the world of music: Readings in Ethnomusicology

Contents:

+++Aspects of Music History: Archaeology, Iconography, and the Transcultural Interest

*Arnd Adje Both: Aztec Music Culture
*Gerald Groemer: The Rise of "Japanese Music"
*Bonnie C. Wade: Performing the Drone in Hindustani Classical Music: What Mughal Paintings Show Us to Hear
*Bruno Deschênes: The Interest of Westerners in Non-Western Music

+++Musical Instruments: Between Re-contextualization, Imagination, and Modernity

*Karl Neuenfeldt: Good Vibrations? The "Curious" Cases of the Didjeridu in Spectacle and Therapy in Australia
*Toru Seyama: The Re-contextualization of the Shakuhachi (Syakuhati) and its Music from Traditional/Classical into Modern/Popular
*Paula Conlon: The Native American Flute: Convergence and Collaboration as Exemplified by R. Carlos Nakai

+++Musical Instruments: Beyond the Local and the Global

*Rainer Polak: A Musical Instrument Travels Around the World: Jenbe Playing in Bamako, West Africa, and Beyond
*Thomas Turino: The Mbira, Worldbeat, and the International Imagination
*Linda Fujie: Japanese Taiko Drumming in International Performance: Converging Musical Ideas in the Search for Success on Stage

+++Sounding Voices: Identity, Spirituality, and Cultural Inheritance

*Gregory Barz: Soundscapes of Disaffection and Spirituality in Tanzanian Kwaya Music
*Laura Leante: Shaping Diasporic Sounds: Identity as Meaning in Bhangra
*Dan Bendrups: Easter Island Music and the Voice of Kiko Pate: A Biographical History of Sound Recording

+++Inventing Traditions: Revival, Music Festivals, and Transculturalization

*Timothy J. Cooley: Folk Festivals as Modern Ritual in the Polish Tatra Mountains
*Max Peter Baumann: Festivals, Musical Actors, and Mental Constructs in the Process of Globalization
*Owe Ronström: Revival Reconsidered

+++Music, Gender, and the Individual

*Jonathan P. J. Stock: Towards an Ethnomusicology of the Individual, or Biographical Writing in Ethnomusicology
*Regula Burckhardt-Qureshi: In Search of Begum Akthar: Patriarchy, Poetry, and Twentieth-Century Music
*Beverly Diamond: Native American Contemporary Music: The Women

+++Ritual and Drama: Observation, Interpretation, and Reconstruction

*Regine Allgayer-Kaufmann: From the Innocent to the Exploring Eye: Transcription on the Defensive
*Martina Claus-Bachmann: Kuveni, or the Curse of a Women as a Flashpoint for Music-oriented (Re-)Constructions
*Tiago de Oliveira Pinto: Healing Process as Musical Drama: The Ebó Ceremony in the Bahian Candomblé of Brazil

+++Meaning, Style, Genre, and Change

*Margaret Kartomi: Meaning, Style, and Change in Gamalan and Wayang Kulit Banjar Since Their Transplantation from Hindu-Buddhist Java to South Kalimantan
*Sonjah Stanley Niaah: A Common Space: Dancehall, Kwaito, and the Mapping of New World Music and Performance
*Sydney Hutchinson: Becoming the Tíguera: The Female Accordionist in Dominican Merengue Típico

+++Listening, Hearing, and Understanding

*Jean During: Hearing and Understanding in the Islamic Gnosis
*Carl Gombrich: Expressions of Inexpressible Truths: Attempts at Descriptions of Mystical and Musical Experiences
*Ben Brinner: Cognitive and Interpersonal Dimensions of Listening in Javanese Gamelan Performance
*Christian Utz: Listening Attentatively to Cultural Fragmentation: Tradition and Composition in Works by East Asian Composers

+++Music, Politics, Ecology, and Democracy

*Chan E. Park: Poetics and Politics of Korean Oral Tradition in a Cross-cultural Context
*Nathan Hesselink: Taking Culture Seriously: Democratic Music and Its Transformative Potential in South Korea
J*eff Todd Titon: Music and Sustainability: An Ecological Viewpoint

+++Acknowledgements
+++About the Contributors
+++Index