Excursions in World Music
6th Edition
Published on 1. July 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
464 pages
978-0-205-01285-5 (ISBN)
Description
Explore the relationship between music and society around the world
This comprehensive introductory text creates a panoramic experience for beginner students by exposing them to the many musical cultures around the globe. Each chapter opens with a musical encounter in which the author introduces a key musical culture. Through these experiences, students are introduced to key musical styles, musical instruments, and performance practices. Students are taught how to actively listen to key musical examples through detailed listening guides. The role of music in society is emphasized through chapters that focus on key world cultural groups.
Note: MyMusicLab does no come automatically packaged with this text. To purchase MyMusicLab, please visit www.MyMusicLab.com or you can purchase a valuepack of the text + MyMusicLab (VP ISBN-10: 020521777X, VP ISBN-13: 9780205217779)
Teaching and Learning Experience
Personalize Learning- The new MyMusicLabdelivers proven results in helping students succeed, provides engaging experiences that personalize learning, and comes from a trusted partner with educational expertise and a deep commitment to helping students and instructors achieve their goals.
Improve Active Listening- Excursions contains detailed listening guides that take students through the key elements in each performance. Through MyMusicLab, these guides are now integrated with streaming audio for a truly integrated listening experience. Full streaming audio for most music examples is found through MyMusicLab.
Engage Students- Each chapter opens with a musical encounter in a different musical culture. Through this experience, students are inspired to study more deeply the musical cultures of each area of the world.
Support Instructors- Supported by the best instructor resources on the market, including MyMusicLab, ClassPrep for digital images, and Teaching with MyMusicLab PowerPoint.
This comprehensive introductory text creates a panoramic experience for beginner students by exposing them to the many musical cultures around the globe. Each chapter opens with a musical encounter in which the author introduces a key musical culture. Through these experiences, students are introduced to key musical styles, musical instruments, and performance practices. Students are taught how to actively listen to key musical examples through detailed listening guides. The role of music in society is emphasized through chapters that focus on key world cultural groups.
Note: MyMusicLab does no come automatically packaged with this text. To purchase MyMusicLab, please visit www.MyMusicLab.com or you can purchase a valuepack of the text + MyMusicLab (VP ISBN-10: 020521777X, VP ISBN-13: 9780205217779)
Teaching and Learning Experience
Personalize Learning- The new MyMusicLabdelivers proven results in helping students succeed, provides engaging experiences that personalize learning, and comes from a trusted partner with educational expertise and a deep commitment to helping students and instructors achieve their goals.
Improve Active Listening- Excursions contains detailed listening guides that take students through the key elements in each performance. Through MyMusicLab, these guides are now integrated with streaming audio for a truly integrated listening experience. Full streaming audio for most music examples is found through MyMusicLab.
Engage Students- Each chapter opens with a musical encounter in a different musical culture. Through this experience, students are inspired to study more deeply the musical cultures of each area of the world.
Support Instructors- Supported by the best instructor resources on the market, including MyMusicLab, ClassPrep for digital images, and Teaching with MyMusicLab PowerPoint.
Reviews / Votes
"The chapter opening immediately drew me in to extent that I went straight to YouTube and began watching and listening to footage of the Cat Island festival from 2007."Professor David Moskowitz, Universityof South Dakota
"The introduction is spectacular, especially components such as "basic assumptions" and "universals"; also box on "transmission" and summary points. The colored boxes, coded for listening or important items and issues, are truly a "plus", as are the end-of-chapter references to further readings and listening."
Professor Patricia Campbell, Universityof Washington
"I was very impressed with the quality of this book. The information was concise, easy to read, but most importantly, touched on important issues in ethnomusicology that cut across cultures."
Professor Jay Keister, Universityof Colorado, Boulder
"The writing is engaging, the listening guides are helpful (and not overly detailed), all the writers are knowledgeable."
Professor Stephen Blum, CUNYGraduate Center
"The introductory sections of most chapters help to engage the students and make them feel like a part of each culture. The chapters generally have clear explanations of a culture's musical style (especially Indonesia, China, Japan, India, the Middle East, and Latin America). Having chapters written by different specialists helps to keep the student's interest because of the individual approaches taken."
Professor John Robison, University of SouthFlorida
"I like how the authors introduce and define musical terminology and concepts into the text as they are being talked about, rather then segregating these materials to separate chapters. This allows the instructor to talk about these terms and concepts 'in context.' I also like the straight-forward style of narrative that, at the same time, does not shy away from introducing complex problems."
Professor Peter Marsh, CaliforniaState University, East Bay
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Edition
6th edition
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
Revised edition
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 203 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
1144 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-205-01285-5 (9780205012855)
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Content
1 INTRODUCTION: STUDYING MUSICS OF THE WORLD'S CULTURES
Bruno Nettl
Presenting the World of Music
Looking at Music in Several Ways
Certain Basic Assumptions
Universals of Music
Musical Transmission, History, and Change
Musical Instruments
Why Different Cultures Have Different Kinds of Music
The Field of Ethnomusicology
Summary
Bibliography
Discography
2 THE MUSIC OF INDIA
Charles Capwell
Attending a Music Conference in Calcutta
Roots
The Karnatak Recital and Types of Pieces
Instruments
The Influence of Indian Music
Prospects
Summary
Bibliography
Discography
3 MUSIC OF THE MIDDLE EAST
Bruno Nettl
Concerts in Tehran
Common Features and Diversity
Music in Culture
Making Music
History
Summary
Bibliography
Discography
4 THE MUSIC OF CHINA
Isabel K. F. Wong
Introduction
Beijing
Music of the Han Nationality
The Qin and Its Music
The Pipa and Its Music
Winds and Strings Ensemble in Shanghai
The Jingju Theater
General Characteristics of Music of the Han People
New Musical Directions in the Twentieth Century
The Rise of Popular Music
Music for and by Minorities
Summary
Bibliography
Discography
5 THE MUSIC OF JAPAN
Isabel K. F. Wong
Hogaku Performance in Tokyo
Theater Music
The Religious Traditions
A Concert and a Court Tradition
General Tendencies and Characteristics of Hogaku
Summary
Bibliography
Discography
6 THE MUSIC OF INDONESIA
Charles Capwell
Javanese Music in Chicago
The Javanese Gamelan
The Cultural and Historical Significance of Javanese Gamelan Music
Music in Bali
The Influence of Foreign Artists and Tourists
Four Kinds of Popular Music in Java
Unity in Diversity
Summary
Bibliography
Discography
7 THE MUSIC OF SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
Thomas Turino
A Shona Mbira Performance in Zimbabwe
The Mbira and Some General Principles of African Music
Africa General and Africa Specific
Musical Values, Practices, and Social Style
A Sampling of Instruments
Popular Music in the Twentieth Century
Summary
Bibliography
Discography
8 THE MUSICAL CULTURE OF EUROPE
Philip V. Bohlman
Music in the Life of Modern Vienna
Europe as a Music Culture
Ideas About Music
Musical Instruments
History and Social Structure in European Musical Life
European Music at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century
Summary
Bibliography
Discography
9 MUSIC IN LATIN AMERICA
Thomas Turino
An Andean Mestizo Fiesta in Paucartambo, Peru
Sociocultural Heritages and Historical Background
Mestizo Musical Values and Musical Style
Native American Musical Values and Musical Style
African American Musical Values and Styles
Summary
Bibliography
Discography
10 MUSIC IN THE CARIBBEAN
Timothy Rommen
Cat Island, June 2, 2006: Ninth Annural Rake-n-Scrape Festival
Shared Histories, Mutual Challenges
Themes in Caribbean Music
We, the People: Nation and Identity in the Caribbean
Summary
Bibliography
Discography
11 NATIVE AMERICAN MUSIC
Bruno Nettl
"North American Indian Days"
Some Order Ceremonial Traditions
The World of Native American Cultures and Music
Ideas about Music
Musical Instruments
Aspects of the History of American Native American Music
Summary
Bibliography
Discography
12 ETHNIC NORTH AMERICA
Byron Dueck
Music, Ethnicity, and Politics in Public Performance
Unity, Diversity, and Difference in North American Music
Themes in North American Music
Soundly Organized Time
Musical Particularity and Historical Continuity
Particular and General Musical Practices
The African American Contribution to North American MusicNorth American Musical Concepts
Summary
Bibliography
Discography
Glossary
Index
Bruno Nettl
Presenting the World of Music
Looking at Music in Several Ways
Certain Basic Assumptions
Universals of Music
Musical Transmission, History, and Change
Musical Instruments
Why Different Cultures Have Different Kinds of Music
The Field of Ethnomusicology
Summary
Bibliography
Discography
2 THE MUSIC OF INDIA
Charles Capwell
Attending a Music Conference in Calcutta
Roots
The Karnatak Recital and Types of Pieces
Instruments
The Influence of Indian Music
Prospects
Summary
Bibliography
Discography
3 MUSIC OF THE MIDDLE EAST
Bruno Nettl
Concerts in Tehran
Common Features and Diversity
Music in Culture
Making Music
History
Summary
Bibliography
Discography
4 THE MUSIC OF CHINA
Isabel K. F. Wong
Introduction
Beijing
Music of the Han Nationality
The Qin and Its Music
The Pipa and Its Music
Winds and Strings Ensemble in Shanghai
The Jingju Theater
General Characteristics of Music of the Han People
New Musical Directions in the Twentieth Century
The Rise of Popular Music
Music for and by Minorities
Summary
Bibliography
Discography
5 THE MUSIC OF JAPAN
Isabel K. F. Wong
Hogaku Performance in Tokyo
Theater Music
The Religious Traditions
A Concert and a Court Tradition
General Tendencies and Characteristics of Hogaku
Summary
Bibliography
Discography
6 THE MUSIC OF INDONESIA
Charles Capwell
Javanese Music in Chicago
The Javanese Gamelan
The Cultural and Historical Significance of Javanese Gamelan Music
Music in Bali
The Influence of Foreign Artists and Tourists
Four Kinds of Popular Music in Java
Unity in Diversity
Summary
Bibliography
Discography
7 THE MUSIC OF SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
Thomas Turino
A Shona Mbira Performance in Zimbabwe
The Mbira and Some General Principles of African Music
Africa General and Africa Specific
Musical Values, Practices, and Social Style
A Sampling of Instruments
Popular Music in the Twentieth Century
Summary
Bibliography
Discography
8 THE MUSICAL CULTURE OF EUROPE
Philip V. Bohlman
Music in the Life of Modern Vienna
Europe as a Music Culture
Ideas About Music
Musical Instruments
History and Social Structure in European Musical Life
European Music at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century
Summary
Bibliography
Discography
9 MUSIC IN LATIN AMERICA
Thomas Turino
An Andean Mestizo Fiesta in Paucartambo, Peru
Sociocultural Heritages and Historical Background
Mestizo Musical Values and Musical Style
Native American Musical Values and Musical Style
African American Musical Values and Styles
Summary
Bibliography
Discography
10 MUSIC IN THE CARIBBEAN
Timothy Rommen
Cat Island, June 2, 2006: Ninth Annural Rake-n-Scrape Festival
Shared Histories, Mutual Challenges
Themes in Caribbean Music
We, the People: Nation and Identity in the Caribbean
Summary
Bibliography
Discography
11 NATIVE AMERICAN MUSIC
Bruno Nettl
"North American Indian Days"
Some Order Ceremonial Traditions
The World of Native American Cultures and Music
Ideas about Music
Musical Instruments
Aspects of the History of American Native American Music
Summary
Bibliography
Discography
12 ETHNIC NORTH AMERICA
Byron Dueck
Music, Ethnicity, and Politics in Public Performance
Unity, Diversity, and Difference in North American Music
Themes in North American Music
Soundly Organized Time
Musical Particularity and Historical Continuity
Particular and General Musical Practices
The African American Contribution to North American MusicNorth American Musical Concepts
Summary
Bibliography
Discography
Glossary
Index