Europe (Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, Volume 8) [Library Binding]

Timothy Rice (Editor), James Porter (Editor), Chris Goertzen (Editor)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0824060342 | ISBN-13: 978-0824060343 | Publication Date: November 1999 | Edition: Har/Com

Here in one volume is a comprehensive look at the folk and traditional musics of the European continen - from Ireland to the new republics of Georgia and Belarus. In over seventy articles by sixty-one contributors from around the world, this encyclopedia explores musical life from historical and ethnographic perspectives and provides extensive analysis of songs and instrumental music.

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

Following the format of this ten-volume series (e.g., Africa, LJ 9/1/97; South America, Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean, LJ 4/15/99), these works on world music contain articles by numerous scholars and cover many ethnic groups; 98 languages and language families are named in the index to the volume on Europe. After the two unifying introductory chapters by Rice (chair, ethnomusicology, UCLA), James Porter (Scottish ethnomusicology, Univ. of Aberdeen, Scotland), and Chris Goertzen (music, Earlham Coll.; Fiddling for Norway: Revival and Identity), articles in the Europe volume cover broad topics, such as European popular and art music and world and immigrant music in Europe. The geographic section explores the unique nature of individual European musical cultures as well as six transnational ethnic groups (e.g., Jews, Travellers) and 44 separate national cultures. Most of the 70-plus articles treat history, current practice, and scholarship, thus giving prospective researchers solid overviews and leads on individuals and institutions with expertise in each musical culture. As with the other volumes, an accompanying CD includes musical examples that are not available commercially. What results is an important one-volume addition to the literature on European traditional music for libraries owning the other volumes in the series or specializing in European anthropological subjects. In the Southeast Asia volume, another solid continuation of the series, 68 authors examine the vast subject of Indian music. As with the other volumes, this offers overview chapters (introduction and discussion of broad issues) preceding sections on each musical region or country. With myriad languages, religions, and national histories, the Indian subcontinent has a rich cultural heritage and much cross-cultural pollination to explore. Areas closed to scholars for political reasons or simply not yet studied still need research, but traditions in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, India, and Sri Lanka are represented. Both influences originally from outside of IndiaDsuch as film musicDand the worldwide diaspora of Indian peoples are also treated. Issues include the different roles of men and women in some South Asian musical cultures, the intersection of music, theater, and dance, and musical iconography and organology. Scholarly but colorful in its treatment, this book is aimed at serious students of ethnomusicology, upper undergraduate level and above. For large public and academic libraries owning the other volumes and for libraries specializing in South Asian subjects. [Volumes in this series on the Middle East and on the United States and Canada will be released in fall 2000 and on East Asia in 2001.DEd.]DBonnie Jo Dopp, Univ. of Maryland Libs., College Par.
-DBonnie Jo Dopp, Univ. of Maryland Libs., College Park
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Review

The editors have made striking efforts, throughout, to provide a framework in which a great diversity of musical practices, repertories, and genres can be considered as part of a more general field. -- Martin Stokes, Journal of the American Musicological Society
The volume's most valuable and striking achievement is the patient and systematic manner in which it presents a bottom-up view of a cultural world that has been relentlessly viewed in top-down ways. The extraordinary vitality of those repertories and practices habitually labeled as folk or traditional is clear on every page, in terms of the music-making practices and values of most people living in Europe. -- Martin Stokes, Journal of the American Musicological Society
The editors have clearly gone out of their way to make sure that regional scholarly traditions are well represented not only in the bibliographies but in the articles themselves. -- Martin Stokes, Journal of the American Musicological Society
The articles are crisp, authoritative, and amply illustrated with superb photography, useful transcriptions, and well-chosen audio examples in the accompanying compact disc. The bibliographies that accompany each article are particularly valuable. -- Martin Stokes, Journal of the American Musicological Society
Garland's Europe is an enormous step forward. It addresses a broad range of pan-European issues and the research traditions that have shaped them. It then presents succinct yet broadly conceived articles on archeology, notation and transmission, art music and historicism, ethnoaesthetics, gender, mass mediation, immigration, diasporas, and world music in Europe. -- Martin Stokes, Journal of the American Musicological Society
This volume succeeds in providing the prospect of a truly European ethnomusicology with the assemblage of a wide range of scholarship unencumbered by assumptions that music in Europe is fundamentally different from music elsewhere. -- Martin Stokes, Journal of the American Musicological Society
This unique and thoroughly researched resource provides a dynamic and in depth perspective on world music... It strikes a balance between wonderful illustrations and comprehensive, scholarly entries. Each regional volume includes a CD sampler of that region's music. This source will have wide appeal to both the novice and expert. -- Dartmouth Medal Committee
Timely in various ways. -- Journal of American Musicological Society
The coverage is intelligently, even provocatively, organized and will be useful for a wide range of readers, from students to specialists...Anyone interested in the past, present, and future of European music studies needs to haul this book down from the shelf and spend some time with it, and anyone who does so will certainly end up with a sense of gratitude toward the editors. -- Notes
Articles that address the social life of music, the cultural values expressed in music, and the way music has been used as a political tool, make the volume an outstanding resource for scholars and laypersons interested in exploring indigenous music traditions of Europe. For both the general and the academic reader, this encyclopedia is an excellentt resource for artists, educators, and anyone interested in music in different world cultures. -- American Reference Books Annual
The glossary, index, and bibliography are extensive, and the accompanying CD provides aural samples of what the book discusses. Essential for all levels of research and interest. -- Choice
Librarians, you must have this on your shelves! Music lovers, if Europe is what interests you, then break down and get your copy of this volume. What stands out for me are the nooks and crannies. Sure, you get France,Spain and Italy, but it's such fun to find more about Brittany, Corsica, or Sardinia. I remain in the camp that is certain these Garland volumes will be the essential starting points for students & researchers of traditional music for years to come. -- Megan Butler, Megan Butler Communications

Product Details

• Library Binding: 1176 pages
• Publisher: Routledge; Har/Com edition (November 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0824060342
• ISBN-13: 978-0824060343
• Product Dimensions: 11.2 x 8.9 x 2.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
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