Performing Ethnomusicology: Teaching and Representation in

Performing Ethnomusicology: Teaching and Representation in World Music Ensembles

Performing Ethnomusicology is the first book to deal exclusively with creating, teaching, and contextualizing academic world music performing ensembles. Considering the formidable theoretical, ethical, and practical issues that confront ethnomusicologists who direct such ensembles, the sixteen essays in this volume discuss problems of public performance and the pragmatics of pedagogy and learning processes. Their perspectives, drawing upon expertise in Caribbean steelband, Indian, Balinese, Javanese, Philippine, Mexican, Central and West African, Japanese, Chinese, Middle Eastern, and Jewish klezmer ensembles, provide a uniquely informed and many-faceted view of this complicated and rapidly changing landscape. The authors examine the creative and pedagogical negotiations involved in intergenerational and intercultural transmission and explore topics such as reflexivity, representation, hegemony, and aesthetically determined interaction. Performing Ethnomusicology affords sophisticated insights into the structuring of ethnomusicologists' careers and methodologies. This book offers an unprecedented rich history and contemporary examination of academic world music performance in the West, especially in the United States.

"Performing Ethnomusicology is an important book not only within the field of ethnomusicology itself, but for scholars in all disciplines engaged in aspects of performanceâ€”historical musicology, anthropology, folklore, and cultural studies. The individual articles offer a provocative and disparate array of threads and themes, which SolÃs skillfully weaves together in his introductory essay. A book of great importance and long overdue."â€”R. Anderson Sutton, author of Calling Back the Spirit

Contributors: Gage Averill, Kelly Gross, David Harnish, Mantle Hood, David W. Hughes, Michelle Kisliuk, David Locke, Scott Marcus, Hankus Netsky, Ali Jihad Racy, Anne K. Rasmussen, Ted SolÃs, Hardja Susilo, Sumarsam, Ricardo D. Trimillos, Roger Vetter, J. Lawrence Witzleben

Country	USA
Binding	Kindle Edition
Edition	1
EISBN	9780520937178
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	University of California Press
Manufacturer	University of California Press
NumberOfPages	329
PublicationDate	2004-08-13
Publisher	University of California Press
ReleaseDate	2004-08-15
Studio	University of California Press

Performing Ethnomusicology: Teaching and Representation in World Music Ensembles

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