Bøger i Global Music Series serien

'Music in South India', a volume in the 'Global Music' series, for use in introductory courses on world music or ethnomusicology, discusses historical and contemporary performance, cultural history and geography, and the social organization of performance traditions. The text focuses primarily on Karnatak concert music.

Part of the "Global Music Series", this volume describes the social, cultural, and economic circumstances surrounding mariachi music in the US. It explains how mariachi music is at once a folk music rooted in many years of tradition. It also offers an understanding of its evolving role and nature, and its place in contemporary American society.

Presents a case study in the "Global Music" series. This book focuses on the variety of music that fill the eastern Arab world, with special focus on music found in modern day Egypt. Suitable for performer musicians and fieldworkers, it provides an intimate sense of the fabric of the music itself and of aspects of the context of music in Egypt.

Vividly evoking Irish sounds, instruments, and dance steps, this study describes traditional Irish music and dance in Ireland and America. It provides a springboard for the discussion of cultural and historical issues of identity, community, nationalism, emigration, transmission, and gender.

This book introduces the musical traditions of West Africa and discusses the diversity, motifs, and structure of West African music within the larger patterns of the region's culture.

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'Music in Trinidad: Carnival', appropriate for use in undergraduate, introductory courses on world music or ethnomusicology, describes the musical conventions, modes of performance, and social dynamics of Trinidadian music, placing the music of Carnival within the context of Trinidad's rich history and culture.

This volume, appropriate for use in undergraduate, introductory courses on world music or ethnomusicology, introduces the musical traditions of Bali. The text discusses the ensemble tradition of Balinese music, underscoring the communal nature of the social organization of Bali.

Introducing cultural and social processes and the values of music in Javanese life, this text features eye witness accounts of performances, interviews with key performers, hands-on activities, vivid illustrations and a 70 minute CD of the author's field recordings. The author provides a survey of other music that may be found in Central Java.

This title provides an overview of the many styles of North Indian music, from the chants of the ancient Vedas to modern devotional singing; from the serious and meditative rendering of raga to the concert-hall excitement of the modern sitar, sarod and tabla.