Worlds of Music

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Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1996-08-01
Publisher(s): Schirmer
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Table of Contents

Recorded Selections xi(6)
The Authors xvii(4)
Preface xxi
1. The Music-Culture as a World of Music
1(16)
Jeff Todd Titon
Mark Slobin
The Music Culture
1(1)
Affect, Performance, Community, and History: A Music-Culture Model
2(5)
Components of a Music-Culture
7(6)
Ideas about Music
Social Organization of Music
Repertories of Music
Material Culture of Music
Worlds of Music
13(1)
References Cited
14(1)
Additional Reading
15(2)
2. North America/Native America
17(54)
David P. McAllester
Three Different Styles
17(11)
Sioux Grass Dance
Zuni Lullaby
Iroquois Quiver Dance
Making a "Cowhorn" Rattle
Music of the Navajo Indians
28(39)
A Yeibichai Song from the Nightway Ceremony
"Folsom Prison Blues"
The Navajo Way of Life
Traditional Popular Music
The Circle Dance Song "Shizhané'é"
The Enemyway Ceremony
The "Classical" Music of the Navajos
The Life Story of a Navajo Ceremonial Practitioner
The Native American Church
The Sun Dance
Navajo Hymn Music
New Composers in Traditional Modes
Music with Newly Created Navajo Texts and Melodies
New Navajo Music with English Texts and Orchestral Accompaniment
The Native American Flute Revival
References Cited
67(2)
Additional Reading
69(1)
Additional Listening
69(1)
Major Sources for Recordings
70(1)
3. Africa/Ewe, Mande, Dagbamba, Shona, BaAka
71(73)
David Locke
Questions
71(1)
Postal Workers Canceling Stamps
72(6)
Generalizations about African Music-Culture
Musical Analysis: Toward Participation
Agbekor: Music and Dance of the Ewe People
78(23)
The Ewe People
Agbekor: History and Contemporary Performance
A Performance
Music of the Percussion Ensemble
Songs
Mande Jaliya: "Lambango"
101(10)
Historical and Social Background
Music-Culture
Elements of Performance
A Hearing of "Lambango"
A Drummer of Dagbon
111(7)
The Drums
A Praise Name Dance
Life Story: Abubakari Lunna
Shona Mbira Music
118(11)
Cultural Context
The Mbira
Thomas Mapfumo and Chimurenga Music
BaAka Singing: "Makala"
129(9)
Three Images of the Forest People
"Makala," a Mabo Song
Music-Culture As an Adaptive Resource
Conclusion As Discussion
138(1)
References Cited
139(4)
Additional Reading
143(1)
Additional Listening
143(1)
4. North America/Black America
144(67)
Jeff Todd Titon
Music of Worship
144(10)
Music of Work
154(7)
Music of Play
161(45)
Blues
A Few Final Words
206(1)
References Cited
207(1)
Additional Reading
208(1)
Additional Listening
209(1)
Additional Viewing
210(1)
5. Bosnia and Central/Southeast Europe: Musics and Musicians in Transition
211(41)
Mark Slobin
Bosnia: From Tradition to Destruction
214(29)
Music in a Muslim Highlander Village
Music of Rural and Urban Lowlands Muslims
Popular Music Styles: "Newly Composed Folk Music" and Rock
Mensur Hatic: Versatile Musical Traveler
Flory Jagoda: Keeper of the Sephardic Jewish Tradition of Bosnia
Bulgaria and Hungary: Other Approaches to Musical Change
243(6)
Bulgaria
Hungary: Learning from Traditional Music
Summary
249(1)
References Cited
250(1)
Additional Reading
250(1)
Additional Listening
251(1)
6. India/South India
252(64)
David B. Reck
The Environment--The Musician
252(15)
The Setting
Many Musics
A Day in the Life of Ramachandra, A Musician of Madras
Karnataka sangeeta, the Classical Music of South India
267(2)
A Performance Segment: The Sound World
269(12)
Instruments
The Ensemble
Sruti (the Drone)
Raga (the Expressive Mode)
Scale, Raga sankarabharanam
Tala (the Time Cycle)
Musical Structure: Improvisation
Musical Structure: The Kriti
281(15)
The Song Text
Svara kalpana in the Performance
The Drummer's Art
An Ear Map
Indian Music and the West
296(3)
Instrument Building and Performance
299(6)
Instrument Building
Playing Technique
Inventing a Raga
305(8)
Scales
Tones
Phrases
Psychoacoustics
References Cited
313(1)
Commercial Recordings Cited
313(1)
Classroom Resources
314(1)
Additional Reading
314(1)
Additional Listening
315(1)
7. Asia/Indonesia
316(53)
R. Anderson Sutton
Central Java
318(34)
Gamelan
Gamelan Construction
Gamelan Identity
Gamelan Performance Contexts
Gamelan Music: A Javanese Gendhing in Performance
Irama Level
Performing Your Own Gamelan Music
A Javanese Gendhing in Soft-Playing Style
Pathet
Instrumental Playing in "Ladrang Wilujeng"
Singing in "Ladrang Wilujeng"
Biography of Ki Nartosabdho, a Gamelan Musician, Composer, and Puppeteer
Gamelan Music and Shadow Puppetry
Bali
352(4)
North Sumatra
356(3)
Indonesian Popular Music
359(4)
References Cited
363(1)
Additional Reading
364(1)
Additional Listening
365(2)
Additional Viewing
367(2)
8. East Asia/Japan
369(59)
Linda Fujie
Listening Habits of Contemporary Japanese
371(1)
General Characteristics of Japanese Traditional Music
372(4)
Pitch/Scales
Timbre
Melody/Harmony
Rhythm
Musical Form
Shakuhachi
376(6)
Koto
382(2)
Kouta
384(7)
Gidayu-bushi: Music of the Puppet Theater
391(6)
Folk Song
397(5)
Festival Music: Matsuri-bayashi
402(9)
Popular Music
411(13)
Historical Background
Gunka
Folk Song
New Music
Pops
References Cited
424(1)
Additional Reading
425(1)
Additional Listening
426(1)
Additional Viewing
427(1)
9. Latin America/Ecuador
428(67)
John M. Schechter
Venezuelan Joropo
429(1)
Nueva Canción: "El Lazo,"
430(7)
Víctor Jara
Bolivian K'antu
437(6)
The Quichua of the Northern Andes of Ecuador
443(4)
The Musical Tradition: Sanjuán
447(10)
Sanjuán and Cotacachi Quichua Lifeways
457(3)
Walking in Sanjuán: The Vital-Domain Metaphor
460(2)
Two "Classic" Sanjuanes
462(4)
The Andean Ensemble Phenomenon
466(2)
Wawa Velorio
468(7)
The Career Dilemma of Don César Muquinche
475(6)
Elsewhere in Ecuador
481(2)
African-Ecuadorian Music of the Chota River Valley
483(3)
Despedida, or Farewell
486(1)
References Cited
487(3)
Additional Reading
490(2)
Additional Listening
492(1)
Additional Viewing
493(2)
10. Discovering and Documenting a World of Music
495(26)
David B. Reck
Mark Slobin
Jeff Todd Titon
Music in Our Own Backyards
495(9)
Family
Generation
Avocation
Religion
Ethnicity
Regionalism
Nationalism
Commercial Music
Doing Musical Ethnography
504(1)
Selecting a Subject: Some Practical Suggestions
504(2)
Collecting Information
506(11)
Gaining Entry
Selecting a Topic
Library Research
Participation and Observation
Ethics
Field Equipment: Notebook, Tape Recorder, Camera
Interviewing
Other Means of Collecting Information
Finishing the Project
517(1)
References Cited
518(1)
Additional Reading
518(3)
Index 521

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