Skip to content
You are not logged in |Login  
     
Limit search to available items
Record:   Prev Next
Resources
More Information
book
BookPrinted Material

Title This thing called music : essays in honor of Bruno Nettl / edited by Victoria Lindsay Levine, Philip V. Bohlman.

Publication Info. Lanham ; Boulder ; New York ; London : Rowman & Littlefield, [2015]
©2015

Item Status

Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Talbott: Circulating Collection  ML3798 .T56 2015    Available  ---
Description xxvii, 507 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm.
Series Europea : ethnomusicologies and modernities ; 18
Europea ; no. 18.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Part I : communities of music. Recording the life review : a case study from the medical humanities / Theresa Allison -- Music in the culture of children / Patricia Shehan Campbell -- The Mississippi Choctaw Fair and Veteran's Day Powwow : music, dance, and layers of identity / Chris Goertzen -- St. Peter and the Santarinas : celebrating traditions over time in Malacca, Malaysia / Margaret Sarkissian -- Performing translation in Jewish India : Kirtan of the Bene Israel / Anna Schultz.
Part II : intellectual history of musicology. Guerra-Peixe, cold war politics, and ethnomusicology in Brazil, 1950-1952 / Samuel Araújo -- Bohemian traces in the world of ethnomusicology / Zuzana Jurková -- Music scholarship and politics in Munich, 1918-1945 / William Kinderman -- Harry Partch and Jacques Barzun : a historical-musical duet on the subject "Western civ" / Harry Liebersohn -- The times they are a-changin' / Daniel M. Neuman -- Comparative musicologists in the field : reflections on the Cairo Congress of Arab Music, 1932 / A.J. Racy -- Ethnomusicological marginalia : on reading Charles Seeger reading The anthropology of music / Anthony Seeger.
Part III : analytical studies. The Persian radif in relation to the Tajik-Uzbek šašmaqom / Stephen Blum -- The saz semaisi in evcara by Dilhayat Kalfa and the Turkish makam after the Ottoman golden age / Robert Garfias -- When you do this, I'll hear you : Gros Ventre songs and supernatural power / Orin Hatton -- Permutation as a basic concept of rāga elaboration in North Indian music / Lars-Christian Koch -- Aspects of sound recording and sound analysis / Albrecht Schneider.
Part IV : historical studies. In search of music's intimate moments / Philip V. Bohlman -- Oral history, musical biography, and historical ethnomusicology / Martha Ellen Davis -- The doubleness of sound in Canada's Indian residential schools / Beverley Diamond -- Passages on music in the accounts of Medieval Arab travelers / Amnon Shiloah -- Reconstructing Abbey Road : history and mnemohistory in memories of working with the Beatles / Gordon Thompson -- Commercial 78s : a rediscovered resource for ethnomusicology / Philip Yampolsky.
Part V : issues and concepts. One hundred years of Indian folk music : the evolution of a concept / Stefan Fiol -- Textual relationships between O'odham story and song / J. Richard Haefer -- Finding and recovering musicality in a college folk music class / Melinda Russell -- Transpacific excursions : multi-sited ethnomusicology, the Black Pacific, and Nettl's comparative (method) / Gabriel Solis -- The emperor's new clothes : why musicologies do not always wish to know all they could know / Marcello Sorce Keller -- On theory and models : how to make our ideas clear / Thomas Turino.
Part VI : change, adaptation, and survival. Music, modernity, and Islam in Indonesia / Charles Capwell -- "Clubbing the boots" : the Navajo moccasin game in today's world / Charlotte J. Frisbie -- Rise up and dream : new work songs for the new China / Frederick Lau -- Fusion music in South India / Terada Yoshitaka -- The urge to merge : are cross-cultural collaborations destroying Hindustani music? / Stephen Slawek -- Regional songs in local and translocal spaces : the duck dance revisited / Victoria Lindsay Levine.
Language English text.
Subject Ethnomusicology.
Ethnomusicology.
Music -- History and criticism.
Music.
Music -- Social aspects.
Music -- Social aspects.
Festschriften.
Festschriften.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Festschriften.
Festschriften.
Added Author Levine, Victoria Lindsay, 1954- editor.
Bohlman, Philip V., 1952- editor.
Nettl, Bruno, 1930-2020, honouree.
ISBN 9781442242074 hardcover alkaline paper
1442242078 hardcover alkaline paper
9781442242081 electronic book
1442242086 electronic book