1st Edition

Navigating Stylistic Boundaries in the Music History Classroom Crossover, Exchange, Appropriation

Edited By Esther M. Morgan-Ellis Copyright 2024
236 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

236 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

236 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

At a time of transformation in the music history classroom and amid increasing calls to teach a global music history, Navigating Stylistic Boundaries in the Music History Classroom adds nuance to the teaching of varied musical traditions by examining the places where they intersect and the issues of musical exchange and appropriation that these intersections raise. Troubling traditional... Read more

Introduction: Teaching Liminal Musicking
ESTHER M. MORGAN-ELLIS

PART I: Denaturalizing Western Art Music

1 European Art Music is an Ethnic Music: Fraying the Edges in a Music History Classroom
D. LINDA PEARSE AND SANDRIA P. BOULIANE

2 From Beijing to Paris: Teaching Music of the Global Eighteenth Century
QINGFAN JIANG

3 “Song of the Spirit Dance” and Native American Songs: Teaching about Appropriation in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Symphonic Compositions
ERINN E. KNYT

4 Examining Vernacular Borrowings to Denaturalize Western Art Music: The Case of “Hoe-Down”
ESTHER M. MORGAN-ELLIS

PART II: Teaching Blended Musics

5 Music of the Hyphen: Diaspora Music as Process and Product
VARSHINI NARAYANAN

6 African-Focused Approaches to Teaching African Popular Music in Western Classrooms
ALABA ILESANMI

7 Por ti seré: Jarocho Fusion and Revivalism in “La Bamba”
GREGORY REISH

PART III: Training Global Musicians

8 From Brazilian Worship Houses to a U.S. College: Recontextualizations of Afro-Brazilian Religious Music and Movement
MARC M. GIDAL

9 Crossing Over Popular and Classical Traditions through Musical Theater
ALEX BÁDUE

10 The Anti-Colonial Conservatory: The Case of the University “Folk Band”
CHRISTOPHER J. SMITH

Index

Biography

Esther M. Morgan-Ellis is Associate Professor of Music History at the University of North Georgia.