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Ethnomusicology in East Africa is a first in this part of the
world. It brings together thinkers and artists from Uganda, East
Africa and further afield to discuss an area of vital importance to
Africans as a people. The book presents selected papers from the
First International Symposium on Ethnomusicology in Uganda, held at
Makerere University in Kampala on 23-25 November 2009. The
symposium, organised by the Department of Music, Dance and Drama
(now the Department of Performing Arts and Film) of the university
and the Grieg Academy-Department of Music at the University of
Bergen, marked the end of the first period of the project
Ethnomusicology in Uganda: Education, Research and Preservation of
Cultural Heritage. Scholarly research on music in East Africa has a
long history, stretching back to the beginnings of comparative
musicology at the end of the Nineteenth Century during the colonial
period. With the growth of the field of ethnomusicology after World
War II, European and American researchers such as Klaus Wachsmann
and Gerhard Kubik helped to consolidate East Africa's place on the
world musical map, through both historical study and
fieldwork-based ethnographic research. This generation of scholars
also shepherded regional music studies through the period of formal
political decolonisation as the East African countries became
independent in the early 1960s. An important development in the
field since the turn of the twenty-first century has been the
emergence of an increasing number of professionally trained
scholars from East African countries who have contributed to the
ongoing decolonisation of musical scholarship in Africa. These
ethnomusicologists have made important contributions not only with
their own original research in the region, but also in their work
strengthening the institutional bases for ethnomusicology in East
African countries. Their contributions include the establishment
and consolidation of local college and university study programmes
in ethnomusicology, their teaching of a new generation of East
African students, and their vigorous international networking
within the East African region and beyond. This book represents an
important step in the continued professionalisation of
ethnomusicology in Uganda. It presents new work by Uganda-based
researchers, from students to academic staff, and solidly places
that work within the international scholarly ethnomusicological
conversation. We hope that the reader will find that this
collection of papers is more substantial and coherent than the
phrase 'conference proceedings' often implies, and that the work
presented here will be regarded as a significant contribution to
the study of music in Uganda and the wider East African region.
With most of the contributions coming from scholars from East
Africa, this collection thus confirms the decolonising trend toward
'indigenous' scholarship in ethnomusicology, where 'we' participate
in writing 'our' own culture.
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Music Making Community
Tony Perman, Stefan Fiol; Contributions by Bruno Nettl, Ioannis Tsekouras, Donna A Buchanan, …
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Making music offers enormous possibilities--and faces significant
limitations--in its power to generate belonging and advance social
justice. Tony Perman and Stefan Fiol edit essays focused on the
forms of interplay between music-making and community-making as
mutually creative processes. Contributors in the first section look
at cases where music arrived in settings with little or no sense of
community and formed social bonds that lasted beyond its departure.
In the sections that follow, the essayists turn to stable
communities that used musical forms to address social needs and
both forged new social groups and, in some cases, splintered
established communities. By centering the value of difference in
productive feedback dynamics of music and community while asserting
the need for mutual moral indebtedness, they foreground music’s
potential to transform community for the better. Contributors:
Stephen Blum, Joanna Bosse, Sylvia Bruinders, Donna A. Buchanan,
Rick Deja, Veit Erlmann, Stefan Fiol, Eduardo Herrera, David A.
McDonald, Tony Perman, Thomas Solomon, and Ioannis Tsekouras
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