1st Edition
Mediterranean Mosaic Popular Music and Global Sounds
Edited By Goffredo Plastino
Copyright 2003
344 Pages
20 Color Illustrations
by
Routledge
344 Pages
20 Color Illustrations
by
Routledge
344 Pages
20 Color Illustrations
by
Routledge
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First published in 2003. The Mediterranean region, which includes Turkey, the Middle East, and North Africa, along with Italy, Greece, Spain and other European countries, encompasses a plethora of diverse but also interconnected cultures. The musical styles are just as diverse. Mediterranean Mosaic weaves together issues of music contemporary geopolitics and identity struggles. Acknowledging the... Read more
Chapter 1 Paint It Black, Cat: Rock, Pop and the Medetarranean Chapter 2 Seeking Connections Through a Sea: Mediterranean Sounds in Spanish Folk and Popular Music Chapter 3 Moroccan Worldbeat through the Media Chapter 4 Pop-Rai Chapter 5 New Sounds, Old Tunes Chapter 6 Some Meanings of the Spanish Tinge in Contemporary Egyptian Music Chapter 7 Yam tikhoniyut: Transformations of Mediterraneanism in Israeli Music Chapter 8 Crossing the Boundries: The Akdeniz Scene and the Mediterraneanness Chapter 9 Between East and West: Contemporary Grooves in Greek Popular Music (c.1900-2000) Chapter 10 Klapa Singing and ca-val: The Mediterranean Dimension of Popular Music in Croatia Chapter 11 Inventing Ethnic Music: Fabrizio De Andres Creuza de ma and the Creation of musica mediterranea in Italy Chapter 12 Sacred Popular Music of the Mediterranean and the Journey to Jerusalem
Biography
Geoffedo Plastino is Professor of Ethnomusicology at the University of Newcastle England. He is the editor of Italian Treasury, a 20-volume series of compact disks being published by Rounder Records from recordings of Italian folk music made by Alan Lomax and Diego Carpitella in 1954-55.
