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Music is a mobile art. When people move to faraway places, whether by choice or by force, they bring their music along. Music creates a meaningful point of contact for individuals and for groups; it can encourage curiosity and foster understanding; and it can preserve a sense of identity and comfort in an unfamiliar or hostile environment. As music crosses cultural, linguistic, and political boundaries, it continually changes. While human mobility and mediation have always shaped music-making, our current era of digital connectedness introduces new creative opportunities and inspiration even as it extends concerns about issues such as copyright infringement and cultural appropriation.
With its innovative multimodal approach, Music on the Move invites readers to listen and engage with many different types of music as they read. The text introduces a variety of concepts related to music's travels—with or without its makers—including colonialism, migration, diaspora, mediation, propaganda, copyright, and hybridity. The case studies represent a variety of musical genres and styles, Western and non-Western, concert music, traditional music, and popular music. Highly accessible, jargon-free, and media-rich, Music on the Move is suitable for students as well as general-interest readers.
Example 1.1. Excerpt from "Ladrang Slamet" ("Welcoming Music," performed by Studio Karawitan Dahlan Iskan with Siir Natagama Java Orchestra. Translation based on Mantle Hood and Hardja Susilo, Music of the Venerable Dark Cloud (UCLA Department of Ethnomusicology, 1967), 35. Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tug7E8CUPp0
Example 1.2. Distinctive unison passage from “Gending Bonang Babar Layar,” recorded at the Istana Mangkunegaran, Surakarta by Robert E. Brown. Java, Court Gamelan, vol. II (Nonesuch Explorer Series 79721-2, 2003 [1977]). See Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/7hn7aKBzDjCL6s6ELNOaFA
Example 1.3. Layering effect from “Gending Bonang Babar Layar,” recorded at the Istana Mangkunegaran, Surakarta by Robert E. Brown. Java, Court Gamelan, vol. II (Nonesuch Explorer Series 79721-2, 2003 [1977]). See Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/7hn7aKBzDjCL6s6ELNOaFA
Example 1.8. Choral presentation of "cak" syllables. Excerpt from a kecak performance at Uluwatu, Bali .Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WOOUbEirc8. Good faith effort has been made to contact the videographer.
Example 1.9. Entrance of Sita. Excerpt from a kecak performance at Uluwatu, Bali. Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WOOUbEirc8. Good faith effort has been made to contact the videographer.
Example 1.10. Hanuman interacts with the audience. Excerpt from a kecak performance at Uluwatu, Bali. Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WOOUbEirc8. Good faith effort has been made to contact the videographer.
Example 2.1. Lajos Sárkozi, Jr., and his ensemble playing at the Százéves restaurant, Budapest. Video by Willem Gulcher, used by permission. Good faith effort has been made to contact the performers.
Example 2.7. Joseph Haydn, String Quartet, op. 54 no. 2, second movement, performed by the Dudok Quartet. Used by permission. Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjTpAD85vgE