Music Traditions, Cultures, and Contexts
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Music Traditions, Cultures, and Contexts

  1. 366 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Music Traditions, Cultures, and Contexts

About this book

Music Traditions, Cultures, and Contexts is a tribute to the ethnomusicologist Beverley Diamond in recognition of her outstanding scholarly accomplishments. The volume includes essays by leading ethnomusicologists and music scholars as well as a biographical introduction.

The book's contributors engage many of the critical themes in Diamond's work, including musical historiography, musical composition in historical and contemporary frameworks, performance in diverse contexts, gender issues, music and politics, and how music is nested in and relates to broader issues in society. The essays raise important themes about knowing and understanding musical traditions and music itself as an agent of social, cultural, and political change. Music Traditions, Cultures, and Contexts will appeal to music scholars and students, as well as to a general audience interested in learning about how music functions as social process as well as sound.

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Table of contents

  1. CONTENTS
  2. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
  3. LIST OF MUSIC ILLUSTRATIONS
  4. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  5. PREFACE
  6. 1 Beverley Diamond: Life Stories, Academic Directions and Teaching, Research and Scholarly Activity
  7. 2 Conversations with Clifford Crawley
  8. 3 Ethnomusicology Critiques Itself: Comments on the History of a Tradition
  9. 4 Is Fieldwork Still Necessary?
  10. 5 Toward a History of Ethnomusicology's North Americanist Agenda
  11. 6 Encountering Oral Performance as Total Musical Fact
  12. 7 You Also Work as a Church Organist? Whatever For?
  13. 8 The Politics of Organology and the Nova Scotia Banjo: An Essay in Honour of Beverley Diamond
  14. 9 Strategies of Survival: Traditional Music, Politics, and Music Education among Two Minorities of Finland
  15. 10 Father of Romance, Vagabond of Glory: Two Canadian Composers as Stage Heroes
  16. 11 Funk and James Brown: Re-Africanization, the Interlocked Groove, and the Articulation of Community
  17. 12 On the One: Parliament/Funkadelic, the Mothership, and Transformation
  18. 13 Politics through Pleasure: Party Music in Trinidad
  19. 14 A Festschrift for the Twenty-First Century: Student Voices
  20. APPENDIX: BEVERLEY DIAMOND-PUBLICATIONS AND LECTURES
  21. CONTRIBUTORS
  22. INDEX