This Thing Called Music

In This Thing Called Music: Essays in Honor of Bruno Nettl, editors Victoria Lindsay Levine and Philip V. Bohlman salute 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.

Victoria Lindsay Levine is professor of music at Colorado College, where she has served as the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor, the Christine S. Johnson Professor of Music, and the W. M. Keck Foundation Director of the Hulbert Center for Southwestern Studies. Philip V. Bohlman is Mary Werkman Distinguished Service Professor of Music and the Humanities at the University of Chicago, Honorarprofessor at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover, and artistic director of the New Budapest Orpheum Society, an ensemble-in-residence in the Humanities Division of the University of Chicago.

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 Araújo Chapter 7: Bohemian Traces in the World of Ethnomusicology Zuzana Jurková 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