[FAS] GEN ED 1097: Tradition, Performance, and Culture

This Companion maps the world of pop and rock, pinpointing the most significant moments in its history and presenting the key issues involved in understanding popular culture's most vital art form. Expert writers chart the changing patterns in the production and consumption of popular music, the emergence of a vast industry with a turnover of billions and the rise of global stars from Elvis to Public Enemy, Nirvana to the Spice Girls. They trace the way new technologies - from the amplifier to the internet - have changed the sounds and practices of pop and they analyse the way maverick entrepreneurs have given way to multimedia corporations. In particular they focus on the controversial issues concerning race and ethnicity, politics, gender and globalisation. Contains full profiles of a selection of figures from the pop and rock world.

Encyclopedic reference source for world music: 9,000 pages of material, 700 entries by expert contributors. Content includes audio examples, illustrations, photographs, and drawings, song texts and score examples, charts and maps of world regions.

An integrated music resource that includes the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (second edition), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz (second edition). The resource is international in scope and includes articles about persons, places, organizations, and terminology associated with the study of western classical, popular, and world music.

"In this Very Short Introduction, one of the foremost ethnomusicologists, Timothy Rice, offers a compact and illuminating account of this growing discipline, showing how modern researchers go about studying music from around the world, looking for insights into both music and humanity. The reader discovers that ethnomusicologists today not only examine traditional forms of music-such as Japanese gagaku, Bulgarian folk music, Javanese gamelan, or Native American drumming and singing-but also explore more contemporary musical forms, from rap and reggae to Tex-Mex, Serbian turbofolk, and even the piped-in music at the Mall of America. Rice also discusses how researchers may apply theories from anthropology and other social sciences, to shed further light on the nature of music as a human behavior and cultural practice."

Written by award-winning musicologist Mark Slobin, this is the first compact introduction to folk music that offers a truly global perspective. Slobin offers an extraordinarily generous portrait of folk music and describes the efforts of scholars who fanned out across the globe, to find and document this ever-changing music.

An authoritative bibliography of dance ethnography, listing reference works, libraries and archives, book series, films, journals, methods, and theoretical foci (from ethnicity and nationalism to race politics, gender and sexuality, and mind-body movement, to ballroom, Latin, and Dancesport).