1. Introduction: The Ethnomusicology of Western Art Music Laudan Nooshin 2. Music Teachers as Missionaries: Understanding Europe’s Recent Dispatches to Ramallah Rachel Beckles Willson 3. The Orchestration of Civil Society: Community and Conscience in Symphony Orchestras Tina K. Ramnarine 4. Classical Cult or Learning Community? Exploring New Audience Members’ Social and Musical Responses to First-time Concert Attendance Melissa C. Dobson and Stephanie E. Pitts 5. Ethnographic Research into Contemporary String Quartet Rehearsal Amanda Bayley 6. "The Condition of Mozart": Mozart Year 2006 and the New Vienna Eric Martin Usner 7. Reflections on an Ethnomusicological Study of a Contemporary Western Art Music Composer Pirkko Moisala 8. Afterword Philip V. Bohlman
Biography
Laudan Nooshin is Senior Lecturer in Ethnomusicology at City University, London, UK. From 2008-2011, Laudan was co-Editor of the journal Ethnomusicology Forum. She has published widely on various aspects of Iranian music culture, including creative processes in Iranian classical music and music and youth culture in Iran. Recent publications include the edited volume Music and the Play of Power in the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia (2009).
