Music Making Community

Tony Perman is an associate professor of ethnomusicology and the department chair of music at Grinnell College. He is the author of Signs of the Spirit: Music and the Experience of Meaning in Ndau Ceremonial Life. Stefan Fiol is a professor of ethnomusicology and affiliated faculty in Asian Studies at the University of Cincinnati. He is the author of Recasting Folk in the Himalayas: Indian Music, Media, and Social Mobility.

Table of Contents

List of Figures

Prologue  Bruno Nettl

1. Introduction: Music Making and Unmaking Community  Stefan Fiol and Tony Perman

Part I: Differentiation

2. Re-membering Pontic Sociality: Musical Longing as Community Surrogation  Ioannis Tsekouras

3. Choreographic Participation of a Presentational Kind: Sound, Movement, and the Politics of Belonging in Bulgaria’s Armenian Diaspora  Donna A. Buchanan

4. Making a Jewish Neighborhood: In-group/Out-group Sonic Dynamics and Affective Leverage in an Argentine Soccer Stadium  Eduardo Herrera

5. Assembling Indigenous Communities: The Making of South Africa’s Intellectual Property Laws Amendment Act 2013  Veit Erlmann

Part II: Feedback

6. Teaching Music as Social Life: Performance Based Pedagogy in Ethnomusicology  Joanna Bosse

7. Musical Competition as Community in Highland Bolivia  Thomas Solomon

8. Sustaining Musical Collectivities Through Competition: Christmas Bands in Cape Town  Sylvia Bruinders

9. Festival Activism: Sound, Affect, and Participatory Politics at the Palestine Music Expo  David A. McDonald

Part III: Mutual Indebtedness

10. Love and Debt: Performing Difference on the Mbira  Tony Perman

11. From Collective Improvisation to Pan-African Jazz: Examining the Dialogue of Musical Sounds and Social Belonging  Rick Deja

12. Visions of Community and the Perils of Safeguarding a Himalayan Festival  Stefan Fiol

Epilogue Stephen Blum

Index