Traditional Musics in the Modern World: Transmission, Evolution, and Challenges

ISBN-13: 9783030062606 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 272 str.

Bo-Wah Leung

Spis treści

Preface: Traditional Musics in the Modern World; Bo-Wah Leung.- Part I: Transmission of Traditional Music in Different Contexts.- Reflections of Traditional African American Music in the Modern World; Marvelene C. Moore.- The Innovative Traditional Learning: Interaction and Emotion among Young Roma Flamenco Musicians in Spain; Amalia Casas-Mas.- Cultural Policy and Transmission of the Tradition in Japan; Emily Akuno.- “Rhythms around the World”: The Transmission and Learning of Traditional Musics in Primary and Secondary Education; Melissa Bremmer and Adri Schreuder.- Transmission of Song-Making in Interior Athabascan Tradition, Alaska; Siri Tuttle and Håkan Lundstrom.- Part II: Authenticiy and Evolution of Traditional Musics.- Traditional Music in Music Education – the Sound of (R)evolution? Anna Houmann.- Meanings of Tradition in Swedish Folk Music Education; Markus Tullberg.- Mother, Lullabies, and Village Home: Contemporary Uyghur Folk Singing and Minority Modernity in Chinese Central Asia; Chuen-Fung Wong.- Customization of Performance: Cantonese Operatic Song Groups at Temple Street of Hong Kong in 1990s; Wing-Cheong Lam.- Part III: Challenges for Sustainability.- “Welcome to Country” and the Role of Traditional Music in Modern Indigenous Culture in Australia; Gabriel Solis.- Towards a sustainable development of traditional indigenous music: The case of Buganda; Benonn Kigozi.- Ritual and Non-ritual Daoist Music at Fung Ying Seen Koon: Their Role, Transmission, Sustainability and Challenges in Hong Kong; Allison So.- Blended Modes of Music Learning: Shaping Intermusicality in Kathmandu; Jaco van den Dool.- Coda: Current trends and future development; Bo-Wah Leung

Blurb

This book reviews the current practices of traditional musics in various cultures of all continents, and examines the impact and significance of traditional musics in the modern world. A diverse group of experts of musicology and music education collaborate to expose the current practices and challenges of transmission and evolution of traditional musics in order to seek sustainable development, so that traditional musics can take the place they deserve in the modern world and continue to contribute to human civilization.

This volume contains three main sections that include transmission of traditional musics, authenticity and evolution, as well as challenges in future. Based on the chapters, the editor proposes four major trends of transmission of traditional musics, namely, formalization, politicization, Westernization and modernization in transforming contexts.