Music \= Cultures in Contact: Convergences and Collisions (Musicology)

Contact between cultures may also lead to rejection as well as suppression of certain types of music. This process leads to such unfavorable circumstances as abandonment of entire works, genres or concepts or loss of instruments; yet such conflicts may also generate new and more positive creative achievements. Contributors include Andrew Alter, Tan Sooi Beng, Zdravko Blazekovic, Stephen Blum, Lê Tuân Hùng, Margaret J. Kartomi, Marcello Sorce Keller, Margarita Mazo, Bruno Nettl, Don Niles, William Noll, Jann Pasler, Ankica Petrovic, Chris Saumaiwai, John M. Schechter, Graeme Smith, Doris Stockmann, Sumarsam, and S. Venkatraman. Music -- Cultures in Contact examines how and why change occurs in musical culture, particularly change engendered by contact between two or many impinging cultures, sub-cultures or classes within a culture. This contact can have positive or negative effects. It may result in an influx of new musical ideas, leading to a greater level of crea Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Preface Introduction to the Series Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Genres of Performance Synthesis in the Culture of Scholarship: Problems in Investigating and Documenting the Archaic and Modern Styles of Yoiking by the Sami in Scandinavia The Eastern Roots of Ancient Yugoslav Music Wedding Laments in North Russian Villages Reflections of Continental and Mediterranean Traditions in Italian Folk Music Political Implications of Croation Opera in the Nineteenth Century Corpus Christi and its Octave in Andean Ecuador: Procession and Music, "Castles" and "Bulls" Cultural Interaction through Music in Tamilnadu Religion, Media and Shows: The Effects of Intercultural Contact on Papua New Guinean Musics Urban Fijian Musical Attitudes and Ideals: Has Intercultural Contact through Music and Dance Changed Them? Institutions and Agents of Cultural Interaction Cultural Contact with the West: The Development of Theories of Javanese Gamelan by Indonesian Theorists Reinterpreting Indian Music: Roussel and Delage Gurus, Shishyas and Educators: Adaptive Strategies in Post-Colonial North Indian Music Institutions American Midwestern Schools of Music as Venues of Musical Mediation and Confrontation Irish Meets Folk: The Genesis of the Bush Band Cultural Contact through Music Institutions in Ukrainian Lands, 1920-1948 From Syncretism to the Development of Parallel Cultures: Chinese-Malay Cultural Interaction in Malaysia The Dynamics of Change in Huê and Tài tu Music between 1890 and 1990 Conclusion Contributors Index Sound recordings have been widely used to make oral musical traditions known to scholars, students, and broader audiences who are interested in the world's music - for example, the music of the Sami in the most northern parts of Europe.