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Worlds of Music: An Introduction to the Music of the World's Peoples / Edition 5 available in Paperback
Worlds of Music: An Introduction to the Music of the World's Peoples / Edition 5
by Jeff Todd Titon, David Locke, David P. McAllester, Timothy J. Cooley, Anne K. Rasmussen
Jeff Todd Titon
- ISBN-10:
- 0534595391
- ISBN-13:
- 9780534595395
- Pub. Date:
- 02/12/2008
- Publisher:
- Cengage Learning
- ISBN-10:
- 0534595391
- ISBN-13:
- 9780534595395
- Pub. Date:
- 02/12/2008
- Publisher:
- Cengage Learning
Worlds of Music: An Introduction to the Music of the World's Peoples / Edition 5
by Jeff Todd Titon, David Locke, David P. McAllester, Timothy J. Cooley, Anne K. Rasmussen
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This market-leading, best-selling text covers ethnomusicology-the study of music in a people's way of life, which treats music as a distillation of cultural styles. The authors of this text approach diverse musical styles with the desire to understand them on their own terms-as the people who make the music would understand them. The text is organized by region. Each study focuses on the life histories and autobiographies that are essential to understanding music as a human activity. Song lyrics are singled out by the authors as a way to understand the meaning and purpose of musical performances. Musical examples, or transcriptions, are included on the accompanying CDs, and are treated throughout as points of departure for discussion. Student music-making projects-singing, building and playing instruments-greatly increase music appreciation and allow students to experience firsthand what it's like to be an ethnomusicologist puzzling out unfamiliar music. This text seeks to provide as much pleasure as knowledge, fostering lifelong curiosity and a desire to experience and appreciate music in all its forms.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780534595395 |
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Publisher: | Cengage Learning |
Publication date: | 02/12/2008 |
Edition description: | REV |
Pages: | 640 |
Product dimensions: | 8.00(w) x 9.87(h) x 0.79(d) |
About the Author
Jeff Todd Titon is Professor of Music, Emeritus, at Brown University, where he directed the Ph.D. program in ethnomusicology from 1986 to 2013. He received a Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Minnesota, where he studied ethnomusicology with Alan Kagan, cultural anthropology with Pertti Pelto, and musicology with Johannes Riedel. He founded the ethnomusicology program at Tufts University, where he taught from 1971 to 1986. From 1990 to 1995 he served as the editor of Ethnomusicology, the journal of the Society for Ethnomusicology. He has done ethnographic fieldwork in North America on religious folk music, blues music, and old-time fiddling, with support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities. For two years, he was the guitarist in the Lazy Bill Lucas Blues Band, a group that appeared at the 1970 Ann Arbor Blues Festival. He founded and directed an old-time, Appalachian, string-band ethnomusicology ensemble at Tufts (1981-1986) and then at Brown (1986-2013). He is the author or editor of eight books, including Early Downhome Blues, which won the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award, Give Me This Mountain, Powerhouse for God, and the Oxford Handbook of Applied Ethnomusicology. A documentary photographer and filmmaker as well as author, he is considered a pioneer in applied ethnomusicology, phenomenological ethnography, and ecomusicology. His most recent research may be tracked on his blog at sustainablemusic.blogspot.com.
Table of Contents
Recorded Selections | viii | |
Preface | xii | |
The Authors | xvi | |
1 | The Music-Culture as a World of Music | 1 |
The Soundscape | 1 | |
The Music-Culture | 2 | |
Music or Nonmusic? | 5 | |
Structure in Music | 9 | |
Rhythm and Meter | 9 | |
Melody | 10 | |
Harmony | 13 | |
Form | 14 | |
A Music-Culture Model: Affect, Performance, Community, and History | 15 | |
The Four Components of a Music-Culture | 19 | |
Ideas About Music | 19 | |
Activities Involving Music | 24 | |
Repertories of Music | 26 | |
Material Culture of Music | 28 | |
Ecological Worlds of Music | 30 | |
References | 32 | |
Additional Reading | 32 | |
2 | North America/Native America | 35 |
Three Different Styles | 35 | |
Sioux Grass Dance | 35 | |
Zuni Lullaby | 40 | |
Iroquois Quiver Dance | 42 | |
Making a "Cowhorn" Rattle | 44 | |
Music of the Navajos | 46 | |
A Yeibichai Song from the Nightway Ceremony | 46 | |
"Folsom Prison Blues" | 49 | |
The Navajo Way of Life | 50 | |
Traditional Popular Music | 54 | |
The Circle Dance Song "Shizhane'e" | 54 | |
The Enemyway Ceremony | 56 | |
The "Classical" Music of the Navajos | 60 | |
The Life Story of a Navajo Ceremonial Practitioner | 64 | |
The Native American Church | 71 | |
The Water Drum | 74 | |
The Sun Dance | 76 | |
Navajo Hymn Music | 76 | |
New Composers in Traditional Modes | 77 | |
Music with Newly Created Navajo Texts and Melodies | 79 | |
New Navajo Music with English Texts and Orchestral Accompaniment | 79 | |
The Native American Flute Revival | 80 | |
References | 82 | |
Additional Reading | 83 | |
Additional Listening | 84 | |
Major Sources for Recordings | 85 | |
3 | Africa/Ewe, Mande, Dagbamba, Shona, BaAka | 87 |
Postal Workers Canceling Stamps | 89 | |
Generalizations About African Music-Culture | 90 | |
Musical Analysis: Toward Participation | 92 | |
Agbekor: Music and Dance of the Ewe People | 94 | |
The Ewe People | 94 | |
Agbekor: History and Contemporary Performance | 96 | |
A Performance | 100 | |
Music of the Percussion Ensemble | 101 | |
Songs | 107 | |
Mande Jaliya: "Lambango" | 113 | |
Historical and Social Background | 114 | |
Music-Culture | 115 | |
Elements of Performance | 117 | |
A Hearing of "Lambango" | 119 | |
A Drummer of Dagbon | 122 | |
The Drums | 122 | |
A Praise Name Dance | 123 | |
Life Story: Abubakari Lunna | 124 | |
Shona Mbira Music | 127 | |
Cultural Context | 127 | |
The Mbira | 128 | |
"Nhemamusasa" | 131 | |
Thomas Mapfumo and Chimurenga Music | 135 | |
The BaAka People Singing: "Makala" | 137 | |
Three Images of the Forest People | 138 | |
"Makala," a Mabo Song | 139 | |
Music-Culture as an Adaptive Resource | 142 | |
Conclusion as Discussion | 145 | |
References | 147 | |
Additional Reading | 149 | |
Additional Listening | 149 | |
4 | North America/Black America | 151 |
Music of Worship | 151 | |
Music of Work | 162 | |
Music of Play | 168 | |
Blues | 169 | |
Blues and the Truth | 170 | |
Response to the Lyrics of "Poor Boy Blues" | 172 | |
Autobiography and the Blues | 174 | |
Learning the Blues | 180 | |
The Blues Scale | 182 | |
Composing the Blues | 183 | |
A Blues Song in the Making | 184 | |
How to Make and Play a One-Stringed Diddly-Bow | 187 | |
Social Context and the Meaning of the Blues | 192 | |
The Blues Yesterday | 196 | |
The Blues Today | 202 | |
A Few Final Words | 206 | |
References | 207 | |
Additional Reading | 208 | |
Additional Listening | 208 | |
Viewing | 209 | |
5 | Bosnia and Central/Southeastern Europe: Music and Musicians in Transition | 211 |
Bosnia: From Tradition to Destruction | 214 | |
Music in a Muslim Highlander Village | 215 | |
Music of Rural and Urban Lowlands Muslims | 221 | |
Popular Music Styles: "Newly Composed Folk Music" and Rock | 225 | |
Mensur Hatic: Versatile Musical Traveler | 228 | |
Flory Jagoda: Keeper of the Sephardic Jewish Tradition of Bosnia | 230 | |
Update: Bosnia, 2001 | 232 | |
Bulgaria: Another Approach to Musical Change | 236 | |
Summary | 239 | |
References | 240 | |
Additional Reading | 240 | |
Additional Listening | 241 | |
6 | India/South India | 243 |
The Environment of Indian Musics | 247 | |
History, Culture, Politics | 247 | |
Many Musics | 249 | |
Karnataka Sangeeta, the Classical Music of South India | 255 | |
The Sound World | 257 | |
The Ensemble: Musical Texture | 259 | |
Raga: The Melodic System | 261 | |
Tala: The Time Cycle | 264 | |
The Drummer's Art | 265 | |
A Carnatic Music Performance | 267 | |
Alapana | 269 | |
Tanam | 270 | |
Kriti "Sarasiruha" | 270 | |
Kalpana Svaras | 272 | |
The Drum Solo: Tani Avartanam | 272 | |
Indian Music and the West | 273 | |
References | 275 | |
Additional Reading and Viewing | 275 | |
Additional Listening | 275 | |
Major Sources for Recordings | 277 | |
7 | Asia/Judouesia | 279 |
Central Java | 281 | |
Gamelan | 282 | |
Gamelan Construction | 287 | |
Gamelan Identity | 288 | |
Gamelan Performance Contexts | 289 | |
Gamelan Music: A Javanese Gendhing in Performance | 291 | |
Irama Level | 298 | |
Performing Your Own Gamelan Music | 299 | |
A Javanese Gendhing in Soft-Playing Style | 299 | |
Pathet | 300 | |
A Close Examination of "Ladrang Wilujeng" | 302 | |
Biography of Ki Nartosabdho, a Gamelan Musician, Composer, and Puppeteer | 307 | |
Gamelan Music and Shadow Puppetry | 312 | |
Bali | 314 | |
North Sumatra | 316 | |
Indonesian Popular Music | 319 | |
Rhoma Irama, Dangdut | 319 | |
Responses to Globalization | 321 | |
References | 326 | |
Additional Reading | 326 | |
Additional Listening | 327 | |
Viewing | 329 | |
8 | East Asia/Japan | 331 |
Listening Habits of Contemporary Japanese | 333 | |
General Characteristics of Japanese Traditional Music | 334 | |
Pitch and Scales | 334 | |
Timbre | 335 | |
Melody and Harmony | 336 | |
Rhythm | 336 | |
Musical Form | 337 | |
The Shakuhachi (Bamboo Flute) | 338 | |
The Koto (Zither) | 344 | |
The Kouta (Short Song) and Shamisen (Lute) | 345 | |
Gidayu-bushi (Music of the Puppet Theater) | 352 | |
Minyo (Folk Song) | 356 | |
Matsuri-bayashi (Festival Music) | 361 | |
Ensemble and Technique | 364 | |
Biography of Ueno Mitsuyuki | 366 | |
Popular Music | 369 | |
Historical Background | 370 | |
Karaoke | 374 | |
Gunka | 380 | |
Folk Song | 380 | |
New Music | 380 | |
Pops | 380 | |
Final Words | 381 | |
References | 382 | |
Additional Reading | 383 | |
Additional Listening | 383 | |
Viewing | 384 | |
9 | Latin America/Ecuador | 385 |
The Venezuelan Joropo | 387 | |
Chilean Nueva Cancion | 388 | |
Victor Jara | 388 | |
Violeta Parra | 392 | |
The Front Lines of Social Change | 393 | |
Bolivian K'antu | 395 | |
The Quichua of the Northern Andes of Ecuador | 400 | |
The Musical Tradition: Sanjuan | 403 | |
Sanjuan and Cotacachi Quichua Lifeways | 412 | |
Walking in Sanjuan: The Vital-Domain Metaphor | 415 | |
Two Classic Sanjuanes | 417 | |
The Andean Ensemble Phenomenon | 420 | |
Wawa Velorio | 426 | |
The Career Dilemma of Don Cesar Muquinche | 432 | |
African-Ecuadorian Music of the Chota River Valley | 438 | |
Despedida, or Farewell | 440 | |
References | 441 | |
Additional Reading | 443 | |
Additional Listening | 445 | |
Viewing | 446 | |
10 | Discovering and Documenting a World of Music | 447 |
Music in Our Own Backyards | 447 | |
Family | 449 | |
Generation | 450 | |
Avocation | 451 | |
Religion | 451 | |
Ethnicity | 452 | |
Regionalism | 454 | |
Nationalism | 454 | |
Commercial Music | 455 | |
Doing Musical Ethnography | 457 | |
Selecting a Subject: Some Practical Suggestions | 457 | |
Collecting Information | 459 | |
Finishing the Project | 473 | |
References | 474 | |
Additional Reading | 474 | |
Credits | 475 | |
Index | 477 |
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