The most fundamental subject of music scholarship provides the common focus of this volume of essays: music itself. For the distinguished scholars from the field of musicology and related areas of the humanities and social sciences, the search for music itselfin its vastly complex and diverse forms throughout the worldcharacterizes the lifetime of reflection and writing by Bruno Nettl, the leading ethnomusicologist of the past generation.This Thing Called Music: Essays in Honor of Bruno Nettl salutes not only a great scholar and beloved teacher, but also a thinker whose search for the meaning and ontology of music has exerted a global influence.Editors Victoria Lindsay Levine and Philip V. Bohlman have gathered essays that represent the many dimensions of musical meaning, addressing some of the most critically important areas of music scholarship today. The social formations of musical communities play counterpoint to analytical studies; investigations into musical change and survival connect ethnography to history, offering a collection of essays that can serve as an invaluable resource for the intellectual history of ethnomusicology. Each chapter explores music and its meanings in specific geographic areasNorth and South America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle Eastcrossing the boundaries of genre, repertory, and style to provide insight into the aesthetic zones of contact between and among the folk, classical, and popular musics of the world.Readers from all disciplines of music scholarship will find in this collection a proper companion in an era of globalization, when the connections that draw musicians and musical practices together are more sweeping than ever. Chapters offer models for detailed analysis of specific musical practices, while at the same time they make possible new methods of comparative study in the twenty-first century, together posing a challenge crucial to all musicians and scholars in search of this thing called music.

Victoria Lindsay Levine is professor of music at Colorado College, where she has served as the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor, the Christine S. Johnson Professor of Music, and the W. M. Keck Foundation Director of the Hulbert Center for Southwestern Studies.Philip V. Bohlman is Mary Werkman Distinguished Service Professor of Music and the Humanities at the University of Chicago, Honorarprofessor at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover, and artistic director of the New Budapest Orpheum Society, an ensemble-in-residence in the Humanities Division of the University of Chicago.

List of IllustrationsList of TablesAcknowledgmentsIntroduction:Bruno Nettl, A Lifetime in Search of MusicVictoria Lindsay Levine and Philip V. BohlmanPart I: Communities of MusicChapter 1: Recording the Life Review: A Case Study from the Medical HumanitiesTheresa AllisonChapter 2: Music in the Culture of ChildrenPatricia Shehan CampbellChapter 3: The Mississippi Choctaw Fair and Veterans Day Powwow: Music, Dance, and Layers of IdentityChris GoertzenChapter 4: St. Peter and theSantarinas: Celebrating Traditions over Time in Malacca, MalaysiaMargaret SarkissianChapter 5: Performing Translation in Jewish India:Kirtan of the Bene IsraelAnna SchultzPart II: Intellectual History of EthnomusicologyChapter 6: Guerra-Peixe, Cold War Politics, and Ethnomusicology in Brazil, 1950-1952Samuel AraújoChapter 7: Bohemian Traces in the World of EthnomusicologyZuzana JurkováChapter 8: Music Scholarship and Politics in Munich, 19181945William KindermanChapter 9: Harry Partch and Jacques Barzun: A Historical-Musical Duet on the Subject, Western CivHarry LiebersohnChapter 10: The Times They Are a-ChanginDaniel M. NeumanChapter 11: Comparative Musicologists in the Field: Reflections on the Cairo Congress of Arab Music, 1932A. J. RacyChapter 12: Ethnomusicological Marginalia: On Reading Charles Seeger ReadingThe Anthropology of MusicAnthony SeegerPart III: Analytical StudiesChapter 13: The PersianRadif in Relation to the Tajik-Uzbek¦a¨maqomStephen BlumChapter 14: TheSaz Semaisi inEvcara by Dilhayat Kalfa and the Turkish Makam After the Ottoman Golden AgeRobert GarfiasChapter 15: When You Do This, Ill Hear You: Gros Ventre Songs and Supernatural PowerOrin HattonChapter 16: Permutation as a Basic Concept of Rga Elaboration in North Indian MusicLars-Christian KochChapter 17: Aspects of Sound Recording and Sound AnalysisAlbrecht SchneiderPart IV: Historical StudiesChapter 18: In Search of Musics Intimate MomentsPhilip V. BohlmanChapter 19: Oral History, Music Biography, and Historical EthnomusicologyMartha Ellen DavisChapter 20: The Doubleness of Sound in Canadas Indian Residential SchoolsBeverley DiamondChapter 21: Passages on Music in the Accounts of Medieval Arab TravelersAmnon ShiloahChapter 22: Reconstructing Abbey Road: History and Mnemohistory in Memories of Working with the BeatlesGordon ThompsonChapter 23: Commercial 78s: A Rediscovered Resource for EthnomusicologyPhilip YampolskyPart V: Issues and ConceptsChapter 24: One Hundred Years of Indian Folk Music: The Evolution of a ConceptStefan FiolChapter 25: Textual Relations between Oodham Story and SongJ. Richard HaeferChapter 26: Finding and Recovering Musicality in a College Folk Music ClassMelinda RussellChapter 27: Transpacific Excursions: Multi-Sited Ethnomusicology, The Black Pacific, and Nettls Comparative (Method)Gabriel SolisChapter 28: The Emperors New Clothes: Why Musicologies Do Not Always Wish to Know, All They Could KnowMarcello Sorce KellerChapter 29: On Theory and Models: How to Make Our Ideas ClearThomas TurinoPart VI: Change, Adaptation, and SurvivalChapter 30: Music, Modernity, and Islam in IndonesiaCharles CapwellChapter 31: Clubbing the Boots: The Navajo Moccasin Game in Todays WorldCharlotte J. FrisbieChapter 32: Rise Up and Dream: New Work Songs for the New ChinaFrederick LauChapter 33: Fusion Music in South IndiaTerada YoshitakaChapter 34: The Urge to Merge: Are Cross-Cultural Collaborations Destroying Hindustani Music?Stephen SlawekChapter 35: Regional Songs in Local and Translocal Spaces: The Duck Dance RevisitedVictoria Lindsay LevineBibliographyAbout the Contributors