Ethnomusicology Books

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11. The Local Scenes and Global Culture of Psytrance

    By Graham St. John

    Series: Routledge Studies in Ethnomusicology

    This lively textual symposium offers a collection of formative research on the culture of global psytrance (psychedelic trance). As the first book to address the diverse transnationalism of this contemporary electronic dance music phenomenon, the collection hosts interdisciplinary research...

    Published June 21st 2011 by Routledge
12. Focus: Music, Nationalism, and the Making of the New Europe

    2nd Edition

    By Philip V. Bohlman

    Series: Focus on World Music Series

    Two decades after the fall of communism in Eastern Europe and one decade into the twenty-first century, European music remains one of the most powerful forces for shaping nationalism. Using intensive fieldwork throughout Europe -- from participation in alpine foot pilgrimages to studies of the...

    Published September 2nd 2010 by Routledge
13. Popular Music of Vietnam

    The Politics of Remembering, the Economics of Forgetting

    By Dale A. Olsen

    Series: Routledge Studies in Ethnomusicology

    Based on the author’s research in Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi, and other urban areas in Vietnam, this study of contemporary Vietnamese popular music explores the ways globalization and free market economics have influenced the music and subcultures of Vietnamese youth, focusing on the conflict...

    Published June 17th 2010 by Routledge
14. Encyclopedia of American Gospel Music

    Edited by W. K. McNeil

    The Encyclopedia of American Gospel Music is a comprehensive reference source covering all aspects of both African American and white gospel from history and performers to recording techniques and styles, as well as the influence of gospel on different musical genres and cultural trends. Now...

    Published April 11th 2010 by Routledge
15. Focus: Irish Traditional Music

    By Sean Williams

    Series: Focus on World Music Series

    Focus: Irish Traditional Music is an introduction to the instrumental and vocal traditions of the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, as well as Irish music in the context of the Irish diaspora. Ireland's size relative to Britain or to the mainland of Europe is small, yet its impact on...

    Published October 22nd 2009 by Routledge
16. Focus: Music of Northeast Brazil

    2nd Edition

    By Larry Crook

    Series: Focus on World Music Series

    Focus: Music of Northeast Brazil examines the historical and contemporary manifestations of the music of Brazil, a country with a musical landscape that is layered with complexity and diversity. Based on the author’s field research during the past twenty years, the book describes and analyzes the...

    Published March 23rd 2009 by Routledge
17. The Horse-head Fiddle and the Cosmopolitan Reimagination of Tradition in Mongolia

    By Peter K. Marsh

    Series: Current Research in Ethnomusicology: Outstanding Dissertations

    Few other nations have undergone as profound a change in their social, political, and cultural life as Mongolia did in the twentieth century. Beginning the century as a largely rural, nomadic, and tradition-oriented society, the nation was transformed by the end of this century into a largely...

    Published October 21st 2008 by Routledge
18. The Garland Handbook of African Music

    2nd Edition

    Edited by Ruth M. Stone

    Series: Garland Handbooks of World Music

    The Garland Handbook of African Music is comprised of essays from The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: Volume 1, Africa, (1997). Revised and updated, the essays offer detailed, regional studies of the different musical cultures of Africa and examine the ways in which music helps to define the...

    Published June 23rd 2008 by Routledge
19. Focus: Gamelan Music of Indonesia

    2nd Edition

    By Henry Spiller

    Series: Focus on World Music Series

    Focus: Gamelan Music of Indonesia is an introduction to the familiar music from Southeast Asia's largest country - both as sound and cultural phenomenon. An archipelago of over 17,000 islands, Indonesia is a melting pot of Hindu, Buddhist, Islamic, Portuguese, Dutch, and British influences. Despite...

    Published April 10th 2008 by Routledge
20. Focus: Music of South Africa

    2nd Edition

    By Carol A. Muller

    Series: Focus on World Music Series

    Focus: Music of South Africa provides an in-depth look at the full spectrum of South African music, a musical culture that epitomizes the enormous ethnic, religious, linguistic, class, and gender diversity of the nation itself. Drawing on extensive field and archival research, as well as her own...

    Published April 8th 2008 by Routledge