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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Solís, Ted.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnomusicology.

World music--Instruction and study.

World music.

Folk music groups.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (332 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2004.

Language Note:

English

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. "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 Solís skillfully weaves together in his introductory essay. A book of great importance and long overdue."-R. Anderson Sutton, author of Calling Back the Spirit Contributors: 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 Solís, Hardja Susilo, Sumarsam, Ricardo D. Trimillos, Roger Vetter, J. Lawrence Witzleben

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction. Teaching What Cannot Be Taught: An Optimistic Overview

Chapter 1. Subject, Object, and the Ethnomusicology Ensemble The Ethnomusicological "We" and "Them"

Chapter 2. "A Bridge to Java" Four Decades Teaching Gamelan in America

Chapter 3. Opportunity and Interaction The Gamelan from Java to Wesleyan

Chapter 4. "Where's 'One'?" Musical Encounters of the Ensemble Kind

Chapter 5. A Square Peg in a Round Hole Teaching Javanese Gamelan in the Ensemble Paradigm of the Academy

Chapter 6. "No, Not 'Bali Hai'!" Challenges of Adaptation and Orientalism in Performing and Teaching Balinese Gamelan

Chapter 7. Cultural Interactions in an Asian Context Chinese and Javanese Ensembles in Hong Kong

Chapter 8. "Can't Help but Speak, Can't Help but Play" Dual Discourse in Arab Music Pedagogy

Chapter 9. The African Ensemble in America Contradictions and Possibilities

Chapter 10. Klez Goes to College

Chapter 11. Creating a Community, Negotiating Among Communities Performing Middle Eastern Music for a Diverse Middle Eastern and American Public

Chapter 12. Bilateral Negotiations in Bimusicality Insiders, Outsiders, and the "Real Version" in Middle Eastern Music Performance

Chapter 13. Community of Comfort Negotiating a World of "Latin Marimba"

Chapter 14. What's the "It" That We Learn to Perform? Teaching BaAka Music and Dance

Chapter 15. "When Can We Improvise?" The Place of Creativity in Academic World Music Performance

Afterword. Some Closing Thoughts from the First Voice

Works Cites

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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

ISBN:

9786612762932

9780520937178

0520937171

9781597348034

1597348031

9781282762930

1282762931

OCLC:

475926925