| Contents |
Motion and feeling through music / Keil -- Communication, music, and speech about music / Feld -- Participatory discrepancies and the power of music / Keil -- Aesthetics as iconicity of style (uptown title); or, (downtown title) "lift-up-over sounding": getting into the Kaluli groove / Feld -- People's music comparatively: style and stereotype, class and hegemony / Keil -- Respecting Aretha: a letter exchange / Feld & Keil -- On civilization, cultural studies, and copyright / Keil -- Notes on "world beat" / Feld -- Music mediated and live in Japan / Keil -- From schizophonia to schismogenesis: on the discourses and commodification practices of "world music" and "world beat" / Feld. |
| Abstract |
A unique collaboration between two of the most challenging voices studying music today, this volume explores the dual themes of musical participation and musical mediation. A number of the authors' most important essays, thoroughly revised and updated, are introduced and framed by dialogues that supply additional context, introduce retrospective concerns, and reveal previously unseen connections. This format expresses the authors' desire for a more reflexive, experimental discourse on music and society and invites readers to join their conversations. This book ranges from jazz, blues, polka, soul, rock, world beat, rap, karaoke, and other familiar genres to major scholarly debates in music theory and popular culture studies. The authors cover vital issues in media studies, ethnomusicology, popular culture studies, anthropology, and sociology, while discussing musics from America, Greece, Cuba, Africa, and Papua New Guinea and artists as diverse as James Brown, Aretha Franklin, Li'l Wally Jagiello, Bo Diddley, Walt Solek, Madonna, Paul Simon, Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, and Billie Holiday. |
