The music of Kevin Volans and Akin Euba
Discussion of:
Martin Stokes, “Ethnicity, Identity and Music,” in Ethnicity, Identity and Music: The Musical Construction of Place, ed. Martin Stokes (Oxford: Berg, 1997), 1–28.
John Corbett, “Experimental Oriental: New Music and Other Others,” in Western Music and Its Others, ed. Georgina Born and David Hesmondhalgh (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000), 163–86.
Björn Heile, “Weltmusik and the globalization of new music,” in The Modernist Legacy: Essays on New Music, ed. Björn Heile (Farnham, UK: Ashgate, 2009), 101-21
Harm Langenkamp, “Close Encounters of Another Kind: Strategies of Intercultural Composition 1960s–2000s,” Dutch Journal of Music Theory, 16/3 (2011), 180–201.
Final written assignment; due finals week student presentation day
Score excerpt for Assignment 6
Audio exerpts on Playlist 6:
Kevins Volans, Second String Quartet, Hunting: Gathering, I, A–F
Ephat Mujuru, Nyamaropa
Scherzinger, Hallucinating Accordian for Piano Trio, I–IV
Steve Reich, Drumming, Part 1 (excerpt)
Steve Reich, Music for 18 Musicians, section VI
Volans, First String Quartet, White Man Sleeps, I
Akin Euba, Chaka: An opera in two chants, Prelude
Euba, Chaka, Act II, Scene 2, O My Belov'd