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Nettl's elephant : on the history of ethnomusicology / Bruno Nettl ; foreword by Anthony Seeger.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, (c)2010.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
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  • computer
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  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780252090233
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • ML3799 .N488 2010
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Contents:
Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword: ANTHONY SEEGER -- Introduction: Histories, Narratives, Sources -- I: Central Issues in a Grand History -- 1. The Seminal Eighties: Historical Musicology and Ethnomusicology -- 2. Look at It Another Way: Alternative Views of the History -- 3. Speaking of World Music: Then and Now -- 4. A Tradition of Self-Critique: For Beverly Diamond -- 5. Revisiting Comparison, Comparative Study, and Comparative Musicology -- II: In the Academy -- 6. Ethno among the Ologies
III. Celebrating Our Principal Organizations -- 9. The IFMC/ICTM and the Development of Ethnomusicology in the United States -- 10. Arrows and Circles: Fifty Years of the ICTM and the Study of Traditional Music -- 11. We're on teh Map: Reflections on the Society for Ethnomusicology in 1955 and 2005 -- IV: A Collage of Commentary -- 12. Recalling Some Neglected Classics in Musical Geography; For Tullia Magrini
15. A Stranger Here?: Free Associations around Kurt Weil -- 16. Music�What's That? Commenting on a Book by Carl Dahlhaus and Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht -- References -- Index
Subject: Surveying the field he helped establish, Bruno Nettl investigates how concepts such as evolution, geography, and history serve as catalysts for advancing ethnomusicological methods and perspectives. Nettl moves from reflections on the history of ethnomusicology to evaluations of the principal organizations in the field, interspersing those broader discussions with shorter essays focusing on neglected literature and personal experiences. --from publisher description.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword: ANTHONY SEEGER -- Introduction: Histories, Narratives, Sources -- I: Central Issues in a Grand History -- 1. The Seminal Eighties: Historical Musicology and Ethnomusicology -- 2. Look at It Another Way: Alternative Views of the History -- 3. Speaking of World Music: Then and Now -- 4. A Tradition of Self-Critique: For Beverly Diamond -- 5. Revisiting Comparison, Comparative Study, and Comparative Musicology -- II: In the Academy -- 6. Ethno among the Ologies

7. On the Concept of Evolution in teh History of Ethnomusicology8. The Music of Anthropology -- III. Celebrating Our Principal Organizations -- 9. The IFMC/ICTM and the Development of Ethnomusicology in the United States -- 10. Arrows and Circles: Fifty Years of the ICTM and the Study of Traditional Music -- 11. We're on teh Map: Reflections on the Society for Ethnomusicology in 1955 and 2005 -- IV: A Collage of Commentary -- 12. Recalling Some Neglected Classics in Musical Geography; For Tullia Magrini

13. Minorities in Ethnomusicology: A Meditation on Experience in Three Cultures14. Riding the Warhorses: On the Ethnomusicology of Canons -- 15. A Stranger Here?: Free Associations around Kurt Weil -- 16. Music�What's That? Commenting on a Book by Carl Dahlhaus and Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht -- References -- Index

Surveying the field he helped establish, Bruno Nettl investigates how concepts such as evolution, geography, and history serve as catalysts for advancing ethnomusicological methods and perspectives. Nettl moves from reflections on the history of ethnomusicology to evaluations of the principal organizations in the field, interspersing those broader discussions with shorter essays focusing on neglected literature and personal experiences. --from publisher description.

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