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Book SynopsisThe 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 itselfin its vastly complex and diverse forms throughout the worldcharacterizes 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
Trade ReviewNettl is one of ethnomusicology's founding fathers and revered senior figures, part of a pantheon that includes Mantle Hood, David McAllester, William Malm, and Alan Merriam. Besides writing for a plethora of publications, Nettl advised dozens of doctoral candidates at the University of Illinois, and many of them celebrate their mentor in this Festschrift. Nettl represents ‘modernist,’ data-centered ethnomusicology, not the current theory-based ‘postmodern’ form. These 35 essays provide a broad cross section of his students and their non-Illinois contemporaries, who form a kind of Nettl-based solar system. Although many Festschriften are random collections on miscellaneous subjects, this one will serve as a kind of reader in ‘classic ethnomusicology’ and could well be used by graduate students because it covers field-based, historical, (music) theoretical, medical, and children’s ethnomusicology, with essays on the US (including Native American), Europe, Latin America, and East, South, and Southeast Asia. The volume does not reflect ethnomusicology’s current fascination with postmodern cultural criticism and its sometimes off-putting writing style. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty. * CHOICE *
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Tables Acknowledgments Introduction:Bruno Nettl, A Lifetime in Search of Music Victoria Lindsay Levine and Philip V. Bohlman Part I: Communities of Music Chapter 1: Recording the Life Review: A Case Study from the Medical Humanities Theresa Allison Chapter 2: Music in the Culture of Children Patricia Shehan Campbell Chapter 3: The Mississippi Choctaw Fair and Veteran’s Day Powwow: Music, Dance, and Layers of Identity Chris Goertzen Chapter 4: St. Peter and the Santarinas: Celebrating Traditions over Time in Malacca, Malaysia Margaret Sarkissian Chapter 5: Performing Translation in Jewish India: Kirtan of the Bene Israel Anna Schultz Part II: Intellectual History of Ethnomusicology Chapter 6: Guerra-Peixe, Cold War Politics, and Ethnomusicology in Brazil, 1950-1952 Samuel Araújo Chapter 7: Bohemian Traces in the World of Ethnomusicology Zuzana Jurková Chapter 8: Music Scholarship and Politics in Munich, 1918–1945 William Kinderman Chapter 9: Harry Partch and Jacques Barzun: A Historical-Musical Duet on the Subject, ‘Western Civ’ Harry Liebersohn Chapter 10: The Times They Are a-Changin’ Daniel M. Neuman Chapter 11: Comparative Musicologists in the Field: Reflections on the Cairo Congress of Arab Music, 1932 A. J. Racy Chapter 12: Ethnomusicological Marginalia: On Reading Charles Seeger Reading The Anthropology of Music Anthony Seeger Part III: Analytical Studies Chapter 13: The Persian Radif in Relation to the Tajik-Uzbek Šašmaqom Stephen Blum Chapter 14: The Saz Semaisi in Evcara by Dilhayat Kalfa and the Turkish Makam After the Ottoman Golden Age Robert Garfias Chapter 15: When You Do This, I’ll Hear You: Gros Ventre Songs and Supernatural Power Orin Hatton Chapter 16: Permutation as a Basic Concept of Rāga Elaboration in North Indian Music Lars-Christian Koch Chapter 17: Aspects of Sound Recording and Sound Analysis Albrecht Schneider Part IV: Historical Studies Chapter 18: In Search of Music’s Intimate Moments Philip V. Bohlman Chapter 19: Oral History, Music Biography, and Historical Ethnomusicology Martha Ellen Davis Chapter 20: The Doubleness of Sound in Canada’s Indian Residential Schools Beverley Diamond Chapter 21: Passages on Music in the Accounts of Medieval Arab Travelers Amnon Shiloah Chapter 22: Reconstructing Abbey Road: History and Mnemohistory in Memories of Working with the Beatles Gordon Thompson Chapter 23: Commercial 78s: A Rediscovered Resource for Ethnomusicology Philip Yampolsky Part V: Issues and Concepts Chapter 24: One Hundred Years of Indian Folk Music: The Evolution of a Concept Stefan Fiol Chapter 25: Textual Relations between O’odham Story and Song J. Richard Haefer Chapter 26: Finding and Recovering Musicality in a College Folk Music Class Melinda Russell Chapter 27: Transpacific Excursions: Multi-Sited Ethnomusicology, The Black Pacific, and Nettl’s Comparative (Method) Gabriel Solis Chapter 28: The Emperor’s New Clothes: Why Musicologies Do Not Always Wish to Know, All They Could Know Marcello Sorce Keller Chapter 29: On Theory and Models: How to Make Our Ideas Clear Thomas Turino Part VI: Change, Adaptation, and Survival Chapter 30: Music, Modernity, and Islam in Indonesia Charles Capwell Chapter 31: “Clubbing the Boots”: The Navajo Moccasin Game in Today’s World Charlotte J. Frisbie Chapter 32: Rise Up and Dream: New Work Songs for the New China Frederick Lau Chapter 33: Fusion Music in South India Terada Yoshitaka Chapter 34: The Urge to Merge: Are Cross-Cultural Collaborations Destroying Hindustani Music? Stephen Slawek Chapter 35: Regional Songs in Local and Translocal Spaces: The Duck Dance Revisited Victoria Lindsay Levine Bibliography About the Contributors
