Worlds of music : an introduction to the music of the world's peoples /

Worlds of music : an introduction to the music of the world's peoples / Jeff Todd Titon, general editor ; James T. Koetting ... [et al.]. - New York : Schirmer Books, 1984. - 325 s. : kuv., kartt.


Recorded Selections ix
The Authors xiii
Preface xv

1. The Music-Culture as a World of Music 1
By Mark Slobin and Jeff Todd Titon
The Music-Culture - Ideas About Music -
Music and the Belief-System - Aesthetics of
Music - Contexts for Music - Social Organi-
zation of Music - Repertories of Music - Style -
Genres - Texts - Composition - Transmission
- Movement - Material Culture of Music -
Worlds of Music - References Cited - Additional Reading

2. North America/ Native America 12
By David P. McAllester
Three Different Styles - Sioux Grass Dance ~
Zuni Lullaby - Iroquois Quiver Dance -
Making a Cow-horn Rattle - Music of the
Navajo Indians - A Yeibichai Song from the
Nightway Ceremony - Folsom Prison Blues -
The Navajo Way of Life - Traditional Popular
Music - The Enemyway Ceremony - The
“ClassicaI” Music of the Navajos - The Life
Story of a Navajo Ceremonial Practitioner -
The Native American Church - The Water-
Drum - Navajo Hymn Music - New Com-
posers in Traditional Modes - References
Cited - Additional Reading - Additional
Listening


3. Africa/ Ghana 64
By James T. Koetting
The Western Point of View - Function -
Percussion - Rhythm - Innate Musicality -
Notation and Improvisation - Music from
Ghana (and Uganda) - Kasena Jongo - A
Personal History and View of Kasena
Music by a Kasena Musician - Asante Kete-
How to Perform African Cross-Rhythm -
Baganda Akadinda - Music of Work - Brass
Band Highlife - Conclusion - References
Cited - Additional Reading - Additional
Listening

4. North America/ Black America 105
By Jeff Todd Titon
Music of Worship - Music of Work - Music of
Play - Blues - Blues and the Truth – Response to the
Lyrics of “Poor Boy Blues” - Autobiography
and the Blues - The Life History of Lazy Bill
Lucas, Blues Singer - Lazy Bill Lucas and
“Poor Boy Blues” - Learning the Blues -
Composing the Blues - A Blues Song in the
Making - How to Make and Play a One-
Stringed Diddlybow - Social Context and the
Meaning of the Blues - The Blues Today -
A Few Final Words - References Cited- Addi-
tional Reading - Additional Listening

5. Europe/ Peasant Music-Cultures of
Eastern Europe 166
By Mark Slobin
Two Songs About the Rain - Peasant Culture
- Music of the Older Generations: Ritual
Music - The Wedding - The Lament - Two
Projects Involving Ritual - Music of the Older
Generations Not Tied to Specific Occasions
- Narrative Songs - Lyric Songs -
Musical Instruments and Instrumentalists -
Newer Layers of the Eastern European
Music-Culture - Mariam Nirenberg: The
Life of a Folk Singer - Mariam Nirenberg's
Life History - References Cited - Additional
Reading - Additional Listening

6. India/ South India 208
By David B. Reck
The Environment-The Musician - The Setting
- Many Musics - A Day in the Life of
Ramachandra, a Musician of Madras -
Karnataka Sangeeta, The Classical Music of
South India - A Performance Segment: The
Sound World - Instruments - The Ensemble -
Sruti (The Drone) - Raga (The Expressive
Mode) - Tala (The Time Cycles) - Musical
Structure - A Performance Segment: Ear
Map - The Drummer”s Art - References
Cited - Additional Reading - Additional Listen-
ing - Movies

7. South India/ Instrument Building and
Performance 259
By David B. Reck
Instrument Building - A Slide Veena - A
Tambura - Playing Technique - Inventing
a Raga - Scales - Tones - Phrases -
Psycho-Acoustics - Performing a Brief Alapana
- Texture - Time-Sense - General
Shaping - Sections - Performing Bhajanas
(Devotional Songs) - References Cited

8. Discovering and Documenting A World
of Music 294
By David B. Reck, Mark Slobin, and
Jeff Todd Titon
Music in Our Own Backyards - Family -
Generation - Avocation - Religion - Ethnicity -
Regionalism - Nationalism - Commercial
Music - Selecting a Subject: Some Practical
Suggestions - Collecting Information - Gaining
Entry - Selecting a Topic - Library Research -
Participation and Observation - Ethics -
Field Equipment: Notebook, Tape Recorder,
Camera - Interviewing - Other Means of
Collecting Information - Finishing the Project
- Additional Reading

Index 319

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