Music as Intangible Cultural Heritage

• Paperback | Engels | Soas Studies in Music
• Focussing on music traditions, these essays explore the policy, ideology and practice of preservation and promotion of East Asian intangible cultural ... Lees meer

The Music of Malaysia

Patricia Matusky, Tan Sooi Beng

• Hardcover | Engels | Soas Studies in Music
• The Music of Malaysia is a history, appreciation and analysis of Malaysian music in its many and varied forms. It was first published in Malay in 1997... Lees meer

The Gei of Geisha: Music, Identity and Meaning

Kelly M Foreman

• Hardcover | Engels | Soas Studies in Music
• The Japanese geisha is an international icon, known almost universally as a symbol of traditional Japan. Numerous books exist on the topic, yet this i... Lees meer

The Indian Drum of the King-God and the Pakhāvaj of Nathdwara

Paolo Pacciolla

• Paperback | Engels | Soas Studies in Music
• The book studies the evolution of the ancient drum m¿da¿ga into the pakhavaj , crossing more than 2,000 years of history. While focusing on the Nathdw... Lees meer

SamulNori

Keith Howard

• Hardcover | Engels | Soas Studies in Music
• SamulNori is a percussion quartet which has given rise to a genre, of the same name, that is arguably Korea's most successful 'traditional' music of r... Lees meer

The Narrative Arts of Tianjin: Between Music and Language

Francesca R Sborgi Lawson

• Hardcover | Engels | Soas Studies in Music
• In studying one of the world's oldest and most enduring musical cultures, academics have consistently missed one of the richest forms of Chinese cultu... Lees meer

Tradition and Creativity in Korean Taegŭm Flute Performance

Hyelim Kim

• Hardcover | Engels | Soas Studies in Music
• Tradition and Creativity in Korean Taegŭm Flute Performance describes the taegŭm as a representation of Korean culture in the contemporary world. Thro... Lees meer

Music and the Performance of Identity on Marie-Galante, French Antilles. Ron Emoff

Ron Emoff

• Paperback | Engels | Soas Studies in Music
• Marie-Galante is a small island situated in the Caribbean to the south of Guadeloupe. The majority of Marie-Galantais are descendants of the slave era... Lees meer

The Jews-Harp in Britain and Ireland

Michael Wright

• Hardcover | Engels | Soas Studies in Music
• The jews-harp is a distinctive musical instrument of international importance, yet it remains one of those musical instruments, like the ocarina, kazo... Lees meer

Taarab Music in Zanzibar in the Twentieth Century

Janet Topp Fargion

• Paperback | Engels | Soas Studies in Music
• The musical genre of taarab is played for entertainment at weddings and other festive occasions all along the Swahili Coast in East Africa. In this st... Lees meer

Japanese Singers of Tales: Ten Centuries of Performed Narrative

Alison McQueen Tokita

• Paperback | Engels | Soas Studies in Music
• Alison McQueen Tokita presents a series of case studies that demonstrate the persistence of Japanese sung narratives in a multiplicity of genres over ... Lees meer

Soundscapes from the Americas

Donna A Buchanan

• Hardcover | Engels | Soas Studies in Music
• Dedicated to the late Gerard Béhague (1937-2005), whose pioneering work in Latin American music, popular culture, and performance studies contributed ... Lees meer

Timba: The Sound of the Cuban Crisis

Vincenzo Perna

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• Cuban music is recognized unanimously as a major historical force behind Latin American popular music, and as an important player in the development o... Lees meer

The Chinese Zheng Zither

Sun Zhuo

• Hardcover | Engels | Soas Studies in Music
• The zheng zither is one of the most popular instruments in contemporary China. It is commonly regarded as a solo instrument with a continuous traditio... Lees meer

DIY House Shows and Music Venues in the US

David Verbuč

• Paperback | Engels | Soas Studies in Music
• DIY House Shows and Music Venues in the US is an interdisciplinary study of house concerts and other types of　DIY ("do- it- yourself") music venues an... Lees meer

Brass Bands of the World: Militarism, Colonial Legacies, and Local Music Making

Katherine Brucher

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• Bands structured around western wind instruments are among the most widespread instrumental ensembles in the world. Although these ensembles draw upon... Lees meer

Sounding the Dance, Moving the Music

• Paperback | Engels | Soas Studies in Music
• Performing arts in most parts of Maritime Southeast Asia are seen as an entity, where music and dance, sound and movement, acoustic and tactile elemen... Lees meer

Performing Faith

Marzanna Poplawska

• Hardcover | Engels | Soas Studies in Music
• This book is a study of music inculturation in Indonesia. It shows how religious expression can be made relevant in an indigenous context and how gras... Lees meer

Sonic Ruins of Modernity

Edwin Seroussi

• Hardcover | Engels | Soas Studies in Music
• Sonic Ruins of Modernity shows how social, cultural and cognitive phenomena interact in the making and distribution of folksongs beyond their time. Th... Lees meer

Professional Music-Making in London

Stephen Cottrell

• Paperback | Engels | Soas Studies in Music
• Professional Music-Making in London is an engaging yet innovative study which examines the lives and work of Western art musicians from an ethnographi... Lees meer

Celtic Music and Dance in Cornwall

Lea Hagmann

• Hardcover | Engels | Soas Studies in Music
• Focusing on the Cornish Music and Dance Revival, this book investigates the revivalists' claims about Cornwall's cultural distinctiveness and Celtic h... Lees meer

Music Theory in the Safavid Era

Owen Wright

• Paperback | Engels | Soas Studies in Music
• The Safavid era (1501-1722) is one of the most important in the history of Persian culture, celebrated especially for its architecture and art, includ... Lees meer

Studies on a Global History of Music

• Paperback | Engels | Soas Studies in Music
• The idea of a global history of music may be traced back to the Enlightenment, and today, the question of a conceptual framework for a history of musi... Lees meer

Ethnomusicological Encounters with Music and Musicians

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• Designed as a tribute to Robert Garfias, who has conducted field work in more cultures than any other living ethnomusicologist, this volume explores t... Lees meer