SOAS Studies in Music
About the Book Series
The SOAS Studies in Music Routledge Book Series is one of the world’s leading series in the discipline of ethnomusicology and global music studies. Our core mission is to produce high-quality, ethnographically rich studies of music-making worldwide, with particular interests in Asia and Africa. We publish monographs, edited volumes, and translations that explore musical repertories and performance practice, critical issues in ethnomusicology, sound studies, historical and analytical approaches to music across the globe. We recognize the value of applied, interdisciplinary and collaborative research, and our authors draw on current approaches from musicology, anthropology, history, and digital humanities.
Series Editors
- Dr Richard Williams (SOAS University of London)
Editorial Board
- Dr Marié Abe (University of Berkeley California)
- Professor Kwasi Ampene (University of Michigan)
- Professor Linda Barwick (University of Sydney)
- Professor Rachel Harris (SOAS University of London)
- Professor Angela Impey (SOAS University of London)
- Dr Peter McMurray (University of Cambridge)
- Dr Moshe Morad (Tel Aviv University)
- Professor Suzel Reily (Universidade Estadual de Campinas)
- Professor Henry Spiller (University California Davis)
Bulgarian Harmony: In Village, Wedding, and Choral Music of the Last Century
1st Edition
By Kalin S. Kirilov
June 30, 2020
An in-depth study of the Bulgarian harmonic system is long overdue. More than two decades since the Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares choir was awarded a Grammy (1990), there is no scholarly study of the captivating sounds of Bulgarian vertical sonorities. Kalin Kirilov traces the gradual formation of a...
Greek Rebetiko from a Psychocultural Perspective: Same Songs Changing Minds
1st Edition
By Daniel Koglin
June 30, 2020
Greek Rebetiko from a Psychocultural Perspective: Same Songs Changing Minds examines the ways in which audiences in present-day Greece and Turkey perceive and use the Greek popular song genre rebetiko to cultivate specific cultural habits and identities. In the past, rebetiko has been associated ...
Japanese Singers of Tales: Ten Centuries of Performed Narrative
1st Edition
By Alison McQueen Tokita
June 30, 2020
Alison McQueen Tokita presents a series of case studies that demonstrate the persistence of Japanese sung narratives in a multiplicity of genres over ten centuries, including the way they flourished and declined, together with factors contributing to development and change in narrative performance....
Music Theory in the Safavid Era: The taqsīm al-naġamāt
1st Edition
By Owen Wright
June 30, 2020
The Safavid era (1501–1722) is one of the most important in the history of Persian culture, celebrated especially for its architecture and art, including miniature paintings that frequently represent singers and instrumentalists. Their presence reflects a sophisticated tradition of music making ...
Music as Heritage: Historical and Ethnographic Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Barley Norton, Naomi Matsumoto
June 30, 2020
As economic, technological and cultural change gathers pace across the world, issues of music heritage and sustainability have become ever more pressing. Discourse on intangible cultural heritage has developed in complex ways in recent years, and musical practices have been transformed by ...
Performing Nostalgia: Migration Culture and Creativity in South Albania
1st Edition
By Eckehard Pistrick
June 30, 2020
Migration studies is an area of increasing significance in musicology as in other disciplines. How do migrants express and imagine themselves through musical practice? How does music help them to construct social imaginaries and to cope with longings and belongings? In this study of migration music...
SamulNori: Korean Percussion for a Contemporary World
1st Edition
By Keith Howard
June 30, 2020
SamulNori is a percussion quartet which has given rise to a genre, of the same name, that is arguably Korea’s most successful ’traditional’ music of recent times. Today, there are dozens of amateur and professional samulnori groups. There is a canon of samulnori pieces, closely associated with the ...
The Jews-Harp in Britain and Ireland
1st Edition
By Michael Wright
June 30, 2020
The jews-harp is a distinctive musical instrument of international importance, yet it remains one of those musical instruments, like the ocarina, kazoo or even the art of whistling, that travels beneath the established musical radar. The story of the jews-harp is also part of our musical culture, ...
Paradosiaká: Music, Meaning and Identity in Modern Greece
1st Edition
By Eleni Kallimopoulou
July 20, 2009
Since the 1980s, musicians and audiences in Athens have been rediscovering musical traditions associated with the Ottoman period of Greek history. The result of this revivalist movement has been the urban musical style of 'paradosiaká' ('traditional'). Drawing from a varied repertoire that includes...
Singing the Gospel along Scotland's North-East Coast, 1859-2009
1st Edition
By Frances Wilkins
December 12, 2019
Following three years of ethnomusicological fieldwork on the sacred singing traditions of evangelical Christians in North-East Scotland and Northern Isles coastal communities, Frances Wilkins documents and analyses current singing practices in this book by placing them historically and ...
Theory and Practice in the Music of the Islamic World: Essays in Honour of Owen Wright
1st Edition
Edited
By Rachel Harris, Martin Stokes
December 12, 2019
This volume of original essays is dedicated to Owen Wright in recognition of his formative contribution to the study of music in the Islamic Middle East. Wright’s work, which comprises, at the time of writing, six field-defining volumes and countless articles, has reconfigured the relationship ...
Turkic Soundscapes: From Shamanic Voices to Hip-Hop
1st Edition
Edited
By Razia Sultanova, Megan Rancier
December 12, 2019
The Turkic soundscape is both geographically huge and culturally diverse (twenty-eight countries, republics and districts extending from Eastern Europe through the Caucasus and throughout Central Asia). Although the Turkic peoples of the world can trace their linguistic and genetic ancestries to ...