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Yorùbá Music in the Twentieth Century Identity, Agency, and Performance Practice BODE OMOJOLAFrom the primeval age of Ayànàgalú (the Yorùbá pioneer-drummer-turned-deity-of-drumming) to the modern era, Yorùbá musical traditions have been shaped by individuals who express self-mediated visions of their social and cultural environment. Yorùbá Music in the Twentieth

Century explores the role of the performer and the performing group in creating these traditions, contributing to the ongoing reorientation of scholarship on African music toward individual creativity within a larger social network.Drawing on extensive field research conducted over the course of two decades, Bode Omojola examines traditional and contemporary Yorùbá genres. The book also addresses a spectrum of social issues, ranging from gender inequality to the impact of Christianity and Islam on Yorùbá musical practice. Throughout, Omojola emphasizes the interrelatedness of the different components of the Yorùbá musical landscape, as well as the role of specific individuals and groups of musicians, who have continued to draw from indigenous Yorùbá musical resources to create new musical forms in the process of engaging the social dynamics of a rapidly changing environment.Cloth: List Price: $85.00/£55.00; December 2012; 9781580464093 Paper: List Price: $39.95/£19.99; June 2014; 9781580464932 28 b/w & 86 line illus.; 296 pp.

Burma’s Pop Music Industry Creators, Distributors, Censors HEATHER MACLACHLANBurma’s Pop Music Industry is the first book to explore the contemporary pop music industry in a country that is little known or understood in the West. Based on years of fieldwork in Burma/Myanmar, Heather MacLachlan’s work explores the ways in which aspiring musical artists are forging a place within the highly

repressive social and political context that is Burma today. It deals sensitively with issues such as negotiating local and global styles, performance contexts and practices, and, more importantly, with ethical issues such as the anonymity of informants and the place of Western ethnomusicologists in countries outside the West. Drawn from interviews conducted from 2007 through 2009 with Burmese composers, performers, producers, concert promoters, journalists, recording engineers, radio station employees, music teachers, and censors in Yangon – Burma’s largest city and the locus of all pop music production – Burma’s Pop Music Industry represents a significant contribution both to popular music studies and to Southeast Asian studies.A major contribution on a number of fronts. . . drawing on thorough ethnographic work. . . Should figure in the research and teaching of popular music and culture in Asia. JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Cloth: List Price: $85.00/£55.00; November 2011; 9781580463867 Paper: List Price: $29.95/£19.99; October 2013; 9781580464710 Ebook: 9781580467377 15 b/w & 6 line illus.; 400 pp.

Performing Gender, Place, and Emotion in Music Global Perspectives Edited by FIONA MAGOWAN & LOUISE WRAZENWhile ethnomusicologists and anthropologists have long recognized the connections between gender, place, and emotion in musical performance, these aspects of performance are seldom analyzed together. Performing Gender,

Place, and Emotion in Music is the first book-length study to examine from a cross-cultural perspective the interweaving of these aspects during performance. Drawing on new ethnographic field studies, contributors show how a theoretical focus on any one of the three implicates the others, creating a nexus of performative engagement. This process is examined across different regions around the globe, through two key questions: How are aesthetic, emotional, and imagined relations between performers and places embodied musically? And in what ways is this performance of emotion gendered across quotidian, ritual, and staged events?List Price: $80.00/£55.00; November 2013; 9781580464642 Ebook: 9781580468183 15 b/w &7 line illus.; 216 pp, cloth

Gender in Chinese Music Edited by RACHEL HARRIS, ROWAN PEASE & SHZR EE TANGender in Chinese Music draws together contributions from ethnomusicologists, anthropologists, and literary scholars to explore how music is implicated in changing notions of masculinity, femininity, and genders “in between” in Chinese culture. Individual chapters cover music cultures relating to diverse practitioners

across space and time, from courting couples in China’s heartlands to ethnic minority singers from the borderlands, and from Ming period courtesans to contemporary Karaoke hostesses. The book also features interviews with musicians, music industry workers, and fans talking about gender. List Price: $85.00/£55.00; October 2013; 9781580464437 26 b/w & 8 line illus.; 320 pp, cloth

Composing for Japanese Instruments MINORU MIKI; Translated by MARTY REGAN; Edited by PHILIP FLAVINComposing for Japanese Instruments is a practical orchestration/instrumentation manual with contextual and relevant historical information for composers who wish to learn how to compose for traditional Japanese

instruments. Widely regarded as the authoritative text on the subject in Japan and China, it contains hundreds of musical examples, diagrams, photographs, and fingering charts, and comes with two accompanying compact discs of musical examples. Its author, Minoru Miki, is a composer of international renown and is recognized as a pioneer in writing for Japanese traditional instruments. The book contains valuable appendices, one of works Miki himself has composed using Japanese traditional instruments, and one of works by other composers using Japanese traditional instruments.List Price: $80.00/£55.00; September 2008; 9781580462730 Ebook: 9781580467193 57 b/w & 197 line illus.; 288 pp, cloth

Musical Encounters at the 1889 Paris World’s Fair ANNEGRET FAUSERMusical Encounters at the 1889 Paris World’s Fair explores the ways in which music was used, appropriated, exhibited, listened to, and written about during the six months of the 1889 Exposition

Universelle in Paris, thereby revealing the role and the sociopolitical uses of music in France and, more generally, Europe during the late nineteenth century.Meticulously documented, beautifully illustrated, and always intriguing. . . . A thoroughly enjoyable read and a first-rate scholarly achievement. . . . Beautifully produced. MUSIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION NOTESList Price: $85.00/£55.00; October 2005; 9781580461856 Ebook: 9781580466417 55 b/w illus.; 416 pp, cloth

Britten and the Far East Asian Influences in the Music of Benjamin Britten MERVYN COOKEBenjamin Britten’s interest in the musical traditions of the Far East had a far-reaching influence on his compositional style; this book is the first to investigate the highly original cross-cultural synthesis

he was able to achieve through the use of material borrowed from Balinese, Japanese and Indian music. Britten’s visit to Indonesia and Japan in 1955-6 is reconstructed from archival sources, and shown to have had a profound impact on his subsequent work: the techniques of Balinese gamelan music were used in the ballet The Prince of the Pagodas (1957), and then became an essential feature of Britten’s compositional style, at their most potent in Death in Venice (1973). The No drama and Gagaku court music of Japan were the inspiration for the trilogy of church parables Britten composed in the 1960s. The precise nature of these influences is discussed; Britten’s sporadic borrowings from Indian music are also fully analysed. There is a survey of critical response to Britten’s cross-cultural experiments.List Price: $45.00/£25.00; June 2001; 9780851158303 Ebook: 9780585213873 9 b/w & 19 line illus.; 304 pp, paper

Javanese Gamelan and the West SUMARSAMJavanese Gamelan and the West studies the meaning, forms, and traditions of the Javanese performing arts as they developed and changed through their contact with Western culture. Authored by a gamelan performer, teacher, and scholar, the book traces the adaptations in gamelan art as a result of Western

colonialism in nineteenth-century Java, showing how Western musical and dramatic practices were domesticated by Javanese performers creating hybrid Javanese-Western art forms, such as with the introduction of brass bands in gendhing mares court music and West Javanese tanjidor, and Western theatrical idioms in contemporary wayang puppet plays. The book also examines the presentation of Javanese gamelan to the West, detailing performances in World’s Fairs and American academia and considering its influence on Western performing arts and musical and performance studies. The end result is a comprehensive treatment of the formation of modern Javanese gamelan and a fascinating look at how an art form dramatizes changes and developments in a culture.List Price: $90.00/£60.00; July 2013; 9781580464451 Ebook: 9781580467995 6 b/w & 3 line illus.; 224 pp, cloth

Representing Non-Western Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain BENNETT ZONRepresenting Non-Western Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain is the first book to situate non-Western music within the intellectual culture of imperial-era Britain. It covers many crucial issues – race, orientalism, otherness, evolution – and

explores the influence of important anthropological theories on the perception of non-Western music. The book also considers a wide range of other writings of the period, from psychology and travel literature to musicology and theories of musical transcription, and reveals how the resulting cohesive, proto-modern, methodologies supplied the groundwork for much recent and present-day British and North American ethnomusicology. Richly documented. . . . Draws upon sources from an impressive array of disciplines: biology, psychology, anthropology, ethnomusicology and history. . . . The history of the discipline of ethnomusicology, . . . is told in this fascinating monograph with admirable verve and clarity. JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL MUSICAL ASSOCIATIONList Price: $80.00/£55.00; November 2007; 9781580462594 Ebook: 9781580466943 19 b/w & 17 line illus.; 368 pp, cloth

The Gamelan Digul and the Prison-Camp Musician Who Built It An Australian Link with the Indonesian Revolution MARGARET J. KARTOMIThe story of a particular Javanese group of “matching” musical instruments, the gamelan Digul, built in a notorious Dutch East Indies prison camp by a master musician and political activist, and the role it played in

helping to foster Australian-Indonesian friendship.List Price: $80.00/£55.00; February 2002; 9781580460880 49 b/w illus.; 152 pp, cloth

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Ethnomusicology 2014The Music of the Moravian Church in America Edited by NOLA REED KNOUSEThe Moravians, or Bohemian Brethren, early Protestants who settled in Pennsylvania and North Carolina in the eighteenth century, brought a musical repertoire that included hymns, sacred vocal works accompanied by chamber orchestra, and instrumental

music by the best-known European composers of the day. Moravian composers – mostly pastors and teachers trained in the styles and genres of the Haydn-Mozart era – crafted thousands of compositions for worship, and copied and collected thousands of instrumental works for recreation and instruction. The book’s chapters examine sacred and secular works, both for instruments – including piano solo – and for voices. The Music of the Moravian Church demonstrates the varied roles that music played in one of America’s most distinctive ethno-cultural populations, and presents many distinctive pieces that performers and audiences continue to find rewarding.List Price: $39.95/£25.00; November 2009; 9781580463522 Ebook: 9781580467469 14 b/w & 52 line illus.; 376 pp, paper

Sacred Song and the Pennsylvania Dutch DANIEL J. GRIMMINGERSacred Song and the Pennsylvania Dutch is the only in-depth study of the shifting identity of the Pennsylvania Dutch as seen in their music. Through a closer examination of music sources, folk art, and historical contexts, this interdisciplinary study sheds light on the process of cultural

change that occurred over the course of a century or more in the majority of Pennsylvania German communities and churches. A knowledgeable account of ‘the largest ethnic group in early America outside of the English-speaking population.’ . . . All the known books are illustrated or sampled. . . . One gets a good idea of the gradual acculturation of these communities and their language. . . . The basic research on the publications, reports, texts, personnel, buildings and church practices (including singing schools) will give the book a permanent value. MUSICAL TIMESList Price: $85.00/£55.00; November 2012; 9781580463836 85 b/w illus.; 240 pp, cloth

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Ruth Crawford Seeger’s Worlds Innovation and Tradition in Twentieth-Century American Music Edited by RAY ALLEN & ELLIE M. HISAMARuth Crawford Seeger’s Worlds offers new perspectives on the life and pioneering musical activities of American composer and folk music activist Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901-1953). Ruth Crawford developed a unique

modernist style with such now-esteemed works as her String Quartet 1931. In 1933, after marrying Charles Seeger, she turned to the work of teaching music to children and of transcribing, arranging, and publishing folk songs.This collection of studies by musicologists, music theorists, folklorists, historians, music educators, and women’s studies scholars reveals how innovation and tradition have intertwined in surprising ways to shape the cultural landscape of twentieth-century America.List Price: $80.00/£55.00; February 2007; 9781580462129 Ebook: 9781580466851 39 line illus.; 328 pp, cloth

“The Music of American Folk Song” and Selected Other Writings on American Folk Music RUTH CRAWFORD SEEGER; Edited by LARRY POLANSKYThis is the first complete publication of the late

composer and scholar Ruth Crawford Seeger’s major work on American folksongs. It preserves them as well as demonstrates how they should be played so that they remain a living part of the American musical tradition.Illuminates the work of Crawford’s last two decades; it is admirably produced with musical examples and plates, and particularly welcome at a time when her music is increasingly performed and recorded. TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENTAnyone interested in the intellectual history of musicology and ethnomusicology, will want to read this book. MUSIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION NOTESList Price: $29.95/£19.99; May 2003; 9781580461368 Ebook: 9781580466097 11 b/w & 66 line illus.; 256 pp, paper

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