EOL 3:Music, Myth, and History (Bohlman)

Sources

textual | visual | audio

Textual

Aracena, Beth Keating forth-coming "Singing Salvation: Jesuit Musics in Colonial Chile, 1600-1767." Ph.D. diss., University of Chicago.

Becker, Max 1996 Narkotikum und Utopie: Musik-Konzepte in Empfindsamkeit und Romantik. Cassel: Bärenreiter.

Bohlman, Philip V. 1996 "Pilgrimage, Politics, and the Musical Remapping of the New Europe." Ethnomusicology 40, 3: 375-412.

Braudel, Fernand 1980 On History. Transl. by Sarah Matthews. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Breisach, Ernst 1983 Historiography: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Gilroy, Paul 1993 The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.

Hodgen, Margaret T. 1964 Early Anthropology in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Hoffman, Eva 1993 Exit into History: A Journey through the New Eastern Europe. New York: Viking.

Klassen, Doreen 1989 Singing Mennonite: Low German Songs among the Mennonites. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press.

Lacoste, Yves 1984 Ibn Khaldun: The Birth of History and the Past of the Third World. London: Verso.

Lévi-Strauss, Claude 1969 The Raw and the Cooked. Trans. by J. and D. Weightman. New York: Harper & Row.

Lord, Albert B. 1960 The Singer of Tales. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.

Lortat-Jacob, Bernard 1995 Sardinian Chronicles. Trans. by Teresa Lavender Fagan. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Magrini, Tullia, ed. 1992 Il maggio drammatico: Una tradizione di teatro in musica. Bologna: Edizioni Analisi.

Mandel, Ruth 1990 "Shifting Centres and Emergent Identities: Turkey and Germany in the Lives of Turkish Gastarbeiter." In Dale F. Eickelman and James Piscatori, eds., Muslim Travellers: Pilgrimage, Migration, and the Religious Imagination. Berkeley: University of California Press. Pp. 153-71.

Pennsylvanische Sammlung 1840 Pennsylvanische Sammlung von Kirchen-Musik. Harrisburg: F. Wyeth.

Schoenberg, Arnold [1951] Moses und Aron. Unfinished opera. Mainz: B. Schott's Sšhne.

Seeger, Anthony 1987 Why Suyá Sing: A Musical Anthropology of an Amazonian People. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

____ 1991 "When Music Makes History." In Stephen Blum, Philip V. Bohlman, and Daniel M. Neuman, eds., Ethnomusicology and Modern Music History, pp. 23-34. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.

Slobin, Mark 1993 Subcultural Sounds: Micromusics of the West. Hanover: Wesleyan University Press.

Slyomovics, Susan 1987 The Merchant of Art: An Egyptian Hilali Oral Epic Poet in Performance. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Visual Illustrations
1 -
Schoenberg, Moses und Aron, end of second act

2 - Hebrew text to first three strophes of the "Song of Moses" ("Deuteronomy")

3 - German-American Shape-Note Hymn, "Pilgrim/Wer nur hier will etwas seyn"

Audio Examples
1 -
"Moses," Georgia Sea Islands. New World 278, S.1, #1

2 - Rev. F.W. McGee, "Fifty Miles of Elbow Room" American Folk Music, Vol. 2, #55, Folkways FA 2952; orig. recorded in 1931 (Victor 236808)

3 - "Song of Moses" (Yemenite-Jewish: Exodus 14, 30) Folk Music of Palestine (Ethnic Folkways FE 44)

4 - Ice Cube, "Drive By" (Hip-Hop/Gangster [gangsta?] Rap) [citation?]

5 - Amish hymn, "Lebt friedsam, sprach Christus" ("Christ Said, Live in Peace") [citation?] (N.B.: Available on recording from the Library of Congress, made originally when an Amish group from Kolona, Iowa traveled to Iowa State University in 1943)

 

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