Ethnomusicology
Subtitle: a contemporary reader
By: edited by Jennifer C. Post.
Contributors: Post, Jennifer C.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 446
ISBN-13: 9780415972031; 9780415972048
Subjects: Ethnomusicology
Description: Ethnomusicology: A Contemporary Reader is designed to supplement a textbook for an introductory course in ethnomusicology. It offers a cross section of the best new writing in the field from the last 15-20 years. Many instructors supplement textbook readings and listening assignments with scholarly articles that provide more in-depth information on geographic regions and topics and introduce issues that can facilitate class or small group discussion. These sources serve other purposes as well: they exemplify research technique and format and serve as models for the use of academic language, and collectively they can also illustrate the range of ethnographic method and analytical style in the discipline of ethnomusicology. Ethnomusicology: A Contemporary Reader serves as a basic introduction to the best writing in the field for students, professors, and music professionals. It is perfect for both introductory and upper level courses in world music [Publisher description].
Notes: Includes bibliographical references, discography, videography, and web resources (p. 419-436), and index.
Table of contents: title: Commodification and consumption. Sultans of spin : Syrian sacred music on the world stage / Jonathan H. Shannon. Sounds like the Mall of America : programmed music and the architectonics of commercial space / Jonathan Sterne; title: Cultural tourism and travel. Culture, tourism, and cultural tourism : boundaries and frontiers in performances of Balinese music and dance / Peter Dunbar-Hall. Folk festival as modern ritual in the Polish Tatra Mountains / Timothy J. Cooley; title: Gender and sexuality. Taiko and the Asian/American body : drums, rising sun, and the question of gender / Deborah Wong. Empowering self, making choices, creating spaces : black female identity via rap music performance / Cheryl L. Keyes. The frame drum in the Middle East : women, musical instruments, and power / Veronica Doubleday; title: Globalization and glocalization. On redefining the 'local' through world music / Jocelyne Guilbault. The canned sardine spirit takes the mic / Marina Roseman. A musical instrument travels around the world : jenbe playing in Bamako, West Africa, and beyond ; Rainer Polak; title: Media, technology, and technoculture. Mozart in mirrorshades : ethnomusicology, technology, and the politics of representation / René T. A. Lysloff. Technology and the production of Islamic space : the call to prayer in Singapore / Tong Soon Lee. Acting up, talking tech : New York rock musicians and their metaphors of technology / Leslie C. Gay, Jr.; title: Nationalism and transnationalism. The sonic dimensions of nationalism in modern China : musical representation and transformation / Sue Tuohy. Russia's new anthem and the negotiation of national identity / J. Martin Daughtry. 'Mezanmi, kouman nou ye? My friends, how are you?' : musical constructions of the Haitian transnation / Gage Averill. 'Indian' music in the diaspora : case studies of "chutney" in Trinidad and in London / Tina K. Ramnarine; title: Place and embodiment. The embodiment of salsa : musicians, instruments, and the performance of a Latin style and identity / Patria Roman-Velazquez. Dueling landscapes : singing places and identities in Highland Bolivia / Tom Solomon; title: Racial and ethnic identities. American Indian rap and reggae : dancing to the beat of a different drummer / Neal Ullestad. From 'I'm a Lapp' to 'I am Saami' : popular music and changing images of indigenous ethnicity in Scandinavia / Richard Jones-Bamman; title: Social and political action. Cajun music, cultural revival : theorizing political action in popular music / Mark Mattern. Nitmiluk : place and empowerment in Australian Aboriginal popular music / Chris Gibson and Peter Dunbar-Hall. Culture, conservation, and community reconstruction : explorations in advocacy ethnomusicology and participatory action research in northern KwaZulu Natal / Angela Impey.