Study of Ethnomusicology Twenty-Nine Issues and Concepts

Name: Study of Ethnomusicology Twenty-Nine Issues and Concepts
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ISBN: 9780252010392

ISBN-10: 0252010396

ISBN-13: 9780252010392

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Authors: Bruno Nettl

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The Study of Ethnomusicology focuses on the central issues confronted and major concepts developed by ethnomusicologists during the past three decades. The book's twenty-nine chapters deal with such specific issues as the nature of musical creation; the definition and conceptualization of music; the geographic distribution of musical phenomena; the stratification of music in society; and the intellectual, personal, emotional, and political problems occasioned by dealing with musicians in an intercultural context. Drawing extensively upon his own field research in the Middle East, Western urban settings, and North American Indian societies, as well as upon a critical survey of the available…

Book details

List price: $22.00
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Publication date: 3/1/1983
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 424
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



Preface


Prelude: The Harmless Drudge


The Comparative Study of Musics



The Art of Combining Tones



Divine Inspiration and Tonal Gymnastics



The Universal Language



The Non-Universal Language



Apples and Oranges



I Can't Say a Thing Until I've Seen the Score



In the Speech Mode



The Most Indefatigable Tourists of the World



A Note-for-Note Steal


The Study of Music in Culture



Music and "That Complex Whole"



Music Hath Charms



In the Beginning



The Continuity of Change



Das Volk dichtet



The Basic Unit of All Human Behavior and Civilization



The Singing Map



It Was Bound to Happen


The Study of Music in the Field



Come Back and See Me Next Tuesday



You Will Never Understand This Music



Hanging on for Dear Life



I Am the Greatest



What Do You Think You're Doing?


The Study of All of the World's Music



I've Never Heard a Horse Sing



We Never Heard a Bad Tune



How Do You Get to Carnegie Hall?



Vive la Difference



Cultural Grey-Out


Postlude: The Grand March


Publications Cited


Index