Ethnomusicology : historical and regional studies / edited by Helen Myers.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Myers, Helen, 1946-

Series:

Norton/Grove handbooks in music

The Norton/Grove handbooks in music

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnomusicology.

Physical Description:

xxviii, 541 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Edition:

First American edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : W.W. Norton, 1993.

Summary:

Complementing Ethnomusicology: An Introduction, this volume of studies, written by world-acknowledged authorities, places the subject of ethnomusicology in historical and geographical perspective. Part I deals with the intellectual trends that contributed to the birth of the discipline in the period before World War II. Organized by national schools of scholarship, the influence of 19th-century anthropological theories on the new field of "comparative musicology" is described. In the second half of the book, regional experts provide detailed reviews by geographical areas of the current state of ethnomusicological research.

The word "ethno-musicology" was coined in 1958 by a Dutch scholar, Jaap Kunst, to describe a fledgling discipline which concerned itself with the study of music within its cultural context. This handbook, consisting entirely of contributions by international experts written expressly for this collection, is intended as a general introduction to that field as it exists today.

Contents:

Part 1 Ethnomusicology 1

Part 2 History to World War II 17

II North America 19

1 Native American / Dorothy Sara Lee 19

2 British-Americans / Helen Myers 36

3 African-American / William Westcott 46

4 Canada / James Robbins 63

III Northern and Western Europe 77

1 Germany and Austria / Albrecht Schneider 77

2 Switzerland / Max Peter Baumann 96

3 The Netherlands / Ernst Heins 101

4 France / Miriam Rovsing Olsen 111

5 Belgium / Miriam Rovsing Olsen 117

6 Iberia / Martin Cunningham 119

7 Italy / Roberto Leydi 125

8 Great Britain / Helen Myers 129

9 Ireland / Breandan Breatnach, Nicholas Carolan 148

10 Scandinavia / Jan Ling 152

IV Southern and Eastern Europe 160

1 Bulgaria / Barbara Krader 160

2 South Slavs / Barbara Krader 163

3 Poland / Barbara Krader 171

4 Bohemia, Moravia and Slovakia / Barbara Krader 178

5 Greece / Barbara Krader 185

6 Hungary and Romania / Balint Sarosi 187

V Russia, the USSR and the Baltic States / Margarita Mazo 197

Part 3 Regional Studies 213

VI Europe / James Porter 215

VII Africa / Christopher Waterman 240

VIII West Asia / Amnon Shiloah 260

IX South Asia 274

1 India / Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy 274

2 Pakistan / Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy 294

3 Sri Lanka / Cyril de Silva Kulatillake 297

X Western Central Asia and the Caucasus / Theodore Levin 300

XI Eastern Central Asia / Mireille Helffer 306

XII East Asia 311

1 China / Alan R. Thrasher 311

2 Japan / David W. Hughes 345

3 Korea / Robert Provine 363

XIII Southeast Asia / Judith Becker 377

XIV Oceania / Mervyn McLean 392

XV North America 401

1 Native American Music / Helen Myers 404

2 African-American Music / Helen Myers 418

3 Hispanic-American Music / Helen Myers 433

4 British-American Folk Music / Helen Myers 438

5 European-American and Asian-American Music / Helen Myers 453

XVI The West Indies / Helen Myers 461

XVII Latin America / Gerard Behague 472.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0393033783

OCLC:

28068806