Comparative Musicology and Anthropology of Music: Essays on the History of Ethnomusicology

by Bruno Nettl (Editor), Philip V. Bohlman (Editor)

Overview

Nineteen scholars from five countries explore significant issues in the history of ethnomusicology and its methodological and theoretical foundations, while providing a critique of the discipline.

"This is a useful and enriching collection of articles of interest to musicologists and ethnomusicologists. . . . The authors manage to cover much ground, presenting fascinating insights into the history of the discipline while also exploring new directions in both theory and analysis. . . . the most sweeping work of this kind to be published since the 1960s."—L. D. Loeb, University of Utah, for Choice

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780226574097
Publisher:	University of Chicago Press
Publication date:	03/26/1991
Series:	Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology
Edition description:	1
Pages:	396
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Philip V. Bohlman is the Mary Werkman Distinguished Service Professor of the Humanities and of Music at the University of Chicago and coeditor of the Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology series published by the University of Chicago Press.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction by Bruno Nettl
I. Informed by the World's Cultural Diversity
European Musical Terminology and the Music of Africa by Stephen Blum
From Reaction to Synthesis: Chinese Musicology in the Twentieth Century by Isabel K. F. Wong
Reflections on the Ideological History of Latin American Ethnomusicology by Gerard Béhague
Tribal Music in the Study of Great and Little Traditions of Indian Music by Carol M. Babiracki
Ideas, Principles, Motivations, and Results in Eastern European Folk-Music Research by Oskár Elschek
II. Dominated by a Group of Abiding Issues
Muddying the Crystal Spring: From Idealism and Realism to Marxism in the Study of English and American Folk Song by James Porter
Representation and Cultural Critique in the History of Ethnomusicology by Philip V. Bohlman
Whose Music? Sources and Contexts in Indic Musicology by Regula Burckhardt Qureshi
The Uneven Development of Africanist Ethnomusicology: Three Issues and a Critique by Christopher A. Waterman
One World Or None? Untimely Reflections on a Timely Musicological Question By Alexander L. Ringer
III. Inspired by Great Leaders
Erich M. von Hornsbostel, Carl Stumpf, and the Institutionalization of Comparative Musicology by Dieter Christensen
The First Restudy of Arnold Bake's Fieldwork in India by Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy
Marginality and Musicology in Nineteenth-Century Calcutta: The Case of Sourindro Mohun Tagore by Charles Capwell
Women and the Society for Ethnomusicology: Roles and Contributions from Formation through Incorporation (1952/53-1961) by Charlotte J. Frisbie
The Dual Nature of Ethnomusicology in North America: The Contributions of Charles Seeger and George Herzog by Bruno Nettl
IV. Nourished by a Variety of Disciplines
Recording Technology, the Record Industry, and Ethnomusicological Scholarship by Kay Kaufman Shelemay
Psychological Theory and Comparative Musicology by Albrecht Schneider
Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Musical Communication Structures by Doris Stockmann
Styles of Musical Ethnography by Anthony Seeger
Epilogue by Philip V. Bohlman
Contributors
Index