Oriental Music

The New Oxford History of Music is an authoritative ten-volume survey of classical music from ancient times up to 1960. Each volume is devoted to a recognised period in music history, and is written by noted scholars in the field.

"["Western Music and Its Others] will be taken as an important book signalling a new turn within the field. It takes the best features of traditional, rigorous scholarship and brings these to bear upon contemporary, more speculative questions. The level of theoretical sophistication is high. The studies within it are polemical and timely and of lasting scholarly value."--Will Straw, co-editor of "Theory Rules: Art as Theory/ Theory and Art

"The great value of this collection lies in the wealth of questions that it raises--questions that together crystallize the recent concerns of musicology with force and clarity. But it also lies in the authors' resistance to the easy 'postmodernist' answers that threaten to turn new musicology prematurely grey. The editors' comprehensive, intellectually adventurous introduction exemplifies the sort of eager yet properly skeptical receptivity to scholarly innovation that fosters lasting disciplinary reform. It alone is worth the price of the book." --Richard Taruskin, author of "Stravinsky and the Russian Traditions: A Biography of the Works Through" Mavra"

"When cultural-studies methods first appeared in musicology 15 years ago, they triggered a storm of polemics that sometimes overshadowed the important issues being raised. As the canon wars recede, however, scholars are finding it possible to focus on the concerns that led them to cultural criticism in the first place: the study of music and its political meanings. "Western Music and Its Others brings together leading musicologists, ethnomusicologists, and specialists in film and popular music to explore the ways European and North American musicians have drawn on or identified themselves intension with the musical practices of Others. In a series of essays ranging from examination of the Orientalist tropes of early 20th-century Modernists to the tangled claims for ownership in today's World Music, the authors i

"Both original and stimulating, this book presents widely known material in a highly theorized and organized manner. Very few authors write about the experiences ethnomusicologists confront while teaching in world music ensembles. The issues this book examines--representation, authenticity, performance practice, to name a few--are of great importance to the fields of ethnomusicology, anthropology, and related disciplines."--Katherine J. Hagedorn, author of "Divine Utterances: The Performance of Afro-Cuban Santeria

"An important book not only within the field of ethnomusicology itself, but for scholars in all disciplines engaged in aspects of performance--historical musicology, anthropology, folklore, and cultural studies. The individual articles offer a provocative and disparate array of threads and themes, which Solis skillfully weaves together in his introductory essay. A book of great importance and long overdue."--R. Anderson Sutton, author of "Calling Back the Spirit: Music, Dance, and Cultural Politics in Lowland South Sulawesi

Examining the cultural, political, economic, technological and institutional aspects of popular music throughout Asia, this book is the first comprehensive analysis of Asian popular music and its cultural industries. Concentrating on the development of popular culture in its local socio-political context, the volume highlights how local appropriations of the pop music genre play an active rather than reactive role in manipulating global cultural and capital flows.

Illustrations Preface An Introduction to Women, Music, and Culture by Ellen Koskoff From Singing to Lamenting: Women's Musical Role in a Greek Village by Susan Auerbach Balkan Women as Preservers of Traditional Music and Culture by Patricia K. Shehan "Ya Salio de la Mar": Judeo-Spanish Wedding Songs among Moroccan Jews in Canada by Judith R. Cohne A Sociohistorical Perspective on Tunisian Women as Professional Musicians by L. JaFran Jones Hazara Women in Afghanistan: Innovators and Preservers of a Musical Tradition by Hiromi Lorraine Sakata Professional Women in Indian Music: The Death of the Courtesan Tradition by Jennifer Post Identity and Individuality in an Ensemble Tradition: The Female Vocalist in Java by R. Anderson Sutton Inversion and Conjuncture: Male and Female Performance among the Temiar of Peninsular Malaysia by Marina Roseman Female Tayu in the Gidayu Narrative Tradition of Japan by A. Kimi Coaldrake Musical Expression and Gender Indentity in the Myth and Ritual of the Kalapalo of Central Brazil by Ellen B. Basso The Joyful Sound: Women in the Nineteenth-Century United States Hymnody Tradition by Esther Rothenbusch Close Harmony: Early Jazz Styles in the Music of the New Orleans Boswell Sisters by Jane Hassinger An Investigation into Women-Identified Music in the United States by Karen E. Petersen The Sound of a Woman's Voice: Gender and Music in a New York Hasidic Community by Ellen Koskoff Power and Gender in the Musical Experiences of Women by Carol E. Robertson Index About the Contributors