The Oxford Handbook of Applied Ethnomusicology

865 Pages·2015·20.18 MB·English

by  Svanibor Pettan

The Oxford Handbook of
A P P L I E D 
E T H N OM U SIC OL O G Y

The Oxford Handbook of
APPLIED
ETHNOMUSICOLOGY
Edited by
SVANIBOR PETTAN
and

JEFF TODD TITON
1
3
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The Oxford handbook of applied ethnomusicology / edited by Svanibor Pettan and Jeff Todd Titon.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978–0–19–935170–1 (hardcover: alk. paper)
1. Applied ethnomusicology. I. Pettan, Svanibor, 1960–
II. Titon,Jeff Todd, 1943–
ML3799.2.O94 2015
780.89—dc23
2014041243
1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2
Printed in the United States of America
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Contents
List of Figures and Tables  ix
List of Contributors  xiii
About the Companion Website  xix
PART I AN INTRODUCTION TO APPLIED
ETHNOMUSICOLOGY
Section 1. Applied Ethnomusicology: A Descriptive and
Historical Account  4
Jeff Todd Titon 
Section 2. Applied Ethnomusicology in the Global Arena  29
Svanibor Pettan
Section 3. An Introduction to the Chapters  53
Jeff Todd Titon and Svanibor Pettan
PART II THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL
CONSIDERATIONS
1. Transcending Researcher Vulnerability Through Applied
Ethnomusicology  71
Dan Bendrups
2. Evaluating Values in Applied Ethnomusicology  93
Klisala Harrison
3. Cultural Engagement and Ownership Through Participatory
Approaches in Applied Ethnomusicology  109
Tan Sooi Beng
4. Applied Ethnomusicology and Intangible Cultural Heritage:
Understanding “Ecosystems of Music” as a Tool for Sustainability  134
Huib Schippers
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5. Sustainability, Resilience, and Adaptive Management for Applied
Ethnomusicology  157
Jeff Todd Titon
PART III ADVOCACY
6. Advocacy and the Ethnomusicologist: Assessing Capacity,
Developing Initiatives, Setting Limits, and Making Sustainable
Contributions  199
Jeffrey A. Summit
7. Applied Ethnomusicology as an Intercultural Tool: Some
Experiences from the Last 25 Years of Minority Research in Austria  229
Ursula Hemetek
8. Being Applied in the Ethnomusicology of Autism  278
Michael B. Bakan
9. Motivations and Methods for Encouraging Artists in Longer
Traditions  317
Brian Schrag
10. Activist Ethnomusicology and Marginalized Music of South Asia  348
Zoe C. Sherinian
PART IV INDIGENOUS PEOPLES
11. Decolonization and Applied Ethnomusicology: “Story-ing” the
Personal-Political-Possible in Our Work  379
Elizabeth Mackinlay
12. Andes to Amazon on the River Q’eros: Indigenous Voice in
Grassroots Tourism, Safeguarding, and Ownership Projects
of the Q’eros and Wachiperi Peoples  398
Holly Wissler
PART V CONFLICTS
13. The Role of Applied Ethnomusicology in Post-Conflict and
Post-Catastrophe Communities  453
Erica Haskell
Contents vii
14. The Study of Survivors’ Music  481
Joshua D. Pilzer
15. Music and Conflict Resolution: The Public Display of Migrants in
National(ist) Conflict Situations in Europe: An Analytical Reflection
on University-Based Ethnomusicological Activism  511
Britta Sweers
PART VI EDUCATION
16. Strategies and Opportunities in the Education Sector for Applied
Ethnomusicology  553
Susan E. Oehler Herrick
17. Sounds Humane: Music and Humanism in the Aga Khan
Humanities Project  602
John Morgan O’Connell
18. Intersections Between Ethnomusicology, Music Education, and
Community Music  639
Patricia Shehan Campbell and Lee Higgins
PART VII AGENCIES
19. Archives and Applied Ethnomusicology  671
Dan Lundberg
20. The Applied Ethnomusicologist as Public
Folklorist: Ethnomusicological Practice in the Context of a
Government Agency in the United States  709
Clifford R. Murphy
21. Applied Ethnomusicology in China: An Analytical
Review of Practice  735
Zhang Boyu
22. The Problem and Potential of Commerce  772
Alan Williams
Index  803

List of Figures and Tables
Figures
1.1. Tote Tepano, dressed for Tapati festival participation, carrying tape recorder.  81
1.2. Paulis Puriņš (center) with Miervaldis Altments (far left) at a
Christchurch Latvian community celebration in the mid-1980s.  86
2.1. Musical value systems exist in a continuum in complex society
(elaborating Robbins, 2013b).  104
3.1. Community performance Opera Pasar; children performing the clog
dance at the market, 2008.  124
3.2. Siamese in Penang performing the menora at the Heritage
Celebrations, 2013.  122
4.1. Ecosystems of music.  141
4.2. Screenshots from the online survey to identify possible areas of concern
for sustainability on soundfutures.org.  153
5.1. Location of Old Regular Baptist Churches in the Southern
Appalachian region.  183
6.1. Map of Uganda by Dan Cole, GIS Coordinator, Smithsonian National
Museum of Natural History, in Delicious Peace: Coffee, Music & Interfaith
Harmony in Uganda (SFW CD 50417), 2012.  201
6.2. Worship in the Moses synagogue on Nabogoya Hill, Uganda.  206
6.3. The Peace Kawomera Growers Coop sign.  213
7.1. Ruža Nikolić-Lakatos, 1994.  241
7.2. Ceija Stojka, 1991.  242
7.3. Poster for the event from 1990.  246
7.4. Serbian Roma women dancing at the event, 1990.  248
7.5. Ševko Pekmezović, 1995.  252
7.6. Religious backgrounds of immigrants from Turkey in Vienna.  261
7.7. Logo of the Saz Association.  262
7.8. Mansur Bildik playing the saz in Amerlinghaus, June 7, 2014.  263