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Highlife Saturday Night<http://bit.ly/Vz4RJI>

Popular Music and Social Change in Urban Ghana

Nathan Plageman



"Going beyond a mere account of highlife's origins and development, it offers a history of popular music and its relationship to the cultural, gendered, political, and social fabric of urban Ghana."―Stephan F. Miescher, University of California, Santa Barbara



Highlife Saturday Night captures the vibrancy of Saturday nights in Ghana—when musicians took to the stage and dancers took to the floor—in this penetrating look at musical leisure during a time of social, political, and cultural change. Framing dance band "highlife" music as a central medium through which Ghanaians negotiated gendered and generational social relations, Nate Plageman shows how popular music was central to the rhythm of daily life in a West African nation. He traces the history of highlife in urban Ghana during much of the 20th century and documents a range of figures that fuelled the music's emergence, evolution, and explosive popularity. This book is generously enhanced by audiovisual material on the Ethnomusicology Multimedia website.



Indiana University Press

32 b&w illustrations

December 2012 336pp 9780253007292 PB £18.99 now only £13.29 when you quote CS0213ETMU<http://bit.ly/Vz4RJI> when you order



Hip Hop Africa<http://bit.ly/VL14J3>

New African Music in a Globalizing World

Edited by Eric S. Charry



Hip Hop Africa explores a new generation of African performers and musicians who are not only consumers of global music but also active participants in the worldwide culture of hip hop and rap. Eric Charry and an international group of contributors look carefully at youth culture and the background of this unprecedented musical movement. Covering Senegal, Mali, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, and South Africa, this volume offers unique perspectives on the influences, development, and presence of African hip hop on the global music scene.



Indiana University Press

14 b&w illustrations, 1 music exx.

November 2012 404pp 9780253005755 PB £23.99 now only £16.79 when you quote CS0213ETMU<http://bit.ly/VL14J3> when you order



Muslim Rap, Halal Soaps, and Revolutionary Theater<http://bit.ly/W57Ynr>

Artistic Developments in the Muslim World

Edited by Karin van Nieuwkerk



From "green" pop and "clean" cinema to halal songs, Islamic soaps, Muslim rap, Islamist fantasy serials, and Suficized music, the performing arts have become popular and potent avenues for Islamic piety movements, politically engaged Islamists, Islamic states, and moderate believers to propagate their religio-ethical beliefs. Muslim Rap, Halal Soaps, and Revolutionary Theater is the first book that explores this vital intersection between artistic production and Islamic discourse in the Muslim world. The contributors to this volume investigate the historical and structural conditions that impede or facilitate the emergence of a "post-Islamist" cultural sphere. They discuss the development of religious sensibilities among audiences, which increasingly include the well-to-do and the educated young, as well as the emergence of a local and global religious market. At the heart of these essays is an examination of the intersection between cultural politics, performing art, and religion, addressing such questions as where, how, and why pop culture and performing arts have been turned into a religious mission, and whether it is possible to develop a new Islamic aesthetic that is balanced with religious sensibilities.



University of Texas Press

20 b&w photographs, 8 graphs

December 2012 301pp 9780292747685 PB £16.99 now only £11.89 when you quote CS0213ETMU<http://bit.ly/W57Ynr> when you order



Radio Fields<http://bit.ly/UxTX5a>

Anthropology and Wireless Sound in the 21st Century

Lucas Bessire & Daniel Fisher



“Radio Fields cackles and buzzes [with] the social life of radio and the noise of an anthropology of close listening. I can't imagine a more well-theorized and deeply grounded entre to the sensory mediation politics of radiophony in global public culture.”―Steven Feld, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Music, University of New Mexico



Radio is the most widespread electronic medium in the world today. As a form of technology that is both durable and relatively cheap, radio remains central to the everyday lives of billions of people around the globe. Radio Fields employs ethnographic methods to reveal the diverse domains in which radio is imagined, deployed, and understood. Drawing on research from six continents, the volume demonstrates how the particular capacities and practices of radio provide singular insight into diverse social worlds, ranging from aboriginal Australia to urban Zambia. Together, the contributors address how radio creates distinct possibilities for rethinking such fundamental concepts as culture, communication, community, and collective agency.



New York University Press

5 halftones, 2 tables

November 2012 298pp 9780814738191 PB £17.99 now only £12.59 when you quote CS0213ETMU<http://bit.ly/UxTX5a> when you order



Recording Culture<http://bit.ly/Vz4cI4>

Powwow Music and the Aboriginal Recording Industry on the Northern Plains

Chris Scales



“Recording Culture is an exceptional contribution to knowledge about contemporary Native American cultural initiatives. Within studies of powwow music, it is unique in its focus on aspects of CD production and issues related to the commodification of Native culture. It also provides original insights into matters such as the subtleties of drum beats, the evolving distinctions between song forms, and the criteria for judging powwow music. Christopher A. Scales’s experience as a producer, as well as an ethnomusicologist, is particularly significant, since the material that he analyzes is not easily accessible outside the recording studio.”—Beverley Diamond, author of Native American Music in Eastern North America: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture.



Recording is central to the musical lives of contemporary powwow singers, yet until now, their aesthetic practices when recording have been virtually ignored in the study

of Native American expressive cultures. Recording Culture is an exploration of the Aboriginal music industry and the powwow social world that supports it. Scales examines the ways that powwow drum groups have utilized recording technology in the late twentieth century and early twenty-first, the unique aesthetic principles of recorded powwow music, and the relationships between drum groups and the Native music labels and recording studios. Turning to “competition powwows,” popular weekend-long singing and dancing contests, Scales analyzes their role in shaping the repertoire and aesthetics of drum groups in and out of the recording studio. He argues that the rise of competition powwows has been critical to the development of the powwow recording industry. Recording Culture includes a CD featuring powwow music composed by Gabriel Desrosiers and performed by the Northern Wind Singers.



Duke University Press

18 photographs, 1 table

November 2012 368pp 9780822353386 PB £16.99 now only £11.89 when you quote CS0213ETMU<http://bit.ly/Vz4cI4> when you order



Unfree Masters<http://bit.ly/WGGoRc>

Recording Artists and the Politics of Work

Matt Stahl



"Here is a book that does several things at once. It explains the current status of recording artists, both as subordinated employees and as free entrepreneurs who license rights to intellectual property, namely their music compositions and recordings. It also shows how, from the standpoint of labour politics, these cultural workers are not so different from other workers in a neoliberal political economy: competing individually while dreaming of autonomy, and contractually tied to a record company that snaps up their creative output for exploitation and keeps them indebted while offering little security.... Unfree Masters extends its focus beyond US recording artists to a detailed critique of the neoliberalisation of the workplace, arguing that financialisation causes high unemployment, in turn enhancing individualisation and casualisation at work, which allows employers to demand more and give less. Stahl shows that "the marginal status of present-day popular musicians enables them to serve as a lens through which we may perceive otherwise obscure truths about our own economic and cultural systems", in which the notion of liberal democracy seems like an oxymoron."―Hillegonda Rietveld, Times Higher Education



The widespread perception of singers and musicians as free individuals doing enjoyable and fulfilling work obscures the realities of their occupation. In Unfree Masters Matt Stahl examines recording artists’ labour in the music industry as a form of creative work. In Part 1, Stahl examines the television show American Idol and the 2004 rockumentary Dig!, tracing the ways popular music making is narrativized in contemporary America and showing how such narratives highlight musicians’ negotiations of the limits of freedom and autonomy in creative cultural-industrial work. In Part 2, Stahl’s study of struggles between recording artists and record companies over laws that govern their working and contractual relationships reveals further tensions and contradictions in this form of work. Stahl argues that media narratives of music making as well as contract and copyright disputes between musicians and music industry executives both contribute to American socio-economic discourse and expose a foundational tension between democratic principles of individual autonomy and responsibility and employers’ legal power to control labor and appropriate its products.



Duke University Press

November 2012 312pp 9780822353430 PB £16.99 now only £11.89 when you quote CS0213ETMU<http://bit.ly/WGGoRc> when you order



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