Yearbook for Traditional Music. Vol. 42 (2010)
Articles for the 2010 Yearbook for Traditional Music focus on themes from ICTM's 40th World Conference, held in Durban, South Africa, in July 2009 and hosted by the University of KwaZulu-Natal. The guest editor for this issue is Wim van Zanten. Reviews of books, compact discs, videos, and websites complete the issue.
General Editor:
Don Niles
Table of Contents
Articles
- ‘The Gendered Sound of South Africa: Karen Zoid and the Performance of Nationalism in the New South Africa’ by Nicol Hammond.
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‘Can We Dance Together? Gender and Performance Space Discourse in Égwú Àmàlà of the Ogbaru of Nigeria’ by Marie Agatha Ozah.
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‘Daughters of Tradition, Mothers of Invention: Music, Teaching, and Gender in Evolving Contexts’ by Louise Wrazen.
- ‘“There Is Power”: Contemporizing Old Music Traditions for New Gospel Audiences in Kenya’ by Jean Ngoya Kidula.
- ‘Mhande Dance in the Kurova Guva Ceremony: An Enactment of Karanga Spirituality’ by Jerry Rutsate.
- ‘Ethnomusicological Theory’ by Timothy Rice.
- ‘Performing in the Shadows: Learning and Making Music as Ethnomusicological Practice and Theory’ by J. Lawrence Witzleben.
- ‘Writing a Dance: Epistemology for Dance Research’ by Egil Bakka and Gediminas Karoblis.
Book Reviews
Audio Reviews
Cross-regional collections
- Collection universelle de musique populaire / The World Collection of Folk Music: Archives Constantin Brăiloiu (1913–1953). By Philip Yampolsky.
- Mountain Echo: Jew’s Harps around the World. By Mark van Tongeren.
Africa
- Swaziland: Chants des Swazi / Swaziland: Songs of the Swazi. By Angela Impey.
North America
- Borders y bailes. By Cathy Ragland.
- Classic Appalachian Blues from Smithsonian Folkways. By Robert Carl Metil.
- Son de mi tierra. By Randall Kohl.
South America
East Asia
- Dörvön Berkh—Four Shagai Bones: Masters of Mongolian Overtone Singing. By Mark van Tongeren.
- Sounds from Wartime Taiwan (1943): Kurosawa and Masu’s Recordings of Taiwan Aboriginal and Han Chinese Music. By Helen Rees.
Southeast Asia
West Asia
Australia and Oceania
- Ae tinil wen Lir / Music of Lihir. By Mary Lawson Burke.
Europe
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Bulgarie: Musique de tradition pastorale / Bulgaria: Music of the Shepherds’ Tradition and Bulgarie: L’art de la gadulka / Bulgaria: The Art of the Gadulka. By Timothy Rice.
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Grèce. O skáros: Musiques pour flûtes / Greece. O skáros: Flute Music. By Michael G. Kaloyanides.
Video Reviews
- Le salaire du poète / The Poet’s Salary. By Mary Lawson Burke.
- On the Rumba River. By Frank Gunderson.
- Tambours et djembes du Burkina Faso / Drums and Djembes of Burkina Faso. By Eric Charry.
- Sidney Bechet: Treat It Gentle; The Life and Times of a Jazz Master. By Jeremy Yudkin.
- Sufi Soul: The Mystic Music of Islam. By D. A. Sonneborn.
- Breaking the Silence: Music in Afghanistan. By Razia Sultanova.
Website Reviews
- Review Essay: Ethnomusicology’s Presence in Social Networking. By David W. Kanter.
- Born to Groove. Produced by Charles Keil and Patricia Campbell. By Tom Wagner.
- EVIA Digital Archive: Ethnographic Video for Instruction and Analysis. Project directed by Ruth M. Stone and Lester Monts. By Lúcia Campos.
- The Vaughan Williams Memorial Library Online Indexes. Produced by the English Folk Dance and Song Society. By Gordon Ramsey.
- Cecil Sharp’s Appalachian Diaries 1915–1918. Produced by the English Folk Dance and Song Society. By Gordon Ramsey.
- Irish Traditional Music Archive. Produced by the Irish Traditional Music Archive. By Gordon Ramsey.
- The James Koetting Ghana Field Recording Collection. Produced by the Graduate Program in Ethnomusicology of the
Music Department of Brown University. By Alvin Petersen.