Soundscapes from the Americas - Ethnomusicological Essays …, Singapore

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Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN 13: 9781138062542
Condition: Brandnew
Binding: paperback
Pages: 210
Dimensons: 234 x 156 x 30 | 312 (gram)

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Dedicated to the late Gerard Béhague, this anthology offers perspectives on the evolving legacy of performance ethnography in socio-musical analysis and reflects the heritage but also contemporary trajectories of Béhague’s scholarly concerns. Prefaced by an essay outlining key developments in the ethnography of performance paradigm, the volume’s seven case studies portray snapshots of musical life in representative communities of the Americas, including the southwestern and Pacific United States, Puerto Rico, Bolivia, Chile, Cuba, and Ecuador. These studies pose anthropological inquiries into the ontology of performance practice, the social power of poetic performativity, and the experience and embodiment of sound in place.