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Book Synopsis Musical Minorities by : Lonán Ó Briain PhD
Download or read book Musical Minorities written by Lonán Ó Briain PhD and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-02-01 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Musical Minorities is the first English-language monograph on the performing arts of an ethnic minority in Vietnam. Living primarily in the northern mountains, the Hmong have strategically maintained their cultural distance from foreign invaders and encroaching state agencies for almost two centuries. They use cultural heritage as a means of maintaining a resilient community identity, one which is malleable to their everyday needs and to negotiations among themselves and with others in the vicinity. Case studies of revolutionary songs, countercultural rock, traditional vocal and instrumental styles, tourist shows, animist and Christian rituals, and light pop from the diaspora illustrate the diversity of their creative outputs. This groundbreaking study reveals how performing arts shape understandings of ethnicity and nationality in contemporary Vietnam. Based on three years of fieldwork, Lonán Ó Briain traces the circulation of organized sounds that contribute to the adaptive capacities of this diverse social group. In an original investigation of the sonic materialization of social identity, the book outlines the full multiplicity of Hmong music-making through a fascinating account of music, minorities, and the state in a post-socialist context.
Book Synopsis A Northern Front by : John Hildebrand
Download or read book A Northern Front written by John Hildebrand and published by Minnesota Historical Society. This book was released on 2005 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Northern Front reflects the day-by-day disappearance of wild places and the ever-changing face of the American landscape.
Book Synopsis The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music by : Ellen Koskoff
Download or read book The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music written by Ellen Koskoff and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-25 with total page 2651 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume makes available the full range of the American/Canadian musical experience, covering-for the first time in print-all major regions, ethnic groups, and traditional and popular contexts. From musical comedy to world beat, from the songs of the Arctic to rap and house music, from Hispanic Texas to the Chinese communities of Vancouver, the coverage captures the rich diversity and continuities of the vibrant music we hear around us. Special attention is paid to recent immigrant groups, to Native American traditions, and to such socio-musical topics as class, race, gender, religion, government policy, media, and technology.
Download or read book Instrumental Lives written by Helen Rees and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2024-07-23 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The musical instruments of East and Southeast Asia enjoy increasing recognition as parts of humanity’s intangible cultural heritage. Helen Rees edits a collection that offers vibrant new ways to link these objects to their materials of manufacture, the surrounding environment, the social networks they form and help sustain, and the wider ethnic or national imagination. Rees organizes the essays to reflect three angles of inquiry. The first section explores the characteristics and social roles of various categories of instruments, including the koto and an extinct Balinese wooden clapper. In section two, essayists focus on the life stories of individual instruments ranging from an heirloom Chinese qin to end-blown flutes in rural western Mongolia. Essays in the third section examine the ethics and other issues that surround instrument collections, but also show how collecting is a dynamic process that transforms an instrument’s habitat and social roles. Original and expert, Instrumental Lives brings a new understanding of how musical instruments interact with their environments and societies. Contributors: Supeena Insee Adler, Marie-Pierre Lissoir, Terauchi Naoko, Jennifer C. Post, Helen Rees, Xiao Mei, Tyler Yamin, and Bell Yung
Book Synopsis The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music by : Terry E. Miller
Download or read book The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music written by Terry E. Miller and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-25 with total page 1046 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first complete music reference for the region, this volume covers all the nations of modern Southeast Asia: Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines in thirty-five articles, written by twenty-seven expert contributors.
Book Synopsis The Melody of the Qeej by : Mai Kou Xiong
Download or read book The Melody of the Qeej written by Mai Kou Xiong and published by . This book was released on 2013-08-09 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Phengxue was always too busy with soccer and friends to take an interest in the ancient Hmong qeej, until his two best friends encounter the instrument during a visit. Their curiosity brings them to Grandfather, whose wisdom teaches the three boys the importance of the qeej during Hmong funerals. Not only does this instrument play beautiful melodies, it also guides a loved one's soul back to the land of the ancestors. Phengxue's heart is pulled by its soft music, as if the qeej is speaking to him, nudging him to learn this special instrument. Will he answer its call to become a great qeej player?"--Page 4 of cover.
Book Synopsis The Garland Handbook of Southeast Asian Music by : Terry Miller
Download or read book The Garland Handbook of Southeast Asian Music written by Terry Miller and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-03-17 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Garland Handbook of Southeast Asian Music is comprised of essays from The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: Volume 4, Southeast Asia (1998). Largely revised and updated, the essays offer detailed, regional studies of the different musical cultures of Southeast Asia and examine the ways in which music helps to define the identity of this particular area. Part one provides an in-depth introduction to the area of Southeast Asia and explores a series of issues and processes, such as colonialism, mass media, spirituality, and war. The articles in this section are important in gaining historical, political, and social perspective. Part two focuses on mainland Southeast Asia, with essays representing Cambodia, Thailand, Laos, Burma, Peninsular Malaysia, Vietnam, Singapore, and the minority peoples of mainland Southeast Asia. Part three focuses on island Southeast Asia, dividing the area into three sections: Indonesia, the Philippines, and Borneo. In addition to offering a detailed study of the music of each area, it also offers recent perspectives on the gamelan and theater traditions of Indonesia. Questions for Critical Thinking at the end of each major section guide and focus attention on what issues – musical and cultural – arise when one studies the music of Southeast Asia – issues that might not occur in the study of other musics of the world. An accompanying compact disc offers musical examples from Southeast Asia.
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Download or read book The Garland Handbook of Southeast Asian Music written by and published by Routledge. This book was released on with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Tradition and Its Future in Music by : International Musicological Society. Symposium
Download or read book Tradition and Its Future in Music written by International Musicological Society. Symposium and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Hmong in Minnesota by : Chia Youyee Vang
Download or read book Hmong in Minnesota written by Chia Youyee Vang and published by Minnesota Historical Society. This book was released on 2009-06-25 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engaging history of the arrival of the Hmong in Minnesota in the 1970s, thier struggle to build community in a new land, and the challenges they face today.
Book Synopsis Micro Media Industries by : Lori Kido Lopez
Download or read book Micro Media Industries written by Lori Kido Lopez and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-13 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the rise of digital tools used for media entrepreneurship, media outlets staffed by only one or two individuals and targeted to niche and super-niche audiences are developing across a wide range of platforms. Minority communities such as immigrants and refugees have long been pioneers in this space, operating ethnic media outlets with limited staff and funding to produce content that is relevant and accessible to their specific community. Micro Media Industries explores the specific case of Hmong American media, showing how an extremely small population can maintain a robust and thriving media ecology in spite of resource limitations and an inability to scale up. Based on six years of fieldwork in Hmong American communities in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and California, it analyzes the unique opportunities and challenges facing Hmong newspapers, radio, television, podcasts, YouTube, social media, and other emerging platforms. It argues that micro media industries, rather than being dismissed or trivialized, ought to be held up as models of media innovation that can counter the increasing power of mainstream media.
Book Synopsis The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by : Anne Fadiman
Download or read book The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down written by Anne Fadiman and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 1998-09-30 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down explores the clash between a small county hospital in California and a refugee family from Laos over the care of Lia Lee, a Hmong child diagnosed with severe epilepsy. Lia's parents and her doctors both wanted what was best for Lia, but the lack of understanding between them led to tragedy. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest, and the Salon Book Award, Anne Fadiman's compassionate account of this cultural impasse is literary journalism at its finest. ______ Lia Lee 1982-2012 Lia Lee died on August 31, 2012. She was thirty years old and had been in a vegetative state since the age of four. Until the day of her death, her family cared for her lovingly at home.
Book Synopsis The American Midwest by : Andrew R. L. Cayton
Download or read book The American Midwest written by Andrew R. L. Cayton and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-08 with total page 1918 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first-ever encyclopedia of the Midwest seeks to embrace this large and diverse area, to give it voice, and help define its distinctive character. Organized by topic, it encourages readers to reflect upon the region as a whole. Each section moves from the general to the specific, covering broad themes in longer introductory essays, filling in the details in the shorter entries that follow. There are portraits of each of the region's twelve states, followed by entries on society and culture, community and social life, economy and technology, and public life. The book offers a wealth of information about the region's surprising ethnic diversity -- a vast array of foods, languages, styles, religions, and customs -- plus well-informed essays on the region's history, culture and values, and conflicts. A site of ideas and innovations, reforms and revivals, and social and physical extremes, the Midwest emerges as a place of great complexity, signal importance, and continual fascination.
Book Synopsis The Hmong, Yesterday and Today by : Patricia Moore-Howard
Download or read book The Hmong, Yesterday and Today written by Patricia Moore-Howard and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis American Musical Traditions: British Isles music by : Jeff Todd Titon
Download or read book American Musical Traditions: British Isles music written by Jeff Todd Titon and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of American vernacular musical traditions, featuring essays on communities and examples of their music, as well as interviews or profiles of specific musicians and musical groups. Volume three covers music drawn from various British Isles traditions, organized geographically.
Book Synopsis American Musical Traditions: African American music by : Jeff Todd Titon
Download or read book American Musical Traditions: African American music written by Jeff Todd Titon and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This set presents the research of Folklorists and ethnomusicologists, who wrote authoritative essays; additional materials came from the Smithsonian Institution's Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, particularly from the Smithsonian Folkways recordings andthe Smithsonian Folklife Festival.
Book Synopsis American Musical Traditions: Latino and Asian American music by : Jeff Todd Titon
Download or read book American Musical Traditions: Latino and Asian American music written by Jeff Todd Titon and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of American vernacular musical traditions, featuring essays on communities and examples of their music, as well as interviews or profiles of specific musicians and musical groups. Volume five covers Latino and Asian musical styles, organized geographically.
