Cultural Mapping and Musical Diversity

Britta Sweers is Professor of Cultural Anthropology of Music at the Institute of Musicology (since 2009) and Director of the Center for Global Studies (since 2015) at the University of Bern (Switzerland). Sarah M. Ross is professor of Jewish music studies and director of the European Center for Jewish Music at the Hannover University of Music, Drama, and Media, Germany.

• Contents List of Figures vii Preface and Acknowledgements xi Introduction: Cultural Mapping and Musical Diversity 1 Britta Sweers and Sarah M. Ross Part I: The Method of Cultural Mapping Introduction to Part I 13Britta Sweers 1 Kulturkreise, Culture Areas, and Chronotopes: Old Concepts Reconsidered for the Mapping of Music Cultures Today 19 Marcello Sorce Keller 2 Mancunian Irish: Identity, Cultural Intimacy, and MusicalHybridization—Urban Ethnomusicology and Cultural Mapping 35 Svend Kjeldsen 3. Dying Language, Multi-Identity, and Music for the Young 54 Pekka Suutari 4. Mapping “Inconvenient” Music Heritage 67 Ana HofmanPart II: Cultural Landscape and Music Introduction to Part II 87 Britta Sweers 5. Landscapes and Flower Songs: Proposing the Hypothesis of Agriculturalist-Pastoralist Coalescence as the Origin of Hua’er Festivals 94 Lukas Park 6. Climate and Environment in Idelsohn’s History of Hebrew Music 108 Shai Burstyn 7. Dancing the Landscape: Music, Place, Collective Memory, and Identity in a Highland Bolivia Pilgrimage 123 Thomas Solomon8. The Space of Gong Culture in the Central Highlands of Vietnam: Old and New Directions in Ede Traditional Music 145 Vincenzo della Ratta Part III: The Politics of Intangible Cultural Heritage Introduction to Part III 175Sarah M. Ross 9. Historical Voices Reloaded: Rethinking Archival Responsibilities in Relation to Intangible Cultural Heritage 181 Gerda Lechleitner 10. Intangible Cultural Heritage and Policy Making in Poland 194 Marzanna Poplawska 11. Mapping and Representing Musical Diversity in Switzerland: The Role of Artists,  ethnomusicologists, and Officials 210 Marc-Antoine Camp, Brigitte Bachmann-Geiser, David Vitali, Dieter Ringli, and Patricia Jäggi 12. Tracing the Minhag Ashkenaz in Swiss Synagogue Music: Advocates of Intangible Cultural Heritage Meet Agents of Cultural Sustainability 225 Sarah M. Ross Part IV: Intangible Cultural Heritage: Case Studies Introduction to Part IV 251 Sarah M. Ross 13. Flamenco for Andalusia, Flamenco for Humanity:Regionalization and Intangible Cultural Heritage in Spain 256 Matthew Machin-Autenrieth 14. Questioning Safeguarding: Heritage and Capabilities at Jemaa el Fnaa Square, Morocco 279 Thomas Beardslee 15. The Verbuňk under the Pressure of World Fame 300 Zuzana Jurková Index 316