Synopsis
1. Music Culture as a World of Music (by Jeff Todd Titon and Mark Slobin). The Soundscape. The Music-Culture. Music or Nonmusic'. Patterns in Music. A Music-Culture Performance Model. The Four Components of a Music-Culture. Ecological Worlds of Music. Study Questions. Glossary. Resources. 2. North America/Native America (by David P. McAllestair). The Sioux Musical Style (Close Listening: Grass Dance, Traditional Sioux War Dance The Zuni Musical Style; Close Listening: Zuni Lullaby). The Iroquois Musical Style (Close Listening: "Gadasjot," Quiver Dance or Warrior''s Stomp Dance Song). Musical Life of the Navajos (Close Listening: Yebichai, Navajo Dance Song; Close Listening: "Folsom Prison Blues"; Close Listening: "Shizhané''é," Navajo Circle Dance Song; Close Listening: Hymn of the Native American Church; Close Listening: "Clinging to a Saving Hand," Traditional Christian Hymn). The Native American Flute Revival. Study Questions.Glossary. Resources. 3. Africa: Ewe, Mande, Dagbamba, Shona, BaAka (by David Locke). Postal Workers Canceling Stamps (Close Listening: Postal Workers Canceling Stamps at the University of Ghana Post Office). Agbekor: Music and Dance of the Ewe People (Close Listening: Agbekor Vulolo; Close Listening: Agbekor Adzo; Close Listening: Agbekor Vutsotsoe; Close Listening: Performance Demonstration of an Agbekor Percussion Ensemble). The Jaliya of the Mande (Close Listening: "Lambango," a Mande Song). Drummers of the Dagbamba (Close Listening: "Nag Biegu," Traditional Praise Name Dance Song). Shona Mbira Music (Close Listening: "Nhemamusasa," Traditional Shona). The BaAka, Forest People (Close Listening: "Makala," a Mabo Performance Event). Conclusion as Discussion. Study Questions. Glossary. Resources. 4. North America/Black America (by Jeff Todd Titon). Music of Worship (Close Listening: "Amazing Grace"). Music of Work (Close Listening: Field holler; Close Listening: "Rosie" (call and response excerpt); Close Listening: "Rosie"). Music of Play. Blues (Close Listening: "Poor Boy Blues"; Close Listening: "She Got Me Walkin''"; Close Listening: "Ain''t Enough Comin'' In"). A Few Final Words. Study Questions. Glossary. Resources . 5. East Asia/Japan (by Linda Fujie). General Characteristics of Japanese Traditional Music. The Shakuhachi (Bamboo Flute) (Close Listening: "Tsuru no sugomori" ("Nesting Cranes")). The Kouta (Short Song) and Shamisen (Lute) (Close Listening: "Hakusen no" ("A White Fan")). Folk Song (Close Listening: "Nikata-bushi" ("The Song of the Nikata")). Popular Music (Close Listening: Taiko (Drumming); Close Listening: "Naite Nagasaki" ("Crying Nagasaki")). Final Words. Study Questions. Glossary. Resources . 6. India/South India (by David B. Reck). Culture, History, Politics. The Classical Music of South India. A Carnatic Music Performance (Close Listening: "Sarasiruha," Kriti in Natai raga, Adi tala). Indian Music and the West. Study Questions. Glossary. Resources. 7. Asia/Indonesia (by R. Anderson Sutton). Central Java. Gamelan (Close Listening: Performance Demonstration of a Javanese Gendhing, "Bubaran Kembang Pacar"; Close Listening: Playon "Lasem" sléndro pathet nem, Central Javanese Gamelan Music for Shadow Puppetry). Bali (Close Listening: "Kosalia Arinim," Gamelan Gong Kebyar). Popular Music (Close Listening: "Shufflendang-Shufflending," Ethno-Jazz Fusion of West Java). Conclusion. Study Questions. Glossary. Resources. 8. Latin America: Chile/Bolivia/Ecuador/Peru (by John M. Schechter). Chilean Nueva Canción (Close Listening: "El aparecido" ("The Apparition")). Bolivian K''antu (Close Listening: "Kuitimunapaq" ("So that we can return")). The Quichua of the Northern Andes of Ecuador (Close Listening: "Muyu muyari warmigu" ("Please return, dear woman"), a Quichua Sanjuán; Close Listening: "Iluman tiyu" ("Man from Iluman"), a Classic Sanjuán of the Imbabura Quichua). African-Ecuadorian Music of the Chota River Valley (Close Listening: "Me gusta la leche" ("I like milk"), an African-Ecuadorian San