Performance Practice: Ethnomusicological Perspectives

By Gérard Béhague

Gerard Behague presents five culture-, process-, and community-specific case studies of performance that challenge the assumption that contextual differences in performance and performance practice matter little in overall effect. Within the diverse performance contexts evaluated--Hindustani, Karantak, Mali, Berber, American, and Latin American music--the concept of performance practice as the integrated study of sound and context is self-evident although the nature of the empirical data gathered and the perspective and theorectical framework of each study varies significantly.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313241600
• ISBN13: 9780313241604
• Release Date: June 1984
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.5"