Shadows in the Field New Perspectives for Fieldwork in Ethnomusicology

by Barz, Gregory F.; Cooley, Timothy J.

• ISBN13: 9780195324969
• ISBN10: 019532496X
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-09-09
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

The focus in ethnomusicological writing and teaching has traditionally centered around analyses and ethnographic representations of musical cultures, rather than on the personal world of understanding, experiencing, and doing fieldwork. Shadows in the Field shifts the focus of ethnography from representation (text) to experience (fieldwork) and proposes a "new fieldwork" that moves beyond data collection to engage scholars in more meaningful human contexts.

Author Biography

Timothy J. Cooley is Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and is the author of Making Music in the Polish Tatras: Tourists, Ethnographers, and Mountain Musicians. He serves as the editor of Ethnomusicology, the journal of the Society for Ethnomusicology, and is the president of the Society for Ethnomusicology, Southern California Chapter.
Gregory Barz is Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology and Anthropology at the Blair School of Music at Vanderbuilt University, and the general editor of the African Soundscapes book series. He serves as African Music editor for the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians and is the author of Singing for Life: HIV/AIDS and Music in Uganda, which has been nominated for a Grammy Award and Music in East Africa: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. v
Contributors	p. xiii
Casting Shadows: Fieldwork Is Dead! Long Live Fieldwork! Introduction	p. 3
Knowing Fieldwork	p. 25
Toward a Mediation of Field Methods and Field Experience in Ethnomusicology	p. 42
Phenomenology and the Ethnography of Popular Music: Ethnomusicology at the Juncture of Cultural Studies and Folklore	p. 62
Moving: From Performance to Performative Ethnography and Back Again	p. 76
Virtual Fieldwork: Three Case Studies	p. 90
Fieldwork at Home: European and Asian Perspectives	p. 108
Working with the Masters	p. 125
The Ethnomusicologist, Ethnographic Method, and the Transmission of Tradition	p. 141
Shadows in the Classroom: Encountering the Syrian Jewish Research Project Twenty Years Later	p. 157
What's the Difference? Reflections on Gender and Research in Village India	p. 167
(Un)doing Fieldwork: Sharing Songs, Sharing Lives	p. 183
Confronting the Field(note) In and Out of the Field: Music, Voices, Texts, and Experiences in Dialogue	p. 206
The Challenges of Human Relations in Ethnographic Inquiry: Examples from Arctic and Subarctic Fieldwork	p. 224
Returning to the Ethnomusicological Past	p. 246
Theories Forged in the Crucible of Action: The Joys, Dangers, and Potentials of Advocacy and Fieldwork	p. 271
References	p. 289
Index	p. 313
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