Ursula Hemetek and Adelaida Reyes (eds.): Cultural Diversity in the Urban Area: Explorations in Urban Ethnomusicology. ****************************************************************************************** * Zuzana Jurková ****************************************************************************************** Ursula Hemetek and Adelaida Reyes (eds.): Cultural Diversity in the Urban Area: Exploratio Ethnomusicology. Vienna: Institut für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Wien, 2007, 160 pp + 2 ISBN 978-3-902153-03-6. Although the term "Urban ethnomusicology" has already been one of the relatively standard several decades, it is not frequently a topic of publications or scholarly meetings. One o international symposium Cultural diversity in the Urban Area, held in Vienna in March 2006 by the UNESCO Working group Vienna and the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. publication contains the proceedings of this entire symposium. The first two texts were written by one of the pioneers of urban ethnomusicology, Adelaida the introduction she discusses the key question of the meaningfulness and/or content of th ethnomusicology" "...urban in urban ethnomusicology transcends the matter of geography, si It stands ... for a dynamic organism the character of which derives from the density of hu that it engenders and that, in turn, shape it. ..It defines the subject of urban ethnomusi by invoking the reciprocal relations between matrix and product, and by showing the object of that reciprocity" (p. 2) In that interpretation, urban ethnomusicology appears not as a but as an essential one: In the current world which is so dynamic and changing the city is mutually connected cultural and musical data are expressed most clearly. "Urban Ethnomusic An Assessment of its Role in the Development of Its Parent Discipline" is actually a glanc history of urban ethnomusicology (in which its author played an important role) by means o changes in ethnomusicological paradigms. "Almost all of the papers are case studies or allude to case studies. The majority are the fieldwork in Vienna. There are two examples of collaborative field-based research which to the importance of collaboration in complex situations where the challenges are of a magnit easily overwhelm a single fieldworker. In other respects, these examples provide interesti juxtapositions that can stimulate ideas for future work "One example consists of a set of three articles dedicated to studies of immigrant groups her article, Ursula Hemetek outlines the background of the project as a whole and provides underpinnings of a structure designed to accommodate individual studies and provide them w ground so that, potentially, the structure becomes more broadly applicable. Hande Sa?lam's Turkish immigrants in Vienna. Sofija Bajrektarevi? seeks insights into the musical lives o the former Yugoslavia by concentrating on their wedding customs. "The other example is a joint project undertaken by Philip Bohlman, Sebastian Klotz and La Koch. It contrasts with the above in its choice of locale and in the way its findings are the Hemetek- Sa?lam- Bajrektarević research takes place in a single city, Vienna, and pres in three reports, the Bohlman-Klotz-Koch project takes on three cities - Chicago, Kolkata, and presents its findings in one article. Their study is explicitly comparative, stipulati comparison that not only draw from the musical, the sociocultural and the historical, but transcultural and transnational aspects of their data. "Along with Gerda Lechleitner's article on the Bukharian Jews and Barbara Kostner's and Pa Italian music, the first set exemplifies the different ways in which groups respond to and the same city - Vienna - and the ways in which those interactions find expression in each life. The three-city joint project, in contrast, aims for a framework out of which dramati in the music of cities located in three separate continents can yield if not generalizatio a wide range of urban musical lives, then linkages between the specificities of culturally distant musical lives. "The sheer volume of information that urban ethnomusicological studies generate and which this volume can only hint at, itself poses significant problems. Documentation, storage, d (to mention only the more obvious), all require criteria for selection based on careful at ethnographic and musical information collected prior to, during, and following fieldwork. collected may differ according to the uses for which they are intended (e.g., for archival for writing a monograph), fieldwork is shown to be an important research component. In her on the Bukharian Jews, Gerda Lechleitner's concern is with the archival, and her article d the service that fieldwork can render to archival work. Regine Allgayer-Kaufmann, Christop Aichberger, Eva Anzenbacher, Flora Königsberger, and Carolin Ratzinger, on the other hand, service that archives render to data and to those who use them. They show how a growing st might be handled using the Online Content Management System currently in development for V Institutions but open for use by scholars in general. Web-based with various search possib is remarkable not only for its expandability but also for its versatility. "In all of the articles in this volume, complexity is assumed; it informs field strategies ordering and analysis of data, their storage and conservation for use by today's scholars future generations. In the exposure that the authors give to the wealth of opportunities f in urban areas; for the challenges that the articles bring to light; and for the invitatio all these to test the boundaries and limits of orthodoxy the better to respond to emergent needs, this volume and the symposium from which it derived opens wide the door to a debate but benefit all who are interested in ethnomusicology, in urban areas, and in the music th and animates them. For so doing, the organizers, in particular Ursula Hemetek and Gerlinda partners and sponsors, the Institute of Folk Music Research and Ethnomusicology at the Uni and Performing Arts Vienna, and the UNESCO Working Group Vienna deserve the gratitude of t community." (p.11-12) Table of Contents: Adelaida Reyes: Introduction; Adelaida Reyes: Urban Ethnomusicology Rev Assessment of Its Role in the Development of Its Parent Discipline; Philip V. Bohlman, Seb Lars-Christian Koch: Tale of Three Cities - Berlin, Chicago, and Kolkata at the Metropolit Crossroads; Ursula Hemetek: Musical Practice of Immigrants from the Former Yugoslavia and I". Methodology, Concepts, Background, Structuring; Hande Sa?lam: Musical Practice of Immi Former Yugoslavia and Turkey in Vienna II: Musical Identification and Transcultural Proces Immigrants in Vienna; Sofija Bajrektarević: Musical Practice of Immigrants from the Former Turkey in Vienna III: The ex-YU immigrant population in Vienna and its wedding customs; Ge The community of Bukharian Jews in Vienna - a preliminary report; Barbara Kostner, Paolo V cantare...". Italian Music in Vienna; Regine Allgayer-Kaufmann, Chritoph Reuter, Silke Aic Anzenbacher, Flora Königsberger, Carolin Ratzinger: The Online Content Management System f Institutions; Ursula Hemetek, Hande Sa?lam, Sofija Bajrektarević: Documentation of the Con Viennese Musical Worlds" (Wiener musikalische Welten der anderen Art); List of Audio Examp 2. Zuzana Jurková [ URL "LM-202.html "]