[FA Worldmusic] Fw: CMS Announces Institute on the Pedagogies of World Music Theories

[neal copperman - AMP Concerts]

Ted has another book that came out last year.  I 
haven't read more then the first few pages, but 
it looks good.

It's called "Where Rivers And Mountains Sing: 
Sound, Music, And Nomadism in Tuva And Beyond".

Cheers,

neal
AMP Concerts/!Globalquerque!

.

At 9:48 PM +0200 4/13/07, bernard kleikamp wrote:
>David,
>Try reading
>Ted Levin - The hundred thousand fools of God
>Bernard Lortat-Jacob - Sardinian Chronicles
>Rob Boonzajer Flaes - Brass Unbound. Secret children of the colonial
>brass band.
>
>Bernard Kleikamp
>PAN Records
>
>
>
>>Hi
>>
>>Thanks for drawing my attention to this. I'll be signing up, and first in
>>line for the seminar on "the concept of periodicity as a theoretical
>>construct".
>>
>>I recently met an American ethnomusicologist at a Tinariwen show in
>>Scotland, who was on her way to 6 months fieldwork in Bangladesh. She was
>>rather sheepish about her field of work, though loved the show, and told me
>>that her crowd all hate what we know as world music as basically you're not
>>supposed to dance and have fun because this shows you are entirely missing
>>the point of the 'tradition' in front of you. What a po-faced bunch they
>>seem, with the most pretentious jargon I've come across in a long-time.
>>Academics breed academics breed academics breed academics breed academics
>>
>>I've tried to read some of that stuff but it's impossible. In the end it's
>>hidebound by its own methodology and style (obligatory 15 footnotes a page).
>>The nearest I got is Robert Farris Thompson who I doubt would have much
>>truck with them even if he does teach at Harvard. And Ned Sublette on Cuba,
>>now there's a great book. But they make it pretty entertaining if you can
>>take on board all the info. Can anyone recommend any other serious books on
>>music like theirs?
>>
>>David Flower
>>
>>
>>   > Hmmm...
>>>
>>>>
>>>>>   From: The College Music Society <cms at music.org>
>>>>>   To: <horn_in_b at yahoo.com>
>>>>>   Subject: CMS Announces Institute on the Pedagogies
>>>>>   of World Music Theories
>>>>>   Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 11:27:37 -0600
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>   The College Music Society
>>>>>   Institute on the Pedagogies of World Music Theories
>>>>>   May 29 - June 2 2007
>>>>>   University of Colorado - Boulder
>>>>>   Boulder, Colorado
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>   ****************************************
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>   The University of Colorado at Boulder will host for
>>>>>   the second time the
>>>>>   "Institute on the Pedagogies of World Music
>>>>>   Theories" May 29-June 2,
>>>>>   2007. This cutting-edge institute introduces
>>>>>   theoretical musical
>>>>>   constructs that operate in different world cultures,
>>>>>   responding to a
>>>>>   growing interest among instructors of
>>>>>   university-level music theory
>>>>>   courses in drawing upon concepts and pedagogies from
>>>>>   a variety of world
>>>>>   traditions. The value of teaching music theory from
>>>>>   a global perspective
>>>>>   becomes increasingly self-evident in an era during
>>>>>   which composers and
>>>>>   performers from West and South Africa, South and
>>>>>   East Asia, and the Near
>>>>>   East are creating works that engage new listeners
>>>>>   and suggest new
>>>>>   compositional possibilities. For further information
>>>>>   regarding this
>>>>>   institute, including faculty, course content,
>>>>>   lodging, and registration,
>>>>>   please visit www.music.org/PWMT.html
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>   ******************************************
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>   The College Music Society
>>>>>   312 East Pine Street
>>>>>   Missoula, Montana 59802
>>>>>   cms at music.org
>>>>>   www.music.org
>>>>>
>>>>>   .
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