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Music Traditions, Cultures & Contexts
Elliott, Robin, Smith, Gordon E.
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Description for Music Traditions, Cultures & Contexts
Paperback. A tribute to the ethnomusicologist Beverly Diamond, this title revisits important themes about understanding music traditions and music as an agent of social, cultural, and political change. Editor(s): Elliot, Robin; Smith, Gordon. Num Pages: 366 pages, Illustrations, ports., music. BIC Classification: AVA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 153 x 22. Weight in Grams: 538.
Music Traditions, Cultures, and Contexts is a tribute to the ethnomusicologist Beverley Diamond in recognition of her outstanding scholarly accomplishments. The volume includes essays by leading ethnomusicologists and music scholars as well as a biographical introduction.
The book's contributors engage many of the critical themes in Diamond's work, including musical historiography, musical composition in historical and contemporary frameworks, performance in diverse contexts, gender issues, music and politics, and how music is nested in and relates to broader issues in society. The essays raise important themes about knowing and understanding musical traditions and music itself as an agent ... Read moreof social, cultural, and political change. Music Traditions, Cultures, and Contexts will appeal to music scholars and students, as well as to a general audience interested in learning about how music functions as social process as well as sound.
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Publisher
Wilfrid Laurier University Press Canada
Place of Publication
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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About Elliott, Robin, Smith, Gordon E.
Robin Elliott holds the Jean A. Chalmers Chair in Canadian Music at the Faculty of Music, University of Toronto. He recently co-edited two books for WLU Press, Music Traditions, Cultures, and Contexts (with Gordon E. Smith, 2010) and Centre and Periphery, Roots and Exile: Interpreting the Music of István Anhalt, György Kurtág, and Sándor Veress (with Friedemann Sallis and Kenneth ... Read moreDeLong, 2011). Gordon E. Smith is a professor of ethnomusicology at Queen's University. Formerly director of the School of Music, he is currently Associate Dean in the Faculty of Arts and Science. His recent publications include Istvan Anhalt: Pathways and Memory (with Robin Elliott), Folk Music, Traditional Music, Ethnomusicology: Canadian Perspectives, Past and Present (2007); and Marius Barbeau: Modelling Twentieth-Century Culture (2008). Show Less
Reviews for Music Traditions, Cultures & Contexts
"The editors have done an excellent job drawing together significant essays to honour Diamond. This festschrift is a valuable compilation that belongs in all music collections."
Elaine Keillor, Carleton University
CAML Review, Vol 39, #1, 2011, 201105 "The volume is both interesting and informative.... I recommend Music Traditions, Cultures, and Contexts to those interested in music and identity, ... Read morecultural contexts of music, popular, and traditional music. Libraries boasting collections on said topics should consider purchasing this title, as it contributes to the discourse and provides additional insights into contemporary ethnomusicology."
Joe C. Clark, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio
Fontes Artis Musicae, 60/1, 201401 "In sum, this is a valuable book on a wide range of topics from a diversity of voices that...is a fine tribute to a highly accomplished scholar, valued colleague, and loved and respected teacher."
Thérèse Smith, University College Dublin
Journal of the Society for Musicology in Ireland, Vol 6, 2010-11, 201106 Show Less