Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents
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Published: 1984
Total Pages: 1252
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Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKBibliographies on Southeast Asia
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Publisher: Kitlv Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 1156
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKPopular Music of Vietnam
Author: Dale A. Olsen
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008-06-30
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 1135858500
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBased on the author’s research in Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi, and other urban areas in Vietnam, this study of contemporary Vietnamese popular music explores the ways globalization and free market economics have influenced the music and subcultures of Vietnamese youth, focusing on the conflict between the politics of remembering, nurtured by the Vietnamese Communist government, and the politics of forgetting driven by the capitalist interests of the music industry. Vietnamese youth at the end of the second and beginning of the third millennium are influenced by the challenges generated by a number of seemingly opposite ideologies and realities, such as "the past" versus "the present," socialism versus capitalism, and cultural traditionalism versus globalization. Vietnam has undergone a radical demographic shift with a very pronounced youth movement, and consequently, Vietnamese popular culture has been radically reshaped by a young population coming of age in the twenty-first century. As Olsen reveals, the way Vietnamese young people cope with these opposing and contrasting forces is often expressed in their active and passive music making.
Information Sources in Music
Author: Lewis Foreman
Publisher: Guides to Information Sources
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 480
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Songs for the Spirits
Author: Barley Norton
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2010-10-01
Total Pages: 283
ISBN-13: 0252092007
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSongs for the Spirits examines the Vietnamese practice of communing with spirits through music and performance. During rituals dedicated to a pantheon of indigenous spirits, musicians perform an elaborate sequence of songs--a "songscape"--for possessed mediums who carry out ritual actions, distribute blessed gifts to disciples, and dance to the music's infectious rhythms. Condemned by French authorities in the colonial period and prohibited by the Vietnamese Communist Party in the late 1950s, mediumship practices have undergone a strong resurgence since the early 1990s, and they are now being drawn upon to promote national identity and cultural heritage through folklorized performances of rituals on the national and international stage. By tracing the historical trajectory of traditional music and religion since the early twentieth century, this groundbreaking study offers an intriguing account of the political transformation and modernization of cultural practices over a period of dramatic and often turbulent transition. An accompanying DVD contains numerous video and music extracts that illustrate the fascinating ways in which music evokes the embodied presence of spirits and their gender and ethnic identities.
Battle Notes
Author: Lee Andresen
Publisher: Savage Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 366
ISBN-13: 9781886028593
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Music Endangerment
Author: Catherine Grant
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 0199352186
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSituated within the growing field of applied ethnomusicology, and breaking with a tradition in ethnomusicology of ethnographic and fieldwork-based studies, this book explores the phenomenon of endangered music genres and ways in which the fields of language endangerment and language maintenance may inform efforts to support them.
Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences
Author: John D. McDonald
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 2017-03-15
Total Pages: 5538
ISBN-13: 1000031543
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences, comprising of seven volumes, now in its fourth edition, compiles the contributions of major researchers and practitioners and explores the cultural institutions of more than 30 countries. This major reference presents over 550 entries extensively reviewed for accuracy in seven print volumes or online. The new fourth edition, which includes 55 new entires and 60 revised entries, continues to reflect the growing convergence among the disciplines that influence information and the cultural record, with coverage of the latest topics as well as classic articles of historical and theoretical importance.
Walford's Guide to Reference Material: Social and historical sciences, philosophy and religion
Author: Albert John Walford
Publisher: London : Library Association Pub.
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 816
ISBN-13: 9781856043694
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA revised and updated guide to reference material. It contains selective and evaluative entries to guide the enquirer to the best source of reference in each subject area, be it journal article, CD-ROM, on-line database, bibliography, encyclopaedia, monograph or directory. It features full critical annotations and reviewers' comments and comprehensive author-title and subject indexes. The contents include: philosophy and psychology; religion; social sciences, sociology, statistics, politics, economics, labour and employment; land and property, business organizations, finance and banking, and economic surveys; economic policies and controls, trade and commerce, business and management, and law; public administration, social services and welfare, education, customs and traditions; geography; biography; and history.
