One Fusion Among Many: Merging Bali, India and the West through Modernism

Author: Tenzer, Michael Publication details: Circuit 21, no. 2 (2011): 77–100. Weblink: https://erudit.org Abstract: The relationship between world music traditions and modernist art music in the European tradition is often explored in composers’ musical fusions, but the motivations and aesthetics of such works often receive less notice than those grounded in post-modern (minimalist, popular music) approaches. In […]

SamulNori: Contemporary Korean Drumming and the Rebirth of Itinerant Performance Culture

Author: Hesselink, Nathan Publication details: Chicago Series in Ethnomusicology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012. Weblink: http://press.uchicago.edu Abstract: In 1978, four musicians crowded into a cramped basement theater in downtown Seoul, where they, for the first time, brought the rural percussive art of p’ungmul to a burgeoning urban audience. In doing so, they began a decades-long reinvention of tradition, […]

Singing Meaning into Lost Childhood in Arcade Fire’s The Suburbs

Author: Kurth, Richard Publication details: Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, UBC

Analytical and Cross-Cultural Studies in World Music

Author: Roeder, John and Tenzer, Michael Publication details: New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. Weblink: https://global.oup.com Abstract: Analytical and Cross-Cultural Studies in World Music presents intriguing explanations of extraordinary musical creations from diverse cultures across the world. All the authors are experts, deeply engaged in the traditions they describe. They recount the contexts in which the music is created and […]

Fluctuant Grouping in a Silk-and-Bamboo Melody

Author: Roeder, John Publication details: Analytical Approaches to World Music Journal 1, no. 2 (2011). Weblink: http://aawmjournal.com Abstract: Liuban is one of a constellation of old tunes (qupai) that are foundational to music of China, and in particular to the rich “Silk-and-Bamboo” music (jiangnan sizhu) of the lower Yangzi region. This essay highlights some of the extraordinary qualities […]

Balinese Gamelan Music

Author: Tenzer, Michael Publication details: Tokyo: Tuttle Publishing, 2011. Weblink: http://tuttlepublishing.com Abstract: Bali has develop and nourished an astonishing variety of musical ensembles—called gamelan—comprising dozens of instruments mainly made of bronze or bamboo, and organized into groups with as many as 30 to 40 players. In Balinese Gamelan Music, Michael Tenzer, a noted Professor of Music at the […]

Generalized Representations of Musical Time and Periodic Structures

Author: Tenzer, Michael Publication details: Ethnomusicology 55, no. 3 (2011): 369-86. Weblink: http://www.jstor.org

Korean Rock, Sanjo, and National Identity

Author: Hesselink, Nathan Publication details: Perspectives on Korean Music 2 (2011): 87-102.

Transformational Aspects of Arvo Pärt’s Tintinnabuli Music

Author: Roeder, John Publication details: Journal of Music Theory 55, no. 1 (April 01. 2011): 1-41. Weblink: http://jmt.dukejournals.org/content/55/1/1 Abstract: Arvo Pärt’s strict and elemental compositional procedures, which have been described and evaluated critically by several scholars, are here expressed via a mathematical formalism drawn from theories of musical transformations. The analytical opportunities that this perspective provides are […]

Rhythm and Folk Drumming (P’ungmul) as the Musical Embodiment of Communal Consciousness in South Korean Village Society

Author: Hesselink, Nathan Publication details: Analytical and Cross-Cultural Studies in World Music, edited by Michael Tenzer and John Roeder, 263-87. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. Weblink: http://oxfordindex.com Abstract: This chapter suggests the musical means by which rhythm and folk drumming embody and recreate what South Korean folklorists and anthropologists have identified in traditional village society […]