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Shadows in the Field New Perspectives for Fieldwork in Ethnomusicology

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ISBN-10: 019532496X

ISBN-13: 9780195324969

Edition: 2nd 2008

Authors: Gregory F. Barz, Timothy J. Cooley, Timothy J. Cooley

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Ethnomusicological fieldwork has significantly changed since the end of the the 20th century. Ethnomusicology is in a critical moment that requires new perspecitves on fieldwork - perspectives that are not addressed in the standard guides to ethnomusicological or anthropological method. 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, experience, knowing, and doing fieldwork. Shadows in the Field deliberately shift the focus of ethnomusicology and of ethnography in general from representation (text) to experience (fieldwork). The "new…    
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List price: $39.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/9/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.21" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

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…    

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