Performing Ethnomusicology (eBook)

Acknowledgments
Introduction. Teaching What Cannot Be Taught: An Optimistic Overview
Ted Solís

PART 1. SOUNDING THE OTHER: ACADEMIC WORLD MUSIC ENSEMBLES IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
1. Subject, Object, and the Ethnomusicology Ensemble: The Ethnomusicological "We" and "Them"
Ricardo D. Trimillos
2. "A Bridge to Java": Four Decades Teaching Gamelan in America
Hardja Susilo
3. Opportunity and Interaction: The Gamelan from Java to Wesleyan
Sumarsam
4. "Where’s ‘One’?": Musical Encounters of the Ensemble Kind
Gage Averill

PART 2. SQUARE PEGS AND SPOKESFOLK: SERVING AND ADAPTING TO THE ACADEMY
5. A Square Peg in a Round Hole: Teaching Javanese Gamelan in the Ensemble Paradigm of the Academy
Roger Vetter
6. "No, Not ‘Bali Hai!": Challenges of Adaptation and Orientalism in Performing and Teaching Balinese Gamelan
David Harnish
7. Cultural Interactions in an Asian Context: Chinese and Javanese Ensembles in Hong Kong
J. Lawrence Witzleben

PART 3. PATCHWORKERS, ACTORS, AND AMBASSADORS: REPRESENTING OURSELVES AND OTHERS
8. "Can’t Help but Speak, Can’t Help but Play": Dual Discourse in Arab Music Pedagogy
Ali Jihad Racy
9. The African Ensemble in America: Contradictions and Possibilities
David Locke
10. Klez Goes to College
Hankus Netsky
11. Creating a Community, Negotiating Among Communities: Performing Middle Eastern Music for a Diverse Middle Eastern and American Public
Scott Marcus

PART 4. TAKE-OFF POINTS: CREATIVITY AND PEDAGOGICAL OBLIGATION
12. Bilateral Negotiations in Bimusicality: Insiders, Outsiders, and the "Real Version" in Middle Eastern Music Performance
Anne K. Rasmussen
13. Community of Comfort: Negotiating a World of "Latin Marimba"
Ted Solís
14. What’s the "It" That We Learn to Perform?: Teaching BaAka Music and Dance
Michelle Kisliuk and Kelly Gross
15. "When Can We Improvise?": The Place of Creativity in Academic World Music
Performance
David W. Hughes

Afterword. Some Closing Thoughts from the First Voice: An Interview with Mantle Hood
Ricardo D. Trimillos

Works Cited
List of Contributors
Index