Performing Ethnomusicology

Teaching and Representation in World Music Ensembles

Häftad, Engelska, 2004

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Beskrivning

"Performing Ethnomusicology" is the first book to deal exclusively with creating, teaching, and contextualizing academic world music performing ensembles. Considering the formidable theoretical, ethical, and practical issues that confront ethnomusicologists who direct such ensembles, the sixteen essays in this volume discuss problems of public performance and the pragmatics of pedagogy and learning processes. Their perspectives, drawing upon expertise in Caribbean steelband, Indian, Balinese, Javanese, Philippine, Mexican, Central and West African, Japanese, Chinese, Middle Eastern, and Jewish klezmer ensembles, provide a uniquely informed and many-faceted view of this complicated and rapidly changing landscape. The authors examine the creative and pedagogical negotiations involved in intergenerational and intercultural transmission and explore topics such as reflexivity, representation, hegemony, and aesthetically determined interaction. "Performing Ethnomusicology" affords sophisticated insights into the structuring of ethnomusicologists' careers and methodologies.This book offers an unprecedented rich history and contemporary examination of academic world music performance in the West, especially in the United States. '"Performing Ethnomusicology" is an important book not only within the field of ethnomusicology itself, but for scholars in all disciplines engaged in aspects of performance - historical musicology, anthropology, folklore, and cultural studies. The individual articles offer a provocative and disparate array of threads and themes, which Solis skillfully weaves together in his introductory essay. A book of great importance and long overdue' - R. Anderson Sutton, author of "Calling Back the Spirit". The contributors include: Gage Averill, Kelly Gross, David Harnish, Mantle Hood, David W. Hughes, Michelle Kisliuk, David Locke, Scott Marcus, Hankus Netsky, Ali Jihad Racy, Anne K. Rasmussen, Ted Solis, Hardja Susilo, Sumarsam, Ricardo D. Trimillos, Roger Vetter, and J. Lawrence Witzleben.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2004-08-13
Mått:152 x 229 x 23 mm
Vikt:454 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:329
Förlag:University of California Press
ISBN:9780520238312

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Ted Solis is Professor of Music in the School of Music at Arizona State University.

Recensioner i media

"A book of great importance and long overdue." - R. Anderson Sutton, author of Calling Back the Spirit; "Both original and stimulating, this book presents widely known material in a highly theorized and organized manner." - Katherine J. Hagedorn, author of Divine Utterances"

Innehållsförteckning

Acknowledgments Introduction. Teaching What Cannot Be Taught: An Optimistic Overview Ted Solis PART 1. SOUNDING THE OTHER: ACADEMIC WORLD MUSIC ENSEMBLES IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE 1. Subject, Object, and the Ethnomusicology Ensemble: The Ethnomusicological "We" and "Them" Ricardo D. Trimillos 2. "A Bridge to Java": Four Decades Teaching Gamelan in America Hardja Susilo 3. Opportunity and Interaction: The Gamelan from Java to Wesleyan Sumarsam 4. "Where's 'One'?": Musical Encounters of the Ensemble Kind Gage Averill PART 2. SQUARE PEGS AND SPOKESFOLK: SERVING AND ADAPTING TO THE ACADEMY 5. A Square Peg in a Round Hole: Teaching Javanese Gamelan in the Ensemble Paradigm of the Academy Roger Vetter 6. "No, Not 'Bali Hai!": Challenges of Adaptation and Orientalism in Performing and Teaching Balinese Gamelan David Harnish 7. Cultural Interactions in an Asian Context: Chinese and Javanese Ensembles in Hong Kong J. Lawrence Witzleben PART 3. PATCHWORKERS, ACTORS, AND AMBASSADORS: REPRESENTING OURSELVES AND OTHERS 8. "Can't Help but Speak, Can't Help but Play": Dual Discourse in Arab Music Pedagogy Ali Jihad Racy 9. The African Ensemble in America: Contradictions and Possibilities David Locke 10. Klez Goes to College Hankus Netsky 11. Creating a Community, Negotiating Among Communities: Performing Middle Eastern Music for a Diverse Middle Eastern and American Public Scott Marcus PART 4. TAKE-OFF POINTS: CREATIVITY AND PEDAGOGICAL OBLIGATION 12. Bilateral Negotiations in Bimusicality: Insiders, Outsiders, and the "Real Version" in Middle Eastern Music Performance Anne K. Rasmussen 13. Community of Comfort: Negotiating a World of "Latin Marimba" Ted Solis 14. What's the "It" That We Learn to Perform?: Teaching BaAka Music and Dance Michelle Kisliuk and Kelly Gross 15. "When Can We Improvise?": The Place of Creativity in Academic World Music Performance David W. Hughes Afterword. Some Closing Thoughts from the First Voice: An Interview with Mantle Hood Ricardo D. Trimillos Works Cited List of Contributors Index