Music Traditions, Cultures, and Contexts
Title | Music Traditions, Cultures, and Contexts PDF eBook |
Author | Robin Elliott |
Publisher | Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press |
Pages | 356 |
Release | 2010-04-19 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1554582768 |
Music Traditions, Cultures, and Contexts is a tribute to the ethnomusicologist Beverley Diamond in recognition of her outstanding scholarly accomplishments. The volume includes essays by leading ethnomusicologists and music scholars as well as a biographical introduction. The book’s contributors engage many of the critical themes in Diamond’s work, including musical historiography, musical composition in historical and contemporary frameworks, performance in diverse contexts, gender issues, music and politics, and how music is nested in and relates to broader issues in society. The essays raise important themes about knowing and understanding musical traditions and music itself as an agent of social, cultural, and political change. Music Traditions, Cultures, and Contexts will appeal to music scholars and students, as well as to a general audience interested in learning about how music functions as social process as well as sound.
Music Traditions, Cultures, and Contexts
Title | Music Traditions, Cultures, and Contexts PDF eBook |
Author | Robin Elliott |
Publisher | Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press |
Pages | 367 |
Release | 2010-04-19 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1554581990 |
Music Traditions, Cultures, and Contexts is a tribute to the ethnomusicologist Beverley Diamond in recognition of her outstanding scholarly accomplishments. The volume includes essays by leading ethnomusicologists and music scholars as well as a biographical introduction. The book’s contributors engage many of the critical themes in Diamond’s work, including musical historiography, musical composition in historical and contemporary frameworks, performance in diverse contexts, gender issues, music and politics, and how music is nested in and relates to broader issues in society. The essays raise important themes about knowing and understanding musical traditions and music itself as an agent of social, cultural, and political change. Music Traditions, Cultures, and Contexts will appeal to music scholars and students, as well as to a general audience interested in learning about how music functions as social process as well as sound.
Resonances
Title | Resonances PDF eBook |
Author | Esther M. Morgan-Ellis |
Publisher | |
Pages | 566 |
Release | 2020-06-02 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9781940771311 |
Resonances: Engaging Music in Its Cultural Context offers a fresh curriculum for the college-level music appreciation course. The musical examples are drawn from classical, popular, and folk traditions from around the globe. These examples are organized into thematic chapters, each of which explores a particular way in which human beings use music. Topics include storytelling, political expression, spirituality, dance, domestic entertainment, and more. The chapters and examples can be taught in any order, making Resonances a flexible resource that can be adapted to your teaching or learning needs. This textbook is accompanied by a complete set of PowerPoint slides, a test bank, and learning objectives.
World Musics in Context
Title | World Musics in Context PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Fletcher |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 753 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 0195175077 |
"This volume contains a wide-ranging survey of musics of the world in historical and social contexts, from ancient times to the present day. It begins by describing aspects of musical style and function in relation to the early developments of civilizations, as background to a study of later transformations. It then describes, in some detail, musical traditions of Africa and Asia, in relation to history/geography and to other aspects of culture. A compendium of information currently available as well as a dialectical examination of musical causation and function, this book aims to lead students, teachers, and those who practice Western music towards a deeper understanding of the various musical traditions that contribute to the modern, multicultural environment."--Publisher's description
Music in Cultural Context
Title | Music in Cultural Context PDF eBook |
Author | Patricia Shehan Campbell |
Publisher | |
Pages | 100 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN |
Patricia Shehan Campbell asks eight ethnomusicologists to provide information on a specific culture and give advice on introducing that culture's music to the classroom setting in this series of eight interviews that first appeared in Music Educators Journal.
Music Cultures in the United States
Title | Music Cultures in the United States PDF eBook |
Author | Ellen Koskoff |
Publisher | Psychology Press |
Pages | 454 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780415965897 |
'Music in the United States' is a basic textbook for any introduction to American music course. Each American music culture is covered with an introductory article and case studies of the featured culture.
Musical Healing in Cultural Contexts
Title | Musical Healing in Cultural Contexts PDF eBook |
Author | Penelope Gouk |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 238 |
Release | 2017-07-05 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1351556932 |
How do people use music to heal themselves and others? Are the healing powers of music universal or culturally specific? The essays in this volume address these two central questions as to music‘s potential as a therapeutic source. The contributors approach the study of music healing from social, cultural and historical backgrounds, and in so doing provide perspectives on the subject which complement the wealth of existing literature by practitioners. The forms of music therapy explored in the book exemplify the well-being that can be experienced as a result of participating in any type of musical or artistic performance. Case studies include examples from the Bolivian Andes, Africa and Western Europe, as well as an assessment of the role of Islamic traditions in Western practices. These case studies introduce some new, and possibly unfamiliar models of musical healing to music therapists, ethnomusicologists and anthropologists. The book contributes to our understanding of the transformative and healing roles that music plays in different societies, and so enables us better to understand the important part music contributes to our own cultures.