Applied studies scholarship has triggered a not-so-quiet revolution in the discipline of ethnomusicology. The current generation of applied ethnomusicologists has moved toward participatory action research, involving themselves in musical communities and working directly on their behalf. The essays in The Oxford Handbook of Applied Ethnomusicology, edited by Svanibor Pettan and Jeff Todd Titon, theorize applied ethnomusicology, offer histories, and detail practical examples with the goal of stimulating further development in the field.
The essays in the book, all newly commissioned for the volume, reflect scholarship and data gleaned from eleven countries by over twenty contributors. Themes and locations of the research discussed encompass all world continents. The authors present case studies encompassing multiple places; other that discuss circumstances within a geopolitical unit, either near or far. Many of the authors consider marginalized peoples and communities; others argue for participatory action research. All are united in their interest in overarching themes such as conflict, education, archives, and the status of indigenous peoples and immigrants.
A volume that at once defines its field, advances it, and even acts as a large-scale applied ethnomusicology project in the way it connects ideas and methodology, The Oxford Handbook of Applied Ethnomusicology is a seminal contribution to the study of ethnomusicology, theoretical and applied.
Table of Contents I. Introduction: Applied Ethnomusicology, Challenges and Potentials Part 1. Jeff Todd Titon (USA): Applied Ethnomusicology, a Descriptive and Historical Account Part 2. Svanibor Pettan (Slovenia): Applied Ethnomusicology in the Global Arena Part 3. Jeff Todd Titon and Svanibor Pettan: An Introduction to the Essays II. Theoretical and Methodological Considerations 1. Dan Bendrups (Australia): Transcending Researcher Vulnerability through Applied Ethnomusicology 2. Klisala Harrison (Finland): Evaluating Values in Applied Ethnomusicology 3. Tan Sooi Beng (Malaysia): Cultural Engagement and Ownership through Participatory Approaches in Applied Ethnomusicology 4. Huib Schippers (Australia): Applied Ethnomusicology and Intangible Cultural Heritage: Understanding 'Ecosystems' of Music as a Tool for Sustainability 5. Jeff Todd Titon (USA): Sustainability, Resilience and Adaptive Management for Applied Ethnomusicology III. Advocacy 6. Jeffrey A. Summit (USA): Advocacy and the Ethnomusicologist: Assessing Capacity, Developing Initiatives, Setting Limits, and Making Sustainable Contributions 7. Ursula Hemetek (Austria): Applied Ethnomusicology as an Intercultural Tool: Some Experiences from the Last 25 Years of Minority Research in Austria 8. Michael B. Bakan (USA): Being Applied in the Ethnomusicology of Autism 9. Brian Schrag (USA): Motivations and Methods for Encouraging Artists in Longer Traditions 10. Zoe C. Sherinian (USA): Activist Ethnomusicology and Marginalized Musics of South Asia IV. Indigenous Peoples 11. Elizabeth Mackinlay (Australia): Decolonisation and Applied Ethnomusicology: Story-ing the Personal-Political-Possible in Our Work 12. Holly Wissler (USA): Andean Q'eros and Amazonian Wachiperi: Indigenous Voice in Grassroots Tourism, Safeguarding, and Ownership Projects V. Conflicts 13. Erica Haskell (USA): The Role of Applied Ethnomusicology in Post-conflict and Post-catastrophe Communities 14. Joshua D. Pilzer (Canada): The Study of Survivors' Music 15. Britta Sweers (Switzerland): The Public Display of Migrants in National(ist) Conflict Situations in Europe: An Analytical Reflection on University-Based Ethnomusicological Activism VI. Education 16. Susan E. Oehler Herrick (USA): Strategies and Opportunities in the Education Sector for Applied Ethnomusicology 17. John Morgan O'Connell (UK): Music and Humanism in the Aga Khan Humanities Project 18. Patricia Shehan Campbell (USA) and Lee Higgins (UK): Intersections between Ethnomusicology, Music Education and Community Music VII. Agencies 19. Dan Lundberg (Sweden): Archives and Applied Ethnomusicology 20. Clifford Murphy (USA): The Applied Ethnomusicologist as Public Folklorist: Ethnomusicological Practice in the Context of a Government Agency in the USA. 21. Zhang Boyu (China): Applied Ethnomusicology in China: An Analytical Review of Practice 22. Alan Williams (USA): The Problem and Potential of Commerce
