Author: Keith Howard
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Keywords: korean, soas, music, musicology, series, perspectives, identity, innovation, volume, creating, tradition, discourse
Number of Pages: 242
Published: 2006-10-31
List price: $110.00
ISBN-10: 0754657299
ISBN-13: 9780754657293

With the rise of nationalism in the Republic of Korea, music has come to play a central role in the discourse of identity. This volume asks what Koreans consider makes music Korean, and how meaning is ascribed to musical creation. Keith Howard explores specific aspects of creativity that are designed to appeal to a new audience that is increasingly westernized yet proud of its indigenous heritage - updates of tradition, compositions, and collaborative fusions. He charts the development of the Korean music scene over the last 25 years and interprets the debates, claims and statistics by incorpo

Author: James Kippen
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Keywords: gurudev, musicology, soas, series, vadanpaddhati, patwardhan, tabla, mrdang, legacy, drumming, music, theory, nationalism, aur
Number of Pages: 346
Published: 2006-08
List price: $120.00
ISBN-10: 0754654249
ISBN-13: 9780754654247

The 1903 "Mrdang aur Tabla Vadanpaddhati" is a revelatory text that has never been translated or analysed. It is a manual for playing the two most important drums of North Indian (Hindustani) music, the pakhavaj (mrdang) and the tabla. Owing to its relative obscurity, it is a source that has never been discussed in the literature on Hindustani music. Its author, Gurudev Patwardhan, was Vice Principal of V.D. Paluskar’s first music school in Lahore from its inception in 1901 to 1908. Professor James Kippen provides the first translation of this immensely important text and examines its st

Authors:Patricia Ann Matusky, Tan Sooi Beng, Patricia Ann Ma
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Keywords: soas, musicology, series, traditions, syncretic, malaysia, classical, folk, music
Number of Pages: 484
Published: 2004-06
List price: $130.00
ISBN-10: 075460831X
ISBN-13: 9780754608318

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. This revised and updated edition is the first in English. The book categorizes the types of music genres found in Malaysian society and provides an overview of the development of music in that country. Analyses of the music are illustrated with many examples transcribed from original field recordings. Genres discussed include theatrical and dance forms, percussion ensembles, vocal and instrumental music and classical music. The Music of M

Author: Tom Gordon
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: musicology, faure, regarding
Number of Pages: 456
Published: 1999-06-01
List price: $115.00
ISBN-10: 9057005492
ISBN-13: 9789057005497

Regarding Faure, the result of a 1995 conference on Faure’s important contribution to classical music, was written by Tom Gordon, artistic director the Ensemble Musica Nova and a professor in the Department of music at Bishop’s University in Quebec. Also included are contributions from some of the world’s most renowned Faure scholars including Jean-Michel Nectous, Robert Orledge, Edward Phillips, and Steven Huebner.With a lifetime that spanned the developments of Chopin, Debussy, Schoenberg, and Stravinsky, the great French composer Gabriel-Urbain Faure (1845-1924) lived du

Author: Giles Hooper
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Keywords: musicology, discourse
Number of Pages: 155
Published: 2006-06-30
List price: $90.00
ISBN-10: 0754652114
ISBN-13: 9780754652113

In "The Discourse of Musicology", Giles Hooper considers a number of issues central to recent debates about the nature and direction of contemporary musicology. The first chapter seeks to situate and critically rethink the alleged ’postmodern’ turn in musical scholarship. In attempting to overcome some of the problems associated with postmodern theory, the second chapter draws on the work of Jurgen Habermas in order to interpret musicology as a form of institutionalized discourse and to propose a normative framework for the kind of knowledge in which it can legitimately issue. The

Author: Carl Dahlhau
Publisher: Pendragon Pr
Keywords: musicology, monographs, judgement, value, analysis
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 1972-01-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0918728207
ISBN-13: 9780918728203

Examines the possibility of a reconciliation between a value-free analysis and a subjective aesthetic judgement.

Author: Christopher Ballantine
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: musicology, meanings, social, music
Number of Pages: 202
Published: 1984-01-01
List price: $52.00
ISBN-10: 0677220006
ISBN-13: 9780677220000

Deciphering the specific social characteristics of music has lagged behind the analytical dissection of musical composition and biographical musicology. These essays address the issue. The sociology of music as examined here is an investigation into the ways in which social formations come together in musical structures. The essays specifically address the problem of our neutralized musical consciousness, the separation of music from its social context and the artificial insulation of musical understanding from social significance. A particular theme in this work concerns the struggle against