Comparative Musicology and Anthropology of Music: Essays on the History of Ethnomusicology

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Bruno Nettl, Philip V. Bohlman
University of Chicago Press, Mar 26, 1991 - Music - 378 pages
Acknowledgments Introduction by Bruno Nettl I. Informed by the World's Cultural Diversity European Musical Terminology and the Music of Africa by Stephen Blum From Reaction to Synthesis: Chinese Musicology in the Twentieth Century by Isabel K.F. Wong Reflections on the Ideological History of Latin American Ethnomusicology by Gerard Behague Tribal Music in the Study of Great and Little Traditions of Indian Music by Carol M. Babiracki Ideas, Principles, Motivations, and Results in Eastern European Folk-Music Research by Oskar Elschek II. Dominated by a Group of Abiding Issues Muddying the Crystal Spring: From Idealism and Realism to Marxism in the Study of English and American Folk Song by James Porter Representation and Cultural Critique in the History of Ethnomusicology by Philip V. Bohlman Whose Music? Sources and Contexts in Indic Musicology by Regula Burckhardt Qureshi The Uneven Development of Africanist Ethnomusicology: Three Issues and a Critique by Christopher A. Waterman One World Or None? Untimely Reflections on a Timely Musicological Question By Alexander L. Ringer III. Inspired by Great Leaders Erich M. von Hornsbostel, Carl Stumpf, and the Institutionalization of Comparative Musicology by Dieter Christensen The First Restudy of Arnold Bake's Fieldwork in India by Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy Marginality and Musicology in Nineteenth-Century Calcutta: The Case of Sourindro Mohun Tagore by Charles Capwell Women and the Society for Ethnomusicology: Roles and Contributions from Formation through Incorporation (1952/53-1961) by Charlotte J. Frisbie The Dual Nature of Ethnomusicology in North America: The Contributions of Charles Seeger and George Herzog by Bruno Nettl IV. Nourished by a Variety of Disciplines Recording Technology, the Record Industry, and Ethnomusicological Scholarship by Kay Kaufman Shelemay Psychological Theory and Comparative Musicology by Albrecht Schneider Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Musical Communication Structures by Doris Stockmann Styles of Musical Ethnography by Anthony Seeger Epilogue by Philip V. Bohlman Contributors Index.
 

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II DOMINATED BY A GROUP OF ABIDING ISSUES
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III INSPIRED BY GREAT LEADERS
199
IV NOURISHED BY A VARIETY OF DISCIPLINES
275
Epilogue
356
Contributors
361
Index
365
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Bruno Nettl is professor of music and anthropology at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. He is the author or editor of nineteen books, including "Folk and Traditional Music of the Western Continents" and "The Study of Ethnomusicology". In 2012 he was awarded the CharlesHomerHaskinsPrize, which is presented annually to a distinguished humanist by the American Council of Learned Societies Philip V. Bohlman is the Mary Werkman Distinguished Service Professor of the Humanities and of Music at the University of Chicago and coeditor of the Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology series published by the University of Chicago Press.

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