Ethnomusicology and Modern Music History

by Blum, Stephen; Bohlam, Philip V.; Neuman, Daniel M.

• ISBN13: 9780252063435
• ISBN10: 0252063430
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1993-06-01
• Publisher: Univ of Illinois Pr

Summary

'This book is unique not only for its approach but also for the scope of its content....It is definitely a must for libraries of research centers and institutions with ethnomusicology programs.' - Kazadi wa Muduna, Choice

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Prologue: Ethnomusicologists and Modern Music History	1	(22)
Stephen Blum
PART ONE: Music and the Experience of History
When Music Makes History	23	(12)
Anthony Seeger
Ethnomusicology and the Meaning of Tradition	35	(14)
David B. Coplan
Juju History: Toward a Theory of Sociomusical Practice	49	(19)
Christopher A. Waterman
Historical Worldviews of Early Ethnomusicologists: An East-West Enocounter in Cairo, 1932	68	(27)
Ali Jihad Racy
PART TWO: Authority and Interpretation
The Interpretation of History and the Foundations of Authority in the Visnupur Gharana of Bengal	95	(8)
Charles Capwell
Sufi Music and the Historicity of Oral Tradition	103	(18)
Regula Burckhardt Qureshi
The History of a Peruvian Panpipe Style and the Politics of Interpretation	121	(18)
Thomas Turino
Music Institutions and National Consciousness among Polish and Ukrainian Peasants	139	(22)
William Noll
PART THREE: Brokers and Mediators
Ravi Shankar as Mediator between a Traditional Music and Modernity	161	(20)
Stephen M. Slawek
An Eighteenth-Century Critic of Taste and Good Taste	181	(9)
Amnon Shiloah
Arzelie Langley and a Lost Pantribal Tradition	190	(17)
Victoria Lindsay Levine
Music and the History of Tribe-Caste Interaction in Chotanagpur	207	(24)
Carol Babiracki
PART FOUR: Musical Reproduction and Renewal
Indian, East Indian, and West Indian Music in Felicity, Trinidad	231	(11)
Helen Myers
Stability in Blackfoot Songs, 1909-1968	242	(12)
Robert Witmer
Of Yekkes and Chamber Music in Israel: Ethnomusicological Meaning in Western Music History	254	(14)
Philip V. Bohlman
Epilogue: Paradigms and Stories	268	(10)
Daniel M. Neuman
List of References	278	(28)
Contributors	306	(3)
Index	309