1st Edition

The Routledge Companion to the Study of Local Musicking

Edited By Suzel A. Reily, Katherine Brucher Copyright 2018
548 Pages
by Routledge

548 Pages
by Routledge

548 Pages
by Routledge

WINNER OF THE 2019 SOCIETY OF ETHNOMUSICLOGY ELLEN KOSKOFF PRIZE FOR EDITED COLLECTIONS The Routledge Companion to the Study of Local Musicking provides a reference to how, cross-culturally, musicking constructs locality and how locality is constructed by the musicking that takes place within it, that is, how people engage with ideas of community and place through music. The term... Read more

Preface Foreword: Amateur Bands, Their Localities, and Their Challenges – The Lessons of History Local Musicking: An Introduction Section I – Modes of Local Musicking 1. Participatory Performance and the Authenticity of Place in Old-Time Music 2. Protestant-Lutheran Choir Singing in Northern Germany: Dimensions of Presentational Musicking in Local Community 3. Attending Concerts: Local Musicking among Greenlandic Youth 4. Hyperactive Musical Communities On- and Offline: Dancing and Producing Chicago Footwork, Shangaan Electro and Gqom 5. Community Beyond Locality: Circuits of Transnational Macedonian Romani Music 6. Community and the Musicking of Participatory Research in Rio de Janeiro Section II – Musicking and the Production of Locality 7. Sounding and Producing Locality: Creating a Locally Distinctive Band Practice in Cape Town 8. Orfeanismo: Local Musicking and the Building of Society in Provincial Portugal 9. ""It Gets Better When the People Come to Dance!"": Participatory Music in the Black Community of Campinas 10. Music Contests and Communities: A Small Competition Powwow and a Complex Fiddle Contest 11. Tuning in to Locality…/part contents

Biography



Suzel A. Reily is Professor of Ethnomusicology at the Universidade de Campinas, Brazil, and previously worked at Queen’s University Belfast. She has published on several aspects of ethnomusicology. Her current research focuses on the music associated with vernacular Catholicism in southeastern Brazil.



Katherine Brucher is Associate Professor of Music at the DePaul University School of Music. She has published on folk and ethnic music in Chicago, Portuguese music, and global brass band traditions.