Encounters in Ethnomusicology : A Memoir

by Nettl, Bruno

• ISBN13: 9780899901114
• ISBN10: 0899901115
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-08-01
• Publisher: Harmonie Park Pr

Table of Contents

Illustrations	xi
Preface	xiii
Acknowledgments	xvii
Getting Introduced	3	(16)
A Question of Dating	3	(3)
Introduced by Walter	6	(2)
And by Erich M	8	(3)
Schwammerl	11	(1)
Amadeus	12	(3)
Family Business	15	(4)
The Seminal Eighties	19	(14)
Adler's Paradigm	19	(2)
1885 and All That	21	(1)
Thinking Big	22	(4)
Celebrating the Nation	26	(3)
Comprehending the ``Other''	29	(1)
Heroic Age: Stumpf, Ellis, and the Cylinder	30	(3)
Equinox	33	(22)
Living Multiculturally	33	(2)
Packing Up on the Equinox	35	(1)
A Profession of Exiles	36	(2)
Ethnomusicologists' Diaspora	38	(1)
Music Country	39	(2)
Legacy of the Defenestration	41	(2)
Dumplings and Kraut	43	(2)
``We Who Are Warriors of God''	45	(3)
A Special Cultural Configuration	48	(1)
The Mountaineers of Rubezahl's Realm and the Urbanites of the Prague Casino	49	(2)
The Heroes of Terezin	51	(1)
Hans Sach's Prediction	52	(3)
Who's Looking Over My Shoulder?	55	(20)
Seeking the Greatest	55	(2)
Coming from the Land of WEAM	57	(3)
Second Fiddle	60	(2)
The Music of Anthropology	62	(2)
Three Special Music Lovers	64	(2)
Digression to the World of Texts and Introductions	66	(3)
One of the Most Diagnostic Traits of Any Culture	69	(1)
Representing the Oppressed	70	(5)
In the Workshop of Duke S. Farmer	75	(18)
A Surge of Energy	75	(2)
Networker	77	(2)
Synthesizer	79	(2)
The Impact of Folklore	81	(2)
Ks	83	(3)
Linguistics and Grand Gestures	86	(2)
Bill Shakespear's Summer	88	(2)
A Brilliant Career, Too Short	90	(3)
New Year's Eve	93	(16)
Adler's Successors	93	(3)
In Kroeber's Footsteps	96	(2)
``I'm an Ethnomusicologist''	98	(1)
The Origin Myth	99	(3)
Scherzo I: Imagined Conversations	102	(4)
Marzipan on Times Square	106	(3)
Manodharma and Kalpita	109	(22)
Tyagaraja's Kriti	109	(2)
Orality and Aurality, and ``the Piece''	111	(2)
Perspectives on Oral Transmission	113	(3)
Action in the Midwest	116	(3)
In the Course of Performance	119	(2)
Lessons from Native Americans, Schubert, and Beethoven	121	(3)
The World Turned Upside Down	124	(1)
The Avatar	125	(1)
Revising Some Attitudes	126	(3)
New Standards	129	(2)
The Collector of Chahargah	131	(18)
Land of the Achimenaeans and the Pahlavis	131	(2)
The Ostad	133	(2)
Surveying Fieldwork Once Over Lightly	135	(3)
Studying Boroumand's Radif	138	(2)
The Dastgah of Illinois	140	(3)
Not Just Plain Bill	143	(1)
What Did They Think I Was Doing?	144	(2)
A Community of Researchers	146	(3)
In the Heartlands	149	(28)
``The Flattest Part of the World''	149	(2)
What a Year! What a Decade!	151	(2)
Anchoring Ethnomusicology	153	(2)
Wars on Nevada Street	155	(2)
Poker Games, Liberation Classes, and the End of Camelot	157	(3)
Program Building	160	(2)
What Makes an Ethnomusicologist?	162	(1)
Getting (Them) Through Prelims	163	(4)
Faculty, Students, Ensembles after 1975	167	(2)
Once More, the Central Question?	169	(2)
Scherzo II: Chacun a son gout	171	(2)
And Trio: The Era of Elephant & Cat, Mozart Balls, and Y2K	173	(4)
On ``Change'' and the ``Other'': Second Thoughts	177	(28)
The Wisdom of Pogo	177	(1)
Seeking the Exotic in the Motor City	177	(4)
La dolce vita	181	(2)
Meeting the Europeans	183	(4)
Second Thoughts in Browning	187	(3)
Continuity and Change in Tehran	190	(4)
And in Madras (Chennai)	194	(4)
A Leader in the Eighties	198	(3)
Best of Times, Worst of Times	201	(4)
Realm of the ``Little Man''	205	(20)
Expanding the Origin Myth, and Scherzo III	205	(4)
March 1980	209	(3)
Editing in the Mom-and-Pop Days	212	(4)
Couldn't You Publish Somewhere Else?	216	(2)
Some of My Favorite Things	218	(4)
Calmly Postmodern	222	(3)
Summer Solstice	225	(16)
Themes at the Millennium	225	(1)
Writing ``The Ethnomusicology of...''	226	(1)
It Began with Tylor	227	(3)
Organizing the ``Complex Whole''	230	(1)
Stick Around, Mr. Chips	231	(3)
Ethnomusicology at Home	234	(3)
Look Back in Admiration	237	(2)
Miles to Go	239	(2)
Bibliography	241	(24)
Index	265