Performing ethnomusicology : teaching and representation in world music ensembles /

Other Authors: Solís, Ted.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2004.
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Online Access:http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=119358
Table of 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.