Explorations in Ethnomusicology: Essays in Honor of David P. McAllester

by Charlotte Johnson Frisbie (Editor), David Park McAllester

Introduction; PART 1 Method, Theory, and History (Multilingualism in Folk Music Cultures / Mark Slobin; Musical Diffusion and Linguistic Diffusion / Leanne Hinton; Cultural Analysis, Linguistic Analogies, and the Study of Dance in Anthropological Perspective / Adrienne L. Kaeppler; Some Historical Thoughts on the Character of Ethnomusicology / Bruno Nettl); PART 2 The Question of Change (The Changing Role of the Bauls in Modern Bengal / Charles Capwell; Musical Innovation and Acculturation in African Music / Ashenafi Kebede; Social Change and the Functions of Music in Java / Martin Hatch); PART 3 Musicians in Culture (Navajo Ceremonialists in the Pre-1970 Political World / Charlotte J. Frisbie; Music as Symbol of Power and The Courts of Mughal India / Bonnie C. Wade; The Would-Be Indian / Joann W. Kealiinohomoku); PART 4 Symbol and Meaning (Sound, Danger, and Balanced Response / Marcia Herndon; Text and Context in Lakota Music / William K. Powers; Sound as a Symbolic The Kaluli Drum / Steven Feld); PART 5 The Art and the Arts (Leaf-Music Among the Salasaca of Highland Ecuador / Joseph B. Casagrande and David K. Stigberg; Unity of the Arts in the Aesthetics of Kpelle Performance / Ruth M. Stone; Crossing the Sensory Domains in Native American Aesthetics / Barbara Tedlock); PART 6 Autobiographical Sketch and Bibliography (Autobiographical Sketch / David P. McAllester; Bibliography); Index (Personal Names; Place Names; Subject)

280 pages, Hardcover