Music traditions : cultures and contexts / edited by Robin Elliott and Gordon E. Smith.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Elliott, Robin, 1956-

Smith, Gordon Ernest, 1950-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Diamond, Beverley, 1948-.

Diamond, Beverley.

Ethnomusicology.

Music--History and criticism.

Music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (366 p.)

Other Title:

Cultures and contexts.

Cultures & contexts.

Place of Publication:

Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfred Laurier University Press, c2010 (Saint-Lazare, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, 2010).

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Music Traditions, Cultures, and Contexts is a tribute to the ethnomusicologist Beverley Diamond in recognition of her outstanding scholarly accomplishments. The volume includes essays by leading ethnomusicologists and music scholars as well as a biographical introduction.The book's contributors engage many of the critical themes in Diamond's work, including musical historiography, musical composition in historical and contemporary frameworks, performance in diverse contexts, gender issues, music and politics, and how music is nested in and relates to broader issues in society. The essays raise important themes about knowing and understanding musical traditions and music itself as an agent of social, cultural, and political change. Music Traditions, Cultures, and Contexts will appeal to music scholars and students, as well as to a general audience interested in learning about how music functions as social process as well as sound.

Contents:

Beverley Diamond: life stories,academic directions and teaching, research and scholarly activity / Robin Elliott and Gordon E. Smith

Conversations with Clifford Crawley / Beverley Diamond

Ethnomusicology critiques itself: comments on the history of a tradition / Bruno Nettl

Is fieldwork still necessary? / Ellen Koskoff

Toward a history of ethnomusicology's North Americanist agenda / Kay Kaufman Shelemay

Encountering oral performance as total musical fact / Regula Burckhardt Qureshi

You also work as a church organist? Whatever for? / Charlotte J. Frisbie

The politics of organology and the Nova Scotia banjo: an essay in honour of Beverley Diamond / Neil V. Rosenberg

Strategies of survival: traditional music, politics, and music education among two minorities of Finland / Pirkko Moisala

Father of romance, vagabond of glory: two Canadian composers as stage heroes / John Beckwith

Funk and James Brown: re-Africanization, the interlocked groove, and the articulation of community / Rob Bowman

On the one: Parliament/Funkadelic, the mothership, and transformation / Rob Bowman

Politics through pleasure: party music in Trinidad / Jocelyne Guilbault

A festschrift for the twenty-first century: student voices / Kip Pegley and Virginia Caputo

Appendix: Beverley Diamond: publications and lectures.

Notes:

Issued as part of the Canadian electronic library publishers collection.

Includes: Appendix : Beverley Diamond : publications and lectures, p. 307-320.

Festschrift in honour of Beverley Diamond; includes essays by ethnomusicologists and music scholars.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613811486

9781554582761

1554582768

9781282233744

1282233742

9781554581993

1554581990

OCLC:

859672385