MICHAEL CHURCH has spent much of his career in newspapers as a literary and arts editor; he is a former television critic of The Times, and since 2010 has been the opera critic of The Independent. From 1992 to 2005 he reported on traditional musics all over the world for the BBC World Service; in 2004, Topic Records released a CD of his Kazakh field recordings, and in 2007 two further CDs of his recordings in Georgia and Chechnya. He is the editor of The Other Classical Musics: Fifteen Great Traditions (Boydell Press, 2015), winner of the Royal Philharmonic Society's Award for Creative Communication.
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Introduction Why it all began 1 From broadsides to Child ballads: Songs of the British people 2 Orientalists from France: Jesuit priests in Beijing, Salvador-Daniel in Algiers 3 Going native in Constantinople: Dimitrie Cantemir, the happy hostage The birth of ethnomusicology 4 The Song of Approach, the Pipes of Friendship: Alice Fletcher and the Omaha Indians 5 'I am now a true Eskimo': Franz Boas and first principles 6 Voice of Armenia: The tragedy of Komitas 7 Britain's folk-song revivals, and the contentious Cecil Sharp 8 'I in seventh heaven - Perks': The ineffable Percy Grainger Carrying the torch: Collectors in Northern and Eastern Europe 9 'And what does the gentleman want': Béla Bartók as song detective 10 Girdling the globe: The empire of the Lomaxes 11 'I am a white-skinned Aranda man': Theodore Strehlow's divided self 12 The stirring of a thousand bells: Jaap Kunst, Colin McPhee, and gamelan 13 Hot mint tea and a few pipes of kif: Paul Bowles in Morocco 14 A voice for Greece: Domna Samiou's crusade 15 Things that are made to cry: John Blacking and the Venda 16 Record companies as collectors: Folkways, Smithsonian, Nonesuch, IMA, Ocora, World Circuit, Topic, Pan, Muziekpublique Musical snapshots: The importance of sound archives 17 Magic in two strings: Central Asia awakes 18 Red badge of courage: Musicians in Afghanistan 19 Out of the womb of Russia: Riches awaiting rediscovery 20 Three-in-one: The Georgian way 21 Small is beautiful: Pygmy polyphony 22 It's a physical thing: A Persian musician relocates the radif 23 Plucking the winds: Chinese village music today 24 Voice, handkerchief, fan: New life for Korea's p'ansori 25 'My whole body was singing': Kodo and the taiko drum 26 'Intangible cultural heritage': UNESCO's lengthening list 27 Going, going...: disappearing musics Sources and further reading Bibliography Index
Introduction Why it all began 1 From broadsides to Child ballads: Songs of the British people 2 Orientalists from France: Jesuit priests in Beijing, Salvador-Daniel in Algiers 3 Going native in Constantinople: Dimitrie Cantemir, the happy hostage The birth of ethnomusicology 4 The Song of Approach, the Pipes of Friendship: Alice Fletcher and the Omaha Indians 5 'I am now a true Eskimo': Franz Boas and first principles 6 Voice of Armenia: The tragedy of Komitas 7 Britain's folk-song revivals, and the contentious Cecil Sharp 8 'I in seventh heaven - Perks': The ineffable Percy Grainger Carrying the torch: Collectors in Northern and Eastern Europe 9 'And what does the gentleman want': Béla Bartók as song detective 10 Girdling the globe: The empire of the Lomaxes 11 'I am a white-skinned Aranda man': Theodore Strehlow's divided self 12 The stirring of a thousand bells: Jaap Kunst, Colin McPhee, and gamelan 13 Hot mint tea and a few pipes of kif: Paul Bowles in Morocco 14 A voice for Greece: Domna Samiou's crusade 15 Things that are made to cry: John Blacking and the Venda 16 Record companies as collectors: Folkways, Smithsonian, Nonesuch, IMA, Ocora, World Circuit, Topic, Pan, Muziekpublique Musical snapshots: The importance of sound archives 17 Magic in two strings: Central Asia awakes 18 Red badge of courage: Musicians in Afghanistan 19 Out of the womb of Russia: Riches awaiting rediscovery 20 Three-in-one: The Georgian way 21 Small is beautiful: Pygmy polyphony 22 It's a physical thing: A Persian musician relocates the radif 23 Plucking the winds: Chinese village music today 24 Voice, handkerchief, fan: New life for Korea's p'ansori 25 'My whole body was singing': Kodo and the taiko drum 26 'Intangible cultural heritage': UNESCO's lengthening list 27 Going, going...: disappearing musics Sources and further reading Bibliography Index
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