Through close readings of documentary film soundscapes, the essays in Music, Sound, and Documentary Film in the Global South provide new perspectives on the sonic dimension of nonfiction film outside the European-American mainstream.
This deeply researched book provides an original history of Chinese women during the pivotal Song and Yuan dynasties (960-1368). Bret Hinsch explores the most important aspects of female life in this era political power, family, work, inheritance, religious roles, and emotions and considers why the status of women declined during this period.
David Friddle explores choral methods and community choral ensembles that originated in the nineteenth century. Using more than one hundred musical examples, illustrations, tables, and photographs, he documents the expansion of choral singing beginning in the early 1800s.
The book explores interconnections of the sacred and the secular in music of the long nineteenth century. It investigates manifestations of religion in music not primarily intended for liturgical performance and assesses compositions that originated in a liturgical context but then migrated in their performance into a non-liturgical sphere.
This book offers a long-overdue examination of choral performance practices in the 1800s, including expressive devices, pronunciation, instruments, and choral/orchestral placement. More than one-hundred musical examples, illustrations, tables, and photographs and contemporaneous sources detail how choral music was sung in this time period.
The Art of Ancient Music discusses music's role in the long story of human creativity. While emphasizing broad human themes, the text has a special focus on the early traditions of Western music.
Music has long played a prominent role in cultural diplomacy, but until now no resource has comparatively examined policies that shape how non-western countries use music in international relations. Inspired by decolonization, this book describes policies and legal frameworks that impact music's role in cultural diplomacy worldwide.
This book tells the story of a life spent on the road recording the rich diversity of music in America when it was a major part of our lives, not just digital background noise. For music fans, there was a golden era of live music, stretching from the 1960s through the 1980s, and even evolving into the 1990s, if you want to be generous.
The Choral-Orchestral Works of Ralph Vaughan Williams: Autographs, Context, Discourse combines contextual knowledge, a musical commentary, an inventory of the holograph manuscripts, and a critical assessment of the opus to create substantial and meticulous examinations of Ralph Vaughan Williams'' choral-orchestral works.
