Readings in ethnomusicology
By: Max Peter Baumann, (ed.).
Series: World of music -- vol. 52, 2010 (1-3); Intercultural music studies -- 17; Intercultural music studies -- 17.; World of music -- v. 52.
Publisher: VWB-Verlag für Wissenschaft und Bildung
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Berlin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 768
ISBN-13: 9783861356486
Subjects: Ethnomusicology
Other titles: The world of music, Readings in ethnomusicology
Notes: Collection of 33 articles from the last 15 years of The world of music.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Aspects of music history : archaeology, iconography, and transcultural interest. Aztec music culture / Arnd Adje Both ; The rise of "Japanese music" / Gerald Groemer ; Performing the drone in Hindustani classical music : what Mughal paintings show us to hear / Bonnie C. Wade ; The interest of Westerners in non-Western music / Brune Deschênes; title: Musical instruments : between re-contextualization, imagination, and modernity. Good vibrations? The "curious" cases of the didjeridu in spectable and therapy in Australia / Karl Neuenfeldt ; The re-contextualization of the shakuhachi (syakuhati) and its music from traditional/classical into modern/popular / Toru Seyama ; The Native American flute : convergence and collaboration as exemplified by R. Carlos Nakai / Paula Conlon; title: Musical instruments : beyond the local and the global. A musical instrument travels around the world : jenbe playing in Bamako, West Africa, and beyond / Rainer Polak ; The mbira, worldbeat, and the internationl imagination / Thomas Tureno ; Japanese taiko drumming in international performance : converging musical ideas in the serach for success on stage / Linda Fujie; title: Sounding voices : identity, spirituality, and cultural inheritance. Soundscapes of disaffections and spirituality in Tanzanian kwaya music / Gregory Barz ; Shaping diasporic sounds : identity as meaning in bhangra / Laura Leante ; Easter Island music and the voice of Kiko Pate : a biographical history of sound recording / Dan Bendrups; title: Inventing traditions : revival, music festivals, and transculturalization. Folk festivals as modern ritual in the Polish Tatra Mountains / Timothy J. Cooley ; Festivals, musical actors, and mental constructs in the process of globalization / Max Peter Baumann ; Revival reconsidered / Owe Ronström; title: Music, gender, and the individual. Toward an ethnomusicology of the individual, or biographical writing in ethnomusicology / Jonathan P. J. Stock ; In search of Begum Akthar : patriarchy,; title: poetry, and twentieth-century music / Regula Burckhardt Qureshi ; Native American contemporary music : the women / Beverley Diamon; title: Ritual and drama : observation, interpretation, and reconstruction. From the innocent to the exploring eye : transcriptions on the defensive / Regine Allgayer-Kaufmann ; Kuveni, or the curse of a women as a flashpoint for music-oriented (re-)constructions / Martina Claus-Bachmann ; Healing process as musical drama : the ebó ceremony in the Bahian candomblé of Brazil / Tiago de Oliveira Pinto; title: Meaning, style, genre, and change. Meaning, style, and change in gamalan and wayang kulit banjar since their transplantation from Hindu-Buddhist Java to South Kalimantan / Margaret Kartomi ; A common space : dancehall, kwaito, and the mapping of a new world music and performance / Sonjah Stanley Niaah ; Becoming the tiguera : the female accordionist in Dominican merengue tipico / Sydney Hutchinson; title: Listening, hearing, understanding. Hearing and understanding in the Islamic gnosis / Jean During ; Expressions of inexpressible truths : attempts at descriptions of mystical and musical experiences / Carl Gombrich ; Cognitive and interpersonal dimensions of litening in Javanese gamelan performance / Ben Brinner ; Listening attentatively to cultural fragmentation : tradition and composition in works by East Asian composers / Christian Utz; title: Music, politics, ecology, and democracy. Gypsies, music, and politics in the Balkans : a case study from Kosovo / Svanibor Pettan ; Poetics and politics of Korean oral tradition in a cross-cultural context / Chan E. Park ; Taking culture seriously : democratic music and its transformative potential in South Korea / Nathan Hesselink ; Music and sustainability : an ecological viewpoint / Jeff Todd Titon.