Browsing FAS Scholarly Articles by FAS Department "Music"
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Introduction
(University of Toronto Press, 2006)This essay offers a general introduction to the volume's papers, providing the necessary background information about their genesis and relationship to other relevant publications within Ethiopian, African, and diaspora ... -
Kota Language
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Leonard Bernstein’s Jewish Boston: Cross-Disciplinary Research in the Classroom
(Cambridge University Press, 2009)Leonard Bernstein is most often perceived as the quintessential New Yorker—music director of the New York Philharmonic from 1958 to 1969 and composer of Broadway shows that made New York their focus. Yet his grounding in ... -
'Love From Afar': Music and Longing Across Time, Space, and Diaspora
(Daimon Verlag, 2012) -
Making Musicology Modern: An Interview with Carol Oja
(American Music Research Center, 2011)Musicologist Carol Oja is interviewed about her life and career, which focused on 20th-century American modernism, musical theater and cross-cultural composition. -
Marc Blitzstein's "The Cradle Will Rock" and Mass-Song Style of the 1930s
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Moses' Beginning
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Mourning Songs and Human Pasts among the Kotas of South India
(University of Texas Press, 2000) -
Music of the Ethiopian American Diaspora: A Preliminary Overview
(Harrassowitz Verlag, 2009)Since the inception of the Ethiopian revolution in the mid-1970's, the forced migration of large numbers of Ethiopians has resulted in the establishment of new permanent communities of Ethiopians in the United States. This ... -
Music-Historical Egyptomania, 1650–1950
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014)Starting with Athanasius Kircher in the seventeenth century, it became de rigueur for music histories to include a discussion of Ancient Egypt’s musical contribution. This is striking, considering that no notated sources ... -
Musical Communities: Rethinking the Collective in Music
(University of California Press on behalf of the American Musicological Society, 2011)This essay discusses the study of musical communities, taking as its point of departure the growing avoidance of the term “community” within much of recent musical scholarship. After exploring factors that have been ... -
Musical Scholarship and Ethiopian Studies: Past, Present, Future
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Neuroaesthetics and the Trouble with Beauty
(Public Library of Science, 2013)Neuroscience is increasingly being called upon to address issues within the humanities. We discuss challenges that arise, relating to art and beauty, and provide ideas for a way forward. -
"New Music" and the "New Negro": The Background of William Grant Still's "Afro-American Symphony"
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On Friends, Mothers, and Scholarship: A Tribute to Adrienne Fried Block
(H. Wiley Hitchcock Institute for Studies in American Music, 2009) -
Opening the Music Box
(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2019)An overview of recent trends in musicology to focus on musical instruments as technologies, with a group review of recent book publications in the field of critical organology. -
Oral and Written Transmission in Ethiopian Christian Chant
(Cambridge University Press, 1993)Of all the musical traditions in the world among which fruitful comparisons with medieval European chant might be made, the chant tradition of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church promises to be especially informative. In Ethiopia ... -
Pater Optime: Vergilian Allusion in Obrecht's Mille Quingentis
(University of California Press, 2001)Efforts to uncover biographical data in the text of Jacob Obrecht's motet Mille quingentis have led scholars to minimize the significance of the poem's figurative language. Written in response to the death of the composer's ...