J Lawrence Witzleben
Biographic Data
| ID | 76428 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Lawrence Witzleben |
| GIVEN NAMES | J Lawrence |
| FAMILY NAME | Witzleben |
| SIGNATURE | WITZLEBEN J L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Maryland |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Theory and Method in Historical Ethnomusicology
Book Review| January 01 2020 Theory and Method in Historical Ethnomusicology Theory and Method in Historical Ethnomusicology. Jonathan McCollum and David G. Hebert, eds. With a foreword by Keith Howard. 2014. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. xvii, 411 pp., music examples, illustrations, bibliography, index. J. Lawrence Witzleben J. Lawrence Witzleben University of Maryland Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnomusicology (20…
Qupai in Chinese Music: Melodic Models in Form and Practice
For almost four decades, Alan Thrasher has been writing about Chinese music, theory, and performance practice, culminating in his Sizhu Instrumental Music of South China (2008).1 He is an accomplis...
Guest Editors' Preface
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Experience and Meaning in Music Performance Taking Part in Music: Case Studies in Ethnomusicology
Book Review| January 01 2018 Experience and Meaning in Music Performance Taking Part in Music: Case Studies in Ethnomusicology Experience and Meaning in Music Performance. Martin Clayton, Byron Dueck, and Laura Leante, eds. 2013. Oxford: Oxford University Press. xi, 232 pp., black-and-white photographs, figures, references, index, companion website. Cloth, $115.00; paper, $33.95.Taking Part in Music: Case Studies in Ethnomusicology. Ian Russell a…
Guest Editor's Preface
Chinese Shadows: The Amazing World of Shadow Puppetry in Rural Northwest China. A film by Frank Kouwenhouven and Antoinet Schimmelpenninck. 2007. Directed by Frank Kouwenhoven. Produced by CHIME. Inte…
Chinese Shadows: The Amazing World of Shadow Puppetry in Rural Northwest China. A film by Frank Kouwenhouven and Antoinet Schimmelpenninck. 2007. Directed by Frank Kouwenhoven. Produced by CHIME. Interviews and translation by Antoinet Schimmelpenninck. In Chinese, with English and Dutch subtitles. 58 minutes, colour, DVD, PAL all regions. Published by Pan Records. Available from http://www.panrecords.nl. - Volume 43
Chine: “Le pêcheur et le bûcheron”: Le qin, cithare des lettrés (China: “The Fisherman and the Woodcutter”: The Qin, Zither of the Literati) (review)
Reviewed by: Chine: “Le pêcheur et le bûcheron”: Le qin, cithare des lettrés (China: “The Fisherman and the Woodcutter”: The Qin, Zither of the Literati) J. Lawrence Witzleben (bio) Chine: “Le pêcheur et le bûcheron”: Le qin, cithare des lettrés (China: “The Fisherman and the Woodcutter”: The Qin, Zither of the Literati). Performed by Sou Si-tai, with Georges Goormaghtigh. Geneva: Archives Internationales de Musique Populaire, Musée d’ethnographi…
Performing in the Shadows: Learning and Making Music as Ethnomusicological Practice and Theory
In this article, I am concerned with the ways in which engagement with performance has shaped-and continues to shape-the ideas and theoretical perspectives of ethnomusicologists. In many ethnomusicology programmes (including several I have been in as a student or teacher), graduate students are required to participate in performing ensembles, take lessons both at home and in the field, and participate in performance as part of their thesis or dis…
“A Bridge to Java”Four Decades Teaching Gamelan in America
This chapter gives a striking account of the author's journey, teaching gamelan for four decades in America. It discusses “bimusicality” in gamelan's academic infancy as it had two groups of people, people who liked to talk about gamelan, the ethnomusicology students, and people who liked to play gamelan. People used to memorized their parts, and then put everything together, and that became a Javanese ensemble. It was incredible, but it sounded …
Music in the Hong Kong Handover Ceremonies: A Community Re-Imagines Itself
L'A. examine la maniere dont les choix des differentes prestations musicales dans les ceremonies du retour (huigui) de Hong Kong a la Chine continentale expriment des significations culturelles et politiques differentes, dans un processus de re-imagination d'une communaute. S'inspirant d'une anthropologie musicale (A. Seeger) qui prend en compte les processus socioculturels de la musique, il suggere que les ceremonies du retour ont reflete non se…
Chinese Opera
Cantopop and Mandapop in pre-postcolonial Hong Kong: Identity negotiation in the performances of Anita Mui Yim-Fong
The following comments appeared on the front page of the Hong Kong newspaper South China Morning Post on 19 January 1989, in a story about a performance in the Chinese city of Guangzhou (Canton) by Hong Kong singer Anita Mui YimFong
"Silk and Bamboo" Music in Shanghai: The Jiangnan Sizhu Instrumental Ensemble Tradition
Musique de Taiwan
'Silk and Bamboo' Music in Shanghai. The Jiangnan Sizhu Instrumental Ensemble Tradition
This is a study of one of China's most influential regional musical traditions, the Jiangnan sizhu - string and wind music - of Shanghai. The in-depth approach adopted reveals much about Chinese musical culture
"Silk and Bamboo" Music in Shanghai: The "Jiangnan Sizhu" Instrumental Ensemble Tradition
Harmony and Counterpoint: Ritual Music in Chinese Context
"Silk and Bamboo" Music in Shanghai: The Jiangnan Sizhu Instrumental Ensemble Tradition
Whose Ethnomusicology? Western Ethnomusicology and the Study of Asian Music
J. Lawrence Witzleben, Whose Ethnomusicology? Western Ethnomusicology and the Study of Asian Music, Ethnomusicology, Vol. 41, No. 2, Special Issue: Issues in Ethnomusicology (Spring - Summer, 1997), pp. 220-242
"Silk and Bamboo" Music in Shanghai. The Jiangnan Sizhu Instrumental Ensemble Tradition
The Study of Folk Music in the Modern World
Jiangnan Sizhu Music Clubs in Shanghai: Context, Concept and Identity
T hroughout much of China, regional instrumental ensemble traditions have evolved; among these are percussion ensembles, string ensembles, and a variety of ensembles combining heterogeneous instrument types. Chinese musicologists categorize those ensemble genres in which string and wind instruments predominate as sizhu musics.' These sizhu traditions can be (and usually are) differentiated according to instrumentation, repertory and musical style…
Cantopop and Mandapop in pre-postcolonial Hong Kong: Identity negotiation in the performances of Anita Mui Yim-Fong
The following comments appeared on the front page of the Hong Kong newspaper South China Morning Post on 19 January 1989, in a story about a performance in the Chinese city of Guangzhou (Canton) by Hong Kong singer Anita Mui YimFong
Whose Ethnomusicology? Western Ethnomusicology and the Study of Asian Music
J. Lawrence Witzleben, Whose Ethnomusicology? Western Ethnomusicology and the Study of Asian Music, Ethnomusicology, Vol. 41, No. 2, Special Issue: Issues in Ethnomusicology (Spring - Summer, 1997), pp. 220-242
Performing in the Shadows: Learning and Making Music as Ethnomusicological Practice and Theory
In this article, I am concerned with the ways in which engagement with performance has shaped-and continues to shape-the ideas and theoretical perspectives of ethnomusicologists. In many ethnomusicology programmes (including several I have been in as a student or teacher), graduate students are required to participate in performing ensembles, take lessons both at home and in the field, and participate in performance as part of their thesis or dis…
Music in the Hong Kong Handover Ceremonies: A Community Re-Imagines Itself
L'A. examine la maniere dont les choix des differentes prestations musicales dans les ceremonies du retour (huigui) de Hong Kong a la Chine continentale expriment des significations culturelles et politiques differentes, dans un processus de re-imagination d'une communaute. S'inspirant d'une anthropologie musicale (A. Seeger) qui prend en compte les processus socioculturels de la musique, il suggere que les ceremonies du retour ont reflete non se…
"Silk and Bamboo" Music in Shanghai. The Jiangnan Sizhu Instrumental Ensemble Tradition
Jiangnan Sizhu Music Clubs in Shanghai: Context, Concept and Identity
T hroughout much of China, regional instrumental ensemble traditions have evolved; among these are percussion ensembles, string ensembles, and a variety of ensembles combining heterogeneous instrument types. Chinese musicologists categorize those ensemble genres in which string and wind instruments predominate as sizhu musics.' These sizhu traditions can be (and usually are) differentiated according to instrumentation, repertory and musical style…
Experience and Meaning in Music Performance Taking Part in Music: Case Studies in Ethnomusicology
Book Review| January 01 2018 Experience and Meaning in Music Performance Taking Part in Music: Case Studies in Ethnomusicology Experience and Meaning in Music Performance. Martin Clayton, Byron Dueck, and Laura Leante, eds. 2013. Oxford: Oxford University Press. xi, 232 pp., black-and-white photographs, figures, references, index, companion website. Cloth, $115.00; paper, $33.95.Taking Part in Music: Case Studies in Ethnomusicology. Ian Russell a…
Jiangnan Sizhu Music Clubs in Shanghai: Context, Concept and Identity
T hroughout much of China, regional instrumental ensemble traditions have evolved; among these are percussion ensembles, string ensembles, and a variety of ensembles combining heterogeneous instrument types. Chinese musicologists categorize those ensemble genres in which string and wind instruments predominate as sizhu musics.' These sizhu traditions can be (and usually are) differentiated according to instrumentation, repertory and musical style…
The Study of Folk Music in the Modern World
"Silk and Bamboo" Music in Shanghai. The Jiangnan Sizhu Instrumental Ensemble Tradition
'Silk and Bamboo' Music in Shanghai. The Jiangnan Sizhu Instrumental Ensemble Tradition
This is a study of one of China's most influential regional musical traditions, the Jiangnan sizhu - string and wind music - of Shanghai. The in-depth approach adopted reveals much about Chinese musical culture
"Silk and Bamboo" Music in Shanghai: The "Jiangnan Sizhu" Instrumental Ensemble Tradition
Harmony and Counterpoint: Ritual Music in Chinese Context
"Silk and Bamboo" Music in Shanghai: The Jiangnan Sizhu Instrumental Ensemble Tradition
Whose Ethnomusicology? Western Ethnomusicology and the Study of Asian Music
J. Lawrence Witzleben, Whose Ethnomusicology? Western Ethnomusicology and the Study of Asian Music, Ethnomusicology, Vol. 41, No. 2, Special Issue: Issues in Ethnomusicology (Spring - Summer, 1997), pp. 220-242
"Silk and Bamboo" Music in Shanghai: The Jiangnan Sizhu Instrumental Ensemble Tradition
Musique de Taiwan
Cantopop and Mandapop in pre-postcolonial Hong Kong: Identity negotiation in the performances of Anita Mui Yim-Fong
The following comments appeared on the front page of the Hong Kong newspaper South China Morning Post on 19 January 1989, in a story about a performance in the Chinese city of Guangzhou (Canton) by Hong Kong singer Anita Mui YimFong
Chinese Opera
Music in the Hong Kong Handover Ceremonies: A Community Re-Imagines Itself
L'A. examine la maniere dont les choix des differentes prestations musicales dans les ceremonies du retour (huigui) de Hong Kong a la Chine continentale expriment des significations culturelles et politiques differentes, dans un processus de re-imagination d'une communaute. S'inspirant d'une anthropologie musicale (A. Seeger) qui prend en compte les processus socioculturels de la musique, il suggere que les ceremonies du retour ont reflete non se…
“A Bridge to Java”Four Decades Teaching Gamelan in America
This chapter gives a striking account of the author's journey, teaching gamelan for four decades in America. It discusses “bimusicality” in gamelan's academic infancy as it had two groups of people, people who liked to talk about gamelan, the ethnomusicology students, and people who liked to play gamelan. People used to memorized their parts, and then put everything together, and that became a Javanese ensemble. It was incredible, but it sounded …
Performing in the Shadows: Learning and Making Music as Ethnomusicological Practice and Theory
In this article, I am concerned with the ways in which engagement with performance has shaped-and continues to shape-the ideas and theoretical perspectives of ethnomusicologists. In many ethnomusicology programmes (including several I have been in as a student or teacher), graduate students are required to participate in performing ensembles, take lessons both at home and in the field, and participate in performance as part of their thesis or dis…
Chinese Shadows: The Amazing World of Shadow Puppetry in Rural Northwest China. A film by Frank Kouwenhouven and Antoinet Schimmelpenninck. 2007. Directed by Frank Kouwenhoven. Produced by CHIME. Inte…
Chinese Shadows: The Amazing World of Shadow Puppetry in Rural Northwest China. A film by Frank Kouwenhouven and Antoinet Schimmelpenninck. 2007. Directed by Frank Kouwenhoven. Produced by CHIME. Interviews and translation by Antoinet Schimmelpenninck. In Chinese, with English and Dutch subtitles. 58 minutes, colour, DVD, PAL all regions. Published by Pan Records. Available from http://www.panrecords.nl. - Volume 43
Chine: “Le pêcheur et le bûcheron”: Le qin, cithare des lettrés (China: “The Fisherman and the Woodcutter”: The Qin, Zither of the Literati) (review)
Reviewed by: Chine: “Le pêcheur et le bûcheron”: Le qin, cithare des lettrés (China: “The Fisherman and the Woodcutter”: The Qin, Zither of the Literati) J. Lawrence Witzleben (bio) Chine: “Le pêcheur et le bûcheron”: Le qin, cithare des lettrés (China: “The Fisherman and the Woodcutter”: The Qin, Zither of the Literati). Performed by Sou Si-tai, with Georges Goormaghtigh. Geneva: Archives Internationales de Musique Populaire, Musée d’ethnographi…
Guest Editor's Preface
Qupai in Chinese Music: Melodic Models in Form and Practice
For almost four decades, Alan Thrasher has been writing about Chinese music, theory, and performance practice, culminating in his Sizhu Instrumental Music of South China (2008).1 He is an accomplis...
Guest Editors' Preface
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Experience and Meaning in Music Performance Taking Part in Music: Case Studies in Ethnomusicology
Book Review| January 01 2018 Experience and Meaning in Music Performance Taking Part in Music: Case Studies in Ethnomusicology Experience and Meaning in Music Performance. Martin Clayton, Byron Dueck, and Laura Leante, eds. 2013. Oxford: Oxford University Press. xi, 232 pp., black-and-white photographs, figures, references, index, companion website. Cloth, $115.00; paper, $33.95.Taking Part in Music: Case Studies in Ethnomusicology. Ian Russell a…
Theory and Method in Historical Ethnomusicology
Book Review| January 01 2020 Theory and Method in Historical Ethnomusicology Theory and Method in Historical Ethnomusicology. Jonathan McCollum and David G. Hebert, eds. With a foreword by Keith Howard. 2014. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. xvii, 411 pp., music examples, illustrations, bibliography, index. J. Lawrence Witzleben J. Lawrence Witzleben University of Maryland Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnomusicology (20…
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