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From the very beginning of the nineteenth century, many elements of Spanish culture carried an air of 'exoticism' for the French-and nothing played more important of a role in shaping the French idea of Spain than the country's musical tradition. However, as Samuel Llano argues in Whose Spain?, perceptions and representations of Spanish musical identities changed in the early twentieth century, due to the emergence of the hispanistes. These specialists on Spanish music and culture, who wrote enc...

Die Arbeit behandelt die Situation der Musik im 18. Jahrhundert. Sie war damals eine junge Wissenschaft, die sich unter den etablierten Wissenschaften behaupten und um Ansehen kampfen musste. Als Grundlage der Untersuchungen dienen vier Musikzeitschriften bedeutender Musikschriftsteller des 18. Jahrhunderts: von L. Mizler, J.A. Scheibe, F.W. Marpurg, J.A. Hiller. Es wird ein Zeitraum von 1737 bis 1770 berucksichtigt. Die Arbeit behandelt die Anfange der Musikkritik und beschreibt die damals aktu...

This collection, from one of the most culturally dynamic regions of the United States, includes scorching bluegrass, old time fiddles, country gospel and even rural African-American folk music. The album's cast includes bluegrass legend Ralph Stanley, Dan Tyminski (the musical voice of George Clooney in "O Brother Where Art Thou"), Dock Boggs and banjo wizards Tony Trischka and Tom Adams. The CD has been compiled by Dan Rosenberg who produces radio programmes such as Cafe International and Afrop...

An encyclopaedic survey of Brazilian popular music that ranges over samba, bossa nova, MPB, jazz and instrumental music, and tropical rock, as well as the music of Bahia and neo-Afro trends, and the music of the Northeast. The authors have interviewed a wide variety of performers like Nascimento, Gilberto Gil, Carlinhos Brown, and Airto Moreira, US fans like Lyle Mays, George Duke and Paul Winter, executive Andre Midani and music historian Zuza Homem de Mello. In this new edition, first publishe...

Music Criticism in Vienna records a culture in which musical criticism had achieved the status of a minor art form. The period covered - October 1896 to December 1897 - was an eventful time in Vienna. Bruckner died, then Brahms; Mahler arrived; premieres of works by Czech composers coincided with increasing tension in the Empire between Czechs and Germans; Puccini's La Boheme reached Vienna on its sensational progress around the world; and the great programme music debate continued. These events...

Again and again people turn to music in order to assist them make sense of traumatic life events. Music can help process emotions, interpret memories, and create a sense of collective identity. While the last decade has seen a surge in academic studies on trauma and loss in both the humanities and social sciences, how music engages suffering has not often been explored. Performing Pain uncovers music's relationships to trauma and grief by focusing upon the late 20th century in Eastern Europe. Th...

Listening to the sound practices of bands and musicians such as the Asian Dub Foundation or M.I.A., and spanning three decades of South Asian dance music production in the UK, Transcultural Sound Practices zooms in on the concrete sonic techniques and narrative strategies in South Asian dance music and investigates sound as part of a wider assemblage of cultural technologies, politics and practices. Carla J. Maier investigates how sounds from Hindi film music tunes or bhangra tracks have been sa...

K-pop (Korean popular music) reigns as one of the most popular music genres in the world today, a phenomenon that appeals to listeners of all ages and nationalities. In Soul in Seoul: African American Popular Music and K-pop, Crystal S. Anderson examines the most important and often overlooked aspect of K-pop: the music itself. She demonstrates how contemporary K-pop references and incorporates musical and performative elements of African American popular music culture as well as the ways that f...