Prologue / Bruno Nettl -- Introduction. Music Making (and Unmaking) Community / Stefan Fiol and Tony Perman -- Part I. Differentiation. Re-membering Pontic Sociality : Musical Longing as Community Surrogation / Ioannis Tsekouras ; Choreographic Participation of a Presentational Kind : Sound, Movement, and the Politics of Belonging in Bulgaria's Armenian Diaspora / Donna A. Buchanan ; Making a Jewish Neighborhood : In-Group/Out-Group Sonic Dynamics and Affective Leverage in an Argentine Soccer Stadium / Eduardo Herrera ; Assembling Indigenous Communities : The Making of South Africa's Intellectual Property Laws Amendment Act of 2013 / Veit Erlmann -- Part II. Feedback. Teaching Music as Social Life : Performance-Based Pedagogy in Ethnomusicology / Joanna Bosse ; Musical Competition as Community in Highland Bolivia / Thomas Solomon ; Sustaining Musical Collectivities Through Competition : Christmas Bands in Cape Town / Sylvia Bruinders ; Affective Assembly and Participatory Politics at the Palestine Music Expo / David A. McDonald -- Part III. Mutual Indebtedness. Love and Debt : Performing Difference on the Mbira / Tony Perman ; Sounds and Social Belonging in Southern Africa : Collective Improvisation Versus Pan-African Jazz / Rick Deja ; Visions of Community and the Perils of Safeguarding a Himalayan Festival / Stefan Fiol -- Epilogue / Stephen Blum.
Summary
"Making music offers enormous possibilities--and faces significant limitations--in its power to generate belonging and advance social justice. Tony Perman and Stefan Fiol edit essays focused on the forms of interplay between music-making and community-making as mutually creative processes. Contributors in the first section look at cases where music arrived in settings with little or no sense of community and formed social bonds that lasted beyond its departure. In the sections that follow, the essayists turn to stable communities that used musical forms to address social needs and both forged new social groups and, in some cases, splintered established communities. By centering the value of difference in productive feedback dynamics of music and community while asserting the need for mutual moral indebtedness, they foreground music's potential to transform community for the better. Contributors: Stephen Blum, Joanna Bosse, Sylvia Bruinders, Donna A. Buchanan, Rick Deja, Veit Erlmann, Stefan Fiol, Eduardo Herrera, David A. McDonald, Tony Perman, Thomas Solomon, and Ioannis Tsekouras"--
