Ethnomusicology
Subtitle: A Contemporary Reader, Volume II
By: Jennifer C. Post
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2017
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9781315439167
Subjects: Ethnomusicology; Ethnomusicologie; MUSIC
Description: "Ethnomusicology: A Contemporary Reader, Volume II provides an overview of developments in the study of ethnomusicology in the twenty-first century, offering an introduction to contemporary issues relevant to the field. Nineteen essays, written by an international array of scholars, highlight the relationship between current issues in the discipline and ethnomusicologists' engagement with diverse forms of advocacy, issues such as poverty and social participation, maintaining intangible cultural heritages, and ecological concerns. It provides a forum for rethinking the discipline's identity in terms of major themes and issues to which ethnomusicologists have turned their attention since the first volume published in 2006. The collection of essays is organized into six sections:Property and RightsApplied PracticeKnowledge and AgencyCommunity and Social SpaceEmbodiment and CognitionCurating SoundThis second volume serves as a basic introduction to the best writing in the field for students, professors, and music professionals, perfect for both introductory and upper level courses in world music. Together with Volume I, Ethnomusicology: A Contemporary Reader, Volume II provides a comprehensive survey of current research directions."--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Part, I Intellectual Property and Cultural Rights --; title: chapter Introduction --; title: Redesigning and Redefining Ethnomusicology  -- Jennifer C. Post; title: chapter 1 Performing Protocol --; title: Indigenous Traditional Knowledge as/and Intellectual Property  -- Beverley Diamond Aaron Corn Frode Fjellheim Cheryl L'Hirondelle Moana Maniapoto Allan Marett Taqralik Partridge John Carlos Perea Ulla Pirttijärvi Per Niila Stålka; title: chapter 2 "Justice with My Own Hands" --; title: The Serious Play of Piracy in Bolivian Indigenous Music Videos  -- Henry Stobart; title: chapter 3 Modernist Reform, Virtuosity, and Uyghur Instrumental Music in Chinese Central Asia  -- Chuen-Fung Wong; title: part, II Applied Practice --; title: chapter 4 From Neutrality to Praxis --; title: The Shifting Politics of Ethnomusicology in the Contemporary World  -- Samuel Araújo; title: chapter 5 The Ethnomusicologist at the Rock Face --; title: Reflections on Working at the Nexus of Music and Mining  -- Kirsty Gillespie; title: chapter 6 Social Shifts and Viable Musical Futures --; title: The Case of Cambodian Smot 1  -- Catherine Grant; title: chapter 7 Medical Ethnomusicology and Psychological Flexibility in Healing, Health, and Wellness  -- Benjamin D. Koen; title: part, III Knowledge and Agency --; title: chapter 8 Birdsong and a Song about a Bird --; title: Popular Music and the Mediation of Traditional Ecological Knowledge in Northeastern Brazil  -- Michael B. Silvers; title: chapter 9 Music, Environment, and Place in Kam Big Song 1  -- Catherine Ingram; title: chapter 10 Ecological Knowledge, Collaborative Management, and Musical Production in Western Mongolia  -- Jennifer C. Post; title: chapter 11 Music and Non-Human Agency  -- Bernd Brabec de Mori; title: part, IV Community and Social Space --; title: chapter 12 Rethinking the Urban Community --; title: (Re)Mapping Musical Processes and Places  -- Kay Kaufman Shelemay; title: chapter 13 Mixed Modes and Performance Codes of Political Demonstrations and Carnival in Haiti  -- Rebecca Dirksen; title: chapter 14 Soundscapes of Pilgrimage --; title: European and American Christians in Jerusalem's Old City  -- Abigail Wood; title: part, V Embodiment and Cognition --; title: chapter 15 Time, Gesture, and Attention in a Khyāl Performance  -- Martin Clayton; title: chapter 16 Speaking with the Body in Nigerian and Cuban Orisha Music --; title: Musical Movements in Song, Dance, and Trance  -- Amanda Villepastour; title: chapter 17 Gaming the System --; title: Gender Performance in Dance Central  -- Kiri Miller; title: part, VI Curating Sound --; title: chapter 18 Preserving the Past, Activating the Future --; title: Collaborative Archiving in Ethnomusicology  -- John Vallier; title: chapter 19 "Curating Sound Is Impossible" 1 --; title: Views from the Streets, Galleries, and Rainforests -- Noel Lobley.