Readings in Ethnomusicology
Editor: Max Peter Baumann
(Intercultural Music Studies Vol.: 17)
This volume brings together a collection of 33 articles which have been published within the last 15 years in the journal the world of music. The original articles appeared as separate contributions to 45 different topical issues of the journal. These reprints reflect a variety of ethnomusicological themes, methods, perspectives and viewpoints. The contributions portray a multifaceted panorama of ethnomusicological research and interest in questions related to music history, musical instruments, genres, and styles in regional and/or national contexts as well as in the creative tension of globalization and transculturalization. Utilizing distinct approaches and addressing a range of different subjects, the authors discuss a variety of topics with reference to the development of particular music traditions—
traditions that are reconstructed, imagined, revived or transformed. The contributions show a broad range of interests in music and music developments in continuity, preservation, and intangible cultural heritage. The fields of inquiry range from musical meaning to musical listening, from the dynamic flow of local to those of global processes. Musicians, artifacts, performance practices, music and gender, biographies of musicians, ritual and drama enrich the topics, most of which are based on original field research, observation, and interpretation. All of these contributions are simultaneously involved in debates of selected theoretical issues referring either to the past, present or future of particular music traditions.
Contents:
Aspects of Music History: Archaeology, Iconography, and the Transcultural Interest
- Arnd Adje Both:
Aztec Music Culture
- Gerald Groemer:
The Rise of "Japanese Music"
- Bonnie C. Wade:
Performing the Drone in Hindustani Classical Music:
What Mughal Paintings Show Us to Hear
- Bruno Deschênes:
The Interest of Westerners in Non-Western Music
Musical Instruments: Between Re-contextualization, Imagination,
and Modernity
- Karl Neuenfeldt:
Good Vibrations? The "Curious" Cases of the
Didjeridu in Spectacle and Therapy in Australia
- Toru Seyama:
The Re-contextualization of the Shakuhachi
(Syakuhati) and its Music from Traditional/Classical
into Modern/Popular
- Paula Conlon:
The Native American Flute: Convergence and
Collaboration as Exemplified by R. Carlos Nakai
Musical Instruments: Beyond the Local and the Global
- Rainer Polak:
A Musical Instrument Travels Around the World:
Jenbe Playing in Bamako, West Africa, and Beyond
- Thomas Turino:
The Mbira, Worldbeat, and the International
Imagination
- Linda Fujie:
Japanese Taiko Drumming in International
Performance: Converging Musical Ideas in the
Search for Success on Stage
Sounding Voices: Identity, Spirituality, and Cultural Inheritance
- Gregory Barz:
Soundscapes of Disaffection and Spirituality in
Tanzanian Kwaya Music
- Laura Leante:
Shaping Diasporic Sounds: Identity as Meaning
in Bhangra
- Dan Bendrups:
Easter Island Music and the Voice of Kiko Pate:
A Biographical History of Sound Recording
Inventing Traditions: Revival, Music Festivals, and Transculturalization
- Timothy J. Cooley:
Folk Festivals as Modern Ritual in the Polish Tatra
Mountains
- Max Peter Baumann:
Festivals, Musical Actors, and Mental Constructs
in the Process of Globalization
- Owe Ronström:
Revival Reconsidered
Music, Gender, and the Individual
- Jonathan P. J. Stock:
Towards an Ethnomusicology of the Individual, or
Biographical Writing in Ethnomusicology
- Regula Burckhardt-Qureshi:
In Search of Begum Akthar: Patriarchy, Poetry, and Twentieth-Century Music
- Beverly Diamond:
Native American Contemporary Music: The Women
Ritual and Drama: Observation, Interpretation, and Reconstruction
- Regine Allgayer-Kaufmann:
From the Innocent to the Exploring Eye: Transcription on the Defensive
- Martina Claus-Bachmann:
Kuveni, or the Curse of a Women as a Flashpoint for Music-oriented (Re-)Constructions
- Tiago de Oliveira Pinto:
Healing Process as Musical Drama: The Ebó Ceremony in the Bahian Candomblé of Brazil
Meaning, Style, Genre, and Change
- Margaret Kartomi:
Meaning, Style, and Change in Gamalan and
Wayang Kulit Banjar Since Their Transplantation
from Hindu-Buddhist Java to South Kalimantan
- Sonjah Stanley Niaah:
A Common Space: Dancehall, Kwaito, and the
Mapping of New World Music and Performance
- Sydney Hutchinson:
Becoming the Tíguera: The Female Accordionist in
Dominican Merengue Típico
Listening, Hearing, and Understanding
- Jean During:
Hearing and Understanding in the Islamic Gnosis
- Carl Gombrich:
Expressions of Inexpressible Truths: Attempts at
Descriptions of Mystical and Musical Experiences
- Ben Brinner:
Cognitive and Interpersonal Dimensions of
Listening in Javanese Gamelan Performance
- Christian Utz:
Listening Attentatively to Cultural Fragmentation:
Tradition and Composition in Works by East Asian
Composers
Music, Politics, Ecology, and Democracy
- Svanibor Pettan:
Gypsies, Music, and Politics in the Balkan: A Case
Study from Kosovo
- Chan E. Park:
Poetics and Politics of Korean Oral Tradition in a
Cross-cultural Context
- Nathan Hesselink:
Taking Culture Seriously: Democratic Music and
Its Transformative Potential in South Korea
- Jeff Todd Titon:
Music and Sustainability: An Ecological Viewpoint
Acknowledgements
About the Contributors
Index
