Performing ethnomusicology : teaching and representation in world music ensembles / edited by Ted Solís.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Solís, Ted.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnomusicology.

World music--Instruction and study.

Folk music groups.

World music.

Genre:

World music.

Physical Description:

vii, 322 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2004]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction. Teaching What Cannot be Taught: An Optimistic Overview / Ted Solis 1

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 23

2. "A Bridge to Java": Four Decades Teaching Gamelan in America / Interview with Hardja Susilo, David Harnish, Ted Solis, J. Lawrence Witzleben 53

3. Opportunity and Interaction: The Gamelan from Java to Wesleyan / Sumarsam 69

4. "Where's 'One'?": Musical Encounters of the Ensemble Kind / Gage Averill 93

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 115

6. "No, Not 'Bali Hai'!": Challenges of Adaptation and Orientalism in Performing and Teaching Balinese Gamelan / David Harnish 126

7. Cultural Interactions in an Asian Context: Chinese and Javanese Ensembles in Hong Kong / J. Lawrence Witzleben 138

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 / Interview with Ali Jihad Racy, Scott Marcus, Ted Solis 155

9. The African Ensemble in America: Contradictions and Possibilities / David Locke 168

10. Klez Goes to College / Hankus Netsky 189

11. Creating a Community, Negotiating Among Communities: Performing Middle Eastern Music for a Diverse Middle Eastern and American Public / Scott Marcus 202

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 215

13. Community of Comfort: Negotiating a World of "Latin Marimba" / Ted Solis 229

14. What's the "It" That We Learn to Perform?: Teaching BaAka Music and Dance / Michelle Kisliuk, Kelly Gross 249

15. "When Can We Improvise?": The Place of Creativity in Academic World Music Performance / David W. Hughes 261

Afterword. Some Closing Thoughts From the First Voice / Interview with Mantle Hood, Ricardo Trimillos 283.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-302) and index.

ISBN:

0520238745

0520238311

OCLC:

54103890