Soundscapes From The Americas: Ethnomusicological Essays On The Power, Poetics, And Ontology Of Performance (Soas Studies In Music)

Dedicated to the late Gerard B?ague, this anthology offers perspectives on the evolving legacy of performance ethnography in socio-musical analysis and reflects the heritage but also contemporary trajectories of B?ague's scholarly concerns. Prefaced by an essay outlining key developments in the ethnography of performance paradigm, the volume's seven case studies portray snapshots of musical life in representative communities of the Americas, including the southwestern and Pacific United States, Puerto Rico, Bolivia, Chile, Cuba, and Ecuador. These studies pose anthropological inquiries into the ontology of performance practice, the social power of poetic performativity, and the experience and embodiment of sound in place.

• • Author: Dr Donna A Buchanan
• • Publisher: Routledge
• • Publication Date: Nov 07, 2014
• • Number of Pages: 210 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Hardcover
• • ISBN-10: 1472415833
• • ISBN-13: 9781472415837