| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 322 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| 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 by David Harnish, Ted Solís, and J. Lawrence Witzleben -- 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 by Scott Marcus and Ted Solís -- 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 negotiations 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 by Ricardo Trimillos. |
| Summary |
'Performing Ethnomusicology' deals exclusively with creating, teaching, and contextualizing academic world music performing ensembles. 16 essays discuss the problems of public performance and the pragmatics of pedagogy and learning processes. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| 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. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Solís, Ted.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Performing ethnomusicology. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2004 0520238745 0520238311 (DLC) 2004043967 (OCoLC)54103890 |
| ISBN |
9780520937178 (electronic book) |
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0520937171 (electronic book) |
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0520238745 |
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9780520238749 |
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0520238311 |
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9780520238312 |
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1597348031 |
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9781597348034 |
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