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Everyday Musical Life among the Indigenous Bunun, Taiwan
contributes to multidisciplinary research on music in everyday
human life by pushing beyond the urbanized Western populations
routinely featured in such writing. Based on ethnographic study in
Buklavu, a village in southern Taiwan mostly inhabited by the
indigenous Bunun, the book explores villagers’ contemporaneous
musical engagements and pathways, paying heed both to imported
music—such as TV theme tunes, karaoke singing, church hymns—and
to the transformation of Bunun traditions through school and
community interventions and folkloric festivals. The case study
underpins a new, widely applicable, theoretical model for the study
of music in everyday life in global society which is historically
engaged, sensitive to individual and group diversity, cognizant of
the interplay of the mundane and the exceptional, and primed to
support applied research.
Everyday Musical Life among the Indigenous Bunun, Taiwan
contributes to multidisciplinary research on music in everyday
human life by pushing beyond the urbanized Western populations
routinely featured in such writing. Based on ethnographic study in
Buklavu, a village in southern Taiwan mostly inhabited by the
indigenous Bunun, the book explores villagers' contemporaneous
musical engagements and pathways, paying heed both to imported
music-such as TV theme tunes, karaoke singing, church hymns-and to
the transformation of Bunun traditions through school and community
interventions and folkloric festivals. The case study underpins a
new, widely applicable, theoretical model for the study of music in
everyday life in global society which is historically engaged,
sensitive to individual and group diversity, cognizant of the
interplay of the mundane and the exceptional, and primed to support
applied research.
1) The contingencies and complexity of social engagement and
activism as they constitute a turn toward ethics is the central
focus 2) Readers are stimulated to trace ethical themes as they
resonate across multiple chapters, emerging and conflicting in
widely contrasting social situations, 3) Presents the first
substantial body of ideas about where ethnomusicology currently
stands as a discipline in relation to ethical concerns, how it got
there, and, most importantly, where it needs to go in the years
directly ahead.
Until recently, most scholarly work on Chinese music in both
Chinese and Western languages has focused on genres, musical
structure, and general history and concepts, rather than on the
musicians themselves. This volume breaks new ground by focusing on
individual musicians active in different amateur and professional
music scenes in mainland China, Hong Kong, and Chinese communities
in Europe. Using biography to deepen understanding of Chinese
music, contributors present richly contextualized portraits of
rural folk singers, urban opera singers, literati, and musicians on
both geographic and cultural frontiers. The topics investigated by
these authors provide fresh insights into issues such as the
urban-rural divide, the position of ethnic minorities within the
People's Republic of China, the adaptation of performing arts to
modernizing trends of the twentieth century, and the use of the
arts for propaganda and commercial purposes. The social and
political history of China serves as a backdrop to these
discussions of music and culture, as the lives chronicled here
illuminate experiences from the pre-Communist period through the
Cultural Revolution to the present. Showcasing multiple facets of
Chinese musical life, this collection is especially effective in
taking advantage of the liberalization of mainland China that has
permitted researchers to work closely with artists and to discuss
the interactions of life and local and national histories in
musicians' experiences. Contributors are Nimrod Baranovitch, Rachel
Harris, Frank Kouwenhoven, Tong Soon Lee, Peter Micic, Helen Rees,
Antoinet Schimmelpenninck, Shao Binsun, Jonathan P. J. Stock, and
Bell Yung.
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