Public Ethnomusicology, Education, Archives, & Commerce

The seven ethnomusicologists who contributed to this volume discuss the role and impact of applied ethnomusicology in a variety of public and private sectors, including the commercial music industry, archives and collections, public folklore programs, and music education programs at public schools. Public Ethnomusicology, Education, Archives, and Commerce is the third of three paperback volumes derived from the original Oxford Handbook of Applied Ethnomusicology. The Handbook can be understood as an applied ethnomusicology project: as a medium of getting to know the thoughts and experiences of global ethnomusicologists, of enriching general knowledge and understanding about ethnomusicologies and applied ethnomusicologies in various parts of the world, and of inspiring readers to put the accumulated knowledge, understanding, and skills into good use for the betterment of our world.

Svanibor Pettan is Professor and chair of the ethnomusicology program at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. Initiator and first chair of the ICTM study group on applied ethnomusicology and a founding member of the SEM Section on applied ethnomusicology, he contributes to the advancement of the field in the global arena with studies in various formats, addressing war-peace continuum, minorities, conflicts and education. He currently serves as Vice-President of the International Council for Traditional Music and as Chair of its Study Group Music and Minorities. Jeff Todd Titon is Professor of Music, Emeritus, at Brown University, USA, where for 27 years he directed the Ph.D. program in ethnomusicology. The author or editor of eight books and numerous essays, he is known for developing phenomenological and ecological approaches to ethnographic fieldwork, for theorizing and practicing an applied ethnomusicology based in reciprocity and friendship, and for introducing the concepts of cultural and musical sustainability to the fields of folklore and ethnomusicology. His current research on a sound ecology may be tracked at http://sustainablemusic.blogspot.com

Part I: An Introduction to Applied Ethnomusicology Section 1: Applied Ethnomusicology: A Descriptive and Historical Account, by Jeff Todd Titon Section 2: Applied Ethnomusicology in the Global Arena, by Svanibor Pettan Section 3: An Introduction to the Chapters, by Jeff Todd Titon and Svanibor Pettan Part II: Education Chapter 1: Strategies and Opportunities in the Education Sector for Applied Ethnomusicology, by Susan E. Oehler Herrick Chapter 2: Sounds Humane: Music and Humanism in the Aga Khan Humanities Project, by John Morgan O'Connell Chapter 3: Intersections Between Ethnomusicology, Music Education, and Community Music, by Patricia Shehan Campbell and Lee Higgins Part III: Agencies Chapter 4: Archives and Applied Ethnomusicology, by Dan Lundberg Chapter 5: The Applied Ethnomusicologist as Public Folklorist: Ethnomusicological Practices in the Context of a Government Agency in the United States, by Clifford R. Murphy Chapter 6: Applied Ethnomusicology in China: An Analytical Review of Practice, by Zhang Boyu and Sarah Stanton Chapter 7: The Problem and Potential of Commerce, by Alan Williams