1st Edition
Music in the Post-9/11 World
Foreword, Gage Averill
Introduction, J. Martin Daughtry
Part One: Music, the United States, and the Mass Media After 9/11
1. Pop Goes to War, 2001–2004: U.S. Popular Music After 9/11 Reebee Garofalo
2. "America: A Tribute to Heroes": Music, Mourning, and the Unified American Community Kip Pegley and Susan Fast
3. The Sounds of American and Canadian Television News After 9/11: Entoning Horror and Grief, Fear and Anger James Deaville
4. Models of Charity and Spirit: Bruce Springsteen, 9/11, and the War on Terror Bryan Garman
5. Double Voices of Musical Censorship after 9/11 Martin Scherzinger
6. "Have you forgotten?": Darryl Worley and the Musical Politics of Operation Iraqi Freedom Peter Schmelz
7. For alle Menschen? Classical Music and Remembrance After 9/11 Peter Tregear
Part Two: Music and 9/11 Beyond the United States
8. Terror in an Andean Key: Peasant Cosmopolitans Interpret 9/11 Jonathan Ritter
9. Exploding Myths in Morocco and Senegal: Sufis Making Music After 9/11 Larry Blumenfeld
10. Corridos of 9/11: Mexican Ballads in Commemorative Practice John McDowell
11. "I’ll tell you why we hate you!" Sha‘ban ‘Abd al-Rahim and Middle Eastern Reactions to 9/11 James Grippo
12. 9/11 and the Politics of Music-Making in Afghanistan Veronica Doubleday
Biography
Jonathan Ritter is assistant professor of ethnomusicology at the University of California, Riverside.
J. Martin Daughtry is assistant professor of ethnomusicology at New York University.
"[A] chapter examining the notion that 19th-century German music represents a "universal style" goes beyond the confines suggested by the title: it may give pause to those who assume that Beethoven's Ninth (and by extension Barber's Adagio for Strings) are the ultimate appropriate works of individual or national mourning. Summing Up: Recommended." --CHOICE, January 2008
"meticulously reconstructs a period of time that can now seem like a blur." --Jazz Notes
