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Comparative musicology and anthropology of music: essays on the history of ethnomusicology/ edited by Bruno Nettl and Philip V. Bohlman.

Contributor(s): Nettl, Bruno | Bohlman, Philip Vilas Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Chicago: University of Chicago Press, c1991Description: xvii, 378 p.; ill. ; 24 cmISBN: 0226574083 (alk. paper)Subject(s): Ethnomusicology | Music and anthropologyDDC classification: 780.89

Contents:

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

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General Books	Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section	780.89 NET/C (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		P19438

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"The essays, or chapters of this volume, developed from papers presented at a conference, 'Ideas, concepts, and personalities in the history of ethnomusicology,' held in Urbana, Illinois, on April 14-17, 1988"--P. ix.

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

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