Suggested Readings » Ethnomusicology : Regional Studies
African American Music
Berliner, Paul. 1994. Thinking in Jazz: The Infinite Art of Improvi s ation . Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Cruz, Jon. 1999. Culture on the Margins: The Black Spiritual and the Rise of American Cultural Interpretation . Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Keyes, Cheryl Lynette. 2004. Rap Music and Street Consciousness . Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press.
Mellonee V. Burnim and Portia K. Maultsby, eds. 2006. African American Music: An Introduction . New York: Routledge.
Monson, Ingrid. 2000. The African Diaspora: A Musical Perspective . New York: Garland.
----- . 1996. Saying Something: Jazz Improvisation and Interaction . Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Africa
Berliner, Paul. 1999 [1978]. The Soul of Mbira: Music and Traditions of the Shona People of Zimbabwe . Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Chernoff, John Miller. 1979. African Music and African Sensibility: Aesthetics and Social Action in African Musical Idioms . Chicago: university of Chicago Press.
Nketia. J. H. Kwabena. 1974. The Music of Africa . New York: W. W. Norton.
Reed, Daniel. 2003. Dan Ge Performance: Masks and Music in Contemporary Côte d' Ivoire . Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Stone, Ruth M.,(ed.). 2000. Handbook of African Music . New York: Routledge.
______.1992. Let the Inside Be Sweet: The Interpretation of Music Event among the Kpelle of Liberia. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Waterman, Christopher. 1990. Jùjú: A Social History and Ethnography of an African Popular Music . Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
East Asia
Harris, Rachel A. 2004. Singing the Village: Music, Memory, and Ritual among the Sibe of Xinjiang . Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press.
Hahn, Tomie. 2007. Sensational Knowledge: Embodying Culture through Japanese Dance . Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press.
Howard, Keith, ed. 2006. Korean Pop Music: Riding the Wave . Folkestone, Kent: Global Oriental.
Liang, Ming-Yüeh. 1985. Music of the Billion: An Introduction to Chinese Musical Culture . New York: Heinrichshofen.
Park, Chan E. 2003. Voices from the Straw Mat: Toward an Ethnography of Korean Story Singing . Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.
Rees, Helen. 2000. Echoes of History: Naxi Music in Modern China . New York: Oxford University Press.
Witzleben, Lawrence J. 1995. "Silk and Bamboo" Music in Shanghai: The Jiangna Sizhu Instrumental Ensemble Tradition . Ohio: Kent State University Press.
Yano, Christine. 2002. Tears of Longing: Nostalgia and the Nation in Japanese Popular Song . Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Yung, Bell, Evelyn S. Rawski, and Rubie S. Watson, eds. 1996. Harmony and Counterpoint: Ritual Music in Chinese Context . Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Jewish Music:
Summit, Jeffrey. 2002. The Lord's Song in a Strange Land . New York: Oxford University Press.
Shelemay, Kay Kaufman. 1998. Let Jasmine Rain Down: Prayer and Remembrance Among Syrian Jews . Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Slobin, Mark. 2000. Fiddler on the Move: Exploring the Klezmer World . New York: Oxford University Press.
Latin America/Caribbean
Averill, Gage. 1997. A Day for the Hunter, A Day for the Prey: Popular Music and Power in Haiti . Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Behague, Gerard. 1994. Music and Black Ethnicity: The Caribbean and South America . New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers.
Moore, Robin. 2006. Music and Revolution: Cultural Change in Socialist Cuba . Berkeley: University of California Press.
Romero, Raul. 2001. Debating the Past: Music, Memory and Identity in the Andes . New York: Oxford University Press.
Seeger, Anthony. 2004. Why Suya Sing: A Musical Anthropology of an Amazonian People . Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
Simonett, Helena. 2001. Banda: Mexican Musical Life a cross Borders . Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press.
Turino, Thomas . 1993. Moving Away from Silence . Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Waxer, Lise. 2002. The City of Musical Memory: Salsa, Record Grooves, and Popular Culture in Cali, Colombia. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press.
