Performing Ethnomusicology: Teaching and Representation in World Music Ensembles

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 8
Introduction: Teaching What Cannot Be Taught: An Optimistic Overview......Page 10
Part One: Sounding the Other: Academic World Music Ensembles in Historical Perspective......Page 30
4 “Where’s ‘One’?” Musical Encounters of the Ensemble Kind......Page 102
3 Opportunity and Interaction: The Gamelan from Java to Wesleyan......Page 78
2 “A Bridge to Java”: Four Decades Teaching Gamelan in America......Page 62
1 Subject, Object, and the Ethnomusicology Ensemble: The Ethnomusicological “We” and “Them”......Page 32
Part Two: Square Pegs and Spokesfolk: Serving and Adapting to the Academy......Page 122
7 Cultural Interactions in an Asian Context: Chinese and Javanese Ensembles in Hong Kong......Page 147
6 “No, Not ‘Bali Hai’!” Challenges of Adaptation and Orientalism in Performing and Teaching Balinese Gamelan......Page 135
5 A Square Peg in a Round Hole: Teaching Javanese Gamelan in the Ensemble Paradigm of the Academy......Page 124
Part Three: Patchworkers, Actors, and Ambassadors: Representing Ourselves and Others......Page 162
11 Creating a Community, Negotiating Among Communities: Performing Middle Eastern Music for a Diverse Middle Eastern and American Public......Page 211
10 Klez Goes to College......Page 198
9 The African Ensemble in America: Contradictions and Possibilities......Page 177
8 “Can’t Help but Speak, Can’t Help but Play”: Dual Discourse in Arab Music Pedagogy......Page 164
Part Four: Take-Off Points: Creativity and Pedagogical Obligation......Page 222
15 “When Can We Improvise?” The Place of Creativity in Academic World Music Performance......Page 270
14 What’s the “It” That We Learn to Perform? Teaching BaAka Music and Dance......Page 258
13 Community of Comfort: Negotiating a World of “Latin Marimba”......Page 238
12 Bilateral Negotiations in Bimusicality: Insiders, Outsiders, and the “Real Version” in Middle Eastern Music Performance......Page 224
Afterword: Some Closing Thoughts from the First Voice......Page 292
WORKS CITED......Page 298
CONTRIBUTORS......Page 312
INDEX......Page 316