Dieter Christensen

Music Department
Columbia University
New York NY 10027

tel. (212) 854-3825 ; fax (212) 854-8191
email: dc22@columbia.edu

SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS

1957 Die Musik der Kate und Sialum. Beiträge zur Ethnographie Neuguineas. Berlin: Freie Univ. 126 pp., music.

1959 Heterogene Musikstile in dem Dorf Gabela (Herzegovina). Bericht über den 7. internationalen musikwissenschaftlichen Kongress Köln, 1958. pp.79-82.

1959 Notizen zur kurdischen Töpferei. Baessler-Archiv, N.F.7:351-59. (with Nerthus Christensen)

1960 Inner tempo and melodic tempo. Ethnomusicology 4:9-14.

1961a Kurdische Brautlieder aus dem Vilayet Hakkari, Südost-Türkei. Journal of the International Folk Music Council 13: 70-72.

1961b [Review of] Fritz Bose, Die Musik der Chibcha und ihrer heutigen Nachkommen. In: Internationales Archive fur Ethnographie 48,2,1958, pp.149-98. Baessler-Archiv, N.F.8: 261-62.

1962a Melodiestile am mittleren Sepik (Neuguinea). Baessler-Archiv, N.F.10: 9-44.

1962b [Review of] Erich Stockmann, Zur Sammlung und Untersuchung albanischer Volksmusik. In: Acta musicologica 32, 1960. Journal of the International Folk Music Council 14:140.

1962c [Review of] W.-D. Hütteroth, Bergnomaden und Yaylabauern im mittleren kurdischen Taurus. Marburg 1959. Sociologus, N.F. 12:88-89.

1962d [Review of] Walter Salmen, Die Volksliedforschung in Deutschland und Österreich seit 1955. In: Zeitschrift fur Volkskunde 56, 1960. Journal of the International Folk Music Council 14: 139.

1963 Tanzlieder der Hakkari-Kurden. Jahrbuch fur musikalische Volks- und Völkerkunde 1:11-47.

1964a Old musical styles in the Ellice Islands, Western Polynesia. Ethnomusicology 8:34-40.

1964b [Review of] Ali A. Modjtabawi, Gesellschaft und Wirtschaft in Manutschehrabad. Studie über eine junge Dorfgemeinschaft in Luristan. Phil.Diss. Köln 1960. Zeitschrift für Ethnologie 89:116-18.

1964 Die Musik der Ellice-Inseln. Berlin: Veröffentlichungen des Museums fur Völkerkunde Berlin. N.F.5, Abt. Südsee 2. 246 pp., music, 7" record. (with Gerd Koch)

1965a Kurdish folk music from Western Iran . New York : Ethnic Folkways Library FE 3103. LP with 19 pp.

1965b [Review of] Deutsche Gesellschaft für Musik des Orients. Mitteilungen Nos.1-3. Hamburg 1962-64. Journal of the International Folk Music Council 17, part 1:60.

1965c [Review of] Journal of the International Folk Music Council 15. 1963. Musikforschung 18:435-36.

1965d [Review of] Nouvelle Guinee. BAM EX 294. Nouvelle Guinee. No.2. Sepik. BAM EX 612. Journal of the International Folk Music Council 17, part 1:77.

1966 [Review of] Musik des Orients. UNESCO-Reihe, hrsg. v. Alain Danielou. Laos, Kambodscha, Afghanistan, Iran I, Iran II.Bärenreiter BM 30 L 2001-5. Jahrbuch fur musikalische Volks- und Völkerkunde 2:131-32.

1966 Die Töpferei von San Martin Totoltepec. Zeitschrift fur Ethnologie 91:248-86. (with Nerthus Christensen)

1967a Die Musik der Kurden. Mitteilungen der Berliner Gesellschaft fur Anthropologie, Ethnologie, und Urgeschichte 1: 113-19.

1967b Zur Mehrstimmigkeit in kurdischen Wechselgesängen. In: Festschrift Walter Wiora. Kassel: Bärenreiter. Pp.171-77.

1967c [Review of] Bruno Nettl, Folk and traditional music of the Western continents. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1965. Ethnomusicology 11:128-29.

1967d [Review of] Celila Celil, Kurdskie Narodnye Pesni (Kurdish Folk songs). Moskva: Izdatel'stvo Muzyka, 1965. Journal of the International Folk Music Council 19:131-32.

1967e [Review of] Deutsches Jahrbuch für Volkskunde vol.11,1 and 2, 1965, & vol.12,1, 1966. Journal of the International Folk Music Council 19:152-53.

1967f [Review of] Doris Stockmann, Wilfried Fiedler, Erich Stockmann, Albanische Volksmusik. Band 1. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1965.
Jahrbuch für musikalische Volks- und Völkerkunde 3: 142-43.

1967g [Review of] Musikgeschichte in Bildern, Bd.1, Lieferung 1, Paul Col- laer, Ozeanien. Leipzig, 1965. Musikforschung 20:339-41.

1968a Musikwissenschaftliche Forschungen in Mexiko. In: Das Mexiko-Projekt der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft. Wiesbaden, vol. 1, pp. 131-38.

1968b Volks- und Hochkunst in der Vokalmusik der Kurden. In: Volks- und Hochkunst in Dichtung und Musik. Tagungsbericht Colloquium Univ. Saarbrücken 1966. Witterschlick bei Bonn. Pp. 128-31.

1968c [Review of] Wolfgang Suppan, Volkslied, seine Sammlung und Erforschung. Stuttgart, 1966. Ethnomusicology 12:162-63.

1968d Mikronesier (Gilbert-Inseln). Encyclopaedia Cinematographica. E 915-20. Göttingen. (Brochures for ethnographic films, with Gerd Koch.)

1969a On the preservation of Arab music. In: Report on the 2nd International Conference on Arab Music, Cairo.

1969b [Review of] Jahrbuch fur Volksliedforschung 12, 1967. Ethnomusicology 13:382-83.

1970a Lieder von Siar und Geraged, Neuguinea. In: Musik als Gestalt und Erlebnis. Festschrift Walter Graf. Wien: Bohlau. pp.15-23. (=Wiener Musikwissenschaftliche Beiträge 9:15-23.

1970b [Review of] Robert Stevenson, Music in Aztec and Inca Territory. Berkeley: U.of California Press, 1968. Musikforschung 23:227-28.

1970c [Review of] Yugoslav Folk Music. Lyrichord LLST 7189.[1968]. Ethnomusicology 14:198-99.

1970d Katalog der Tonbandaufnahmen M1-M2000.
Berlin: Musikethnologische Abteilung, Museum fur Völkerkunde Berlin. 355 pp.

1971 [Review of] Jaap Kunst, Music in New Guinea. The Hague: Nijhoff, 1967. Yearbook of the International Folk Music Council 2:177-78.

1972 [Review of] Inter-American Institute for Musical Research. Anuario. Vols.1-3, 1965-67. New Orleans: Tulane University.
Jahrbuch für musikalische Volks- und Völkerkunde 6:97-99.

1974 Oceanic Peoples, Arts of, Music and Dance.
Encyclopaedia Brittanica, 15th ed. (with Adrienne Kaeppler.)

1975a Ein Tanzlied der Hakkari-Kurden und seine Varianten. Baessler-Archiv 23:195-215.

1975b Musical style and social context in Kurdish songs.
Asian Music 6: 1-6.

1975c Vorwort/Preface. Hornbostel Opera Omnia, vol.I.
The Hague : Nijhoff. Pp. ix-xxii. (with Hans-Peter Reinecke and Klaus Wachsmann.)

1976a Der Ring aus Tlalocan: Mythen und Gebete, Lieder und Erzahlungen der heutigen Nahua in Verracruz und Puebla, Mexico (with Luis Reyes Garcia et alii).

Berlin: Mann. 157 pp., 45 rpm disc.

1976b [Review of] Wolfgang Laade, Musik der Götter, Geister und Menschen. Baden-Baden 1975. Tribus 26:166-67.

1977a Kategorien mehrstimmiger Lieder des Dorfes Gabela, Herzegovina.
Musikforschung 30: 30-42.

1977b Kategorien mehrstimmiger Lieder des Dorfes Gabela, Herzegovina. In: Essays for a Humanist. An Offering to Klaus Wachmann. New York: Town House Press, pp. 105-120.

1977c [Review of] Laurence Picken, Folk musical instruments of Turkey. London 1975. Notes 33:586-87.

1977d [Review of] Max Schneider, Musikwissenschaft und Kulturkreislehre. Bonn, 1976. Ethnomusicology 21:502-05.

1978a Kurdisk Musik. Solmann's Musiklexicon.

1978b [Review of] Max Peter Baumann, Musikfolklore und Musikfolklorismus. Winterthur, 1976. Yearbook of the International Folk Music Council 9:112-13.

1978c El Anillo de Tlalocan. Mitos, oraciones, cantos y cuentos de los Nawas actuales. Berlin: Gebr. Mann. 157 pp., record. (with Luis Reyes Garcia et al..)

1979 On editorial policy.
Ethnomusicology 23:504-06.

1980a Micronesia: Kiribati (Gilbert Islands). New Grove vol.12, pp.275-76.

1980b Polynesia: Tuvalu (Ellice Islands). New Grove vol.15, pp.69-70.

1983a In Memoriam George Herzog 1901-1983. Bulletin of the ICTM 63:2.

1983b [Review of] Max Peter Baumann, Bibliographie zur ethnomusikologischen Literatur der Schweiz. Winterthur, 1981. Yearbook for Traditional Music 14:138.

1984a In memoriam Klaus P. Wachsmann. Yearbook for Traditional Music 16:ix-x.

1984b [Review of] Rüdiger Schumacher, Die Suluk-Gesänge des Dalang im Schattenspiel Zentraljavas. München 1980. (NGOMA 7). Musikforschung 37:324-25.

1984c [Review of] "Jüüzli": Jodel of the Muotatal. Coll.CNRS/Musée de l'Homme. Le Chant du Monde LDX 74716. Yodel of Appenzell. Unesco Collection.Philips 6586044. Ethnomusicology 28:372-74.

1985 Archives of Traditional Music: their organization, and their roles in research, education, and the mass media. Symposium on Omani Traditional Music, Muscat, October 1985. Proceedings.

1987 Sootnozhenie mezhdy tradicionnim muzikalnim ispolneniem i stilem, syshshestvujushshee v vostochnoi chasti turcii. In: Tradicii Muzikalnix Kultur.
Moscow: Sovietskii Kompozitor. Pp. 41-43.

1988a Afterword. In: Hol' my hand .....Kingston, Jamaica: Institute of Jamaica. Pp. 1890-91.

1988 The International Folk Music Council and 'the Americans': On the effects of stereotypes on the institutionalization of ethnomusicology. Yearbook for Traditional Music 20:11-18.

1990b Nase Pjesme. Music from Gabela, Hercegovina, Yugoslavia. Berlin: Staatliche Museen. (=Museum Collection Berlin 2). 28 pp., phono record.

1990 El Anillo de Tlalocan: mitos, oraciones, cantos y cuentos de los Nawas actuales de los estados de Veracruz y Puebla . Mexico: CIESAS - Fondo de Cultura Economica. 133 p., ill. 2nd ed. en espanol. (with Luis Reyes Garcia.)

1991a [Review of] Hassan Habib Touma, Die Musik der Araber. 1989. Ethnomusicology 35: 148-50.

1991b Erich M. von Hornbostel, Carl Stumpf, and the institutionalization of Comparative Musicology. In B. Nettl and Ph. Bohlman, eds., Comparative Musicology. Chicago: U. of Chicago Press. Pp. 201-09.

1991c Traditional music, Nationalism, and musicological research. In: M.P.Baumann, ed., Music in the Dialogue of Cultures. Wilmhelmshaven: Noetzel. Pp. 215-23. (=Intercultural Music Studies 2)

1992a Willard Rhodes 1901-1992. Yearbook for Traditional Music 24: xii-xiii.

1992b Worlds of Music, Music of the World. The case of Oman. In: M.P. Baumann, ed., World Music - Musics of the World. Wilhelmshaven: Noetzel. Pp. 107-122. (=Intercultural Music Studies 3)

1992c Preface. In: Alice M. Moyle, ed., Music and Dance of Aboriginal Australia and the South Pacific. Sydney: U. of Sydney Press. (=Oceania Monograph 41.)

1993 Traditional Arts of Oman . Compact disc with booklet.
Paris: UNESCO Collection of Traditional Music.

1994a Oman, ethnomusicology, and the history of music. In: Publications of the Oman Centre for Traditional Music. Vol.1. Pp. 55-59. Wilhelmshaven: Noetzel.

1994b On ethnomusicology, multimedia, and epistemology. ERD 186: 49-123.

1994 Dictionary of Omani Traditional Arts, being a revised translation of Youssef Shawqi's Mu'ajam musiqa 'Uman al-taqlidiyah. Wilhelmshaven: Noetzel. (=Intercultural Music Studies 5.) 224 pp., 27 color plates.

1995 Music making in Sohar: Arts and society in al-Batinah of Oman. Publications of the Oman Centre for Traditional Music, vol. 2, pp.67- 80.

1996a [Review of] Collection Simon Jargy, A Musical Anthology of the Arabian Peninsula. Archives Internationales de la Musique Populaire AIMP 30-33. Ethnomusicology 40: 356-58.

1996b Ethnomusicologists' Innocence Lost. Yearbook for Traditional Music 28: iv-vi.

1996c Hakkari kürtlerinin dans şarkıiları. DANS MÜZIK KÜLTÜR ( Istanbul) 62: 245-280.

1996d Hakkari kürtlerinin dans şarkıiları. In: NEYAN, IYADI, TATSUMURA, MUTLU, POCHE, CHRISTENSEN, MOMITAS: KÜRT MÜZIGI ( Istanbul: Avesta Yayinlari) pp. 71-108.

1997a On the post-Venitian music history of a village in the Hercegovina. Anthropological-ethnomusicological perspectives. Musica e Storia 5: 263-72.

1997b Hugo Riemann and the shaping of musicology: an ethnomusicological perspective, in Ch-H.Mahling and R.Seiberts, eds., Festschrift Walter Wiora, pp.34-43. Tutzing: Hans Schneider. (=Mainzer Studien zur Musikwissenschaft 35)

1997c Kurden. In: Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart. 2nd Edition. Bd. 5, 626-35.
Kassel: Bärenreiter

1997d On object and methodology in music research: Concepts of music and paths of inquiry in 'historical' and 'comparative' musicology, in Ch-H. Mahling and S. Münch, eds., Ethnomusicology and Historical Musicology. Tutzing: Hans Schneider.(=Mainzer Studien zur Musikwissenschaft 36)

1997e Musikethnologie. In: Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart. 2nd Edition. Bd. 6, 1259-62, 1265-67, 1270-72, 1277-78. 1280. Kassel: Bärenreiter

1997f Cross-cultural processes in music: Directions of research. In S. E. Castelo-Branco, ed., Portugal and the World: The Encounter of Cultures in Music. Lisbon: Publicações Dom Quixote. Pp. 45-59.

1997g Omanische Musik.In: Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart. 2nd Edition. Bd. 7, 626-35.

1998a Tuvalu. Garland Encyclopaedia vol. 9 pp. 828-31.

1998b Tempo. Garland Encyclopaedia vol. 9 pp. 290-91.

1998c [Review of] Solomon Islands: 'Are'are Panpipe Ensembles. Le Chant du Monde LDX-961.62. Yearbook for Traditional Music 30: 214.

1998d [Review of] Solomon Islands: The Sounds of Bamboo. Multicultural Media MCM-3007. Yearbook for Traditional Music 30: 215.

1999a Editor's Preface. Yearbook for Traditional Music 31.


1999b [Review of] Solomon Islands: 'Are'are Intimate and Ritual Music. Le Chant du Monde CNR-274963
 YTM 31: 184-5.
1999c [Review of] Sebastian Klotz, "Vom tönenden Wirbel menschlichen Tuns. Erich M. von Hornbostel als 
 Gestaltpsychologe, Archivar und Musikwissenschaftler. YTM 31: 127-28.
 
2000a Erich M. von Hornbostel, Carl Stumpf und die Institutionalisierung der Vergleichenden Musikwissenschaft. In 
 Artur Simon, ed., The Berlin Phonogramm-Archiv 1900-2000. Berlin: Verlag f. Wissenaft und Bildung. Pp. 141-50.
 
2000b Song by a singer from Timbunke/Interlocking flutes. In Artur Simon and Ulrich Wegner, Music! The Berlin 
 Phonogramm-Archiv 1900-2000.
 Berlin: Museum Collection Berlin. CD and Booklet. SM1701. Pp. 48-50
 
2000c Qaside, in Artur Simon and Ulrich Wegner, Music! The Berlin Phonogramm-Archiv 1900-2000.
 Berlin: Museum Collection Berlin. SM1701 2. Pp. 130-31.
 
2000d Qurbah. In Artur Simon and Ulrich Wegner, Music! The Berlin Phonogramm-Archiv 1900-2000.
 Berlin: Museum Collection Berlin. SM 1701 2. Pp. 203-05.
 

2000e [Review of] Music of Islâm.Celestial Harmonies 13140-2 to 13156-2. 17-CD set. 1997-1998.

Yearbook for Traditional Music32: 214-19,

2000f Editor’s Preface. Yearbook for Traditional Music32: xi-xii.

2001a  International Council for Traditional Music. New Grove 2nd ed. vol. 12, p. 493

2001b Oman. New Grove 2nd ed., vol 18, pp. 403-407.

2001c  Kurdish Music New Grove 2nd ed., vol. 14, pp. 36-41.

2001d  Maqbali, Yusif (bin Khamis) al- . New Grove 2nd ed.

2001e  Talib bin Gharib (bin Mustehil)  New Grove 2nd ed.

2002a  Musical life in Sohar, Oman. Garland Encyclopaedia of World Music, vol. 6, pp. 670-83.

2002b Kurdistan. Garland Encyclopaedia of World Music, vol. 6, pp. 739-52.

2002c Berlin Phonogramm-Archiv: The First 100 Years. In: Gabriele Berlin & Artur Simon, eds,
            Music Archiving in the World. Papers Presented at the Conference on the Occasion of the
            100th Anniversary of the Berlin Phonogramm-Archive. Pp. 19-31, 491.
.           Berlin: VWB Verlag für Wissenschaft und Bildung.

2002d Batı Iranda Kürt Halk müziği. In: Mehmet Bayrak, Kürt Muziği, Dansları ve Şarkıları.
Ankara: Özge. Vol. 1, pp. 101-107.

2002e Kürtlerin Müziğinde Folklor ve Yüksek Medeniyet. In Mehmet Bayrak, Kürt Muziği, Dansları ve Şarkıları.
Ankara: Özge. Vol. 1, pp. 127-130.

2002f Güneydoğu Türkiyedeki Hakkari Vilayetinden Düğün Şarkıları.
In Mehmet Bayrak, Kürt Muziği, Dansları ve Şarkıları. Ankara: Özge. Vol. 1, pp. 333-358.

2002g Obituary: Linda Kiyo Fujie, 1953-2002. World of Music 44 (2): 7-8.

2002h Musik und Gesellschaft in Zentralkurdistan um 1960. Kurdische Studien 2,2: 57-74.

2003a [Review of} Anna Czekanowska, Pathways of Ethnomusicology. World of Music 45: 173-4.

2003b Vocal Polyphony and Multisonance in Southeast Arabia . In: Proceedings, The First International Symposium on Traditional Polyphony. Tbilisi: State Conservatory. Pp. 223-242.

2005   Vocal Polyphony in Bosnia-Hercegovina in the Georgian and Mediterranean Context. In: Proceedings, The Second International Symposium on Traditional Polyphony. Tbilisi: State Conservatory. Pp. 81-101..

2006   Folk Music Research in Turkey: Comparative musicology, folklorism, and the State. In: Materials of the international and practical conference "Traditional Music of Turkic People: present and future." Kyzylorda: State University. Pp. 238-245

2007a Music in Kurdish Identity Formations. In: Congres des Musiques dans la monde d'Islam. Assilah, 8-13 Aout 2007.http://www.mcm.asso.fr/site02/music-w-islam/articles/ChristensenKurds-2007.pdf

2007b Public Performance, Professionalism and Patronage: Politics of cultural heritage in Southern Arabia. In: Congres des Musiques dans la monde d'Islam. Assilah, 8-13 Aout 2007. http://www.mcm.asso.fr/site02/music-w-islam/articles/ChristensenOman-2007.pdf

2008a Klepa!  Reflections on the field experiences and directions of music research. In: The Balkan Peninsula as a Musical Crossroads. Skopje: SOKOM. Pp. 7-14.

2008b   Sound Archives, Technology, Research, State. In: Proceedings, The Third International Symposium on Traditional Polyphony. Tbilisi: State Conservatory. Pp. 533-546.

2009a   (with Salwa El-Shawan Castelo-Branco and Khalfan bin Ahmed al-Barwani) 
Traditional Arts in Southern Arabia. Music and Society in Sohar, Sultanate of Oman.
             Berlin: Verlag Wissen und Bildung (= Intercultural Music Studies 14). 248 pp., 2 CDs and 1 DVD http://www2.fcsh.unl.pt/inet/publications/pagetasm/pagetas.html

2009b What is kurdish about makam kurdi? In: Proceedings of International Musicological Symposium "Space of Mugham".Baku: Şarq-Qarb. Pp. 107-111.

2009c Review of Vienna and the Balkans. Papers from the 39th World Conference of the ICTM, Vienna 2007. Edited by Lozanka Peycheva & Angela Rodel. Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2008. In: Musicology vol. 9, Belgrade 2009, pp. 174-177.

2009d Preface. In: Proceedings, First Symposium of the ICTM Study Group for Music and Dance in Southeastern Europe. Skopje: COKOM. Pp 5-8.

2009e Agents of change. Musical practices in a village of the Hercegovina, 1957-1974. In: Proceedings, First Symposium of the ICTM Study Group for Music and Dance in Southeastern Europe. Skopje: COKOM. Pp. 89-101.

2010 Music and migration: Kurds in Berlin. In: MIGRAÇÕES JOURNAL. Special Issue: Music and Migration. Edited by Maria de São José Côrte-Real. Observatorio da Migracao, Lisbon, pp. 187-201. http://www.oi.acidi.gov.pt/docs/Revista_7EN/Migracoes7_EN.pdf