Stephen Blum
Biographic Data
| ID | 3648421 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen Blum |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen |
| FAMILY NAME | Blum |
| SIGNATURE | BLUM S |
| AFFILIATIONS | École des Hautes Études en Santé Publique |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 65 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1968 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
E. M. von Hornbostel as Listener and Scientist
In a 1904 essay on Isadora Duncan’s “Melodic Dance,” E. M. von Hornbostel articulated central premises of his work in comparative musicology: melodic movement acts “in a far more direct manner” than rhythm, and “among all ‘natural humans’ there is no speech without gestures, no song without dance.” His conception of a “common stock of human psycho-physical aptitudes” bears comparison with Aby Warburg’s interest in the “primeval vocabulary of the …
Sonic ethnography: Identity, heritage and creative research practice in Basilicata, southern Italy
Sonic ethnography explores the role of sound-making and listening practices in the formation of local identities in the southern Italian region of Basilicata. The book uses a combination of text, photography and sound recording to investigate soundful cultural performances such as tree rituals, carnivals, pilgrimages, events promoting cultural heritage and more informal musical performances. Its approach demonstrates how in the acoustic domain tr…
Music \= Cultures in Contact: Convergences and Collisions
Contact between cultures may also lead to rejection as well as suppression of certain types of music. This process leads to such unfavorable circumstances as abandonment of entire works, genres or concepts or loss of instruments; yet such conflicts may also generate new and more positive creative achievements. Contributors include Andrew Alter, Tan Sooi Beng, Zdravko Blazekovic, Stephen Blum, Lê Tuân Hùng, Margaret J. Kartomi, Marcello Sorce Kell…
A Society and Its Journal: Stories of Hybridity
Touraj Kiaras and Persian Classical Music: An Analytical Perspective
Book Review| February 01 2011 Touraj Kiaras and Persian Classical Music: An Analytical Perspective Touraj Kiaras and Persian Classical Music: An Analytical Perspective. Owen Wright. 2009. Farnham, UK: Ashgate, SOAS Musicology Series. xiv, 134 pp., purpose, photos, musical examples, tables, bibliography, index, compact disc. Cloth, £27.50. Stephen Blum Stephen Blum CUNY Graduate Center Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Eth…
Chapter 11 Modes of Theorizing in Iranian Khorasan
This chapter discusses “theorizing” as an activity that prepares and accompanies the acquisition, retention, and expansion or contraction of musical knowledge. Using some typical formats for theoretical statements among bards (baxši) in Khorasan (Iran), the author considers theorizing in a comparative context that extends from Iran to Europe and South Asia. Theorizing, here, takes in many sorts of “episodes of generalizing.” Theorizing begins, it…
Navā'i, A Musical Genre of Northeastern Iran
This chapter is a study of the music of an Iranian Baxşi (singer of tales), including: Templates for Sung Poetry; The Baxşi's Musical Resources; Three Singers of Bojnurd; and Stable Tonality and Variable Rhythm.
Compelling Reasons to Sing: The Music of Taziyeh
December 01 2005 Compelling Reasons to Sing: The Music of Taziyeh Stephen Blum Stephen Blum Professor of Music at the CUNY Graduate Center Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Stephen Blum Professor of Music at the CUNY Graduate Center Online ISSN: 1531-4715 Print ISSN: 1054-2043 © 2005 Massachusetts Institute of Technology2005 TDR/The Drama Review (2005) 49 (4 (188)): 86–90. https://do…
Iran - Khorassan: L'Histoire de Tāher et Zohre /Iran - Khorassan: The Tale of Tāher and Zohre. 2004. Inedit/Maison des Cultures du Monde W 260116. Performed by Rowshan Golafruz (singing and dotār). An…
Iran - Khorassan: L'Histoire de Tāher et Zohre /Iran - Khorassan: The Tale of Tāher and Zohre. 2004. INEDIT/Maison des Cultures du Monde W 260116. Performed by Rowshan Golafruz (singing and dotār). Annotated and produced by Ameneh Youssefzadeh. 27 pages of notes in French and English. English translation by Frank Kane. 2 colour, 3 B/W photographs. 5-item bibliography. 2 compact discs, 19 and 18 tracks (48:16 and 47:03). Recorded at the 7th Festiv…
L'acte musical: Éléments d'Analyse
De nombreux ethnomusicologues en sont venus à partager l'idée de John Blacking que l'analyse de la musique correspond à la description de «séquences de différents types d'actes créatifs». Les séquences sont composées de réactions découlant de la reconnaissance par le musicien d'un groupe de traits caractéristiques. Dans toute série d'actes dont l'objectif est de produire de la musique (au sens large du terme), des structures de natures différente…
Anthology of World Music: The Music of Azerbaijan
Kurdish music
Repertory
Central Asia
Composition
Iran
Iran: Bardes du Khorassan
Music-Cultures in Contact: Convergences and Collisions
The morning of freedom rose up: Kurdish popular song and the exigencies of cultural survival
In the final scene of Harold Pinter's playMountain Language(1988), a guard informs the prisoners that they are now permitted to speak in their own language, at least 'until further notice'. The guard is an agent of an unnamed state that pursues a policy of linguicide, summarised in an earlier scene by an officer who tells prisoners that 'Your language no longer exists'. In 1993 the KurdishTiyatora Botan(based in Cologne) began to present Pinter's…
Music in the World of Islam: A Socio-Cultural Study
Volks- und Popularmusik in Europa
Ethnomusicology and Modern Music History
Ethnomusicology and Modern Music History
Il concetto di musica: Contributi E Prospettive Della Ricerca Etnomusicologica
Ethnomusicology and Modern Music History
Towards a Social History of Musicological Technique
Interest in operation of styles in their social contexts is not merely concern of musicologists during past century but extends across substantial body of European and Asian literature from Middle Ages to present. At times, however, ethnomusicologists have discussed problems of analytic method in rather parochial manner, without sufficient consideration of underlying principles of our discipline in broad, comparative context. The present essay se…
Ethnomusicology and Modern Music History
Designed as a tribute to world-renowned ethnomusicologist Bruno Nettl, this volume explores the ways in which ethnomusicologists are contributing to the larger task of investigating music history. The fifteen contributors explore topics ranging from meetings with the Suya Indians of Brazil to the German-speaking Jewish community of Israel; from Indian music in Felicity, Trinidad, to Ravi Shankar's role as cultural mediator. This book is unique no…
The Study of Ethnomusicology: Twenty-Nine Issues and Concepts
Music-Cultures in Contact: Convergences and Collisions
Sonic ethnography: Identity, heritage and creative research practice in Basilicata, southern Italy
Sonic ethnography explores the role of sound-making and listening practices in the formation of local identities in the southern Italian region of Basilicata. The book uses a combination of text, photography and sound recording to investigate soundful cultural performances such as tree rituals, carnivals, pilgrimages, events promoting cultural heritage and more informal musical performances. Its approach demonstrates how in the acoustic domain tr…
The morning of freedom rose up: Kurdish popular song and the exigencies of cultural survival
In the final scene of Harold Pinter's playMountain Language(1988), a guard informs the prisoners that they are now permitted to speak in their own language, at least 'until further notice'. The guard is an agent of an unnamed state that pursues a policy of linguicide, summarised in an earlier scene by an officer who tells prisoners that 'Your language no longer exists'. In 1993 the KurdishTiyatora Botan(based in Cologne) began to present Pinter's…
Ethnomusicology and Modern Music History
Ethnomusicology and Modern Music History
Music \= Cultures in Contact: Convergences and Collisions
Contact between cultures may also lead to rejection as well as suppression of certain types of music. This process leads to such unfavorable circumstances as abandonment of entire works, genres or concepts or loss of instruments; yet such conflicts may also generate new and more positive creative achievements. Contributors include Andrew Alter, Tan Sooi Beng, Zdravko Blazekovic, Stephen Blum, Lê Tuân Hùng, Margaret J. Kartomi, Marcello Sorce Kell…
Persian Folksong in Meshhed (Iran), 1969
This paper offers a brief survey of important genres of folksong in the Persian language, as presently cultivated in Khorasan (the large province in northeastern Iran). The ten transcriptions discussed in the body of the paper represent portions of a large collection of Khorasani folksong made in 1969 in and around Meshhed, a city of over 400,000 persons, and Bojnurd, a smaller town with perhaps 40,000 inhabitants. As indicated in the annotations…
L'acte musical: Éléments d'Analyse
De nombreux ethnomusicologues en sont venus à partager l'idée de John Blacking que l'analyse de la musique correspond à la description de «séquences de différents types d'actes créatifs». Les séquences sont composées de réactions découlant de la reconnaissance par le musicien d'un groupe de traits caractéristiques. Dans toute série d'actes dont l'objectif est de produire de la musique (au sens large du terme), des structures de natures différente…
The Concept of the cAsheq in Northern Khorasan
Throughout the towns and villages of the province of Khorasan in northeastern Iran several distinct types of professional performers provide music designed for particular social situations.1 The most important categories of specialists in musical performance include: (1) the naqqdl and the darvish, who recite various forms of poetry (primarily of a religious import) to the patrons of teahouses or to groups of religious devotees assembled in priva…
Studies in Blackfoot Indian Musical Culture, Part III: Three Genres of Song
In general, the Blackfoot musical style conforms to that of other Plains Indian tribes. The majority of songs belong to what we will call the Plains (Nettl 1954:24-29). This includes a tense vocal production with pulsations, singing in the high part of the range, a kind of structure in which the total rendition of a song includes modified repetition of the whole melody except for the beginning, descending and terrace-shaped melodic contours, and …
The Concept of the cAsheq in Northern Khorasan
Throughout the towns and villages of the province of Khorasan in northeastern Iran several distinct types of professional performers provide music designed for particular social situations.1 The most important categories of specialists in musical performance include: (1) the naqqdl and the darvish, who recite various forms of poetry (primarily of a religious import) to the patrons of teahouses or to groups of religious devotees assembled in priva…
Persian Folksong in Meshhed (Iran), 1969
This paper offers a brief survey of important genres of folksong in the Persian language, as presently cultivated in Khorasan (the large province in northeastern Iran). The ten transcriptions discussed in the body of the paper represent portions of a large collection of Khorasani folksong made in 1969 in and around Meshhed, a city of over 400,000 persons, and Bojnurd, a smaller town with perhaps 40,000 inhabitants. As indicated in the annotations…
Towards a Social History of Musicological Technique
Interest in operation of styles in their social contexts is not merely concern of musicologists during past century but extends across substantial body of European and Asian literature from Middle Ages to present. At times, however, ethnomusicologists have discussed problems of analytic method in rather parochial manner, without sufficient consideration of underlying principles of our discipline in broad, comparative context. The present essay se…
Instrumentale Musikstile an der ostturkischen Schwarzmeerkuste: Eine vergleichende Untersuchung der Spielpraxis von davul-zurna, kemence und tulum
Studies in Musicology, 1935-1975
Musique en jeu: Ethnomusicologie
The Study of Ethnomusicology: Twenty-Nine Issues and Concepts
Commentary
Ethnomusicology and Modern Music History
Ethnomusicology and Modern Music History
Designed as a tribute to world-renowned ethnomusicologist Bruno Nettl, this volume explores the ways in which ethnomusicologists are contributing to the larger task of investigating music history. The fifteen contributors explore topics ranging from meetings with the Suya Indians of Brazil to the German-speaking Jewish community of Israel; from Indian music in Felicity, Trinidad, to Ravi Shankar's role as cultural mediator. This book is unique no…
The Dastgah Concept in Persian Music
Ethnomusicology and Modern Music History
Il concetto di musica: Contributi E Prospettive Della Ricerca Etnomusicologica
Volks- und Popularmusik in Europa
Ethnomusicology and Modern Music History
The morning of freedom rose up: Kurdish popular song and the exigencies of cultural survival
In the final scene of Harold Pinter's playMountain Language(1988), a guard informs the prisoners that they are now permitted to speak in their own language, at least 'until further notice'. The guard is an agent of an unnamed state that pursues a policy of linguicide, summarised in an earlier scene by an officer who tells prisoners that 'Your language no longer exists'. In 1993 the KurdishTiyatora Botan(based in Cologne) began to present Pinter's…
Music in the World of Islam: A Socio-Cultural Study
Music-Cultures in Contact: Convergences and Collisions
Iran: Bardes du Khorassan
Kurdish music
Repertory
Central Asia
Composition
Iran
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