The most fundamental subject of music scholarship provides the common focus of this volume of essays: music itself. For the distinguished scholars from the field of musicology and related areas of the humanities and social sciences, the search for music itself-in its vastly complex and diverse forms throughout the world-characterizes the lifetime of reflection and writing by Bruno Nettl, the leading ethnomusicologist of the past generation. This Thing Called Music: Essays in Honor of Bruno Nettl salutes not only a great scholar and beloved teacher, but also a thinker whose search for the meaning and ontology of music has exerted a global influence. Editors Victoria Lindsay Levine and Philip V. Bohlman have gathered essays that represent the many dimensions of musical meaning, addressing some of the most critically important areas of music scholarship today. The social formations of musical communities play counterpoint to analytical studies; investigations into musical change and survival connect ethnography to history, offering a collection of essays that can serve as an invaluable resource for the intellectual history of ethnomusicology. Each chapter explores music and its meanings in specific geographic areas-North and South America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East-crossing the boundaries of genre, repertory, and style to provide insight into the aesthetic zones of contact between and among the folk, classical, and popular musics of the world. Readers from all disciplines of music scholarship will find in this collection a proper companion in an era of globalization, when the connections that draw musicians and musical practices together are more sweeping than ever. Chapters offer models for detailed analysis of specific musical practices, while at the same time they make possible new methods of comparative study in the twenty-first century, together posing a challenge crucial to all musicians and scholars in search of "this thing called music."
List of Illustrations List of Tables Acknowledgments Introduction:Bruno Nettl, A Lifetime in Search of Music Victoria Lindsay Levine and Philip V. Bohlman Part I: Communities of Music Chapter 1: Recording the Life Review: A Case Study from the Medical Humanities Theresa Allison Chapter 2: Music in the Culture of Children Patricia Shehan Campbell Chapter 3: The Mississippi Choctaw Fair and Veteran's Day Powwow: Music, Dance, and Layers of Identity Chris Goertzen Chapter 4: St. Peter and the Santarinas: Celebrating Traditions over Time in Malacca, Malaysia Margaret Sarkissian Chapter 5: Performing Translation in Jewish India: Kirtan of the Bene Israel Anna Schultz Part II: Intellectual History of Ethnomusicology Chapter 6: Guerra-Peixe, Cold War Politics, and Ethnomusicology in Brazil, 1950-1952 Samuel Araujo Chapter 7: Bohemian Traces in the World of Ethnomusicology Zuzana Jurkova Chapter 8: Music Scholarship and Politics in Munich, 1918-1945 William Kinderman Chapter 9: Harry Partch and Jacques Barzun: A Historical-Musical Duet on the Subject, 'Western Civ' Harry Liebersohn Chapter 10: The Times They Are a-Changin' Daniel M. Neuman Chapter 11: Comparative Musicologists in the Field: Reflections on the Cairo Congress of Arab Music, 1932 A. J. Racy Chapter 12: Ethnomusicological Marginalia: On Reading Charles Seeger Reading The Anthropology of Music Anthony Seeger Part III: Analytical Studies Chapter 13: The Persian Radif in Relation to the Tajik-Uzbek Sasmaqom Stephen Blum Chapter 14: The Saz Semaisi in Evcara by Dilhayat Kalfa and the Turkish Makam After the Ottoman Golden Age Robert Garfias Chapter 15: When You Do This, I'll Hear You: Gros Ventre Songs and Supernatural Power Orin Hatton Chapter 16: Permutation as a Basic Concept of Raga Elaboration in North Indian Music Lars-Christian Koch Chapter 17: Aspects of Sound Recording and Sound Analysis Albrecht Schneider Part IV: Historical Studies Chapter 18: In Search of Music's Intimate Moments Philip V. Bohlman Chapter 19: Oral History, Music Biography, and Historical Ethnomusicology Martha Ellen Davis Chapter 20: The Doubleness of Sound in Canada's Indian Residential Schools Beverley Diamond Chapter 21: Passages on Music in the Accounts of Medieval Arab Travelers Amnon Shiloah Chapter 22: Reconstructing Abbey Road: History and Mnemohistory in Memories of Working with the Beatles Gordon Thompson Chapter 23: Commercial 78s: A Rediscovered Resource for Ethnomusicology Philip Yampolsky Part V: Issues and Concepts Chapter 24: One Hundred Years of Indian Folk Music: The Evolution of a Concept Stefan Fiol Chapter 25: Textual Relations between O'odham Story and Song J. Richard Haefer Chapter 26: Finding and Recovering Musicality in a College Folk Music Class Melinda Russell Chapter 27: Transpacific Excursions: Multi-Sited Ethnomusicology, The Black Pacific, and Nettl's Comparative (Method) Gabriel Solis Chapter 28: The Emperor's New Clothes: Why Musicologies Do Not Always Wish to Know, All They Could Know Marcello Sorce Keller Chapter 29: On Theory and Models: How to Make Our Ideas Clear Thomas Turino Part VI: Change, Adaptation, and Survival Chapter 30: Music, Modernity, and Islam in Indonesia Charles Capwell Chapter 31: "Clubbing the Boots": The Navajo Moccasin Game in Today's World Charlotte J. Frisbie Chapter 32: Rise Up and Dream: New Work Songs for the New China Frederick Lau Chapter 33: Fusion Music in South India Terada Yoshitaka Chapter 34: The Urge to Merge: Are Cross-Cultural Collaborations Destroying Hindustani Music? Stephen Slawek Chapter 35: Regional Songs in Local and Translocal Spaces: The Duck Dance Revisited Victoria Lindsay Levine Bibliography About the Contributors
