Defending Music Theory in a Multicultural Curriculum

02 October 2006 in P'ansori Performance," Ju-Yong Ha Panel: Stylistic Portraits in Improvisation, Spontaneous Composition, and Variation Stephen Blum, chair "Performance Styles of a Bukharian Singer," Evan Rapport "Hariprasad Chaurasia and Nityanand Haldipur: Stylistic...

Paying Attention to Music and Baseball: Listening to the Savannah Bananas

13 May 2026 In 1956, Ford Frick, the Commissioner of Major League Baseball, tried to woo music fans to pay more attention to baseball. Writing in Music Journal, Frick hoped that his “comparison of music and baseball should be of interest to devotees of both of...

Music Appreciation Materials I

31 October 2000 Bruno Nettl, pp. xix-vii, and Epilogue, by Philip V. Bohlman, pp. 356-360. Ethnomusicology and modern music history, ed. Stephen Blum, Philip V. Bohlman, and Daniel M. Neuman, Prologue: Ethnomusicologists and Modern Music History, by Stephen Blum, pp....

An Ethnomusicologist's Reflections on "Complexity" and "Participation" in Music

01 October 1977 I. "One of the distinctive facts about contemporary history is that it is world history and that the forces shaping it cannot be understood unless we are prepared to adopt world-wide perspectives; and this means not merely supplementing our...

Paradigms in the History of Ethnomusicology

01 October 1979 vol. 2, 1952), pp. 207-18. 25Albert B. Lord, The Singer of Tales (New York: Atheneum, 1965), pp. 13-29. 26See Stephen Blum, "Persian Folksong in Meshhed, Iran, 1969," Yearbook of the International Folk Music Council VI (1975), 86. 27Bruno Nettl,...

On [i]Symposium[/i] at 40

01 November 1999 included position papers of great importance in the development of American ethnomusicology, with contributions by Stephen Blum, Robert Werner, and Fredric Lieberman. The latter paper, entitled "Should Ethnomusicology be Abolished," along with...

Help Wanted? Exploring Altruism in a Music Conservatory through Positive Social Deviance

23 March 2018 The purpose of this project was to explore student reactions to altruism in the affective context of a music conservatory. Through a series of scenarios designed to breach social norms, the author gauged conservatory students’ willingness to accept...

Celebrating 60 Years of the [i]Symposium[/i] (1961-2021): Learning from our Past

01 May 2021 M. Trotter, Anthony Seeger, Douglass Seaton, Kay Kaufman Shelemay, Barry S. Brook, H. Wiley Hitchcock, Ruth Stone, Stephen Blum, David Schulenberg, Vincent Duckles, Susan C. Cook, Clifford Madsen, Claude V. Palisca, William Ennis Thomson, Timothy Rice,...