This Thing Called Music: Essays in Honor of Bruno NettlVictoria Lindsay Levine, Philip V. Bohlman The most fundamental subject of music scholarship provides the common focus of this volume of essays: music itself. For the distinguished scholars from the field of musicology and related areas of the humanities and social sciences, the search for music itself—in its vastly complex and diverse forms throughout the world—characterizes the lifetime of reflection and writing by Bruno Nettl, the leading ethnomusicologist of the past generation. This Thing Called Music: Essays in Honor of Bruno Nettl salutes not only a great scholar and beloved teacher, but also a thinker whose search for the meaning and ontology of music has exerted a global influence. Editors Victoria Lindsay Levine and Philip V. Bohlman have gathered essays that represent the many dimensions of musical meaning, addressing some of the most critically important areas of music scholarship today. The social formations of musical communities play counterpoint to analytical studies; investigations into musical change and survival connect ethnography to history, offering a collection of essays that can serve as an invaluable resource for the intellectual history of ethnomusicology. Each chapter explores music and its meanings in specific geographic areas—North and South America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East—crossing the boundaries of genre, repertory, and style to provide insight into the aesthetic zones of contact between and among the folk, classical, and popular musics of the world. Readers from all disciplines of music scholarship will find in this collection a proper companion in an era of globalization, when the connections that draw musicians and musical practices together are more sweeping than ever. Chapters offer models for detailed analysis of specific musical practices, while at the same time they make possible new methods of comparative study in the twenty-first century, together posing a challenge crucial to all musicians and scholars in search of “this thing called music.” |
Contents
Ch01 Recording the Life Review | 3 |
Ch02 Music in the Culture of Children | 15 |
Ch03 The Mississippi Choctaw Fair and Veterans Day Powwow | 28 |
Ch04 St Peter and the Santarinas | 41 |
Ch05 Performing Translation in Jewish India | 56 |
PartII INTELLECTUAL HISTORYOF ETHNOMUSICOLOGY | 71 |
Ch06 GuerraPeixe Cold War Politics and Ethnomusicologyi n Brazil 19501952 | 73 |
Ch07 Bohemian Traces in the World of Ethnomusicology | 90 |
Ch20 The Doubleness of Sound in Canadas Indian Residential Schools | 267 |
Ch21 Passages on Music in the Accounts of Medieval Arab Travelers | 280 |
Ch22 Reconstructing Abbey Road | 291 |
Ch23 Commercial 78s | 302 |
Part V ISSUES AND CONCEPTS | 315 |
Ch24 One Hundred Years of Indian Folk Music | 317 |
Ch25 Textual Relationships between Oodham Story and Song | 330 |
Ch26 Finding and Recovering Musicality in a College Folk Music Class | 342 |
Ch08 Music Scholarship and Politics in Munich 19181945 | 102 |
Ch09 Harry Partch and Jacques Barzun | 113 |
Ch10 The Times They Are aChangin | 125 |
Ch11 Comparative Musicologists in the Field | 137 |
Ch12 Ethnomusicological Marginalia | 151 |
Part III ANALYTICAL STUDIES | 165 |
Ch13 The Persian Radif in Relation to the TajikUzbek Šašmaqom | 167 |
Ch14 The Saz Semaisi in Evcara by Dilhayat Kalfa and the Turkish Makam after the Ottoman Golden Age | 180 |
Ch15 When You Do This Ill Hear You | 196 |
Ch16 Permutation as a Basic Concept of Raˉga Elaboration in North Indian Music | 209 |
Ch17 Aspects of Sound Recording and Sound Analysis | 224 |
Part IV HISTORICAL STUDIES | 239 |
Ch18 In Search of Musics Intimate Moments | 241 |
Ch19 Oral History Musical Biography and Historical Ethnomusicology | 255 |
Ch27 Transpacific Excursions | 354 |
Ch28 The Emperors New Clothes | 366 |
Ch29 On Theory and Models | 378 |
Part VI CHANGE ADAPTATION AND SURVIVAL | 391 |
Ch30 Music Modernity and Islam in Indonesia | 393 |
Ch31 Clubbing the Boots | 406 |
Ch32 Rise Up and Dream | 419 |
Ch33 Fusion Music in South India | 433 |
Ch34 The Urge to Merge | 447 |
Ch35 Regional Songs in Local and Translocal Spaces | 458 |
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About the Editors and Contributors | 499 |
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