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Worlds of music : an introduction to the music of the world's peoples.
Van Pelt - Ormandy Music and Media Center Schirmer 28726138 CD 3 compact discs
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LIBRA ML3545 .W67 1996
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Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML3545 .W67 1996
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Folk music--History and criticism.
- Folk music.
- Music--History and criticism.
- Music.
- Ethnomusicology.
- Physical Description:
- xxiv, 536 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm + 2 audiocassettes or 2 audio discs (digital, stereo, 4 3/4 in.)
- Edition:
- Third edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY ; London : Schirmer Books, [1996]
- Summary:
- Worlds of Music is a unique introduction to ethnomusicology, the ideal text with which to experience and understand the meanings of music in the lives of diverse human communities. Writing about cultures they have studied at first hand, the authors describe and analyze the indigenous musics of Africa, North and South America, Eastern Europe, India, Indonesia, and Japan. They also show how ethnomusicologists "get inside" a culture to document its music.
- Contents:
- 1. The Music-Culture as a World of Music / Jeff Todd Titon, Mark Slobin 1
- The Music Culture 1
- Affect, Performance, Community, and History: A Music-Culture Model 2
- Components of a Music-Culture 7
- Ideas about Music
- Social Organization of Music
- Repertories of Music
- Material Culture of Music
- Worlds of Music 13
- 2. North America/Native America / David P. McAllester 17
- Three Different Styles 17
- Sioux Grass Dance
- Zuni Lullaby
- Iroquois Quiver Dance
- Making a "Cowhorn" Rattle
- Music of the Navajo Indians 28
- A Yeibichai Song from the Nightway Ceremony
- "Folsom Prison Blues"
- The Navajo Way of Life
- Traditional Popular Music
- The Circle Dance Song "Shizhane'e"
- The Enemyway Ceremony
- The "Classical" Music of the Navajos
- The Life Story of a Navajo Ceremonial Practitioner
- The Native American Church
- The Sun Dance
- Navajo Hymn Music
- New Composers in Traditional Modes
- Music with Newly Created Navajo Texts and Melodies
- New Navajo Music with English Texts and Orchestral Accompaniment
- The Native American Flute Revival
- Major Sources for Recordings 70
- 3. Africa/Ewe, Mande, Dagbamba, Shona, BaAka / David Locke 71
- Postal Workers Canceling Stamps 72
- Generalizations about African Music-Culture
- Musical Analysis: Toward participation
- Agbekor: Music and Dance of the Ewe People 78
- The Ewe People
- Agbekor: History and Contemporary Performance
- A Performance
- Music of the Percussion Ensemble
- Songs
- Mande Jaliya: "Lambango" 101
- Historical and Social Background
- Music-Culture
- Elements of Performance
- A Hearing of "Lambango"
- A Drummer of Dagbon 111
- The Drums
- A Praise Name Dance
- Life Story: Abubakari Lunna
- Shona Mbira Music 118
- Cultural Context
- The Mbira
- Thomas Mapfumo and Chimurenga Music
- BaAka Singing: "Makala" 129
- Three Images of the Forest People
- "Makala," a Mabo Song
- Music-Culture As an Adaptive Resource
- Conclusion As Discussion 138
- 4. North America/Black America / Jeff Todd Titon 144
- Music of Worship 144
- Music of Work 154
- Music of Play 161
- Blues
- 5. Bosnia and Central/Southeast Europe: Musics and Musicians in Transition / Mark Slobin 211
- Bosnia: From Tradition to Destruction 214
- Music in a Muslim Highlander Village
- Music of Rural and Urban Lowlands Muslims
- Popular Music Styles: "Newly Composed Folk Music" and Rock
- Mensur Hatic: Versatile Musical Traveler
- Flory Jagoda: Keeper of the Sephardic Jewish Tradition of Bosnia
- Bulgaria and Hungary: Other Approaches to Musical Change 243
- Bulgaria
- Hungary: Learning from Traditional Music
- 6. India/South India / David B. Reck 252
- The Environment
- The Musician 252
- The Setting
- Many Musics
- A Day in the Life of Ramachandra, A Musician of Madras
- Karnataka sangeeta, the Classical Music of South India 267
- A Performance Segment: The Sound World 269
- Instruments
- The Ensemble
- Sruti (the Drone)
- Raga (the Expressive Mode)
- Scale, Raga sankarabharanam
- Tala (the Time Cycle)
- Musical Structure: Improvisation
- Musical Structure: The Kriti 281
- The Song Text
- Svara kalpana in the Performance
- The Drummer's Art
- An Ear Map
- Indian Music and the West 296
- Instrument Building and Performance 299
- Instrument Building
- Playing Technique
- Inventing a Raga 305
- Scales
- Tones
- Phrases
- Psychoacoustics
- 7. Asia/Indonesia / R. Anderson Sutton 316
- Central Java 318
- Gamelan
- Gamelan Construction
- Gamelan Identity
- Gamelan Performance Contexts
- Gamelan Music: A Javanese Gendhing in Performance
- Irama Level
- Performing Your Own Gamelan Music
- A Javanese Gendhing in Soft-Playing Style
- Pathet
- Instrumental Playing in "Ladrang Wilujeng"
- Singing in "Ladrang Wilujeng"
- Biography of Ki Nartosabdho, a Gamelan Musician, Composer, and Puppeteer
- Gamelan Music and Shadow Puppetry
- Bali 352
- North Sumatra 356
- Indonesian Popular Music 359
- 8. East Asia/Japan / Linda Fujie 369
- Listening Habits of Contemporary Japanese 371
- General Characteristics of Japanese Traditional Music 372
- Pitch/Scales
- Timbre
- Melody/Harmony
- Rhythm
- Musical Form
- Shakuhachi 376
- Koto 382
- Kouta 384
- Gidayu-bushi: Music of the Puppet Theater 391
- Folk Song 397
- Festival Music: Matsuri-bayashi 402
- Popular Music 411
- Historical Background
- Gunka
- Folk Song
- New Music
- Pops
- 9. Latin America/Ecuador / John M. Schechter 428
- Venezuelan Joropo 429
- Nueva Cancion: "El Lazo," / Victor Jara 430
- Bolivian K'antu 437
- The Quichua of the Northern Andes of Ecuador 443
- The Musical Tradition: Sanjuan 447
- Sanjuan and Cotacachi Quichua Lifeways 457
- Walking in Sanjuan: The Vital-Domain Metaphor 460
- Two "Classic" Sanjuanes 462
- The Andean Ensemble Phenomenon 466
- Wawa Velorio 468
- The Career Dilemma of Don Cesar Muquinche 475
- Elsewhere in Ecuador 481
- African-Ecuadorian Music of the Chota River Valley 483
- Despedida, or Farewell 486
- 10. Discovering and Documenting a World of Music / David B. Reck, Mark Slobin, Jeff Todd Titon 495
- Music in Our Own Backyards 495
- Family
- Generation
- Avocation
- Religion
- Ethnicity
- Regionalism
- Nationalism
- Commercial Music
- Doing Musical Ethnography 504
- Selecting a Subject: Some Practical Suggestions 504
- Collecting Information 506
- Gaining Entry
- Selecting a Topic
- Library Research
- Participation and Observation
- Ethics
- Field Equipment: Notebook, Tape Recorder, Camera
- Interviewing
- Other Means of Collecting Information
- Finishing the Project 517.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 002872612X
- OCLC:
- 34356901
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