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

Other author Nettl, Bruno, 1930-2020, editor.
Other author Bohlman, Philip V., 1952- editor.
Format Book
Publication InfoChicago : University of Chicago Press, ©1991.
Descriptionxvii, 378 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subjects
Ethnomusicology.
Music and anthropology.

SeriesChicago studies in ethnomusicology
Chicago studies in ethnomusicology. ^A261178
Contents I. Informed by the world's culture diversity. European musical terminology and the music of Africa / Stephen Blum -- From reaction to synthesis : Chinese musicology in the twentieth century / Isabel K.F. Wong -- Reflections on the ideological history of Latin American ethnomusicology / Gerard Béhague -- Tribal music in the study of great and little traditions of Indian music / Carol M. Babiracki -- Ideas, principles, motivations, and results in eastern European folk-music research / Oskár 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 / James Porter -- Representation and cultural critique in the history of ethnomusicology / Philip V. Bohlman -- Whose music? : sources and contexts in Indic musicology / Regula Burckhardt Qureshi -- The uneven development of Africanist ethnomusicology : three issues and a critique / Christopher A. Waterman -- One world or none? : untimely reflections on a timely musicological question / Alexander L. Ringer -- III. Inspired by great leaders. Erich M. von Hornbostel, Carl Stumpf, and the institutionalization of comparative musicology / Dieter Christensen -- The first restudy of Arnold Bake's fieldwork in India / Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy -- Marginality and musicology in nineteenth-century Calcutta : the case of Sourindro Mohun Tagore / Charles Capwell -- Women and the Society for Ethnomusicology : roles and contributions from formation through incorporation (1952/53-1961) / Charlotte J. Frisbie -- The dual nature of ethnomusicology in North America : the contributions of Charles Seeger and George Herzog / Bruno Nettl -- IV. Nourished by a variety of disciplines. Recording technology, the record industry, and ethnomusicological scholarship / Kay Kaufman Shelemay -- Psychological theory and comparative musicology / Albrecht Schneider -- Interdisciplinary approaches to the study of musical communication structures / Doris Stockmann -- Styles of musical ethnography / Anthony Seeger.
Abstract Nineteen scholars from five countries explore significant issues in the history of ethnomusicology and its methodological and theoretical foundations, while providing a critique of the discipline.
General noteThe 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 90038366
ISBN0226574083 (alk. paper)
ISBN0226574091 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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