Soundscapes kaufman shelemay pdf download

Click here to sign up. Download Free PDF. Prague Soundscapes - Z. Jurkova ed. Alena Libanska. A short summary of this paper. Download Download PDF. Translate PDF. Karolinum, Prague , pp. Ethnomusicology music anthropology conceives music in a complex way: not only as a sound phenomenon, but also as a social one.

Music is, first of all, the people who play it and who listen to it - it's the world around sound, the music world, the soundscape p. The pages of the publication contain a symbiotic combination of two genres: impressive "snapshots" on one side and theoretical part on the other. At the same time, the authors present the information that is potentially relevant to the specific soundscape.

Individual parts of the book are also distinguished graphically: colour pages indicate the theoretical part, while the snapshots are represented by white colour. In addition, the text is supplemented by information on the artists or musical genres. Also this information is graphically differentiated. The purpose of this differentiation is explained in the very introduction, where the authors instruct "how to read the book.

Those who "do not want to waste time with theory" can just follow interesting snapshots which show what is happening in Prague, or skip arbitrarily to the parts which interest them. The book also satisfies even the most demanding reader "who does not fear the theory p. Soundscapes are an important concept in this publication: a term coined by the American ethnomusicologist Kay Kaufmann Shelemay first used by the acousticologist R.

Murray Schafer as acoustic characteristics of a given environment - a sound parallel to landscape. Merriam K. The term soundscape refers to the world of music -scape is a morpheme we can find in the word landscape , for instance in its dynamic variability characteristic for seascape. And so, for example the chapter Music and Identity reflects ethnoscapes when talking about migration; technoscapes appear in the chapter Electronic Music etc.

Prague Soundscapes fall in urban ethnomusicology. The publication is divided into seven chapters. Except the initial one, each of the following addresses one soundscape. Although it would be possible to find in Prague more soundscapes soundscapes, such as music therapy, music and children, music and politics might come to mind , the publication still covers a very wide range of topics: Music and Identity, Music and Social Stratification, Music and Rebellion, Music as a Commodity, Electronic Dance Music, Music and Spirituality.

This edition balances coverage of traditional, classical, and popular styles of music from every region of the world. An assortment of listening quizzes check student progress and encourage retention of what students are learning in the text.

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