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Music and Globalization
Critical Encounters
Bob W. White (Edited by), Steven Feld (Contributions by), Barbara Browning (Contributions by), Daniel Noveck (Contributions by), Ariana Hernandez-Reguant (Contributions by), Timothy D. Taylor (Contributions by), Rafael Jose de Menezes Bastos (Contributions by), Denis-Constant Martin (Contributions by), Richard M Shain (Contributions by), Philip R Hayward (Contributions by)
9780253223654
Paperback / softback, published 24 November 2011
248 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm, 0.367 kg
[O]ne of the great strengths of this collection is its ambiguous location of a music often situated rather schematically in a given historical and cultural matrix. Recognition of the political ambiguities makes a welcome shift from some of the more strident positions that have been taken up in public and even scholarly discourse surrounding World Music. . . . The value of this collection extends far beyond World Music. [C]ontains many valuable case studies of musical encounters demonstrating the ways music-making both structures and yet provides space for human agency. Music and Globalization is a responsible interdisciplinary endeavor characterized by the presentation of serious engagements with music and complex ethnography. Most of the authors address critical issues proposed by postcolonial/subaltern theory and critical political economy with notable courage. Music and Globalization productively contributes to over two decades of scholarship in the anthropology of music and in ethnomusicology . . . It is a rich collection and deserves attention from specialists and nonspecialists alike; it will be useful in both graduate and undergraduate curriculums across multiple disciplines (anthropology, ethnomusicology, critical music studies, and media studies). 'Music and Globalization' includes stimulating contributions, such as Barbara Browning's discussion of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti and Gilberto Gil in relation to metaphoric and literal forms of 'infectiousness'; Richard Shain's examination of Laba Sosseh's project of Cubanising African popular music; and Daniel Noveck's pondering of beliefs mediated through the place of the violin in the lives of Ramámuri people in southern Chihuahua.June 2012
"World music" emerged as a commercial and musical category in the 1980s, but in some sense music has always been global. Through the metaphor of encounters, Music and Globalization explores the dynamics that enable or hinder cross-cultural communication through music. In the stories told by the contributors, we meet well-known players such as David Byrne, Peter Gabriel, Sting, Ry Cooder, Fela Kuti, and Gilberto Gil, but also lesser-known characters such as the Senegalese Afro-Cuban singer Laba Sosseh and Raramuri fiddle players from northwest Mexico. This collection demonstrates that careful historical and ethnographic analysis of global music can show us how globalization operates and what, if anything, we as consumers have to do with it.
Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction: Rethinking Globalization through Music / Bob W. White Part 1. Structured Encounters Part 2. Mediated Encounters Part 3. Imagined Encounters Index
1. The Musical Heritage of Slavery: From Creolization to "World Music" / Denis-Constant Martin
2. My Life in the Bush of Ghosts: "World Music" and the Commodification of Religious Experience / Steven Feld
3. A Place in the World: Globalization, Music, and Cultural Identity in Contemporary Vanuatu / Philip Hayward
4. Musicality and Environmentalism in the Rediscovery of Eldorado: An Anthropology of the Raoni-Sting Encounter / Rafael José de Menezes Bastos
5. "Beautiful Blue": Rarámuri Violin Music in a Cross-Border Space / Daniel Noveck
6. World Music Producers and the Cuban Frontier / Ariana Hernandez-Reguant
7. Trovador of the Black Atlantic: Laba Sosseh and the Africanization of Afro-Cuban Music / Richard M. Shain
8. Slave Ship on the Infosea: Contaminating the System of Circulation / Barbara Browning
9. World Music Today / Timothy D. Taylor
10. The Promise of World Music: Strategies for Non-Essentialist Listening / Bob W. White
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