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: Fred H. Lawson
Publisher: Saqi Books
Keywords: issues, series, east, middle, syria, soas, demystifying
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2010-02-01
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 0863566545
ISBN-13: 9780863566547
Syria stands at the center of contemporary Middle Eastern affairs, yet it remains poorly understood by analysts and the general public. This collection presents an innovative study of key aspects of Syrian politics, economics, and society.Each contribution is firmly grounded in primary research undertaken in Syria. The contributors identify current trends in Syria and go on to situate recent developments within broader contextual issues.Fred H. Lawson is a lecturer at Mills College, California. He is the author of Constructing International Relations in the Arab World (Stanford University Pres
Authors:John Wright, Richard Schofield, Suzanne Goldenberg,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: geopolitics, grc, soas, boundaries, transcaucasian
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 1995-12-20
List price: $54.95
ISBN-10: 1857282353
ISBN-13: 9781857282351
Transcaucasian boundaries" provides the first insights into the geopolitical dynamics in this ethnically diverse and turbulent region of the former Soviet Union. The interplay between the former controlling powers of Iran, Turkey and Russia is examined, and the conflicts in Nagorno-Karabagh, Ossetia and Abkhazia are subject to expert analysis. The roles of Georgia, Azerbaijan and Armenia are considered in detail, their relative weakness having held back the transition towards democratic free-market entities of pluralist composition. Questions of minority rights, territorial settlement and the
Author: Tanya Schwarz
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: soas, centre, amp, middle, postponed, homeland, jewish, immigrants, israel, ethiopian
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2001-04-27
List price: $190.00
ISBN-10: 0700712380
ISBN-13: 9780700712380
This is an ethnographic study of Ethiopian Jews, or Beta Israel, a few years after their migration from rural Ethiopia to urban Israel. For the Beta Israel, the most significant issue is not, as is commonly assumed, adaptation to modern society, but rather ’belonging’ in their new homeland, and the loss of control they are experiencing over their lives and those of their children. Ethiopian Jewish immigrants resist those aspects of the dominant society which they dislike: they reject normative Jewish practices and uphold Beta Israel religious and cultural ones, ideologically counte
Author: G. H. R. Tillotson
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: collected, soas, papers, south, asia, design, representation, indian, architecture, space, time, paradigms
Number of Pages: 228
Published: 1997-10-16
List price: $54.95
ISBN-10: 0700710388
ISBN-13: 9780700710386
This book explores conceptions of Indian architecture and how the historical buildings of the subcontinent have been conceived and described. Investigating the design philosophies of architects and styles of analysis by architectural historians, the book explores how systems of design and ideas about aesthetics have governed both the construction of buildings in India and their subsequent interpretation.How did the political directives of the British colonial period shape the manner in which pioneer archaeologists wrote the histories of India’s buildings? How might such accounts confli
