International Council for Traditions of Music and Dance

A Non-Governmental Organization in Formal Consultative Relations with UNESCO

Yearbook for Traditional Music. Vol. 18 (1986)

General Editor:  Dieter Christensen

Table of Contents

  • ‘Editor's Preface’ by Dieter Christensen
  • ‘Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth Conference of the ICTM Stockholm - Helsinki, July 30 - August 7, 1985’
  • ‘Folk Music Revival in Sweden: The Lilla Edet Fiddle Club’ by Jan Ling
  • ‘Music and Ethnic Identity: Strategies among Overseas Filipino Youth’ by Ricardo D. Trimillos
  • ‘Breakdance as an Identity Marker in New Zealand’ by Tania Kopytko
  • ‘"Hip Hop Dances": Their Adoption and Function among Boys in Denmark from 1983-84’ by Lisbet Torp
  • ‘Power and Charm. Interaction of Adolescent Men and Women in Traditional Settings of Transylvania’ by Anca Giurchescu
  • ‘Girls' Handclapping Games in Three Los Angeles Schools’ by Carol Merrill-Mirsky
  • ‘The Role of Youth in the Continuation of Dogrib Musical Traditions’ by Elaine Keillor
  • ‘The Mescalero Apache Girls' Puberty Ceremony: The Role of Music in Structuring Ritual Time’ by Anne Dhu Shapiro and Inés Talamantez
  • ‘Tradition in the Guise of Innovation: Music among a Refugee Population’ by Adelaida Reyes Schramm
  • ‘Zarzuela Productions in New York’ by Janet L. Sturman
  • ‘The Crystallization of a Marginal Tradition: Music in Banyumas, West Central Java’ by R. Anderson Sutton
  • ‘The Bombay Hindi Film Song Genre: A Historical Survey’ by Teri Skillman
  • ‘Revival and Innovation: The Case of the Norwegian Seljefløyte’ by Ola Kai Ledang
  • ‘Some Innovations in Musical Instruments of Japan during the 1920's’ by Katsumura Jinko

Book Reviews

  • Southwestern Indian Ritual Drama by Charlotte J. Frisbie. Review by Robert Witmer
  • Let the inside Be Sweet: The Interpretation of Music Events among the Kpelle of Liberia by Ruth M. Stone. Review by Meki Nzewi
  • Pjesme i napjevi iz Bosne i Hercegovine by Ludvik Kuba. Review by Barbara Krader
  • Prolegomenes à l'Ethnosociologie de la Musique by João Ranita da Nazaré. Review by Salwa El-Shawan Castelo-Branco
  • Worlds of Music: An Introduction to the Music of the World's Peoples by Jeff Todd Titon; James T. Koetting; David P. McAllester; David B. Reck; Mark Slobin. Review by Timothy Rice
  • The Study of Ethnomusicology: Twenty-Nine Issues and Concepts by Bruno Nettl. Review by Timothy Rice
  • Bluegrass Breakdown: The Making of the Old Southern Sound by Robert Cantwell; Bluegrass: A History by Neil V. Rosenberg. Review by Robert Witmer

Record Reviews

  • Rajasthan: vièles et guimbardes by Geneviève Dournon; Tribal Music of India: The Muria and Maria Gonds of Madhya Pradesh by Roderic Knight. Review by David Roche
  • Ballads, Wedding Songs, and Piyyutim of the Sephardic Jews of Tetuan and Tangier, Morocco by Henrietta Yurchenco. Review by Uri Sharvit
  • Songs of the Newfoundland Outports by Kenneth Peacock; Edith Fowke. Review by Beverley Cavanagh
  • Ivory Coast. Senufo: Fodonon Funeral Music by Michel de Lannoy. Review by Veit Erlmann
  • Recolhas Musicais da Tradição Oral Portuguesa: Beira Baixa, 1: Minho; 2: Beira Alta, Douro Litoral; 3: Trás-os-Montes, Alentejo, Algarve by Jose Alberto Sardinha; Vitor Reino. Review by Anne Caufriez
  • Roumaine: Polyphonie Vocale des Aroumains. Review by Gisela Suliteanu
  • Taḳāsīm: Kamān, 'Ūd, Ḳānūn, Nāy. Review by Scheherazade Qassim Hassan
  • Musik im Andenhochland: Bolivien by Max Peter Baumann. Review by Dale A. Olsen
  • Music of the Globe: Improvisation, Orchestration, Singing Together, Prayer and Devotion. Review by Bernard Lortat-Jacob

Audio Report

  • Commercial LP's of the Grupos de Recolha e Divulgação de Música Popular Portuguesa: 1979-1985. Review by Salwa El-Shawan Castelo-Branco, Maria Clara Correia and Rosa Clara Neves

ICTM Report

  • ‘Fourth International Colloquium "Traditional Music and Tourism," Held at Kingston, and Newcastle, Jamaica, July 10-14, 1986’ by Adrienne L. Kaeppler and Olive Lewin