Historical sources of ethnomusicology in contemporary debate
By: edited by Susanne Ziegler, Ingrid Åkesson, Gerda Lechleitner and Susanna Sardo
Contributors: Universidade de Aveiro; Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften; International Council for Traditional Music. Study Group on Historical Sources of Traditional Music. Conference; International Council for Traditional Music. Study Group on Historical Sources of Traditional Music. Conference
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
ISBN-13: 9781443873260
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Ethnomusicology; Congresses; Study and teaching
Notes: "The present peer-reviewed collection of articles includes some of the contributions that were presented in two conferences organised by the Study Group [on Historical Sources of Traditional Music] ; namely, the conference held in Vienna, Austria in 2012 and the other in Aveiro, Portugal, in 2014."--Page 2.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Rethinking archives and collections : from fieldwork to digital humanities. Sound archives under suspicion / Miguel García ; Institutionalising and materialising music through sound sources : the case of Bruce Bastin's fado collection in Portugal / Susana Sardo ; 78 rpm records as a source for ethnomusicology and folklore research : expereinces from Solvenia / Drago Kunej ; Historical sources and fieldwork in Latvian ethnomusicology : experience and results / Anda Beitāne ; Recordings of the Mabi people, different places, same time : Cameroon 1908 and Berlin 1909 / Susanne Fürniss ; "Fieldwork in archives" : a methodological approach of the Fang's xylophone music through sound archives (1908-2000) / Claire Lacombe; title: When past and present hold a dialogue through music : the diachronic comparison of Bwétè ceremonies (Gabon) / Émeline Lechaux ; The CNRA-Musée de l'homme sound archives from 1900 to the present : a long way between heritage, knowledge and technologies / Joséphine Simonnot ; Automatic indexation and analysis of ethnomusicological archives : issues and new challenges / Marie-France Mifune; title: Written documents and musical instruments as sources. Remarks on Israeli song notebooks / Shai Burstyn ; Personal songbooks : neglected by informative sources in ethnomusicological research / Gunnar Ternhag ; Evaluating different sources for the reconstruction of an extinct instrument : the Turkish kopuz / M. Emin Soydaş ; Cultural memory and the exhibition of musical instruments : a textual appraoch / Andreas Meyer; title: Individual memory, musical practice and heritage. From archival recording to aesthetic ideal : how individual performers have influenced style / Ingrid Åkesson ; Textual strategies for collecting and publishing Finnish folk melodies in the 19th century / Olli Heikkinen ; "We sing our history" : songs and the politics of identity and remembrance among Russian-German immigrants in the United States / Ingird Bertleff ; The Russian gusli singer Aleksandr Kotomkin : three dimensions of memory / Christiane Gesierich; title: Safeguarding tradition and the authority of representation / Tala Jarjour.