This Thing Called Music

Victoria Lindsay Levine; Philip V. Bohlman

doi:10.5771/9781442242081

Summary

The most fundamental subject of music scholarship provides the common focus of this volume of essays: music itself. For the distinguished scholars from the field of musicology and related areas of the humanities and social sciences, the search for music itself—in its vastly complex and diverse forms throughout the world—characterizes the lifetime of reflection and writing by Bruno Nettl, the leading ethnomusicologist of the past generation. This Thing Called Music: Essays in Honor of Bruno Nettl salutes not only a great scholar and beloved teacher, but also a thinker whose search for the meaning and ontology of music has exerted a global influence.

Editors Victoria Lindsay Levine and Philip V. Bohlman have gathered essays that represent the many dimensions of musical meaning, addressing some of the most critically important areas of music scholarship today. The social formations of musical communities play counterpoint to analytical studies; investigations into musical change and survival connect ethnography to history, offering a collection of essays that can serve as an invaluable resource for the intellectual history of ethnomusicology. Each chapter explores music and its meanings in specific geographic areas—North and South America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East—crossing the boundaries of genre, repertory, and style to provide insight into the aesthetic zones of contact between and among the folk, classical, and popular musics of the world.

Readers from all disciplines of music scholarship will find in this collection a proper companion in an era of globalization, when the connections that draw musicians and musical practices together are more sweeping than ever. Chapters offer models for detailed analysis of specific musical practices, while at the same time they make possible new methods of comparative study in the twenty-first century, together posing a challenge crucial to all musicians and scholars in search of “this thing called music.”

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Copyright year: 2015
ISBN-Print: 978-1-4422-4207-4
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4422-4208-1
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 508
Product type: Edited Book

1. Contents No access
2. List of Figures No access
3. List of Tables No access
4. Acknowledgments No access
5. Introduction No access
1. Ch01. Recording the Life Review No access
2. Ch02. Music in the Culture of Children No access
3. Ch03. The Mississippi Choctaw Fair and Veteran’s Day Powwow No access
4. Ch04. St. Peter and the Santarinas No access
5. Ch05. Performing Translation in Jewish India No access
1. Ch06. Guerra-Peixe, Cold War Politics, and Ethnomusicologyi n Brazil, 1950–1952 No access
2. Ch07. Bohemian Traces in the World of Ethnomusicology No access
3. Ch08. Music Scholarship and Politics in Munich, 1918–1945 No access
4. Ch09. Harry Partch and Jacques Barzun No access
5. Ch10. The Times They Are a-Changin’ No access
6. Ch11. Comparative Musicologists in the Field No access
7. Ch12. Ethnomusicological Marginalia No access
1. Ch13. The Persian Radif in Relation to the Tajik-Uzbek Šašmaqom No access
2. Ch14. The Saz Semaisi in Evcara by Dilhayat Kalfa and the Turkish Makam after the Ottoman Golden Age No access
3. Ch15. When You Do This, I’ll Hear You No access
4. Ch16. Permutation as a Basic Concept of Raˉga Elaboration in North Indian Music No access
5. Ch17. Aspects of Sound Recording and Sound Analysis No access
1. Ch18. In Search of Music’s Intimate Moments No access
2. Ch19. Oral History, Musical Biography, and Historical Ethnomusicology No access
3. Ch20. The Doubleness of Sound in Canada’s Indian Residential Schools No access
4. Ch21. Passages on Music in the Accounts of Medieval Arab Travelers No access
5. Ch22. Reconstructing Abbey Road No access
6. Ch23. Commercial 78s No access
1. Ch24. One Hundred Years of Indian Folk Music No access
2. Ch25. Textual Relationships between O’odham Story and Song No access
3. Ch26. Finding and Recovering Musicality in a College Folk Music Class No access
4. Ch27. Transpacific Excursions No access
5. Ch28. The Emperor’s New Clothes No access
6. Ch29. On Theory and Models No access
1. Ch30. Music, Modernity, and Islam in Indonesia No access
2. Ch31. “Clubbing the Boots” No access
3. Ch32. Rise Up and Dream No access
4. Ch33. Fusion Music in South India No access
5. Ch34. The Urge to Merge No access
6. Ch35. Regional Songs in Local and Translocal Spaces No access
Index No access Pages 471 - 498
About the Editors and Contributors No access Pages 499 - 508