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
- Professor Rachel Harris (SOAS University of London)
- Dr Richard Williams (SOAS University of London)
Editorial Board
- Professor Kwasi Ampene (University of Michigan)
- Professor Linda Barwick (University of Sydney)
- 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)
- Dr Marié Abe (University of Berkeley California)
Healing Rhythms: The World of South Korea's East Coast Hereditary Shamans
1st Edition
By Simon Mills
September 28, 2007
Still today, in South Korea, many people pay for the services of mudang - the intermediaries of Korea's syncretic folk religion. The majority of mudang are called to the profession by gods; their clients are individuals or small groups and they focus on the use of spirit-power ('possession') for ...
Perspectives on Korean Music: Volume 2: Creating Korean Music: Tradition, Innovation and the Discourse of Identity
1st Edition
By Keith Howard
October 24, 2006
With the rise of nationalism in the Republic of Korea, music has come to play a central role in the discourse of identity. This volume asks what Koreans consider makes music Korean, and how meaning is ascribed to musical creation. Keith Howard explores specific aspects of creativity that are ...
Music and the Poetics of Production in the Bolivian Andes
1st Edition
By Henry Stobart
October 13, 2006
Music and the Poetics of Production in the Bolivian Andes is a musical ethnography of a Quechua-speaking community of northern PotosÃ, in the Bolivian Andes. Based on extensive fieldwork, it explores how music permeates the lives of this group of herders and agriculturalists, and how it is deeply ...
Female Song Tradition and the Akan of Ghana: The Creative Process in Nnwonkoro
1st Edition
By Kwasi Ampene
August 28, 2005
Nnwonkoro is a genre of women’s song found among the Akan-speaking peoples of Ghana. It has become a hybrid musical form, incorporating songs and dance movements based on traditional practices alongside others reflecting Christian influence. Nnwonkoro groups perform regularly at funerals, on state ...
Professional Music-Making in London: Ethnography and Experience
1st Edition
By Stephen Cottrell
November 28, 2004
Professional Music-Making in London is an engaging yet innovative study which examines the lives and work of Western art musicians from an ethnographic perspective. Drawing in part on his own professional experience, Stephen Cottrell considers to what extent musicians in Western society conform to ...
Thai Classical Singing: Its History, Musical Characteristics and Transmission
1st Edition
By Dusadee Swangviboonpong
June 22, 2004
Thai classical singing is a genre that blossomed during the golden age of music in the royal court at Bangkok during the nineteenth century. It took a variety of forms including unaccompanied songs used for narration in plays, instrumental music that was used to accompany mimed actions, and songs ...
Demetrius Cantemir: The Collection of Notations: Volume 2: Commentary
1st Edition
By Owen Wright
December 31, 2000
The substantial collection of notations of seventeenth-century Ottoman instrumental music made by Demetrius Cantemir is both a record of compositions of considerable intrinsic interest and a historical document of vital importance, representing as it does one of the most comprehensive accounts of ...