Music as intangible cultural heritage : policy, ideology, and practice in the preservation of East Asian traditions

“…SOAS musicology series.…”
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Between Opera and Cinema. by Joe, Jeongwon

“…Critical and cultural musicology.…”
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Zimbabwean mbira music on an international stage : Chartwell Dutiro's life in music

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Music and the play of power in the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia

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Music and Marx : Ideas, Practice, Politics. by Qureshi, Regula Burckhardt

Table of Contents: “…CHAPTER 6 THE CAPITALIZATION OF MUSICAL PRODUCTION: THE CONCEPTUAL AND SPATIAL DEVELOPMENT OF LONDON'S PUBLIC CONCERTS, 1660-1750; CHAPTER 7 MARX, MONEY, AND MUSICIANS; PART lV State and Revolutionary Marxism; CHAPTER 8 MUSICOLOGICAL MEMOIRS ON MARXISM; CHAPTER 9 MAKING MARXIST-LENINIST MUSIC IN UZBEKISTAN; CHAPTER 10 CENTRAL AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY MUSIC; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX.…”
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Music theory in Mamluk Cairo : the Ġāyat al-maṭlūb fi 'ilm al-adwār wa-'l-ḍurūb by Ibn Kurr by Wright, Owen, 1938-

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Greek rebetiko from a psychocultural perspective : same songs changing minds by Koglin, Daniel

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Music, sensation, and sensuality

Table of Contents: “…McIver -- The signifying serpent : seduction by cultural stereotype in seventeenth-century England / Julia Craig-McFeely -- Musicology and the problem of sonic abuse / Jamie C. …”
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The African diaspora : a musical perspective

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This thing called music : essays in honor of Bruno Nettl

Table of Contents: “…The emperor's new clothes : why musicologies do not always wish to know all they could know /r Marcello Sorce Keller --…”
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The making of the humanities. Volume 3, The modern humanities.

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Interpreting music by Kramer, Lawrence, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Hermeneutics -- Language -- Subjectivity -- Meaning -- Metaphor -- History -- Influence -- Deconstruction -- Analysis -- Resemblance -- Things -- Classical -- Modern -- Works -- Performance -- Musicology.…”
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Interpreting music by Kramer, Lawrence, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Hermeneutics -- Language -- Subjectivity -- Meaning -- Metaphor -- History -- Influence -- Deconstruction -- Analysis -- Resemblance -- Things -- Classical -- Modern -- Works -- Performance -- Musicology.…”
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The Gypsy caravan : from real Roma to imaginary gypsies in Western music and film by Malvinni, David

Table of Contents: “…The relative neglect of Gypsy music : nationalism, interest, and advocacy in musicology -- Alms, virgins, and Feuerzeichen : literature's place in configuring gypsiness -- A nineteenth-century tale of two others : Gypsy improvisation and the exotic remainder -- Nomads and the Rhizome : becoming Gypsy -- Brahms's Hungarian dance no. 5 and the dynamics of exaggeration -- The poetics of gypsiness in Liszt's Hungarian rhapsodies -- Gypsies and vol'nost' in Russian music : Aleko -- Gypsy Pleroma : Janacek's Diary of one who disappeared -- The specter of Bartók : from Hungarian musicology to the folk-music revival -- Gypsiness in film music : spectacle and act -- O lunga drom : the digital migration of Gypsy music.…”
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Music and the sociological gaze : art worlds and cultural production by Martin, Peter J., 1947-

Table of Contents: “…pt. I. Musicology and sociology : the interface -- pt. II. …”
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Music and the sociological gaze : art worlds and cultural production by Martin, Peter J., 1947-

Table of Contents: “…pt. I. Musicology and sociology : the interface -- pt. II. …”
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The Crisis in the Humanities : Transdisciplinary Solutions. by Cvejic, arko

Table of Contents: “…Table of Contents; Introduction; Part I -- General Discussions; Censoring Emotional Discourse; The Crisis in Musicology; Toward a Critique of the Philosophy of the Event; From Literary to Visual Culture and Aesthetics; Necropolitics and Global Capitalism; Toward a Marxist Aesthetics; The Aesthetic Dimension; Art in the Context of Crisis; Contemporary Aesthetics of Architecture; A New School in the Gray Zones of Crisis; Musicology and the Measure of Transdisciplinarity; Part II -- Specific Issues; Beyond the Crisis of the Avant-garde in Music.…”
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Analyzing Schubert by Clark, Suzannah, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…Singing Schubert's praises : the voice of Vogl in Schubert's early history -- "A word will often do it:" harmonic adventure in Schubert's songs -- Music theory and the musicological imagination : perceptions of Schubert's sonata form -- Analyzing music theory : a Schubertian critique.…”
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Singing the classical, voicing the modern : the postcolonial politics of music in South India by Weidman, Amanda J., 1970-

Table of Contents: “…music, language, and the politics of voices -- A writing lesson : musicology and the birth of the composer -- Fantastic fidelities -- Afterword : modernity and the voice.…”
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Jazz matters : sound, place, and time since bebop by Ake, David Andrew, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…Being (and becoming) John Coltrane: listening for jazz "subjectivity" -- Musicology beyond the score and the performance: making sense of the creak on Miles Davis's "Old Folks" -- Sex mob and the carnivalesque in postwar jazz -- Race, place and nostalgia after the counterculture: Keith Jarrett and Pat Metheny on ECM -- Rethinking jazz education -- Negotiating national identity among American jazz musicians in Paris.…”
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Africa in stereo : modernism, music, and pan-African solidarity by Jaji, Tsitsi

Table of Contents: “…Stereomodernism and amplifying the Black Atlantic -- Sight reading: early Black South African transcriptions of freedom -- Négritude musicology: poetry, performance and statecraft in Senegal -- What women want: selling hi-fi in consumer magazines and film -- 'Soul to soul': echo-locating histories of slavery and freedom from Ghana -- Pirate's choice: hacking into (post- )pan-African futures -- Epilogue: Singing songs.…”
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Dancing in the distraction factory : music television and popular culture by Goodwin, Andrew, 1956-2013

Table of Contents: “…Academics at Work; TWO: From Anarchy to Chromakey Developments in Music Television; THREE: A Musicology of the Image; FOUR: The Structure of Music Video Rethinking Narrative Analysis; FIVE: Metanarratives of Stardom and Identity; SIX: A Televisual Context: MTV; SEVEN: Aesthetics and Politics in Music Television Postmodernism Reconsidered; Concluding Thoughts; Music Television Time Line; Notes; Bibliography; Index.…”
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Dancing in the distraction factory : music television and popular culture by Goodwin, Andrew, 1956-2013

Table of Contents: “…Academics at Work; TWO: From Anarchy to Chromakey Developments in Music Television; THREE: A Musicology of the Image; FOUR: The Structure of Music Video Rethinking Narrative Analysis; FIVE: Metanarratives of Stardom and Identity; SIX: A Televisual Context: MTV; SEVEN: Aesthetics and Politics in Music Television Postmodernism Reconsidered; Concluding Thoughts; Music Television Time Line; Notes; Bibliography; Index.…”
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Lateness and Brahms : music and culture in the twilight of Viennese liberalism by Notley, Margaret Anne

Table of Contents: “…Brahms as Liberal, Bruckner as Other -- Brahms and the Problem of Late Style -- Themes and First Movements: Questions of Lateness and Individualism -- Music Pedagogy, Musicology, and Brahms's Collection of Octaves and Fifths: Historical Decline, Personal Renewal -- Volksconcerte and Concepts of Genre in Brahms's Vienna -- Adagios in Brahms's Late Chamber Music: Genre Aesthetics and Cultural Critique -- Epilogue: The Twilight of Liberalism -- Appendix: Brahms's Multimovement Works: Dates of Completion and Tempo Designations for the Slow Movements.…”
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Nettl's elephant : on the history of ethnomusicology by Nettl, Bruno, 1930-2020

Table of Contents: “…The Seminal Eighties: Historical Musicology and Ethnomusicology -- 2. Look at It Another Way: Alternative Views of the History -- 3. …”
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Introduction to the Spanish Universalist school : enlightened culture and education versus politics by Aullón de Haro, Pedro, Mombelli, Davide

Table of Contents: “…The Universalist Enlightenment -- Universalism and intercontinentalism : America-Europe-Asia -- Human sciences and empiricism, comparistics and aesthetics -- Prospectus philosophiae universae : an intellectual and academic program -- The idea of 'progress' according to Juan Andrés : human emancipation through science and culture -- Lorenzo Hervás and the "formative program" of Historia de la vida del hombre -- Humanism and humanitarianism : the language of the deaf -- Astronomy, geography, galleons and intercontinentalism -- Antiquarianism, philology and rhetoric; science, musicology and aesthetics : the illustrated plurality.…”
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American music documentary : five case studies of ciné-ethnomusicology by Harbert, Benjamin J.

Table of Contents: “…: Albert Maysles, Gimme shelter (1970) -- Representing the margins and underrepresenting the real: Jill Godmilow, Antonia: A portrait of the woman (1974) -- The use and abuse of musicological concepts: Shirley Clarke, Ornette: Made in America (1985) -- The theater of mass culture: D.A. …”
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From music to sound : the emergence of sound in 20th- and 21st-century music by Solomos, Makis

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Thinking about music from Latin America : issues and questions by González Rodríguez, Juan Pablo

Table of Contents: “…Intro; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface to the English Edition; Introduction; 1 Musicology and Latin America; 2 The Multidisciplinary Turn; 3 Postcolonial Listening; 4 Popular Music Studies; 5 From Object-Song to Process-Song; 6 Multiple Origins; 7 Women Take the Stage; 8 Tradition, Modernity, and the Avant-Garde; 9 Primitive Avant-Garde; 10 Mass Counterculture under Military Dictatorships; 11 Folk Music and Globalization; Afterword to the English Edition; Works Cited; Index; About the Author and Translator.…”
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Opera in translation : unity and diversity

Table of Contents: “…Conclusions: Intercultural musicology as a mode of translation -- References -- Surtitles and the multi-semiotic balance: Can over-information kill opera? …”
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Contemporary Dimensions in Nigerian Music A Festschrift for Arugha Aboyowa Ogisi. by Aluede, Charles

Table of Contents: “…Arugha Aboyowa Ogisi's Contributions to Musicological Studies in Nigeria -- 1 -- The Finger of Aboyowa Arugha Ogisi in Nigerian Music Education -- Introduction -- Family Background -- His Educational Background -- His Early Contact with Music and Subsequent Education -- His Music Career -- Beyond Teaching Music…”
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Storytelling in opera and musical theater by Penner, Nina

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Taking it to the bridge : music as performance

Table of Contents: “…Editors' Preface / Nicholas Cook and Richard Pettengill -- A Backward-Looking Foreword / Elisabeth Le Guin -- Introduction / Nicholas Cook and Richard Pettengill -- U2 3D : Concert Films and/as Live Performance / Susan Fast -- Performing Collective Improvisation : The Grateful Dead's "Dark Star" / Richard Pettegill -- Jazz Improvisation as a Social Arrangement / Philip Auslander -- Bridging the Unbridgeable? Empirical Musicology and Interdisciplinary Performance Studies / Nicholas Cook -- The Written and the Sung : Ornamenting Il barbiere di Siviglia / Philip Gossett -- Enacting the Revolution : Thalberg in 1848 / Dana Gooley -- Cutting Loose : Burying "The First Man of Jazz" / Joseph Roach -- Abbey Lincoln's Screaming Singing and the Sonic Liberatory Potential Thereafter / Aida Mbowa -- Got to Get Over the Hump : The Politics of Glam in the Work of Labelle and Parliament / Margaret F. …”
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Interpreting Islam

Table of Contents: “…Dunn -- Ideological dimensions of Islam : a critical paradigm / Ilyas Ba-Yunus -- Kissing cousins : anthropologists on Islam / Charles Lindholm -- Islam and the sea : the causes of a failure / Xavier de Planhol -- Organized charity in the Arab-Islamic world : a view from the NGOs / Jonathan Benthall -- Silver sounds in the inner citadel? Reflections on musicology and Islam / Martin Stokes.…”
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Medieval or Early Modern : the Value of a Traditional Historical Division. by Hutton, Ronald

Table of Contents: “…Jones -- Problems of periodization : the Mediterranean and other maritime spaces / David Abulafia -- Climate change, big data and the Medieval and early modern / Poul Holm -- In the beginning was migration : borders and transitions in late Medieval and early modern Europe / Martial Staub -- The Medieval modernity of Cervantes and Shakespeare / Fernando Cervantes -- "Medieval" and "Renaissance" : the problem of events, their records and their players / Pamela King -- Time and the image : art at an epochal threshold / Peter Dent -- "Renaissance" and "Reformation" elided : the deficiencies of "early modern" musicology / David Allinson.…”
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Sourcebook for research in music

Table of Contents: “…Area Bibliographies, Indexes, Catalogs, and Guides 1: Fields of Musical Study -- 5.1 Musicology -- 5.1.1 The History of Musicology -- 5.1.2 Comprehensive Overviews -- 5.1.3 Selected Discussions of the Discipline in Chronological Order -- 5.1.4 Selected Gender and Sexuality Studies in Chronological Order -- 5.1.5 Discussions of Musicology in the United States in Chronological Order -- 5.1.6 Systematic Musicology and Music Psychology -- 5.1.7 Music Historiography -- 5.1.8 Miscellaneous Sources -- 5.2 Ethnomusicology -- 5.2.1 General Sources and Bibliographies -- Classic Presentations of the Field -- Works About Ethnomusicology as a Field of Research -- Surveys of World Music -- Musical Instruments -- 5.2.2 Selected Monographs and Studies -- Exemplars of Ethnomusicological Methodologies -- General Works About Individual Cultures or Cultural Areas -- Collections and Series -- The Americas -- North America -- Latin America and the Caribbean -- Europe (including Central and Eastern Europe) -- The Middle East -- Subsaharan Africa -- Asia -- Afghanistan -- China -- Japan.…”
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On opera by Williams, Bernard, 1929-2003

Table of Contents: “…-- Don Giovanni as an idea -- Passion and cynicism : remarks on Così fan tutte -- Rather red than black : Verdi, Don Carlos and the passion for freedom -- Tristan and time -- The elusiveness of pessimism : responding to the Ring -- Wagner and the transcendence of politics -- L'envers des destinées : remarks on Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande -- Manifest artifice : the ingenuity of Puccini -- Comments on Opera and ideas : from Mozart to Strauss / by Paul Robinson -- The Marriage and the Flute : Tippett and Mozart -- Janáček's modernism : doing less with more in music and philosophy -- Authenticity and re-creation : musicology, performance and production -- Naïve and sentimental opera lovers.…”
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Following the elephant : ethnomusicologists contemplate their discipline

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Part I; Ethnomusicology, the Field and the Society; Definitions of "Comparative Musicology" and "Ethnomusicology": An Historical-Theoretical Perspective; Ethnomusicology: A Discipline Defined; A View of Ethnomusicology from the 1960s; The Individual in Musical Ethnography; Part II; Recent Trends in Ethnomusicology; Toward the Remodeling of Ethnomusicology; Whose Ethnomusicology? …”
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Sound ideas : music, machines, and experience by Evens, Aden

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Der Tonwille, Volume II : Pamphlets in Witness of the Immutable Laws of Music Volume II. by Schenker, Heinrich, 1868-1935

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