Worlds of Music: An Introduction to the Music of the World's Peoples

Arts & Photography

TITON, Jeff Todd

Music

Schirmer Books

An exciting introduction to the diversity of musical cultures including Africa, North and South America, Eastern Europe, India, Indonesia, and Japan, this text conveys the fascination and the excitement associated with ethnomusicology through in-depth case studies written by those who have studied these cultures firsthand. Readers are introduced to the performers and learn the variations in style and opinion that make each culture's music vibrant and alive. The authors provide an understanding of each culture and its music, as well as an explanation of the theory and practice of ethnomusicology.

Schirmer

Early Downhome Blues : A Musical and Cultural Analysis

University of Illinois Press

Gathers twenty of Franklin's best sermons, traces his life and career, and discusses his place in the Black American sermon tradition

Give Me This Mountain: Life History and Selected Sermons

Franklin, C. L

Biographies & Memoirs

Collects lyrics from blues recordings made by Black Americans and sold in Black communities following the war

Downhome Blues Lyrics: An Anthology from the Post-World War II Era (Music in American Life)

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Cultural Sustainabilities: Music, Media, Language, Advocacy

Environmental sustainability and human cultural sustainability are inextricably linked. Reversing damaging human impact on the global environment is ultimately a cultural question, and as with politics, the answers are often profoundly local. Cultural Sustainabilities presents twenty-three essays by musicologists and ethnomusicologists, anthropologists, folklorists, ethnographers, documentary filmmakers, musicians, artists, and activists, each asking a particular question or presenting a specific local case study about cultural and environmental sustainability. Contributing to the environmental humanities, the authors embrace and even celebrate human engagement with ecosystems, though with a profound sense of collective responsibility created by the emergence of the Anthropocene. Contributors: Aaron S. Allen, Michael B. Bakan, Robert Baron, Daniel Cavicchi, Timothy J. Cooley, Mark F. DeWitt, Barry Dornfeld, Thomas Faux, Burt Feintuch, Nancy Guy, Mary Hufford, Susan Hurley-Glowa, Patrick Hutchinson, Michelle Kisliuk, Pauleena M. MacDougall, Margarita Mazo, Dotan Nitzberg, Jennifer C. Post, Tom Rankin, Roshan Samtani, Jeffrey A. Summit, Jeff Todd Titon, Joshua Tucker, Rory Turner, Denise Von Glahn, and Thomas Walker

Toward a Sound Ecology: New and Selected Essays (Music, Nature, Place)

Product Description 
How does sound ecology―an acoustic connective tissue among communities―also become a basis for a healthy economy and a just community? 
Jeff Todd Titon's lived experiences shed light on the power of song, the ecology of musical cultures, and even cultural sustainability and resilience. In Toward a Sound Ecology, Titon's collected essays address his growing concerns with people making music, holistic ecological approaches to music, and sacred transformations of sound. Titon also demonstrates how to conduct socially responsible fieldwork and compose engaging and accessible ethnography that speaks to a diverse readership. Toward a Sound Ecology is an anthology of Titon's key writings, which are situated chronologically within three particular areas of interest: fieldwork, cultural and musical sustainability, and sound ecology. According to Titon―a foundational figure in folklore and ethnomusicology―a re-orientation away from a world of texts and objects and toward a world of sound connections will reveal the basis of a universal kinship. 
 Review 
Titon is unquestionably one of the more important ethnomusicologists of the 20th century, providing leadership and direction in the field as it navigates and develops along various axes of inquiry. . . . Toward a Sound Ecology is a welcome contribution to the field of ethnomusicology and a valuable resource. -- David A. McDonald 
 About the Author 
Jeff Todd Titon is Professor of Music, Emeritus, at Brown University. He has been active professionally both in folklore and ethnomusicology for more than 45 years. He is known for developing and practicing collaborative ethnographic field research based in reciprocity and friendship, for pioneering an applied ethnomusicology based in social responsibility, for his 1984 proposal that musical cultures could be understood as ecosystems, and for developing an ecological approach to cultural and musical sustainability.

Indiana University Press

How does sound ecology--an acoustic connective tissue among communities--also become a basis for a healthy economy and a just community? Jeff Todd Titon's lived experiences shed light on the power of song, the ecology of musical cultures, and even cultural sustainability and resilience. In Toward a Sound Ecology, Titon's collected essays address his growing concerns with people making music, holistic ecological approaches to music, and sacred transformations of sound. Titon also demonstrates how to conduct socially responsible fieldwork and compose engaging and accessible ethnography that speaks to a diverse readership. Toward a Sound Ecology is an anthology of Titon's key writings, which are situated chronologically within three particular areas of interest: fieldwork, cultural and musical sustainability, and sound ecology. According to Titon--a foundational figure in folklore and ethnomusicology--a re-orientation away from a world of texts and objects and toward a world of sound connections will reveal the basis of a universal kinship.

Powerhouse for God: Speech, Chant, and Song in an Appalachian Baptist Church

Reference

Univ of Texas Pr

Boxed set of four CDs accompany the text, containing various music examples from the authors' fieldwork, as well as fieldwork of other ethnomusicologists and relevant commercial recordings.

Titon's Worlds of Music: An Introduction to the Music of the World's Peoples: 4-CD Set

Cengage Learning'

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Worlds of Music: An Introduction to the Music of the World's Peoples

Worlds of Music: An Introduction to the Music of the World's Peoples

Early Downhome Blues : A Musical and Cultural Analysis

Give Me This Mountain: Life History and Selected Sermons

Downhome Blues Lyrics: An Anthology from the Post-World War II Era (Music in American Life)

Cultural Sustainabilities: Music, Media, Language, Advocacy

Toward a Sound Ecology: New and Selected Essays (Music, Nature, Place)

Toward a Sound Ecology: New and Selected Essays (Music, Nature, Place)

Powerhouse for God: Speech, Chant, and Song in an Appalachian Baptist Church

Titon's Worlds of Music: An Introduction to the Music of the World's Peoples: 4-CD Set