World music
by Broughton, Simon, Ellingham, Mark
fromRough Guides music reference series
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by Broughton, Simon, Ellingham, Mark, McConnachie, James, Duane, Orla
fromRough Guides music reference series
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Divided by region and subregion, this volume examines the indigenous music of different countries, its current status, major performers, and special instruments.
A unique guide, which combines the seduction of sound with politics and social issues, making the case for music as a powerful tool to brind people together. --publisher.
A unique guide, which combines the seduction of sound with politics and social issues, making the case for music as a powerful tool to brind people together. --publisher.
This thesis examines how soundscapes signify identity in contemporary metropolitan Malaysia. The chosen examples highlight the evolution of musical styles that have become representative of broad Malaysian cultural identity. By moving between analytical frameworks, from cognitiv…
This project, an outgrowth of the researcher’s Study Abroad experience in the Republic of Turkey, assimilates the principles of ethnomusicology, musical scholarship spanning the Ottoman, Republican, and modern periods in Turkish history, and curriculum planning to present a unit…
This etude book presents text and music to introduce the high school and undergraduate percussion student to concepts and techniques of percussion traditions from around the world. Etudes are based on music from Africa, Latin America, India, Indonesia, and the Middle East. The i…
The objective of this dissertation is to understand why young Sicilian musicians since the late 1980s have created a contemporary popular music genre that can be generalized as Sicilian World-Music. The basic hypothesis is that new musical genres and styles, including those exam…
This study examined undergraduate, non-music majors' familiarity with and preference for Arabic music as compared to other world music. Several factors were examined to assess their effect on music preference including familiarity, musical characteristics, and student characteri…
Brazilian popular music is widely celebrated for its inventive amalgams of styles and sounds. Cariocas, native residents of Rio de Janeiro, think of their city as particularly conducive to musical mixture. Contemporary Carioca introduces a generation of Rio-based musicians who c…