage in their sixties. In his timely book Music, Style, and Aging, cultural sociologist Andy Bennett explains how people move on from youth and effectively grow older with popular music. For many aging followers of rock, punk, and other contemporary popular genres, music is ingrained in their identities. Its meaning is highly personal and intertwined with the individual's biographical development. Bennett studies these fans and how they have changed over time - through fashions, hairstyles, body modification, career paths, political orientations, and perceptions of and by the next generation. The significance of popular music for these fans is no longer tied exclusively to their youth. Bennett illustrates how the music that "mattered" to most people in their youth continues to play an important role in their adult lives - a role that goes well beyond nostalgia.

Music in the Mind: The Concepts of Music and Musician in Afghanistan FREE DOWNLOAD

Hardcover: 246 pages
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press (December 17, 2002)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1588340902
ISBN-13: 978-1588340900

Music is central to many important events in the Islamic world. Yet many members of Islamic society who follow the teachings of the Qur'an hold music and musicians in very little regard. Hiromi Lorraine Sakata examined this paradox during her research in Afghanistan in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and produced this insightful book.

Through case studies in the city of Herat (western Afghanistan), the remote provincial capital Faizabad (northeastern Afghanistan), and the village of Khadir (central Afghanistan), Sakata discusses traditional Islamic concepts of music and musician and interprets modern attitudes towards them both. She pays particular attention to the term musiqi (which can be generally translated as "secular music") and how misinterpretations of this construct may be the root of Western misunderstandings about music and musicians in Muslim societies.

Sakata collaborated with Smithsonian Folkways Recordings to produce a CD of Afghan music, which is included with the book.

Music in Puerto Rico: A Reader's Anthology (Studies in Latin American Music) FREE DOWNLOAD

Series: Studies in Latin American Music
Hardcover: 160 pages
Publisher: Scarecrow Press (February 13, 2002)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0810839148
ISBN-13: 978-0810839144

Puerto Rico's rich musical history is chronicled in Donald Thompson's translated texts, a history that is often unavailable to those who do not read Spanish easily. Music in Puerto Rico details the Caribbean island's musical roots from Christopher Columbus' second voyage to the New World in the late fifteenth century to twentieth century developments. It explores a multitude of topics, including native instruments, the introduction of music in schools, folk traditions, the legendary salsa, urban pop, and commercial music. The volume also examines musical differences in various regions, including mountains and plains.

Documents from historical figures such as Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas and Manuel Alonso have been excerpted and translated. In addition, Music in Puerto Rico explores the various modes of musical expression that have been unique to different geographic regions, including the mountains and the plains. The documented texts also simplify bibliographic search, as many of the anthology's original sources are difficult to locate.

Thompson's book provides a glimpse into a society in which cultures intersect and in which magic was born in the form of the popular salsa. Musicians, musicologists, historians, students of Hispanic culture, and anyone interested in the musical foundations of Puerto Rican life will find Music in Puerto Rico a valuable resource.

Music as Intangible Cultural Heritage: Policy, Ideology, and Practice in the Preservation of East Asian Traditions (Soas Musicology Series) FREE DOWNLOAD

Series: Soas Musicology Series
Hardcover: 277 pages
Publisher: Ashgate Pub Co (September 28, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1409439070
ISBN-13: 978-1409439073

This book explores the policy, ideology and practice of preservation and promotion of East Asian intangible cultural heritage, focusing on music traditions. It constitutes the first book to situate considerations of Japan, Korea, China and Taiwan together - states that were amongst the first to establish legislation and systems for indigenous traditions. Calls to preserve the intangible heritage have recently become louder, not least with increasing UNESCO attention. The imperative to preserve is, throughout the region, cast as a way to counter the perceived loss of cultural diversity caused by globalization, modernization, urbanization, and the spread of the mass media. In this volume, one chapter on each of China, Korea, Taiwan and Japan incorporates a foundational overview of preservation policy and practice of musical intangible cultural heritage at the state level. These chapters are complemented by a set of chapters that explore how the practice of policy has impacted on specific musics, from Confucian ritual through Kam big song to the Okinawan sanshin. Each chapter is based on rich ethnographic data collected through extended fieldwork. The team of international contributors give both insider and outsider perspectives as they both account for, and critique, policy, ideology and practice in East Asian music as intangible cultural heritage.

KIRK FRANKLIN PRESENTS SONGS FOR THE STORM VOLUME 1 FREE DOWNLOAD

Paperback: 96 pages
Publisher: Hal Leonard (May 1, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1423425707
ISBN-13: 978-1423425700

(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook). All 11 songs off the '06 release from this contemporary gospel star: Blessing in the Storm * Conquerors * He Will Take the Pain Away * Let Me Touch You * Melodies from Heaven * When You Fall * You Are * more.