Ethnomusicology Books

New and Published Books

1. World Music

   A Global Journey - Hardback & CD Set Value Pack, 3rd Edition

   By Terry E. Miller, Andrew Shahriari

   Authors Terry E. Miller and Andrew Shahriari take students around the world to experience the diversity of musical expression. World Music: A Global Journey, now in its third edition, is known for its breadth in surveying the world’s major cultures in a systematic study of world music within a...

   Published April 3rd 2012 by Routledge
2. World Music

   A Global Journey - Audio CD Set, 3rd Edition

   By Terry Miller, Andrew Shahriari

   Published March 12th 2012 by Routledge
3. The Cultural Study of Music

   A Critical Introduction, 2nd Edition

   Edited by Martin Clayton, Trevor Herbert, Richard Middleton

   What is the relationship between music and culture? The first edition of The Cultural Study of Music: A Critical Introduction explored this question with groundbreaking rigor and breadth. Now this second edition refines that original analysis while examining the ways the field has developed in the...

   Published November 8th 2011 by Routledge
4. The Globalization of Music in History

   By Richard Wetzel

   Series: Routledge Studies on History and Globalization

   This book contextualizes a globalization process that has since ancient times involved the creation, use, and world-wide movement of song, instrumental music, musical drama, music with dance, concert, secular, popular and religious music. Integral to the process have been political, economic,...

   Published October 16th 2011 by Routledge
5. Music, Science, and the Rhythmic Brain

   Cultural and Clinical Implications

   Edited by Jonathan Berger, Gabe Turow

   Series: Routledge Research in Music

   This book studies the effects of repetitive musical rhythm on the brain and nervous system, and in doing so integrates diverse fields including ethnomusicology, psychology, neuroscience, anthropology, religious studies, music therapy, and human health. It presents aspects of musical rhythm and...

   Published July 19th 2011 by Routledge
6. Ethnomusicology

   A Research and Information Guide, 2nd Edition

   By Jennifer Post

   Series: Routledge Music Bibliographies

   Ethnomusicology: A Research and Information Guide is an annotated bibliography to books, recordings, videos, and websites in the field of ethnomusicology. The book is divided into two parts. Part One is organized by resource type in categories of greatest concern to students and scholars. It...

   Published June 21st 2011 by Routledge
7. The Local Scenes and Global Culture of Psytrance

   By Graham St. John

   Series: Routledge Studies in Ethnomusicology

   This lively textual symposium offers a collection of formative research on the culture of global psytrance (psychedelic trance). As the first book to address the diverse transnationalism of this contemporary electronic dance music phenomenon, the collection hosts interdisciplinary research...

   Published June 21st 2011 by Routledge
8. Alberto Ginastera

   A Research and Information Guide

   By Deborah Schwartz-Kates

   Series: Routledge Music Bibliographies

   Alberto Ginastera: A Research and Information Guide is the first bio-bibliographic study of the composer and the only published book on the subject in English. This work fills a critical gap in contemporary music studies by enriching our knowledge of one of the most compelling creative voices of...

   Published November 10th 2010 by Routledge
9. Focus: Music, Nationalism, and the Making of the New Europe

   2nd Edition

   By Philip V. Bohlman

   Series: Focus on World Music Series

   Two decades after the fall of communism in Eastern Europe and one decade into the twenty-first century, European music remains one of the most powerful forces for shaping nationalism. Using intensive fieldwork throughout Europe -- from participation in alpine foot pilgrimages to studies of the...

   Published September 2nd 2010 by Routledge
10. Popular Music of Vietnam

    The Politics of Remembering, the Economics of Forgetting

    By Dale A. Olsen

    Series: Routledge Studies in Ethnomusicology

    Based on the author’s research in Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi, and other urban areas in Vietnam, this study of contemporary Vietnamese popular music explores the ways globalization and free market economics have influenced the music and subcultures of Vietnamese youth, focusing on the conflict...

    Published June 17th 2010 by Routledge