Double Reeds Along the Great Silk Road
Author: Terada Yoshitaka
Publisher:
Published: 2019
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9783832548698
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Drums and Drum Ensembles along the Great Silk Road
Author: Xiao Mei
Publisher: Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH
Published: 2022-01-21
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 3832553983
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume comprises fifteen selected papers in five chapters from the 27th ICTM Colloquium on Drums and Drum Ensembles along the Great Silk Road. It testifies to how human cultures are never created in seclusion. The richness of drums and drum ensembles, including their repertoires, are also connected to long-term exchanges in military affairs, trades, and religions of various peoples. Despite the obvious prevalence of drums among all peoples around the world, their understanding and their repertoires vary due to different contexts. The studies of music originating on the Silk Road presented in this volume pay particular attention to the multiple flows of knowledge between numerous distinctive regions in the narrower geographical and temporal scope.
Musical Bows and Zithers along the Great Silk Road
Author: Xiao Mei
Publisher: Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH
Published: 2023-10-04
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 3832556869
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The musical bow is usually considered one of the earliest instruments in the history of instrumental development; yet, the validity of this view has not been proven. In all likelihood, it was one among many other early instruments created to produce sound. The same can be said in general for all the simple chordophones called zithers, of which the musical bow is one type. The papers collected in this volume have been initially presented at the International Council for Traditional Music Colloquium (ICTM) held in Shanghai in December 2022. They try to challenge some previous depictions of instrumental development and one-sided explanations of musical histories. They specifically focus on exploring the interrelationship between instrumental development and the availability of natural resources in particular geographical regions. While the papers at the colloquium focused on sound production, they also explored the role of ethnomusicology as a discipline in guiding local decision making and interregional research co-operation.
The Aulos in Classical and Late Antiquity. Acculturation, Diffusion, and Syncretism in Socio-Musical Processes of the Mediterranean
Author: Juan Sebastián Correa Cáceres
Publisher: Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH
Published: 2023-06-30
Total Pages: 478
ISBN-13: 3832556478
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The aulos, an extinct musical instrument consisting of a cylindrical-bore pipe with finger holes and a double reed for a mouthpiece, was a very popular wind instrument during antiquity (c.1000 BC-AD 600). Through a comprehensive analysis of written, archaeological, and iconographic sources, this book presents a holistic view of this musical instrument, its past, and its consequential history. This study is further substantiated by ethnographic data from Sardinia and Egypt, where the launeddas and the arghul were explored respectively. A new understanding of the history of the aulos is presented through the establishment of parallels between past and contemporary music-related practices.
Performing Arts and the Royal Courts of Southeast Asia, Volume One
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2023-12-04
Total Pages: 382
ISBN-13: 9004686533
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This publication brings together current scholarship that focuses on the significance of performing arts heritage of royal courts in Southeast Asia. Royal courts have long been sites for the creation, exchange, maintenance, and development of myriad forms of performing arts and other distinctive cultural expressions. The first volume, Pusaka as Documented Heritage, consists of historical case studies, contexts and developments of royal court traditions, particularly in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Life Along the Silk Road
Author: Susan Whitfield
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780520232143
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Silk Road was the most traveled trade route for over 1,000 years until it was eclipsed by maritime trade. Whitfield presents composite stories of merchants, soldiers, artists, and princesses who traveled the route, and presents its history through their personal experiences.
The Silk Roads
Author: Geordie Torr
Publisher: Arcturus Publishing
Published: 2021-06-01
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 1398809764
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Take an intrepid journey through the history of the Silk Roads with this brilliant reference book. Traversing snowy mountain passes, vast, forbidding deserts and stormy seas, these ancient trade routes were about much more than the movement of goods, they paved the way for an unprecedented period of cultural exchange, diplomacy and conflict creating a legacy that continues to affect global geopolitics in the 21st century. Forged over millennia through a desire for enterprise, the Silk Roads have had an profound influence on Eurasia and beyond, connecting cultures, languages, customs and religions. And with China now working to reopen this ancient trade network, the time is right to shine a new light on its history and impact. This edition has been updated with an expanded chapter on China's efforts to reopen this ancient trade network through the Belt and Road Initiative and the many impacts it has had along the way, from its ambitious infrastructure projects to new cities emerging along its route to the growth of a digital silk road, Geordie Torr examines the profound impacts of the revival of the world's greatest trading route. With helpful timelines and useful information boxes, The Silk Roads gives you everything you need to master the history of this world-changing region.
The Malay Nobat
Author: Raja Iskandar Bin Raja Halid
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2022-06-27
Total Pages: 263
ISBN-13: 1666900893
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Malay Nobat: A History of Power, Acculturation, and Sovereignty explores the history and meaning of the nobat, a court ensemble that has performed music for courts in Malaysia and Brunei with roots in the Islamicate world since Abbassid times. Raja Iskandar Bin Raja Halid examines the nobat spread throughout the Muslim empire and its emergence as a symbol of power and sovereignty. The author argues that the nobat was an important symbol of Muslim power and analyzes the effect of the nobat’s appropriation by colonial powers and of its induction as part of an invented tradition in the process of nation-building a modern Malay state. The author ultimately shows how existing nobat ensembles are the last living musical legacy of the Muslim world.
Life Along the Silk Road
Author: Susan Whitfield
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2015-03-25
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 0520280598
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"In this long-awaited second edition, Susan Whitfield expands her trailblazing exploration of the Silk Road and broadens her rich and varied portrait of life along the great premodern trade routes of Eurasia. This new edition is comprehensively updated to support further understanding of themes relevant to global and comparative history. In the first 1,000 years after Christ, merchants, missionaries, monks, mendicants, and military men traveled on the vast network of Central Asian tracks that became known as the Silk Road. Whitfield recounts the lives of twelve individuals who lived at different times during this period, including two new characters: an African shipmaster and a Persian traveler and writer during the Arab caliphate. With these additional tales, Whitfield extends both geographical and chronological scope, bringing into view the maritime links across the Indian Ocean and depicting the network of north-south routes from the Baltic to the Gulf. Throughout the narrative, Whitfield conveys a strong sense of what life was like for ordinary men and women on the Silk Road, the individuals usually forgotten to history. A work of great scholarship, Life along the Silk Road continues to be extremely accessible and entertaining"--Provided by publisher.
Along the Silk Road
Author: Charlotte Guillain
Publisher: Capstone Classroom
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 35
ISBN-13: 1491489057
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Describes the Silk Road, including its location, geography, and use as a trade route.
