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Performing ethnomusicology : teaching and representation in world music ensembles

Author: Ted Solís
Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2004.
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Ted Solís
ISBN: 0520238745 9780520238749 0520238311 9780520238312
OCLC Number: 54103890
Description: vii, 322 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Introduction. Teaching what cannot be taught : an optimistic overview / Ted Solís -- Sounding the other : academic world music ensembles in historical perspective. Subject, object, and the ethnomusicology ensemble : the ethnomusicological "we" and "them" / Ricardo D. Trimillos -- "A bridge to Java" : four decades teaching gamelan in America / interview with Hardja Susilo by David Harnish, Ted Solís, and J. Lawrence Witzleben -- Opportunity and interaction : the gamelan from Java to Wesleyan / Sumarsam -- "Where's 'one'?" : musical encounters of the ensemble kind / Gage Averill -- Square pegs and spokesfolk : serving and adapting to the academy. A square peg in a round hole : teaching Javanese gamelan in the ensemble paradigm of the academy / Roger Vetter -- "No, not 'Bali hai'!" : challenges of adaptation and Orientalism in performing and teaching Balinese gamelan / David Harnish -- Cultural interactions in an Asian context : Chinese and Javanese ensembles in Hong Kong / J. Lawrence Witzleben -- Patchworkers, actors, and ambassadors : representing ourselves and others. "Can't help but speak, can't help but play" : dual discourse in Arab music pedagogy / interview with Ali Jihad Racy by Scott Marcus and Ted Solís -- The African ensemble in America : contradictions and possibilities / David Locke -- Klez goes to college / Hankus Netsky -- Creating a community, negotiating among communities : performing Middle Eastern music for a diverse Middle Eastern and American public / Scott Marcus -- Take-off points : creativity and pedagogical obligation. Bilateral negotiations in bimusicality : insiders, outsiders, and the "real version" in Middle Eastern music performance / Anne K. Rasmussen -- Community of comfort : negotiating a world of "Latin marimba" / Ted Solís -- What's the "it" that we learn to perform? : teaching BaAka music and dance / Michelle Kisliuk and Kelly Gross -- "When can we improvise?" : the place of creativity in academic world music performance / David W. Hughes -- Afterword. Some closing thoughts from the first voice / interview with Mantle Hood by Ricardo Trimillos.
Responsibility: edited by Ted Solís.
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