Worlds of Music An Introduction to the Music of the World’s Peoples

by Titon, Jeff Todd

• ISBN13: 9780534591038
• ISBN10: 0534591035
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-10-05
• Publisher: Schirmer

Summary

This market-leading, best-selling text covers ethnomusicology-the study of music in a people's way of life, which treats music as a distillation of cultural styles. The authors of this text approach diverse musical styles with the desire to understand them on their own terms-as the people who make the music would understand them. The text is organized by region. Each study focuses on the life histories and autobiographies that are essential to understanding music as a human activity. Song lyrics are singled out by the authors as a way to understand the meaning and purpose of musical performances. Musical examples, or transcriptions, are included on the accompanying CDs (which are sold separately), and are treated throughout as points of departure for discussion. Student music-making projects-singing, building and playing instruments-greatly increase music appreciation and allow students to experience firsthand what it's like to be an ethnomusicologist puzzling out unfamiliar music. This text seeks to provide as much pleasure as knowledge, fostering lifelong curiosity and a desire to experience and appreciate music in all its forms.

Table of Contents

Recorded Selections	viii
Preface	xii
The Authors	xvi
The Music-Culture as a World of Music	1	(34)
Jeff Todd Titon
Mark Slobin
The Soundscape	1	(1)
The Music-Culture	2	(3)
Music or Nonmusic?	5	(4)
Structure in Music	9	(6)
Rhythm and Meter	9	(1)
Melody	10	(3)
Harmony	13	(1)
Form	14	(1)
A Music-Culture Model: Affect, Performance, Community, and History	15	(4)
The Four Components of a Music-Culture	19	(11)
Ideas About Music	19	(5)
Activities Involving Music	24	(2)
Repertories of Music	26	(2)
Material Culture of Music	28	(2)
Ecological Worlds of Music	30	(5)
References	32	(1)
Additional Reading	32	(3)
North America/Native America	35	(52)
David P. McAllester
Three Different Styles	35	(11)
Sioux Grass Dance	35	(5)
Zuni Lullaby	40	(2)
Iroquois Quiver Dance	42	(2)
Making a ``Cowhorn'' Rattle	44	(2)
Music of the Navajos	46	(34)
A Yeibichai Song from the Nightway Ceremony	46	(3)
``Folsom Prison Blues''	49	(1)
The Navajo Way of Life	50	(4)
Traditional Popular Music	54	(1)
The Circle Dance Song ``Shizhane'e''	54	(2)
The Enemyway Ceremony	56	(4)
The ``Classical'' Music of the Navajos	60	(4)
The Life Story of a Navajo Ceremonial Practitioner	64	(7)
The Native American Church	71	(3)
The Water Drum	74	(2)
The Sun Dance	76	(1)
Navajo Hymn Music	76	(1)
New Composers in Traditional Modes	77	(2)
Music with Newly Created Navajo Texts and Melodies	79	(1)
New Navajo Music with English Texts and Orchestral Accompaniment	79	(1)
The Native American Flute Revival	80	(7)
References	82	(1)
Additional Reading	83	(1)
Additional Listening	84	(1)
Major Sources for Recordings	85	(2)
Africa/Ewe, Mande, Dagbamba, Shona, BaAka	87	(64)
David Locke
Postal Workers Canceling Stamps	89	(5)
Generalizations About African Music-Culture	90	(2)
Musical Analysis: Toward Participation	92	(2)
Agbekor: Music and Dance of the Ewe People	94	(19)
The Ewe People	94	(2)
Agbekor: History and Contemporary Performance	96	(4)
A Performance	100	(1)
Music of the Percussion Ensemble	101	(6)
Songs	107	(6)
Mande Jaliya: ``Lambango''	113	(9)
Historical and Social Background	114	(1)
Music-Culture	115	(2)
Elements of Performance	117	(2)
A Hearing of ``Lambango''	119	(3)
A Drummer of Dagbon	122	(5)
The Drums	122	(1)
A Praise Name Dance	123	(1)
Life Story: Abubakari Lunna	124	(3)
Shona Mbira Music	127	(10)
Cultural Context	127	(1)
The Mbira	128	(3)
``Nhemamusasa''	131	(4)
Thomas Mapfumo and Chimurenga Music	135	(2)
The BaAka People Singing: ``Makala''	137	(8)
Three Images of the Forest People	138	(1)
``Makala,'' a Mabo Song	139	(3)
Music-Culture as an Adaptive Resource	142	(3)
Conclusion as Discussion	145	(6)
References	147	(2)
Additional Reading	149	(1)
Additional Listening	149	(2)
North America/Black America	151	(60)
Jeff Todd Titon
Music of Worship	151	(11)
Music of Work	162	(6)
Music of Play	168	(38)
Blues	169	(1)
Blues and the Truth	170	(2)
Response to the Lyrics of ``Poor Boy Blues''	172	(2)
Autobiography and the Blues	174	(6)
Learning the Blues	180	(2)
The Blues Scale	182	(1)
Composing the Blues	183	(1)
A Blues Song in the Making	184	(3)
How to Make and Play a One-Stringed Diddly-Bow	187	(5)
Social Context and the Meaning of the Blues	192	(4)
The Blues Yesterday	196	(6)
The Blues Today	202	(4)
A Few Final Words	206	(5)
References	207	(1)
Additional Reading	208	(1)
Additional Listening	208	(1)
Viewing	209	(2)
Bosnia and Central/Southeastern Europe: Music and Musicians in Transition	211	(32)
Mark Slobin
Bosnia: From Tradition to Destruction	214	(22)
Music in a Muslim Highlander Village	215	(6)
Music of Rural and Urban Lowlands Muslims	221	(4)
Popular Music Styles: ``Newly Composed Folk Music'' and Rock	225	(3)
Mensur Hatic: Versatile Musical Traveler	228	(2)
Flory Jagoda: Keeper of the Sephardic Jewish Tradition of Bosnia	230	(2)
Update: Bosnia, 2001	232	(4)
Bulgaria: Another Approach to Musical Change	236	(3)
Summary	239	(4)
References	240	(1)
Additional Reading	240	(1)
Additional Listening	241	(2)
India/South India	243	(36)
David B. Reck
The Environment of Indian Musics	247	(8)
History, Culture, Politics	247	(2)
Many Musics	249	(6)
Karnataka Sangeeta, the Classical Music of South India	255	(18)
The Sound World	257	(2)
The Ensemble: Musical Texture	259	(2)
Raga: The Melodic System	261	(3)
Tala: The Time Cycle	264	(1)
The Drummer's Art	265	(2)
A Carnatic Music Performance	267	(2)
Alapana	269	(1)
Tanam	270	(1)
Kriti ``Sarasiruha''	270	(2)
Kalpana Svaras	272	(1)
The Drum Solo: Tani Avartanam	272	(1)
Indian Music and the West	273	(6)
References	275	(1)
Additional Reading and Viewing	275	(1)
Additional Listening	275	(2)
Major Sources for Recordings	277	(2)
Asia/Indonesia	279	(52)
R. Anderson Sutton
Central Java	281	(33)
Gamelan	282	(5)
Gamelan Construction	287	(1)
Gamelan Identity	288	(1)
Gamelan Performance Contexts	289	(2)
Gamelan Music: A Javanese Gendhing in Performance	291	(7)
Irama Level	298	(1)
Performing Your Own Gamelan Music	299	(1)
A Javanese Gendhing in Soft-Playing Style	299	(1)
Pathet	300	(2)
A Close Examination of ``Ladrang Wilujeng''	302	(5)
Biography of Ki Nartosabdho, a Gamelan Musician, Composer, and Puppeteer	307	(5)
Gamelan Music and Shadow Puppetry	312	(2)
Bali	314	(2)
North Sumatra	316	(3)
Indonesian Popular Music	319	(12)
Rhoma Irama, Dangdut	319	(2)
Responses to Globalization	321	(5)
References	326	(1)
Additional Reading	326	(1)
Additional Listening	327	(2)
Viewing	329	(2)
East Asia/Japan	331	(54)
Linda Fujie
Listening Habits of Contemporary Japanese	333	(1)
General Characteristics of Japanese Traditional Music	334	(4)
Pitch and Scales	334	(1)
Timbre	335	(1)
Melody and Harmony	336	(1)
Rhythm	336	(1)
Musical Form	337	(1)
The Shakuhachi (Bamboo Flute)	338	(6)
The Koto (Zither)	344	(1)
The Kouta (Short Song) and Shamisen (Lute)	345	(7)
Gidayu-bushi (Music of the Puppet Theater)	352	(4)
Minyo (Folk Song)	356	(5)
Matsuri-bayashi (Festival Music)	361	(8)
Ensemble and Technique	364	(2)
Biography of Ueno Mitsuyuki	366	(3)
Popular Music	369	(12)
Historical Background	370	(4)
Karaoke	374	(6)
Gunka	380	(1)
Folk Song	380	(1)
New Music	380	(1)
Pops	380	(1)
Final Words	381	(4)
References	382	(1)
Additional Reading	383	(1)
Additional Listening	383	(1)
Viewing	384	(1)
Latin America/Ecuador	385	(62)
John M. Schechter
The Venezuelan Joropo	387	(1)
Chilean Nueva Cancion	388	(7)
Victor Jara	388	(4)
Violeta Parra	392	(1)
The Front Lines of Social Change	393	(2)
Bolivian K'antu	395	(5)
The Quichua of the Northern Andes of Ecuador	400	(20)
The Musical Tradition: Sanjuan	403	(9)
Sanjuan and Cotacachi Quichua Lifeways	412	(3)
Walking in Sanjuan: The Vital-Domain Metaphor	415	(2)
Two Classic Sanjuanes	417	(3)
The Andean Ensemble Phenomenon	420	(6)
Wawa Velorio	426	(6)
The Career Dilemma of Don Cesar Muquinche	432	(6)
African-Ecuadorian Music of the Chota River Valley	438	(2)
Despedida, or Farewell	440	(7)
References	441	(2)
Additional Reading	443	(2)
Additional Listening	445	(1)
Viewing	446	(1)
Discovering and Documenting a World of Music	447	(28)
Jeff Todd Titon
David B. Reck
Mark Slobin
Music in Our Own Backyards	447	(10)
Family	449	(1)
Generation	450	(1)
Avocation	451	(1)
Religion	451	(1)
Ethnicity	452	(2)
Regionalism	454	(1)
Nationalism	454	(1)
Commercial Music	455	(2)
Doing Musical Ethnography	457	(18)
Selecting a Subject: Some Practical Suggestions	457	(2)
Collecting Information	459	(14)
Finishing the Project	473	(1)
References	474	(1)
Additional Reading	474	(1)
Credits	475	(2)
Index	477