Taking Culture Seriously: Democratic Music and its Transformative Potential in South Korea
Author: Hesselink, Nathan Publication details: The World of Music: Readings in Ethnomusicology, ed. Max Peter Baumann, 670-701. Intercultural Music Studies 17. Berlin: Verlag für Wissenschaft und Bildung, 2012. Weblink: https://worldcat.org
Identity and Genre in Gamelan Gong Kebyar: An Analytical Study of Gabor
Author: Roeder, John and Tenzer, Michael Publication details: Music Theory Spectrum 34, no. 1 (2012): 78-122. Weblink: http://www.jstor.org Abstract: Gabor is a piece for Balinese gamelan gong kebyar that deploys concurrent textural layers moving at different speeds, organized around a slow melody measured by recurring patterns of gong strokes. The melody, drumming, gong patterns, layer figuration, and tempo vary throughout the […]
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, […]
V. 1600-1750
Author: Alexander Fisher Publication details: Part of “History of Liturgical Music” [revised from Anthony Milner]. In the New Catholic Encyclopedia, Supplement 2011, ed. Robert Fastiggi, et al, 2:466-69. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale, 2011. Weblink: https://www.gale.com/ebooks/
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.