Routledge Studies in Ethnomusicology
About the Book Series
Routledge Studies in Ethnomusicology is dedicated to expanding the field of ethnomusicology with innovative studies and edited collections. Publishing new, cutting-edge research into our global music heritage, the series will concentrate on area studies from all corners of the world.
Local Music Scenes and Globalization: Transnational Platforms in Beirut
1st Edition
By Thomas Burkhalter
November 10, 2014
This book offers the first in-depth study of experimental and popular music scenes in Beirut, looking at musicians working towards a new understanding of musical creativity and music culture in a country that is dominated by mass-mediated pop music, and propaganda. Burkhalter studies the generation...
Music, Travel, and Imperial Encounter in 19th-Century France: Musical Apprehensions
1st Edition
By Ruth Rosenberg
September 23, 2014
This book considers the activities and writings of early song collectors and proto-ethnomusicologists, memoirists, and other "musical travelers" in 19th-century France. Each of the book’s discrete but interrelated chapters is devoted to a different geographic and discursive site of empire, ...
The Globalization of Musics in Transit: Music Migration and Tourism
1st Edition
Edited
By Simone Krüger, Ruxandra Trandafoiu
November 12, 2013
This book traces the particularities of music migration and tourism in different global settings, and provides current, even new perspectives for ethnomusicological research on globalizing musics in transit. The dual focus on tourism and migration is central to debates on globalization, and their ...
The Local Scenes and Global Culture of Psytrance
1st Edition
By Graham St. John
June 22, 2011
This lively textual symposium offers a collection of formative research on the culture of global psytrance (psychedelic trance). As the first book to address the diverse transnationalism of this contemporary electronic dance music phenomenon, the collection hosts interdisciplinary research ...
Popular Music of Vietnam: The Politics of Remembering, the Economics of Forgetting
1st Edition
By Dale A. Olsen
June 18, 2010
Based on the author’s research in Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi, and other urban areas in Vietnam, this study of contemporary Vietnamese popular music explores the ways globalization and free market economics have influenced the music and subcultures of Vietnamese youth, focusing on the conflict ...