Ethnicity, Identity and Music: The Musical Construction of Place / Edition 1

by Martin Stokes

Overview

- Directly relevant to the needs of teachers and researchers in music, musicology, ethnomusicology and social anthropology.This book examines the significance of music in the construction of identities and ethnicities, and suggests ways to understand music as social practice. The authors focus on the role of music in the construction of national and regional identities; the media and 'postmodern identity'; concepts of authenticity; aesthetics; meaning; performance; 'world music'; and the use of music as a focus for discursive evocations of 'place'. The chapters tackle a wide range of subjects including 16th century etiquette, Celtic music and Chopin. The volume will be of interest to social anthropologists, and those working in the fields of cultural studies, politics, gender studies, musicology and folklore.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781859730416
Publisher:	Berg Publishers
Publication date:	05/01/1997
Series:	Ethnicity and Identity Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	212
Sales rank:	953,240
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.51(d)

About the Author

Martin Stokes University of Chicago

Table of Contents

M. Stokes, Introduction: Ethnicity, Identity and Music - M. Chapman, Thoughts on Celtic Music - J. Baily, The Role of Music in the Creation of an Afghan National Identity, 1923-73 - Z. Mach, National Anthems: The Case of Chopin as a National Composer - S. A. Reily, Macunaima's Music: National Identity and Ethnomusicological Research in Brazil - M. Stokes, Place, Exchange and Meaning: Black Sea Musicians in the West Coast of Ireland - S. Cohen, Identity, Place and the 'Liverpool Sound' - F. Magowan, 'The Land is our Märr (Essence); It Stays Forever': The Yothu-Yindi Relationship in Australian Aboriginal Traditional and Popular Musics - P. Parkes, Personal and Collective Identity in Kalasha Song Performance: The Significance of Music-making in a Minority Enclave - H. La Rue, Music, Literature and Etiquette: Musical Instruments and Social Identity from Castiglione to Austen

Editorial Reviews

"All [the individual essays] have important contributions to make, and are jammed full of engaging refrains, dynamic and resonant points, arranged with skill and attention to harmony in the composition and orchestration of a sustained debate. There is no question that the book is an accomplished result from a series of seminars." --Anthropological Notebooks

"A very rich array of concrete problems [...] Martin Stokes does a marvellous job of integrating the essays and of showing how each does its part to develop social theory by considering knots of local and global experience. [...] This collection promises a fresh breeze and new initiative for ethnomusicology, and perhaps a bit of humour as well in the form of internal discrepancies and divergent points of view." --MAN

From the Publisher

A very rich array of concrete problems [...] Martin Stokes does a marvellous job of integrating the essays and of showing how each does its part to develop social theory by considering knots of local and global experience. [...] This collection promises a fresh breeze and new initiative for ethnomusicology, and perhaps a bit of humour as well in the form of internal discrepancies and divergent points of view.

MAN

All [the individual essays] have important contributions to make, and are jammed full of engaging refrains, dynamic and resonant points, arranged with skill and attention to harmony in the composition and orchestration of a sustained debate. There is no question that the book is an accomplished result from a series of seminars.

Anthropological Notebooks