The study of ethnomusicology : thirty-one issues and concepts
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The study of ethnomusicology : thirty-one issues and concepts
University of Illinois Press, 2005
New ed
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [455]-494) and index
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Description
The first edition of this book, The Study of Ethnomusicology: Twenty-Nine Issues and Concepts, has become a classic in the field. This revised edition, written twenty-two years after the original, continues the tradition of providing engagingly written analysis that offers the most comprehensive discussion of the field available anywhere. This book looks at the field of ethnomusicology--defined as the study of the world's musics from a comparative perspective, and the study of all music from an anthropological perspective--as a field of research. Nettl selects thirty-one concepts and issues that have been the subjects of continuing debate by ethnomusicologists, and he adds four entirely new chapters and thoroughly updates the text to reflect new developments and concerns in the field. Each chapter looks at its subject historically and goes on to make its points with case studies, many taken from Nettl's own field experience. Drawing extensively on his field research in the Middle East, Western urban settings, and North American Indian societies, as well as on a critical survey of the available literature, Nettl advances our understanding of both the diversity and universality of the world's music. This revised edition's four new chapters deal with the doing and writing of musical ethnography, the scholarly study of instruments, aspects of women's music and women in music, and the ethnomusicologist's study of his or her own culture.
Table of Contents
- The Musics of the World The Harmless Drudge: Defining Ethnomusicology
- The Art of Combining Tones: The Music Concept
- Inspiration and Perspiration: The Creative Process
- The Universal Language: Universals of Music
- The non-universal Language: Varieties of Music
- Apples and Oranges: Comparative Study
- I Can't Say a Thing until I've Seen the Score: Transcription and Notation
- In the Speech Mode: Contemplating Repertories
- The Most Indefatigable Tourists of the World: Tunes and Their Relationships In the Field Come Back and See Me next Tuesday: essentials of Fieldwork
- You Will Never Understand this Music: Insiders and Outsiders
- Hanging on for Dear Life: Preservation and Archives
- I Am the Greatest: Ordinary and Exceptional Musicians
- You Call That Fieldwork? Redefining the 'Field'
- What Do You Think You're Doing? The Host's Perspective In Culture Music and
- That Complex Whole': Music in Culture
- The Meat-and-Potatoes Book: Musical Ethnography
- Music Hath Charms: Uses and Functions of Music
- In the Beginning: Origins of Music
- The Continuity of Change: On People Changing Their Music
- Recorded, Printed, Written, Oral: Traditions
- The Basic Unit of All Human Behavior and Civilization: Signs and Symbols
- Location, Location, Location! Interpreting Geographic Distribution
- The Whys of Musical Style: Determinants In All Its Varieties I've never heard a Horse Sing: Musical Stratification
- The Creatures of Jubal: Organology
- How Do You Get to Carnegie Hall? Teaching and Learning
- I'm a Stranger here Myself: Women's Music, Women in Music
- Diversity and Difference: Some Minorities
- A New Era: The 1990s and Beyond
- The Shape of the Story: Remarks On History
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