Harriet Ottenheimer
Biographic Data
| ID | 76492 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Harriet Ottenheimer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Harriet |
| FAMILY NAME | Ottenheimer |
| SIGNATURE | OTTENHEIMER H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kansas State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Crossing, Creolization, and the African Roots of American Culture
Group Harmony: The Black Urban Roots of Rhythm and Blues. Stuart L. Goosman. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. 291 pp.Right to Rock: The Black Rock Coalition and the Cultural Politics of Race. Maureen Mahon. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004. 317 pp.Crossovers: Essays on Race, Music, and American Culture. John Szwed. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. 283 pp
From Cousin Joe to the Comoros: Orthography and the Politics of Choice in Africa and African America
This paper explores issues of orthographic representation in two different projects, in two different locations, and draws some general conclusions about the role of an outsider linguistic anthropologist in working with individuals and their data. One project involved helping Cousin Joe, a blues singer from New Orleans, to edit his autobiography for publication. The other project involved developing a bilingual, bidirectional, Shinzwani-English d…
Spelling Shinzwani: Dictionary construction and orthographic choice in the Comoro Islands
This paper surveys the history of dictionary construction and orthographic choice in the Comoros — a former French colony in the Indian Ocean — with special reference to issues of literacy, identity, and politics. Evidence ranging from 16th century wordlists to contemporary bilingual/bidirectional dictionaries, as well as colonial, missionary, and scholarly approaches to lexicography and orthography in the Comoros, are examined and compared. Whil…
Un Roi Africain et sa Musique de Cour: Chants et Danses du Palais a Porto-Novo Sous le Regne de Gbefa (1948-1976)
Historical Dictionary of Algeria
Historical Dictionary of the Comoro Islands
Islands of stark contrasts and complex syncretisms, the comoros hold a major key to the history of the western Indian Ocean area. An invaluable resource for anyone interested in the history, economics, cultures, languages, geography, geology, or politics of the western Indian Ocean
African Polyphony and Polyrhythm: Musical Structure and Methodology
The Music of the Central African Republic: 1. General introduction 2. The general features of traditional music 3. Typology Book II. African Polyphonic Music: Introduction 1. A classification of African polyphonies 2. Previous studies: the present state of the subject Book III. Technical Tools: Methods of Recording Polyphonic Music For Transcription: 1. The need for transcription 2. The difficulties of transcription 3. Earlier methods 4. Towards …
General/Theoretical Anthropology: Comparative Musicology and Anthropology of Music: Essays on the History of Ethnomusicology . Bruno Nettl and Philip V. Bohlman , eds. Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicolo…
African Music: A Bibliographical Guide to the Traditional, Popular, Art, and Liturgical Musics of Sub-Saharan Africa
Introduction Cultural History and the Arts Ethnomusicology African Traditional Music African Popular Music African Art Music African Church Music Appendix I: Reference Works Appendix II: Archives and Research Centers Appendix III: Selected Discography Ethnic Group Index Subject Index Artist Index Author Index
Prewar blues in St. Louis 1
The Blues Tradition in St. Louis
This paper is an attempt to explore the early blues scene in St. Louis and the role that the city had in the development of this unique AfroAmerican style of music. Blues is a particularly difficult subject to research. It is typically performed in settings that frequently are not considered respectable or worth writing about. In its formative years the blues was not only rarely noticed or written about but in many cases it was carefully avoided …
Cousin Joe: Blues from New Orleans
The author recounts his childhood, explains how he became involved with music, and describes the life of a blues musician
Cousin Joe: Blues from New Orleans
Cousin Joe: Blues from New Orleans
Music of the Comoro Islands: Domoni
La Musique et la Transe: Esquisse d'une Theorie Generale des Relations de la Musique et de la Possession. Gilbert Rouget
Matrilocal Residence and Nonsororal Polygyny: A Case from the Comoro Islands
In the Comoro Islands the preferred form of marriage is matrilocal nonsororal polygyny. This form is little understood and according to some, impossible. After providing a brief background to the Comoro Islands, this paper illustrates how this marriage pattern operates, and proposes a hypothesis to explain its occurrence in the western Indian Ocean area
Catharsis, Communication, and Evocation: Alternative Views of the Sociopsychological Functions of Blues Singing
T he potential value of song texts as mechanisms for psychological release of emotion has been observed and commented on by both anthropologists and ethnomusicologists. The concept appears to be basis for most recent scholarly approaches to understanding of blues singing. Herskovits, for example, suggested in 1934 that in Negro cultures therapeutic value of bringing a repressed into open was commonly achieved in song (1966:137). Merriam, too, poi…
Marriage in the Comoro Islands
Anthropology and the Arts: Glossary of Hausa Music and Its Social Contexts. David W. Ames and ANTHONY V. King
Black Music: Four Lives . A. B. SPELLMAN
Folklore: Black Music in Our Culture: Curricular Ideas on the Subjects, Materials and Problems. Dominique-RENÉ DE Lerma
Culture Contact and Musical Style: Ethnomusicology in the Comoro Islands
The Comoro Islands, four in number, are located approximately twelve degrees below the equator in the Mozambique channel, midway between the northern tip of Madagascar and Mozambique. Two languages, both related to the Swahili language family are spoken on the islands. One, Shingazija, is spoken primarily on the island of Grande Comore. The other, Shinzwani or Shimasiwa, is spoken, with dialectical variation, on the remaining three islands: Anjou…
General/Theoretical Anthropology: Comparative Musicology and Anthropology of Music: Essays on the History of Ethnomusicology . Bruno Nettl and Philip V. Bohlman , eds. Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicolo…
Catharsis, Communication, and Evocation: Alternative Views of the Sociopsychological Functions of Blues Singing
T he potential value of song texts as mechanisms for psychological release of emotion has been observed and commented on by both anthropologists and ethnomusicologists. The concept appears to be basis for most recent scholarly approaches to understanding of blues singing. Herskovits, for example, suggested in 1934 that in Negro cultures therapeutic value of bringing a repressed into open was commonly achieved in song (1966:137). Merriam, too, poi…
Culture Contact and Musical Style: Ethnomusicology in the Comoro Islands
The Comoro Islands, four in number, are located approximately twelve degrees below the equator in the Mozambique channel, midway between the northern tip of Madagascar and Mozambique. Two languages, both related to the Swahili language family are spoken on the islands. One, Shingazija, is spoken primarily on the island of Grande Comore. The other, Shinzwani or Shimasiwa, is spoken, with dialectical variation, on the remaining three islands: Anjou…
Culture Contact and Musical Style: Ethnomusicology in the Comoro Islands
The Comoro Islands, four in number, are located approximately twelve degrees below the equator in the Mozambique channel, midway between the northern tip of Madagascar and Mozambique. Two languages, both related to the Swahili language family are spoken on the islands. One, Shingazija, is spoken primarily on the island of Grande Comore. The other, Shinzwani or Shimasiwa, is spoken, with dialectical variation, on the remaining three islands: Anjou…
Black Music: Four Lives . A. B. SPELLMAN
Folklore: Black Music in Our Culture: Curricular Ideas on the Subjects, Materials and Problems. Dominique-RENÉ DE Lerma
Anthropology and the Arts: Glossary of Hausa Music and Its Social Contexts. David W. Ames and ANTHONY V. King
Matrilocal Residence and Nonsororal Polygyny: A Case from the Comoro Islands
In the Comoro Islands the preferred form of marriage is matrilocal nonsororal polygyny. This form is little understood and according to some, impossible. After providing a brief background to the Comoro Islands, this paper illustrates how this marriage pattern operates, and proposes a hypothesis to explain its occurrence in the western Indian Ocean area
Catharsis, Communication, and Evocation: Alternative Views of the Sociopsychological Functions of Blues Singing
T he potential value of song texts as mechanisms for psychological release of emotion has been observed and commented on by both anthropologists and ethnomusicologists. The concept appears to be basis for most recent scholarly approaches to understanding of blues singing. Herskovits, for example, suggested in 1934 that in Negro cultures therapeutic value of bringing a repressed into open was commonly achieved in song (1966:137). Merriam, too, poi…
Marriage in the Comoro Islands
La Musique et la Transe: Esquisse d'une Theorie Generale des Relations de la Musique et de la Possession. Gilbert Rouget
Music of the Comoro Islands: Domoni
Cousin Joe: Blues from New Orleans
The Blues Tradition in St. Louis
This paper is an attempt to explore the early blues scene in St. Louis and the role that the city had in the development of this unique AfroAmerican style of music. Blues is a particularly difficult subject to research. It is typically performed in settings that frequently are not considered respectable or worth writing about. In its formative years the blues was not only rarely noticed or written about but in many cases it was carefully avoided …
Cousin Joe: Blues from New Orleans
The author recounts his childhood, explains how he became involved with music, and describes the life of a blues musician
Cousin Joe: Blues from New Orleans
Prewar blues in St. Louis 1
African Polyphony and Polyrhythm: Musical Structure and Methodology
The Music of the Central African Republic: 1. General introduction 2. The general features of traditional music 3. Typology Book II. African Polyphonic Music: Introduction 1. A classification of African polyphonies 2. Previous studies: the present state of the subject Book III. Technical Tools: Methods of Recording Polyphonic Music For Transcription: 1. The need for transcription 2. The difficulties of transcription 3. Earlier methods 4. Towards …
General/Theoretical Anthropology: Comparative Musicology and Anthropology of Music: Essays on the History of Ethnomusicology . Bruno Nettl and Philip V. Bohlman , eds. Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicolo…
African Music: A Bibliographical Guide to the Traditional, Popular, Art, and Liturgical Musics of Sub-Saharan Africa
Introduction Cultural History and the Arts Ethnomusicology African Traditional Music African Popular Music African Art Music African Church Music Appendix I: Reference Works Appendix II: Archives and Research Centers Appendix III: Selected Discography Ethnic Group Index Subject Index Artist Index Author Index
Historical Dictionary of the Comoro Islands
Islands of stark contrasts and complex syncretisms, the comoros hold a major key to the history of the western Indian Ocean area. An invaluable resource for anyone interested in the history, economics, cultures, languages, geography, geology, or politics of the western Indian Ocean
Historical Dictionary of Algeria
Un Roi Africain et sa Musique de Cour: Chants et Danses du Palais a Porto-Novo Sous le Regne de Gbefa (1948-1976)
Spelling Shinzwani: Dictionary construction and orthographic choice in the Comoro Islands
This paper surveys the history of dictionary construction and orthographic choice in the Comoros — a former French colony in the Indian Ocean — with special reference to issues of literacy, identity, and politics. Evidence ranging from 16th century wordlists to contemporary bilingual/bidirectional dictionaries, as well as colonial, missionary, and scholarly approaches to lexicography and orthography in the Comoros, are examined and compared. Whil…
From Cousin Joe to the Comoros: Orthography and the Politics of Choice in Africa and African America
This paper explores issues of orthographic representation in two different projects, in two different locations, and draws some general conclusions about the role of an outsider linguistic anthropologist in working with individuals and their data. One project involved helping Cousin Joe, a blues singer from New Orleans, to edit his autobiography for publication. The other project involved developing a bilingual, bidirectional, Shinzwani-English d…
Crossing, Creolization, and the African Roots of American Culture
Group Harmony: The Black Urban Roots of Rhythm and Blues. Stuart L. Goosman. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. 291 pp.Right to Rock: The Black Rock Coalition and the Cultural Politics of Race. Maureen Mahon. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004. 317 pp.Crossovers: Essays on Race, Music, and American Culture. John Szwed. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. 283 pp
Art (15 works) · History (14 works) · Art history (10 works) · Music History and Culture (10 works) · Blues (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · History (7 works) · Visual arts (7 works) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (6 works) · Linguistics (6 works)