This series seeks to identify outstanding dissertations produced by emerging scholars in the field and will explore all aspects of music, including classical and popular music, dance and theatre, drawing from traditions throughout the world. By presenting innovative and provocative musical scholarship concerning all aspects of culture and society, it is our aim to stimulate new ways to listen to, study, teach, and perform the music of our time.
By Philip Galinsky
August 14, 2015
"Maracatu Atômico" is the first academic work to investigate the mangue movement, one of Brazil's most vital pop culture trends of the last thirty years, and the related "new music scene" of Northeast Brazil. Contending with the widespread poverty and social problems, mangue places a renewed value ...
By Sylvia Antonia Nannyonga-Tamusuza
May 22, 2015
Originally a royal court dance, baakisimba asserted the authority of the king as the head of Baganda society. After the abolition of kingship in 1967, baakisimba dance began to be performed in other contexts, with women sometimes playing the accompanying drums-traditionally a man's role-and with ...
By Peter K. Marsh
September 12, 2014
Few other nations have undergone as profound a change in their social, political, and cultural life as Mongolia did in the twentieth century. Beginning the century as a largely rural, nomadic, and tradition-oriented society, the nation was transformed by the end of this century into a largely ...
By David Malvinni
August 15, 2014
First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company....
By Brita Renee Heimarck
July 04, 2014
While many Western scholars have discussed the technical aspects of Balinese music or the traditional contexts for performance, little has been written in Western languages about Balinese discourses on their music. This dissertation seeks to understand the experience of music in Bali according to ...
By Jay Davis Keister
July 04, 2014
Shaped by Japanese Music is an in-depth analysis of the musical world of an individual performer, composer, and teacher. Using an ethnographic approach, this study situates musical analysis in the context of its creation, demonstrating that traditional Japanese music is hardly an archaic song form...
By Jose S. Buenconsejo
October 31, 2002
First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company....
By Loren Chuse
May 01, 2003
This book provides an in-depth ethnographic investigation of the greatly underestimated and underappreciated contributions of women singers, the cantaoras, to the creation, transmission and innovation in flamenco song. Situating the study of flamenco in the context of social and political currents ...
By Ljerka V. Rasmussen
October 01, 2012
This book challenges the monolithic portrayals of folk music and social change under communism by making a case for "people's music" and shows how new folk music embodies an inherently pluralistic concept of Yugoslavia's culture....
By Inna Naroditskaya
August 28, 2003
Song from the Land of Fire explores Azerbaijanian musical culture, a subject previously unexamined by American and European scholars. This book contains notations of mugham performance--a fusion of traditional poetry and musical improvisation--and analysis of hybrid genres, such as mugham-operas ...
By Maria Paula Survilla
September 19, 2002
First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company....
