Pub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.5406/21567417.67.2.04
B. Yung
In 1975, I arranged for the blind professional singer Dou Wun (1910–1979) to sing a traditional narrative genre called naamyam in an old Hong Kong teahouse, three times weekly for three and a half months, facing the teahouse diners. Of the forty-five hours he sang there, he sang an original song composed by himself on his own life for six hours, which he reluctantly did after I pressed him on the idea. It totaled about 1,800 lines of verse, interspersed with spoken prose. In this essay, I shall first report on my concept, construction, and implementation of the fieldwork. Second, I use selected passages from his song to outline his life story. Born to a poor peasant family and blind at three months of age, Dou Wun wandered alone on the streets of Canton from age nine, received training to sing naamyam from a master singer, and finally arrived in Hong Kong in 1926, where he sang in brothels and opium dens. He lived through the difficult periods of the Japanese occupation, changing tastes in entertainment, and the early days of mass media. When times changed and his songs were no longer in demand, he ended up singing on the street. In the last part of the article, I argue for the significance of this epic autobiographical song in world oral literature and assess Dou Wun's creativity and artistry.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.5406/21567417.67.2.08
David W. Samuels-MacKinnon
For more than three decades, the undergraduate textbook Worlds of Music has introduced students to the idea of the music-culture with a story about orchestral tuning up. Stumbling across a version of that story from the late nineteenth century, I embarked on an exploration of the social circulation of this anecdote. Although I did not find a replica of the narrative as it appears in Worlds of Music, I was nonetheless able to discover its links to three European visits made by the shah of Persia Nasir al-Din, as well as a fourth about Giuseppe Donizetti, who was court musician to the Sultan Mahmoud II. Moreover, exploring the circulation of these narratives revealed metadiscursive affordances that lead to an ongoing discussion of tuning up and its place within the European high art tradition.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.5406/21567417.67.2.01
Editorial| July 01 2023 From the Editor Ethnomusicology (2023) 67 (2): v–vii. https://doi.org/10.5406/21567417.67.2.01 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation From the Editor. Ethnomusicology 1 July 2023; 67 (2): v–vii. doi: https://doi.org/10.5406/21567417.67.2.01 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveUniversity of Illinois PressEthnomusicology Search Advanced Search Volume 67, Issue 2 of Ethnomusicology opens with Dr. Mellonee V. Burnim's 2021 Charles Seeger Lecture, “Ethnographic Encounters: For Whom Do We Speak?” In this essay, Burnim shares her autobiographical trajectory as a musician, scholar, and teacher of African American music. She seamlessly weaves her experiences into a historiographical overview of the study of African American religious musics to the present day. In this essay, she poses key ethical questions regarding our responsibilities as ethnomusicologists to respect and represent the communities and musical traditions that we research. In the Seeger Lecture, Burnim urges those who study Black religious musics to cultivate a “deeper understanding of the distinctions between race and culture and the implications of those distinctions in formulating our research objectives, assumptions, and methodologies as ethnomusicologists,” but this exhortation to seek a deeper, more nuanced understanding applies to ethnomusicologists working across a wide range of musical traditions and practices.... You do not currently have access to this content.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.5406/21567417.67.2.07
J. Maurer
The US-based revival of Mexican sones has received increased scholarly attention in the past two decades, primarily focused on the music's capacity for community formation and political activism among young adults. This article examines a different side of the son revival: parents and young children at a recently established Mexican Music School in Chicago. This type of institution—nongovernmental, but more formalized than traditional community transmission—is proliferating across many ethnic communities and musical traditions in US cities. This article shows how such programs can have unexpected transformative effects while bringing new populations into a music revival movement.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.5406/21567417.67.2.11
M. S. Reigersberg
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Pub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.5406/21567417.67.2.06
Timothy P. A. Cooper
Abstract The style of recitation known as qaṣīda, popular among Shiʿi Muslims in the Pakistani province of Punjab, discloses love for the Ahl-e Bait, the family of the Prophet Muhammad, and rejection of those who harmed them. Examining the conditions through which the Shiʿa celebrate and disclose their faith, this article traces the recent history and contemporary form of a genre of panegyric recitation and its relationship with the different moral and affective thresholds that characterize the Pakistani Shiʿi majlis.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.5406/21567417.67.2.02
Other| July 01 2023 Notes on Contributing Authors Ethnomusicology (2023) 67 (2): viii–ix. https://doi.org/10.5406/21567417.67.2.02 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Notes on Contributing Authors. Ethnomusicology 1 July 2023; 67 (2): viii–ix. doi: https://doi.org/10.5406/21567417.67.2.02 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveUniversity of Illinois PressEthnomusicology Search Advanced Search Mellonee Burnim gave the 2021 Charles Seeger Lecture at the Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting. She is professor emerita in the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology and retired Director of the Archives of African American Music and Culture at Indiana University-Bloomington. At IU, she served as Director of the Ethnomusicology Institute and chairperson in the Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies. She holds a BME (cum laude) in music education from North Texas State University (1971), a MM in ethnomusicology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (1976), and a PhD in ethnomusicology from Indiana University (1980). As an ethnomusicologist with a specialization in African American religious music, Burnim has done fieldwork and led choral music workshops on African American religious music across the United States, as well as in Cuba and Malawi. She is co-editor, with Portia Maultsby, of African American Music: An Introduction (Routledge 2006), now in its... Issue Section: Contributors You do not currently have access to this content.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.5406/21567417.67.2.09
L. Kehrer
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.5406/21567417.67.1.11
Jing Xia
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