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1. What, in the world, is music? -- A point of departure : five propositions for exploring world music -- The basic property of music is sound -- The sounds (and silences) that comprise a musical work are organized in some way -- Sounds are organized into music by people, thus, music is a form of humanly organized sound -- Music is a product of human intention and perception -- The term "music" is inescapably tied to Western culture and its assumptions -- 2. How music lives : a musicultural approach -- Culture in music -- Meaning in music -- Identity in music -- Societies -- Cultures -- Nations and nation-states -- Diasporas and other transnational communities -- The individuals in music -- Do you belong to a virtual music community? -- Spirituality and transcendence in music -- Music and dance -- Music in ritual -- Music as commodity and the patronage of music -- The transmission of music and musical knowledge -- Production and reception -- Music creation processes -- Music in the process of tradition -- 3. How music works, pt. 1 : rhythm -- The four basic properties of t ones -- Rhythm -- Mozart and "The Alphabet Song" -- Beat -- Subdivision -- Meter -- Clap on 2 and 4, backbeats -- Insights and perspectives : three beats or seven? -- Accent and syncopation -- 4. How music works, pt. 2 : pitch -- Pitch and melody -- Pitch and melody in "Mary Had a Little Lamb" and a Native American Eagle Dance song -- Names of pitches in Western music -- Curing and causing illness with melody -- The Western pitch system and the octave -- Scale versus mode -- When high is low and low is high -- Common scales in Western music : major, pentatonic, minor, and blues -- Pitch and scales in non-Western musical systems -- Modulation : moving from one scale and key to another -- 5. How music works, pt. 3 : dynamics, timbre, and instruments -- Music instrument classification -- 6. How music works, pt. 4 : texture and form -- The debate over polyrhythms in West African music -- Form : the designs of musical works -- Forms based on repetition and patterns -- Forms with contrasting sections -- |
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7. Indonesian Gamelan music : interlocking rhythms, interlocking worlds -- Balinese Gamelan music in context -- Bali and the Republic of Indonesia -- religion in Bali and Indonesia -- Bali Aga : the "original Balinese" and their Gamelan music -- Gamelan in Bali and beyond -- The paired tuning of female and male instruments -- The Gamelan Beleganjur : an introduction -- Kilitan Telu interlocking rhythms : a musical symbol of communal interdependence -- Balinese Kecak and the Kilitan Telu -- Experiencing Balinese interlocking, Kecak-style -- The Gamelan Beleganjur in battles of good versus evil -- Beleganjur music in Hindu-Balinese cremation processions -- Caste and class in Bali -- Crossroad battles and a musical ladder to the upper world -- Walking warriors : worldly battlegrounds of Beleganjur music -- Lomba Beleganjur : the modern Beleganjur contest -- Kreasi Beleganjur : the contest musical style -- Tradition and innovation Kreasi Beleganjur -- Gerak : the choreographic element in Kreasi Beleganjur -- The Kreasi Beleganjur music of I Ketut Suandita -- Crossing international borders -- 8. From Raga to Bollywood : development and intercultural crossings in Indian music -- Indian music in context -- Musical diversity and two great traditions -- The Hindustani Raga of Northern India -- Ravi Shankar and the Maihar Gharana -- The caste system in India -- The Gharana -- Anoushka Shankar : carrying on the legacy -- "An Introduction to Music / Ravi Shankar -- The Sitar-Tambura-Tabla trio : instruments and texture -- Muslim musicians in Hindustani musical society -- Other Hindustani melodic instruments -- Raga defined -- Tala : meter and rhythm in Raga performance -- Standard features of a Tala summarized -- How a Raga "grows" -- Form in a Raga performance -- Two kinds of time -- Keeping Tal with Ravi Shankar -- The rhythm of Tihai -- Intercultural crossings and transformations -- Early inroads : West meets East, improvisations, and the music of John Coltrane -- Ravi Shankar, the Beatles, and the "great sitar explosion" -- A new level : John McLaughlin and Shakti -- Bollywood and beyond : the genius of A.R. Rahman -- 9. 'Not the same, but just as nice' : traditions and transformations in Irish music -- An introduction to Irish traditional music -- Traditional Irish dance tunes and medleys -- Irish music and Celtic music and cultures -- The life and legacy of Seamus Ennis -- Neo-traditional Irish music and the Irish music revival -- Sean O'Riada and the transformation Irish traditional music -- The Chieftains -- The 1970s : second generation of the Irish music revival -- The modern ensemble sound of Irish traditional dance music -- The Irish Bouzouki -- The post-traditional world of Irish music : crossing bridges with Eileen Ivers -- |
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10. The river and the path : conversation and collective expression in West African musics -- African musics in context -- Isicathamiya and Ladysmith Black Mambazo -- the African continent, Sub-Saharan Africa, and the African diaspora -- Music, culture, and history in Sub-Saharan Africa -- Drumming -- Fontomfrom : an Akan Royal Drum ensemble -- Unifying features of music in West Africa : musical Africanisms -- More than drumming : African musical diversity and the Kora -- The Kora and its musicultural world -- Mande history and culture -- The Jeli and the Art of Jeliya -- Seckou Keita : Kora master, Jeli, and radical royal -- A meeting of musical worlds : "Atlanta Kaira" -- Angélique Kidjo : West African collective expression in a global musical world -- The diva from Benin -- 11. 'See how she moves': musics of Latin America and the "Oye como va" phenomenon -- Latin music defined -- Latin music traditions and transformations in South America, Mexico, and the Caribbean -- Brazil : Samba, Bossa Nova, and Troopicália -- Carnival in Trinidad : Panorama and the steel band tradition -- Argentina and Uruguay : Tango -- Folkloric Andean music of Bolivia and Peru (and Paris and Buenos Aires too) -- Mexico : Mariachi -- Cuba, Creolization, and the roots of Latin dance music -- Afro-Cuban roots and Latin dance music -- Spanish-Cuban roots of Latin dance music -- The Danzón-Mambo -- Enrique Jorrin and the Cuban Cha Cha Chá -- Mambo (big band mambo) -- Tito Puente, the Newyorican connection, and Latino/American music culture in New York city -- Machito and the Afro-Cubans in the history of Latin dance music -- The Palladium Ballroom -- New sounds, new times : "Oye como va," the Santana version -- The rise of Santana and Latin Rock -- Carlos Santana and Prince -- the Hammond B-3 organ and "Oye como va" -- Beyond the music : Santana, "Oye como va" and Pan-Latino identity -- Santana's "Oye como va" and Tito Puente -- the King of Salsa and Latin Jazz -- Deep Cuban tradition meets Salsa and Latin Jazz : Francisco Aguabella's "Nena" -- Tito Puente Jr. : into the future, back to the past -- 12. From Baladi to belly dance: rhythm, dance, and music in Egypt and beyond -- Egypt : an overview -- Ancient Egypt and the rise of Arab-Islamic culture -- Iraqi Rock : Acrassicauda's "Only the dead see the end of the war" -- Foreign rule, nationalism, and nationhood in Egypt -- The foundations of Egyptian women's dance -- The Ghawazi Tradition -- Muhammad Ali Street -- Zaar : Egyptian women's dance in a healing ritual -- Music, dance, nationalism, and mass media entertainment in 20th-century Egypt -- Badiaa Masabni -- Dance, music, and the Egyptian film industry -- Muhammad 'Abd al-Wahhab and Samia Gamal -- Qur'anic recitation versus musical "enchantment" in Islamic society -- cultural nationalism and the Baladi Folk ideal in post-revolutionary Egypt -- Farida Fahmy and the Reda Troupe -- Folk dance rhythms in Raqs Sharqi and belly dance : Fallahi and Saaidi -- The Table Solo dance -- Tabla Solo in a Raqs Sharqi dance routine -- From Cairo to Mexico, Lebanon, and beyond : contemporary belly dance music -- 13. A musicultural history of the Chinese Zheng -- The nation-state of modern China -- An introduction to the Zheng -- The Koto and Japanese music in ancient and modern times -- The Han Dynasty era -- Confucianism and the Qin zither -- The Tang Dynasty era -- The Ming and Qing Dynasty eras -- Chinese opera and Beijing opera in dynastic and post-dynastic China -- Regional styles : traditional Solo Zheng music -- Emergence and development of the Conservatory Solo Zheng style in mainland China -- Music and the Conservatory Solo Zheng tradition in Communist China, 1949-1965 -- The Chinese occupation of Tibet and the plight of Tibetan Buddhists -- The Cultural Revolution era -- The rise of Deng Xiaoping and the Period of Openness -- Rocking the Zheng on the new Long March : Cui Jian and Bei Bei He -- The arts, the Zheng, and musicultural life in post-1970s China -- Uighur history and culture. |
| Abstract |
From jeliya to cha cha cha, Shandong to sean nos, and the Beatles and beleganjur to Bollywood and belly dance, the second edition of this book takes students on a global journey of musical and cultural discovery, exploration, and experience. Through clearly focused case studies of diverse musicultural traditions, the author illustrates the transformative life of world musics from traditional folk, ritual, and classical genres to contemporary popular and art musics, jazz, and world beat. Integral connections between particular musics and their historical, cultural, and international contexts are consistently emphasized. The text also includes a globally inclusive introduction to core elements of music and culture that makes its unique approach accessible to music majors and non-majors alike. Highlights of the second edition: new sections in the text covering Bollywood, Japanese music, Brazilian music, steel band, mariachi, tango, salsa and Latin jazz, South African isicathamiya, Irish vocal music, Javanese and Balinese gamelan, Middle Eastern art music, and Indonesian, Chinese-American, and First Nations/Native American rock; an expanded 4-CD set featuring extended and remastered tracks from the first edition's CD compilation along with nineteen new selections--over an hour of new music for this edition; extensively revised introductory chapters on musical elements facilitate greater accessibility and reading enjoyment, especially for non-music majors; guided listening experiences, which use narrative descriptions followed by bulleted listening summaries to illuminate key musical and cultural features, have been substantially revised for improved clarity; musical guided tours, featuring brief and informative lecture demonstrations with embedded musical examples, illustrate how specific styles of music work from the inside out--instrument by instrument and part by part; the online learning center includes both a student edition and an instructor's edition and features musical guided tours, online musical illustrations, links to an abundance of online video resources for class use, annotated lists of resources for further study and research, study aids, an instructor's manual, and many additional features. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-366) and index. |
| LCCN | 2010050752 |
| ISBN | 9780073526645 (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0073526649 (alk. paper) |
