MAKING WAVES: Traveling Musics in Hawai'i, Asia, and the Pacific

摘要

There is an inherent paradox in examining in a bounded publication a phenomenon (musicking) "always in flux" (11). The solution that each writer provides in this volume is to consider music as process-a wave-rather than just product, whether embodying a cultural ideal, or expressing a relationship to a particular environment that both influences and is itself influenced by that environment, and to either examine that process from back then until now, or take a snapshot of a finite period from the past. The collection explores issues of displacement, of the creative possibilities arising from mobility, of the influence in the regions of Western art music, and of the influence in Japan of Japanese Americans. Authored by "veteran ethnomusicologists" (2), it is an explicitly non-festschrift celebration on the occasion of Ricardo Trimillos' 75th birthday by colleagues he knew and influenced; fitting, perhaps, that it is reviewed here by one such former colleague.