Title The Search for Medieval Music in Africa and Germany, 1891-1961 Scholars, Singers, Missionaries

Published Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2020

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Description 1 online resource (365 p.) Series New Material Histories of Music New material histories of music. Contents Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Introduction -- Part I: The Search for the Origins of Music: Comparative Musicology -- 1. Comparative Musicology and Comparative Linguistics -- The Indo-Europeanists -- Wilhelm von Humboldt and the Beginnings of Anthropology -- 2. Erich Moritz von Hornbostel -- Life -- Research -- 3. Marius Schneider -- Life -- Scholarship -- Music and Race -- 4. Georg Schünemann -- Life -- Scholarship -- 5. Two Crossover Musicologists: Jacques Handschin and Manfred Bukofzer -- Lives -- The Attraction of Comparative Musicology for Handschin and Bukofzer The Undermining of Comparative Musicology -- 6. Nicholas G. J. Ballanta -- Life -- Research -- Part II: Bringing Medieval Music to Life: Jugendmusik-and Singbewegung -- 7. The First Performances of Medieval Music and the Historians Behind Them -- The Performances in Karlsruhe (1922) and Hamburg (1924) -- Friedrich Ludwig -- Wilibald Gurlitt -- Rudolf von Ficker -- Heinrich Besseler, Medieval Music, and Gemeinschaftsmusik -- 8. The Jugendmusik- and Singbewegung: Ideology, Leaders, and Publishers -- The Wandervogel -- The Jugendmusik- and Singbewegung, the Leaders, and the Publishers The Movements in Theory and Practice -- Part III: Music in the German Mission Stations in East Africa: Some Case Studies -- 9. A History of the Missions -- The Moravians -- Gustav Warneck and the Volkskirche -- 10. The Moravians -- Traugott Bachmann -- Franz Ferdinand Rietzsch -- 11. The Leipzig Mission -- Bruno Gutmann and the Leipzig Missionaries -- Chagga Church Music in the First Years -- The Chagga Hymnbooks -- Gutmann, Folklore, and Gemeinschaft -- Gutmann and Singbewegung -- 12. The Bethel Mission -- Beginnings -- Missionary Activities -- Mission Inspector Walther Trittelvitz Ballanta's Influence on the Music in the Mission Stations -- Otto Hagena -- Postlude -- 13. The Catholic Missionsbenediktiner St. Ottilien -- Motu Proprio -- Catholic Perceptions of the Evolution of African Music -- Coelestin Vivell -- Cassian Spiess -- Clemens Künster -- Meinulf Küsters -- Johann Baptist Wolf -- Stephan Mbunga -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- Cast of Characters -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index Summary "The modern discipline of musicology has its roots in early-twentieth-century Germany and in three seemingly distinct but surprisingly connected areas of musical activity: the discovery of Medieval music and music theory through the all-consuming unearthing and decoding of documents; the tremendous growth of youth movements devoted to collective singing and music-making and the study of Medieval music; and the exportation of this music to Protestant and Catholic missions in German East Africa, where it was widely taught and performed. Underlying these activities was the belief that Medieval music, its structure and soundworld, had affinities with the music of "primitive" societies, such as those the missionaries encountered in East Africa. Rejected outright by African musicians and scholars at the time, the belief was kept alive in the European musicological community through the first half of the twentieth century. Anna Maria Busse Berger draws this all together for the first time, anchoring her writing in extensive archival research and her personal experience as the daughter of a German Lutheran missionary in East Africa. The result is a momentous re-thinking of the early history of music scholarship as well as a novel understanding of the imperial and colonial projects that shaped Germany's perception of itself at a crucial time in its history"-- Provided by publisher Notes Description based upon print version of record Subject Musicology -- Germany -- History Mission music -- German East Africa -- History and criticism Missions -- German East Africa -- History -- 20th century Ethnomusicology -- Germany -- History Ethnomusicology -- German East Africa -- History Musicologists -- Germany Music -- 15th century -- History and criticism Medievalism -- Germany Music -- Social aspects -- Germany Music and youth -- Germany -- History -- 20th century Ethnomusicology Medievalism Mission music Missions Music Music and youth Music -- Social aspects Musicologists Musicology Africa -- German East Africa Germany Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780226740485 022674048X

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