OUP USA Oxford Handbooks in Music

720 pages | 248x171mm, ISBN: 978-0-19-976503-4

 

• Provides geographically, temporally, and theoretically comprehensive explication of revival processes
• Represents a vital update to existing theoretical work on music revivals
• Provides case studies of revival movements and post-revival developments from across the globe
• Analysis of the long-term impacts of revival movements

Revivals - movements that revitalize, resuscitate, or re-indigenize traditions perceived as threatened or moribund into new temporal, spatial, or cultural contexts - have been well-documented in Western Europe and Euro-North America. Less documented are the revival processes that have been occurring and recurring elsewhere in the world. And particularly under-analyzed are the aftermaths of revivals: the new infrastructures, musical styles, performance practices, subcultural communities, and value systems that have grown out of revival movements. The Oxford Handbook of Music Revival helps us achieve a deeper understanding of the role and development of traditional, folk, roots, world, classical, and early music in modern-day postindustrial, postcolonial, and postwar contexts. The book's thirty chapters present innovative theoretical perspectives illustrated through new ethnographic case studies on diverse music cultures around the world. Together these essays reveal the potency of acts of revival, resurgence, restoration, and renewal in shaping musical landscapes and transforming social experience.

The contributors present research from Euro-America, Native America, Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa, Europe, the former Soviet bloc, Asia, Australia, and the Pacific. They enrich the field by applying approaches and insights from across the disciplines of ethnomusicology, ethnochoreology, historical musicology, folklore studies, anthropology, ethnology, sociology, and cultural studies. The book makes a powerful argument for the untapped potential of revival as a productive analytical tool in contemporary, global contexts-one that is crucial for understanding manifestations of musical heritage in postmodern, cosmopolitan societies. With its detailed treatment of authenticity, recontextualization, transmission, institutionalization, globalization, and other key concerns, the collection makes a significant impact far beyond the field of revival studies and is crucial for understanding contemporary manifestations of folk, traditional, and heritage music in today's postmodern cosmopolitan societies.

Readership: Students and scholars of ethnomusicology, musicology, popular music, and folklore studies. Those working in social anthropology, sociology, community arts, performance research, cultural studies, and various area studies programs.

 

Table of Contents

I. Towards Multiple Theories of Music Revival
1. An Introduction to Music Revival as Concept, Cultural Process, and Medium of Change
Juniper Hill and Caroline Bithell
2. Traditional Music, Heritage Music
Owe Ronström
3. An Expanded Theory for Revivals as Cosmopolitan Participatory Musicmaking
Tamara Livingston

II. Scholars and Collectors as Revival Agents
4. Antiquarian Nostalgia and the Institutionalization of Early Music
John Haines
5. A Folklorist's Exploration of the Revival Metaphor
Neil V. Rosenberg
6. A Participant-Documentarian in the American Instrumental Folk Music Revival
Alan Jabbour

III. Intangible Cultural Heritage, Preservation, and Policy
7. Reviving Korean Identity through Intangible Cultural Heritage
Keith Howard
8. Music Revival, Ca Trù Ontologies and Intangible Cultural Heritage in Vietnam
Barley Norton
9. The Hungarian Dance House Movement and Revival of Transylvanian String Band Music
Colin Quigley

IV. National Renaissance and Postcolonial Futures
10. National Purity and Postcolonial Hybridity in India's Kathak Dance Revival
Margaret Walker
11. Choreographic Revival, Elite Nationalism and Regional Appropriation in Senegambia, 1930-2010
Hélène Neveu Kringelbach
12. Revived Musical Practices within Uzbekistan's Evolving National Project
Tanya Merchant
13. Two Revivalist Moments in Iranian Classical Music
Laudan Nooshin
14. Reclaiming Choctaw and Chickasaw Cultural Identity through Music Revival
Victoria Levine

V. Recovery from War, Disaster, and Cultural Devastation
15. Revivalist Articulations of Traditional Music in War and Post-War Croatia
Naila Ceribaši?
16. Cultural Rescue and Musical Revival among the Nicaraguan Garifuna
Annemarie Gallaugher
17. Toward a Methodology for Research into the Revival of Musical Life after War, Natural Disaster, Bans on all Music, or Neglect
Margaret Kartomi

VI. Innovations and Transformations
18. Innovation and Cultural Activism through the Re-imagined Pasts of Finnish Music Revivals
Juniper Hill
19. Revival Currents and Innovation on the Path from Protest Bossa to Tropicália
Denise Milstein
20. Bending or Breaking the Native American Flute Tradition?
Paula Conlon
21. Towards an Application of Globalization Paradigms to Modern Folk Music Revivals
Britta Sweers

VII. Festivals, Marketing, and Media
22. Contemporary English Folk Music and the Folk Industry
Simon Keegan-Phipps and Trish Winter
23. Ivana Kupala (St. John's Eve) Revivals as Metaphors of Sexual Morality, Fertility, and Contemporary Ukrainian Femininity
Adriana Helbig
24. Trailing Images and Culture Branding in Post-Renaissance Hawai'i
Jane Freeman Moulin
25. Grassroots Revitalization of North American and Western European Instrumental Music Traditions from Fiddlers Associations to Cyberspace
Richard Blaustein

VIII. Diaspora and the Global Village
26. Georgian Polyphony and its Journeys from National Revival to Global Heritage
Caroline Bithell
27. Irish Music Revivals Through Generations of Diaspora
Sean Williams
28. Reviving the Reluctant Art of Iranian Dance in Iran and in the American Diaspora
Anthony Shay
29. Musical Remembrance, Exile, and the Remaking of South African Jazz (1960-1979)
Carol Ann Muller
Afterword
30. Re-flections
Mark Slobin