Music Grooves: Essays and Dialogues

by Steven Feld and Charles Keil

Book Overview

A collaboration between two of the most interesting voices in ethnomusicology, this volume explores two powerful themes: the "groove" of firsthand experience and participation in music and the "groove" of musical mediation and commodification through recordings. A number of the authors' most important essays, all revised and updated, are introduced and framed by dialogues that supply additional context, introduce retrospective concerns, and reveal...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226429571
• ISBN13: 9780226429571
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 410 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"