{"title":"Avanegar: A History of Music Transcription in Iran. 2022. Produced, filmed, and edited by Behrouz Jamali, 60 minutes. DVD. Washington DC: Dimension Media.","authors":"Payam Yousefi","doi":"10.1017/ytm.2022.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/ytm.2022.12","url":null,"abstract":"Avanegar is an educational film that outlines the history of musical transcription in Iran. The film begins in the thirteenth century and makes its way to the twentieth century outlining the important figures and documents regarding the transcription of music in Iran. In this regard, the title Avanegar is quite a fitting as it means “transcriber” in the Persian language. Mohsen Mohammadi, scholar of Iranian music, both compiled the research for the film and narrated this history on camera.1 While the film is narrated in Persian, English subtitles and the depiction of rare historical documents makes the film both accessible and informative to a wide audience. Staff notation today is an inseparable part of music in Iran. Today, within the local classical tradition staff notation plays a seminal role both in pedagogy and creative practice alongside the traditional oral methods. Avanegar tells both the story of the earliest encounters of Iranian music with notation methods, as well as the subsequent adoption of them by various musicians. The films’ narrative of musical transcription in Iran is broken up into four broad parts that provide overviews on: (1) medieval musical transcriptions in the Islamic World from the thirteenth to the fifteenth century; (2) European travelogues and songbooks collections on Persian music from the seventeenth century to the nineteenth century; (3) the adoption ofWestern notation by Iranian musicians in the first half of the twentieth century; and (4) the musicological transcriptions by Iranian musicologists in the post-WWII period. The opening section features the thirteenth century transcription methods of Safi al-Din al-Urmawi. While not examples of staff notation, Mohammadi explains how these early transcriptions mark the earliest attempts in the Islamic world to document melodies on paper, using letters to represent pitch and numerical values to designate duration. A transcription from Safi al-Din’s original manuscript is displayed for audiences unfamiliar with these documents. Subsequently, medieval Islamic scholars Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi (the thirteenth century) and Abd al-Qader Maraqi (the fifteenth century) are introduced through their works that used this method. The continuation of this method is traced to the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries Ottoman courts to the figure of Demetrius Cantemir (d.1723). A strength of this section is its discussion of the","PeriodicalId":43357,"journal":{"name":"YEARBOOK FOR TRADITIONAL MUSIC","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48330803","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"YTM volume 54 issue 2 Cover and Back matter","authors":"","doi":"10.1017/ytm.2022.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/ytm.2022.11","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43357,"journal":{"name":"YEARBOOK FOR TRADITIONAL MUSIC","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47287552","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Adil Johan, and Mayco A. Santaella, eds. Made in Nusantara: Studies in Popular Music. New York: Routledge, 2021. 265pp., list of figures, bibliography, index. ISBN 9780367428464 (paperback), ISBN 9780367428471 (hardback), and ISBN 9780367855529 (ebook).","authors":"Rachel ONG SHU YING","doi":"10.1017/ytm.2022.28","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/ytm.2022.28","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43357,"journal":{"name":"YEARBOOK FOR TRADITIONAL MUSIC","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43325920","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Jessica A. Schwartz Radiation Sounds: Marshallese Music and Nuclear Silences. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2021. xi, 299 pp., B/W photographs, figures, notes, bibliography, index. ISBN 9781478013686 (hardcover), ISBN 9781478014614 (paperback), ISBN 9781478021919 (ebook) and ISBN 9781478","authors":"Kirsty Gillespie","doi":"10.1017/ytm.2022.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/ytm.2022.14","url":null,"abstract":"From the moment of picking up this book, with its arresting cover art of a Uranium-235 AtomModel and its introductory chapter “ItWas the Sound That Terrified Us,” there is a clear sense that stories of trauma and suffering await the reader. This is an ambitious work, covering around seventy-five years of history and music in the Marshall Islands, a volatile period of nuclear activity and experience, the resonance of which is far from over. The author Schwartz frames the work within “a politics of silence and sound,” drawing asmuch attention to the “conspicuous manipulation of silence” as it does to the sounds of Marshallese musical culture (5). The book is organised into five chapters, and an introduction, of equal length. The Introduction is densely theoretical: a sophisticated consideration ofmusic and gender, power, race, and decolonisation in the context of the Marshall Islands. Chapter One provides a detailed discussion of the politics of radiation and the complex relationship between the United States of America and the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI); there are strong assertions here on the gendered nature of nuclear violence and onwomen’s disempowerment in the process. Chapter Two presents the experience of the people of Rongelap Atoll as “human radiation experiments” (98) and focuses particularly on the effect of radiation (and treatment) on Rongelapese women’s voices and how this affects, amongst other things, Rongelapese musicality. Chapter Three focuses largely on the experiences of the people of Bikini Atoll and the staged nature of their removal. Here the physicality and gendered characteristics of performance/performing are explored: women’s voices, due to the effects of radiation but also the need to assert authority within the constructedmasculine narrative, are “trapped in a gendered register” (142). The role of anthems in relation to identity also features here. Chapter Four explores the role of Christianity and the Church in the lives of the people, and in particular Bikinian men’s voices and broader performance practices as “part of their larger decolonial struggles” (174). Crucially, here the author acknowledges the complexity of identify formation and Bikinian’s “interwoven inheritance: the spirit of sharing alongside Rongelapese, Marshallese, Ijjidik, Oceanic, Christian, American, and so forth” (210). Chapter Five, the Yearbook for Traditional Music (2022), 54, 73–81","PeriodicalId":43357,"journal":{"name":"YEARBOOK FOR TRADITIONAL MUSIC","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"57592783","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Nikos Ordoulidis. Musical Nationalism, Despotism and Scholarly Interventions in Greek Popular Music. New York: Bloomsbury, 2021. 198 pp., B/W photographs, bibliographical references, index. ISBN 9781501369445 (hardcover), ISBN 9781501369483 (paperback), ISBN 9781501369469 (ebook).","authors":"Ioannis Tsioulakis","doi":"10.1017/ytm.2022.15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/ytm.2022.15","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43357,"journal":{"name":"YEARBOOK FOR TRADITIONAL MUSIC","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43506993","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Political Participation and Engagement in East Germany Through Chilean Nueva Canción","authors":"Jean R. Freedman","doi":"10.1017/ytm.2022.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/ytm.2022.4","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Chilean musical and political themes were an important element of East German life during the socialist presidency of Salvador Allende (1970–1973) and the violent military dictatorship (1973–1990) that overthrew him. The musical movement nueva canción (new song) was critical in mobilising solidarity with Chile around the world. In East Germany, the state-sponsored Singebewegung (singing movement) and the Liedermacher*innen1 (song makers) who were sometimes more openly critical both performed Chilean themes and covers. In addition to promoting solidarity, both groups drew on the musical identity of this group to arouse political participation towards different ends.","PeriodicalId":43357,"journal":{"name":"YEARBOOK FOR TRADITIONAL MUSIC","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44760797","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"YTM volume 54 issue 1 Cover and Front matter","authors":"","doi":"10.1017/ytm.2022.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/ytm.2022.2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43357,"journal":{"name":"YEARBOOK FOR TRADITIONAL MUSIC","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41903045","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Marina Peterson. Atmospheric Noise: The Indefinite Urbanism of Los Angeles. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2021. 256 pp., B/W photographs, figures, bibliography, notes, index. ISBN 9781478011828 (paperback), ISBN 9781478010708 (hardcover), ISBN 9781478013174 (ebook).","authors":"Marie Thompson","doi":"10.1017/ytm.2022.16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/ytm.2022.16","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43357,"journal":{"name":"YEARBOOK FOR TRADITIONAL MUSIC","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47052720","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cambodian Living Arts (). In English and Khmer. URL: https://www.cambodianlivingarts.org/","authors":"Francesca Billeri","doi":"10.1017/ytm.2022.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/ytm.2022.6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43357,"journal":{"name":"YEARBOOK FOR TRADITIONAL MUSIC","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45825923","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"YTM volume 54 issue 1 Cover and Back matter","authors":"","doi":"10.1017/ytm.2022.18","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/ytm.2022.18","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43357,"journal":{"name":"YEARBOOK FOR TRADITIONAL MUSIC","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47533730","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}