Customer Review: An excellent set of articles on improvisation, with one on the psychology of improv, and articles on Gamelan, Arabic music, jazz, Cantonese opera, Latin dance, Hindustani music, children's games.
Improvisation is not the same everywhere. And there are differences from culture to culture, and... more info
Customer Review: The editors argue that music lies at the foundation of conceptions of race. Their contributions to this book make a case for that view, but the contention is sometimes more asserted than proven, and there are some crude generalizations that blunt the argument (e.g. "the European racial imagination",... more info
Customer Review: What does Spanish flamenco, Argentine tango, Algerian rai, Greek rebetika, and American jazz have in common? These now mainstream national musics arose from the edges, the lower classes, the bawdy houses, drug dens, and waterfront cafes, and often women who defied convention. This compilation of... more info
Customer Review: One book you'll likely find near the top of any recommended reading list for a class of Bulgarian Folk Dance is Donna Buchanan's 2006 PERFORMING DEMOCRACY; BULGARIAN MUSIC AND MUSICIANS IN TRANSITION. Buchanan teaches musicology, formerly headed the Russian, East European and Eurasian Center at the... more info
Customer Review: Rice makes reading an ethnography a pleasure. All ethnomusicologists seeking to undertake their own writing project ought to read this book first. His accounts about studying with Kostadin make you feel like you were there learning the gaida, too. Rice's model makes a good case for learning an... more info
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