Soundscapes: Exploring Music in a Changing World

Shelemay, Kay Kaufman

ISBN 10: 0393106845 ISBN 13: 9780393106848

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2006

Synopsis

Three audio CDs for use with the Soundscapes book (available separately), the innovative music text.

This three audio-CD set contains over seventy performances discussed in the separate Soundscapes textbook and outlined in its listening guides. The CDs are an indispensable companion to the text and a remarkable collection in its own right.

This edition contains only the three audio CDs. The textbook packed with the CDs (ISBN 978-0-393-16713-9) and the textbook alone (ISBN 978-0-393-92567-8) are each available separately.

About this title

About the Author:

Kay Kaufman Shelemay (Ph.D., University of Michigan) is G. Gordon Watts Professor of Music at Harvard University and has taught at Columbia, NYU, and Wesleyan. A Fellow of the American Academy of the Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, she is a Past President of the Society for Ethnomusicology. She has received fellowships from numerous institutions, including the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Shelemay’s research interests include musical ethnography, music and memory, and Ethiopian music and musicians in their North American diaspora. She is the author of nine books and editions, including Music, Ritual, and Falasha History, which won the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award and the Prize of the International Musicological Society. An outstanding teacher, Shelemay received an Award for Distinguished Teaching from the Columbia University School of General Studies in 1982, the Joseph R. Levenson Memorial Teaching Prize and the Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Prize at Harvard in 2006, and, in 2014, the Everett Mendelsohn Excellence in Mentoring Award at Harvard. In 2014, Shelemay was elected an Associate Fellow of the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences.

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0393106845
• ISBN 13: 9780393106848
• Binding: CD-ROM
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 3