Black Sea Sketches

Music, Place and People

By:

Jim Samson

Format:

Paperback / softback

Series:

Slavonic and East European Music Studies

Show Hide Adult Content

$94.00

Available from supplier

Usually ships in 2-3 weeks

0 in Trolley

Price Match

Free Delivery with Primate

Join Now

Free 14 day free trial, cancel anytime.

Buy Now, Pay Later with:

Afterpay is available on orders $100 to $2000 Learn more

6 weekly interest-free payments of $15.67 with Laybuy Learn more

Availability

Delivering to:

Estimated arrival:

Around 4-14 June using International Courier

Description

Black Sea Sketches is a portrait of some of the diverse musical cultures surrounding the Black Sea and in its hinterlands. Its six separate chapters follow a very broad trajectory from close-ups of traditional music (chapters 1-4) towards wide-angle studies of art music (chapters 5-6), and each of them opens windows to big, border-crossing themes about music and place. A wide variety of repertoires is discussed: ancient layers of polyphonic music, bardic songs, traditional music from the coasts and mountains, the sacred music of Islam and Orthodox Christianity, the art music of Europe and West Asia, and present-day popular music ‘scenes’. The usual practice is for each chapter to begin with a Black Sea coastal location before reaching out into the hinterlands. The result is a collection of six relatively discrete essays on different locations and topics, but with underlying thematic continuities, and offering a wide-ranging commentary on cultural difference. Firmly grounded in ethnographic and documentary research, this is an important study for scholars and researchers of Ethnomusicology, as also of Caucasian and Russian/East European Studies.

Author Biography:

Jim Samson has published widely on the music of Chopin and Liszt, on analytical and aesthetic topics in 19th and 20th century music, and on the cultural histories of East Central and South Eastern Europe.

Release date NZ

August 29th, 2022

Author

Jim Samson

Audience

Tertiary Education (US: College)

Illustrations

28 Halftones, black and white; 28 Illustrations, black and white

Pages

240

Series

Slavonic and East European Music Studies

ISBN-13

9780367700294

Product ID

35837249

Customer reviews

Nobody has reviewed this product yet. You could be the first!

Write a Review

Marketplace listings

There are no Marketplace listings available for this product currently.
Already own it? Create a free listing and pay just 9% commission when it sells!

Sell Yours Here