| Description |
vii, 322 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-302) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction. Teaching what cannot be taught : an optimistic overview / Ted Solís -- Sounding the other : academic world music ensembles in historical perspective. Subject, object, and the ethnomusicology ensemble : the ethnomusicological "we" and "them" / Ricardo D. Trimillos ; "A bridge to Java" : four decades teaching gamelan in America / interview with Hardja Susilo ; Opportunity and interaction : the gamelan from Java to Wesleyan / Sumarsam ; "Where's 'one'?" : musical encounters of the ensemble kind / Gage Averill -- Square pegs and spokesfolk : serving and adapting to the academy. A square peg in a round hole : teaching Javanese gamelan in the ensemble paradigm of the academy / Roger Vetter ; "No, not 'Bali hai'!" : challenges of adaptation and orientalism in performing and teaching Balinese gamelan / David Harnish ; Cultural interactions in an Asian context : Chinese and Javanese ensembles in Hong Kong / J. Lawrence Witzleben -- Patchworkers, actors, and ambassadors : representing ourselves and others. "Can't help but speak, can't help but play" : dual discourse in Arab music pedagogy / interview with Ali Jihad Racy ; The African ensemble in America : contradictions and possibilities / David Locke ; Klez goes to college / Hankus Netsky ; Creating a community, negotiating among communities : performing Middle Eastern music for a diverse Middle Eastern and American public / Scott Marcus -- Take-off points : creativity and pedagogical obligation. Bilateral negotations in bimusicality : insiders, outsiders, and the "real version" in Middle Eastern music performance / Anne K. Rasmussen ; Community of comfort : negotiating a world of "Latin marimba" / Ted Solís ; What's the "it" that we learn to perform? : teaching BaAka music and dance / Michelle Kisliuk and Kelly Gross ; "When can we improvise?" : the place of creativity in academic world music performance / David W. Hughes -- Afterword. Some closing thoughts from the first voice / interview with Mantle Hood. |
| Subject |
Ethnomusicology.
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Ethnomusicology. |
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World music -- Instruction and study.
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World music -- Instruction and study. |
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World music. |
| Genre/Form |
World music.
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| Subject |
Folk music groups.
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Folk music groups. |
| Added Author |
Solís, Ted.
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| ISBN |
0520238745 cloth alkaline paper |
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0520238311 paperback alkaline paper |
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