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Ethnomusicology: A Contemporary Reader

  • Author: Post, Jennifer C.

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Contents

  • Acknowledgements
  • Contributors
  • Introduction "Jennifer C. Post"
  • Part 1 : Commodification and Consumption
  • 1. Sultans of Spin: Syrian Sacred Music on the World Stage "Jonathan H. Shannon"
  • 2. Sounds Like the Mall of America: Programmed Music and the Architectonics of Commerical Space "Jonathan Sterne"
  • Part 2 : Cultural Tourism and Travel
  • 3. Culture, Tourism and Cultural Tourism: Boundaries and Frontiers in Performances of Balinese Music and Dance "Peter Dunbar-Hall"
  • 4. Folk Festival as Modern Ritual in the Polish Tatra Mountain "Timothy J. Cooley"
  • Part 3 : Gender and Sexuality
  • 5. Taiko and the Asian/American Body: Drums, "Rising Sun", and the Question of Gender "Deborah Wong"
  • 6. Empowering Self, Making Choices, Creating Spaces: Black Female Identity via Rap Music Performance "Cheryl L. Keyes"
  • 7. The Frame Drum in the Middle East: Women, Musical Instruments and Power "Veronica Doubleday"
  • Part 4 : Globalization and Glocalization
  • 8. On Redefining the 'Local' through World Music "Jocelyne Guilbault"
  • 9. The Canned Sardine Spirit Takes the Mic "Marina Roseman "
  • 10. A Musical Instrument Travels Around the World: Jenbe Playing in Bamako, West Africa and Beyond "Rainer Polak"
  • Part 5 : Media, Technology and Technoculture
  • 11. Mozart in Mirrorshades: Ethnomusicology, Technology and the Politics of Representation "Ren""e T.A. Lysloff"
  • 12. Technology and the Production of Islamic Space: The Call to Prayer in Singapore "Tong Soon Lee"
  • 13. Acting Up, Talking Tech: New York Rock Musicians and Their Metaphors of Technology "Leslie C. Gay, Jr"
  • Part 6 : Nationalism and Transnationalism
  • 14. The Sonic Dimensions of Nationalism in Modern China: Musical Representation and Transformation "Sue Tuohy"
  • 15. Russia's New Anthem and the Negotiation of National Identity "J. Martin Daughtry "
  • 16. 'Mezanmi, Kouman Nou Ye? My Friends How Are You?': Musical Constructions of the Haitian Transnation "Gage Averill"
  • 17. 'Indian' Music in the Diaspora: Case Studies of "Chutney" in Trinidad and in London "Tina K. Ramnarine" " "
  • Part 7 : Place and Embodiment
  • 18. The Embodiment of Salsa: Musicians, Instruments and the Performance of a Latin Style and Identity "Patria Roman-Velazquez"
  • 19. Dueling Landscapes: Singing Places and Identities in Highland Bolivia "Tom Solomon"
  • Part 8 : Racial and Ethnic Identities
  • 20. Rhythm, Rhyme and Rhetoric in the Music of Public Enemy "Robert Walser"
  • 21. American Indian Rap and Reggae: Dancing to the Beat of a Different Drummer "Neal Ullestad"
  • 22. From 'I'm a Lapp' to 'I am Saami': Popular Music and Changing Images of Indigenous Ethnicity in Scandinavia "Richard Jones-Bamman"
  • Part 9 : Social and Political Action
  • 23. Cajun Music, Cultural Revival: Theorizing Political Action in Popular Music "Mark Mattern"
  • 24. Mitmiluk: Place and Empowerment in Australian Aboriginal Popular Music "Chris Gibson and Peter Dunbar-Hall"
  • 25. Culture, Conservation and Community Reconstruction: Explorations in Advocacy Ethnomusicology and Participatory Action Research in Northern KwaZulu Natal "Angela Impey "
  • Glossary Research Resources Books and Articles Audio Recordings Video Recordings Websites
  • Index