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Surfing About Music
Timothy J. Cooley
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Description for Surfing About Music
Paperback. Presents an examination of the interrelationships of music and surfing explores different ways that surfers combine surfing with making and listening to music. This title discusses the origins of surfing in Hawai'i, its central role in Hawaiian society, and the mele (chants) and hula (dance or visual poetry) about surfing. Num Pages: 240 pages, 38 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: AV; JHBS; WSSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 151 x 18. Weight in Grams: 338.
This first major examination the interrelationships of music and surfing explores different ways that surfers combine surfing with making and listening to music. Tim Cooley uses his knowledge and experience as a practicing musician and avid surfer to consider the musical practices of surfers in locations around the world, taking into account ideas about surfing as a global affinity group and the real-life stories of surfers and musicians he encounters. In doing so, he expands ethnomusicological thinking about the many ways musical practices are integral to human socializing, creativity, and the condition of being human. Cooley discusses the origins of ... Read more
This first major examination the interrelationships of music and surfing explores different ways that surfers combine surfing with making and listening to music. Tim Cooley uses his knowledge and experience as a practicing musician and avid surfer to consider the musical practices of surfers in locations around the world, taking into account ideas about surfing as a global affinity group and the real-life stories of surfers and musicians he encounters. In doing so, he expands ethnomusicological thinking about the many ways musical practices are integral to human socializing, creativity, and the condition of being human. Cooley discusses the origins of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520276642
SKU
V9780520276642
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About Timothy J. Cooley
Timothy J. Cooley is Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology and Global and International Studies at UC Santa Barbara. He is the author of Making Music in the Polish Tatras (2005) and coeditor (with Gregory Barz) of the groundbreaking Shadows in the Field: New Perspectives for Fieldwork in Ethnomusicology (2008).
Reviews for Surfing About Music
"[Cooley] tells a story that is just good entertainment. It will appeal to general audiences as much as it will to surfers and fans of surf music and surf culture."
Brett Leigh Dicks Santa Barbara News Press "A serious book about a normally laid-back subject."
Phyllis Fong Men's Journal "Invites the reader to hop on the board and ... Read more
Brett Leigh Dicks Santa Barbara News Press "A serious book about a normally laid-back subject."
Phyllis Fong Men's Journal "Invites the reader to hop on the board and ... Read more