Yearbook for Traditional Music. Vol. 43 (2011)
The 2011 Yearbook for Traditional Music contains articles, reviews of books, compact discs, videos, and websites.
General Editor:
Don Niles
Table of Contents
Articles
- ‘Music, Dance, and Behaviour in a New Form of Expressive Culture: The Romanian Manea’ by Anca Giurchescu and Speranţa Rădulescu.
- ‘Binzasara: Music and Dance at Sensōji in Edo/Tōkyō’ by Gerald Groemer.
- ‘Voices from “Under-the-Garland”: Singing, Christianity, and Cultural Transformations in Chuuk, Micronesia’ by Brian Diettrich.
- ‘Musical Efficacy: Musicking to Survive—The Case of the Pygmies’ by Gilbert Rouget.
- ‘Rethinking Musical Instrument Classification: Towards a Modular Approach to the Hornbostel-Sachs System’ by Stéphanie Weisser and Maarten Quanten.
- ‘Uniqueness Re-examined: The Vietnamese Lute Đàn Đáy’ by Gisa Jähnichen.
- ‘Change at the International Istanbul Music Festival’ by Leslie Hall.
- ‘The Representation and Performance of African Music in German Popular Culture’ by Florian Carl.
Book Reviews
- Bohlman, Philip V. Focus: Music, Nationalism and the Making of theNew Europe. By Marcello Sorce Keller.
- Wang Ling 王玲. Yinyue tuxiangxue yu Yunnan minzu yinyue tuxiang yanjiu 音乐图像学与云南民族音乐图像研究 [Music iconology and music iconography among the peoples of Yunnan]. By Xiao Mei.
- Castelo-Branco, Salwa, ed. Enciclopédia da Música em Portugal no Século XX. By Rafael José de Menezes Bastos.
- Alge, Barbara. Die Performance des Mouro in Nordportugal: Eine Studie von Tanzdramen in religiösen Kontexten. By August Schmidhofer.
- Moore, Robin. Music in the Hispanic Caribbean: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture. By Rolando Antonio Pérez Fernández.
- Mendívil, Julio. Ein musikalisches Stück Heimat: Ethnologische Beobachtungen zum deutschen Schlager. By Maurice Mengel.
- Rowe, Nicholas. Raising Dust: A Cultural History of Dance in Palestine. By Tvrtko Zebec.
- Wergin, Carsten. Kréol Blouz: Musikalische Inszenierungen von Identität und Kultur. By Helen Hahmann.
- Santana, Josué, and Edis Sánchez. La música folclórica dominicana. By Angelina Tallaj.
- Bouët, Jacques, Bernard Lortat-Jacob, and Speranța Rădulescu. À tue-tête: Chant et violon au pays de l’Oach, Roumanie and Stoichita, Victor Alexandre. Fabricants d’émotion: Musique et malice dans un village tsigane de Roumanie. By Colin Quigley.
Audio Reviews
Cross-regional collection
- Irish Pirate Ballads and Other Songs of the Sea. By Aileen Dillane.
Africa
- The Time of Bells 3: Musical Bells of Accra, Ghana. By Trevor Wiggins.
Central America and the Caribbean
- Judeo-Caribbean Currents: Music of the Mikvé Israel-Emanuel Synagogue in Curaçao. By Timothy Rommen.
North America
- The Best of Mance Lipscomb. By Jeff Todd Titon.
- Pete Seeger: American Favorite Ballads. By Caroline Bithell.
South America
- Maiteí América: Harps of Paraguay.. By Gregory J. Robinson.
South Asia
- Indian Music Today: Masters of Raga and Tala Featured at the Concertgebouw. By Laura Leante.
Southeast Asia
- Birmanie: Musique du théâtre classique / Burma: Classical Theatre Music. By Robert Garfias.
- Indonésie: Chants des îles de Flores et Solor / Indonesia: Songs from the Islands of Flores and Solor. By Margaret Kartomi.
Europe
- Bäuerliche Volksmusik aus Südtirol 1940–42: Originalaufnahmen zwischen NS-Ideologie und Heimatkultur / Peasant Folk Music of South Tyrol 1940–42: Original Recordings Bridging Homeland Culture and Nazi Ideology. By Philip V. Bohlman.
- Roumanie: Musiques festives du Gorj / Romania: Festival Music from Gorj. By Marin Marian-Bălaşa.
- Outsinging the Nightingale: Lost Treasures of Bulgarian Music: 1905–1950; The Sound of the Balkans: Remastered from Original 78s. By Irene Markoff.
- Blodeugerdd: Song of the Flowers: An Anthology of Welsh Music and Song. By Stephen Rees.
Video Reviews
- Hanoi Eclipse: The Music of Dai Lam Linh. By Dale A. Olsen.
- The Feast-Day of Tamar and Lashari. By Lauren Ninoshvili.
- Treasure of the Lisu: Ah-Cheng and His Music. By Sonja Lynn Downing.
- Angry Drummers: A Taiko Group from Naniwa, Osaka, Japan. By Wynn Kiyama.
- Chinese Shadows: The Amazing World of Shadow Puppetry in Rural Northwest China. By J. Lawrence Witzleben.
Website Reviews
- Review Essay: Ethnomusicology and the Use(fulness) of the Internet in 2011. By Barbara Alge.
- Music: Cape Breton’s Unity in Diversity. Produced by the Beaton Institute, Cape Breton University. By Katherine Brucher.
- Open Planet of Sound (opOs). e-learning project of the University of Basel, Switzerland. By Marc-Antoine Camp.
- Music of the Ancestors: A Study of the Traditional Instrumental Music of the Iatmul of Papua New Guinea. Multimedia disc. Written and produced by Gordon D. Spearritt.. By Kirsty Gillespie.
- International Library of African Music (ILAM). Produced by Diane Thram and Elijah Madiba, in association with Rhodes University. By Luciano Caroso.
- British Library Archival Sound Recordings. By Frances Wilkins.