List 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
Victoria Lindsay Levine is professor of music at Colorado College,
where she has served as the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur
Professor, the Christine S. Johnson Professor of Music, and the W.
M. Keck Foundation Director of the Hulbert Center for Southwestern
Studies.
Philip V. Bohlman is Mary Werkman Distinguished Service Professor
of Music and the Humanities at the University of Chicago,
Honorarprofessor at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien
Hannover, and artistic director of the New Budapest Orpheum
Society, an ensemble-in-residence in the Humanities Division of the
University of Chicago.
Nettl 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.
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