Music, words and voice

Martin Clayton is Senior Lecturer in Music at The Open University and one of the leading figures in ethnomusicology today

• 1. Introduction. Martin ClaytonPart I. Words and music2. The first voices, Jean Jacques Rousseau3. The beginnings of music, Charles S. Myers4. The boundaries of speech and song, George List5. The separation of speech and song, Jacques Derrida6. Poetry and music, Richard Wagner7. Oral mnemonics for the Japanese noh flute, David Hughes8. Drum signalling in a West African tribe, George HerzogPart II. Song, text and voice9. The voice as a musical instrument, Simon Frith10. Working class ‘country’, Steven Feld, Aaron A. Fox, Thomas Porcello and David Samuels11. Music, voice, language, Roland Barthes12. ‘Hey Jude’, Tim Riley13. The voice of Egypt, Virginia Danielson14. Siddheshwari Devi sings Sheila Dhar15. Text and performance in thumri, Peter ManuelPart III. Song performance and society16. The meaning of song, Victor Zuckerkandl17. Hazara lullabies, Hiromi Lorraine Sakata18. Race, class and gender in Carmen, Susan McClary19. Oh Brother where art thou? and the blues, Richard Middleton 20. Jùjú live, Christopher Waterman21. Rhythm, rhyme, and rhetoric in the music of Public Enemy, Robert Walse22. The Maori haka, Jan Bolwell and Keri KaaPart IV. Song and ritual23. Wassailing in Somerset, Kingsley Palmer and Bob Patten24. The carol revival, Frank Howes25. Papal legislation on sacred music, Robert F. Hayburn26. Jungle paths and spirit songs, Marina Roseman27. The Karelian lament, Elizabeth Tolbert28. Russian wedding rituals and Stravinsky, Richard Taruskin29. Lamenting in Stravinsky’s Les Noces, Pieter C. Van den ToornPart V. Words, music and narrative30. The Sicilian cantastorie, Mauro Geraci31. Song and performance, Edward Cone32. The ‘Bell Song’, Carolyn Abbate33. The little blueprint – an amplification of the meaning of ‘libretto’, Gordon Kalton Williams34. Sondheim’s technique, Stephen Sondheim and Trevor Herbert35. Writing lyrics, Oscar Hammerstein36. Afternoon Raag, Amit Chaudhuri37. The Vinteuil Sonata, Marcel ProustList of illustrationsList of sources