Overview

Making music offers enormous possibilities--and faces significant limitations--in its power to generate belonging and advance social justice. Tony Perman and Stefan Fiol edit essays focused on the forms of interplay between music-making and community-making as mutually creative processes. Contributors in the first section look at cases where music arrived in settings with little or no sense of community and formed social bonds that lasted beyond its departure. In the sections that follow, the essayists turn to stable communities that used musical forms to address social needs and both forged new social groups and, in some cases, splintered established communities. By centering the value of difference in productive feedback dynamics of music and community while asserting the need for mutual moral indebtedness, they foreground music’s potential to transform community for the better. Contributors: Stephen Blum, Joanna Bosse, Sylvia Bruinders, Donna A. Buchanan, Rick Deja, Veit Erlmann, Stefan Fiol, Eduardo Herrera, David A. McDonald, Tony Perman, Thomas Solomon, and Ioannis Tsekouras

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Author:   Tony Perman ,  Stefan Fiol ,  Bruno Nettl ,  Ioannis Tsekouras
Publisher:   University of Illinois Press
Imprint:   University of Illinois Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.626kg
ISBN:  

9780252045806

ISBN 10:   0252045807
Pages:   312
Publication Date:   21 May 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents List of Figures Prologue  Bruno Nettl 1. Introduction: Music Making and Unmaking Community  Stefan Fiol and Tony Perman Part I: Differentiation 2. Re-membering Pontic Sociality: Musical Longing as Community Surrogation  Ioannis Tsekouras 3. Choreographic Participation of a Presentational Kind: Sound, Movement, and the Politics of Belonging in Bulgaria’s Armenian Diaspora  Donna A. Buchanan 4. Making a Jewish Neighborhood: In-group/Out-group Sonic Dynamics and Affective Leverage in an Argentine Soccer Stadium  Eduardo Herrera 5. Assembling Indigenous Communities: The Making of South Africa’s Intellectual Property Laws Amendment Act 2013  Veit Erlmann Part II: Feedback 6. Teaching Music as Social Life: Performance Based Pedagogy in Ethnomusicology  Joanna Bosse 7. Musical Competition as Community in Highland Bolivia  Thomas Solomon 8. Sustaining Musical Collectivities Through Competition: Christmas Bands in Cape Town  Sylvia Bruinders 9. Festival Activism: Sound, Affect, and Participatory Politics at the Palestine Music Expo  David A. McDonald Part III: Mutual Indebtedness 10. Love and Debt: Performing Difference on the Mbira  Tony Perman 11. From Collective Improvisation to Pan-African Jazz: Examining the Dialogue of Musical Sounds and Social Belonging  Rick Deja 12. Visions of Community and the Perils of Safeguarding a Himalayan Festival  Stefan Fiol Epilogue Stephen Blum Index

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“A rich and disjunctive tapestry of studies that reifies neither communities nor ontologies of community. The entire collection goes to the heart of Tom Turino’s assertions about the power of music to do things in the world and, more specifically, to shape social collectivities through meaning and emotion.”--Anna Schultz, author of Singing a Hindu Nation: Marathi Devotional Performance and Nationalism

Author Information

Tony Perman is an associate professor of ethnomusicology and the department chair of music at Grinnell College. He is the author of Signs of the Spirit: Music and the Experience of Meaning in Ndau Ceremonial Life. Stefan Fiol is a professor of ethnomusicology and affiliated faculty in Asian Studies at the University of Cincinnati. He is the author of Recasting Folk in the Himalayas: Indian Music, Media, and Social Mobility.

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