Soundscapes: Exploring Music in a Changing World - Softcover

Shelemay, Kay Kaufman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393167135 ISBN 13: 9780393167139

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2006

Synopsis

The innovative music textbook packaged with its three accompanying audio CDs.

Soundscapes breaks new ground by organizing the study of world music according to its cultural significance, rather than by geography alone. The Second Edition provides even better coverage of the cultures surrounding the music and focuses more closely on honing students’ listening skills. The Second Edition also features a striking new design, new chapter organization, and expanded listening guides. This edition also includes three accompanying audio CDs, which contain over seventy performances discussed in the text and outlined in the listening guides.

This edition contains both the textbook and the audio CDs. The textbook (978-0-393-92567-8) and the three-CD set (978-0-393-10684-8) are also each available to be purchased 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: 0393167135
• ISBN 13: 9780393167139
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 450