Icelandic Men and Me: Sagas of Singing, Self and Everyday Life Robert Faulkner Farnham: Ashgate, 2013 ISBN 978-1-4094-4976-8 Download Review PDF This publication focuses on the role of singing in the community, with a strong focus on the male population. It is inspired by the author’s twenty-year stay in rural North-Eastern Iceland, where he taught […]
Read MoreKorean Musical Drama: P’ansori and the Making of Tradition in Modernity Haekyung Um Farnham: Ashgate, 2013 ISBN 978-0-7546-6276-1 (HB) ISBN 978-1-4724-1455-7 (eBook) Download Review PDF P’ansori is a Korean musical drama for solo voice accompanied by drum. Typically performed with minimal stage setting and props, the soloist narrates and sings epic tales in an archaic […]
Read MoreSinging the Way: Music and Pilgramage in Maharashtra Jaime Jones Abstract In Maharashtra, the devotional songs composed by the singer-saints of the Hindu Vārkarī sect are performed publically and spectacularly during the vārī, one of the largest annual mass pilgrimages in the world. Neither the musical repertory nor the ritual journey itself, despite deep associations […]
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