Non-western Music Styles (Traditional & Classical) Books

New and Published Books

1. Vocal Music and Contemporary Identities

   Unlimited Voices in East Asia and the West

   Edited by Christian Utz, Frederick Lau

   Series: Routledge Research in Music

   Looking at musical globalization and vocal music, this collection of essays studies the complex relationship between the human voice and cultural identity in 20th- and 21st-century music in both East Asian and Western music. The authors approach musical meaning in specific case studies against the...

   Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
2. The Horse-head Fiddle and the Cosmopolitan Reimagination of Tradition in Mongolia

   By Peter K. Marsh

   Series: Current Research in Ethnomusicology: Outstanding Dissertations

   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...

   Published October 21st 2008 by Routledge
3. Musical Performance in the Diaspora

   Edited by Tina K Ramnarine

   This book illustrates how ethnographic investigation of musical performances might contribute to the analysis of diaspora. It embraces diverse examples such as 'mourning and cultures of survival' amongst Aboriginal and Jewish communities in Australia, remembering a Kazakh 'homeland' in Western...

   Published January 9th 2008 by Routledge