The Study of Ethnomusicology

by Nettl, Bruno

• ISBN13: 9780252072789
• ISBN10: 0252072782
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-12-02
• Publisher: Univ of Illinois Pr

Summary

The first edition of this book, The Study of Ethnomusicology: Twenty-Nine Issues and Concepts, has become a classic in the field. This revised edition, written twenty-two years after the original, continues the tradition of providing engagingly written analysis that offers the most comprehensive discussion of the field available anywhere.This book looks at the field of ethnomusicology--defined as the study of the world's musics from a comparative perspective, and the study of all music from an anthropological perspective--as a field of research. Nettl selects thirty-one concepts and issues that have been the subjects of continuing debate by ethnomusicologists, and he adds four entirely new chapters and thoroughly updates the text to reflect new developments and concerns in the field.Each chapter looks at its subject historically and goes on to make its points with case studies, many taken from Nettl's own field experience. Drawing extensively on his field research in the Middle East, Western urban settings, and North American Indian societies, as well as on a critical survey of the available literature, Nettl advances our understanding of both the diversity and universality of the world's music. This revised edition's four new chapters deal with the doing and writing of musical ethnography, the scholarly study of instruments, aspects of women's music and women in music, and the ethnomusicologist's study of his or her own culture.

Author Biography

Bruno Nettl is professor emeritus of music and anthropology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. An internationally renowned musicologist, he is both a founder and past president of the Society for Ethnomusicology and the author of many books.  

Table of Contents

The Musics of the World

The Harmless Drudge: Defining Ethnomusicology

The Art of Combining Tones: The Music Concept

Inspiration and Perspiration: The Creative Process

The Universal Language: Universals of Music

The non-universal Language: Varieties of Music

Apples and Oranges: Comparative Study

I Can't Say a Thing until I've Seen the Score: Transcription and Notation

In the Speech Mode: Contemplating Repertories

The Most Indefatigable Tourists of the World: Tunes and Their RelationshipsIn the FieldCome Back and See Me next Tuesday: essentials of Fieldwork

You Will Never Understand this Music: Insiders and Outsiders

Hanging on for Dear Life: Preservation and Archives

I Am the Greatest: Ordinary and Exceptional Musicians

You Call That Fieldwork? Redefining the 'Field'

What Do You Think You're Doing? The Host's PerspectiveIn CultureMusic and ;That Complex Whole': Music in Culture

The Meat-and-Potatoes Book: Musical Ethnography

Music Hath Charms: Uses and Functions of Music

In the Beginning: Origins of Music

The Continuity of Change: On People Changing Their Music

Recorded, Printed, Written, Oral: Traditions

The Basic Unit of All Human Behavior and Civilization: Signs and Symbols

Location, Location, Location! Interpreting Geographic Distribution

The Whys of Musical Style: DeterminantsIn All Its VarietiesI've never heard a Horse Sing: Musical Stratification

The Creatures of Jubal: Organology

How Do You Get to Carnegie Hall? Teaching and Learning

I'm a Stranger here Myself: Women's Music, Women in Music

Diversity and Difference: Some Minorities

A New Era: The 1990s and Beyond

The Shape of the Story: Remarks On History

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