Nettl's elephant : on the history of ethnomusicology / Bruno Nettl ; foreword by Anthony Seeger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nettl, Bruno, 1930-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnomusicology--History.

Ethnomusicology.

Musicology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2010.

Summary:

From one of the most lauded scholars in ethnomusicology comes this enlightening and highly personal narrative on the evolution and current state of the field of ethnomusicology. Surveying the field he helped establish, Bruno Nettl investigates how concepts such as evolution, geography, and history serve as catalysts for advancing ethnomusicological methods and perspectives. This entertaining collection covers Nettl's scholarly interests ranging from Native American to Mediterranean to Middle Eastern contexts while laying out the pivotal moments of the field and conversations with the giants of its past. Nettl moves from reflections on the history of ethnomusicology to evaluations of the principal organizations in the field, interspersing those broader discussions with shorter essays focusing on neglected literature and personal experiences.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Foreword: ANTHONY SEEGER

Introduction: Histories, Narratives, Sources

I: Central Issues in a Grand History

1. The Seminal Eighties: Historical Musicology and Ethnomusicology

2. Look at It Another Way: Alternative Views of the History

3. Speaking of World Music: Then and Now

4. A Tradition of Self-Critique: For Beverly Diamond

5. Revisiting Comparison, Comparative Study, and Comparative Musicology

II: In the Academy

6. Ethno among the Ologies

7. On the Concept of Evolution in teh History of Ethnomusicology

8. The Music of Anthropology

III. Celebrating Our Principal Organizations

9. The IFMC/ICTM and the Development of Ethnomusicology in the United States

10. Arrows and Circles: Fifty Years of the ICTM and the Study of Traditional Music

11. We're on teh Map: Reflections on the Society for Ethnomusicology in 1955 and 2005

IV: A Collage of Commentary

12. Recalling Some Neglected Classics in Musical Geography

For Tullia Magrini

13. Minorities in Ethnomusicology: A Meditation on Experience in Three Cultures

14. Riding the Warhorses: On the Ethnomusicology of Canons

15. A Stranger Here?: Free Associations around Kurt Weil

16. Music-What's That? Commenting on a Book by Carl Dahlhaus and Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht

References

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-249) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9786613028815

9781283028813

1283028816

9780252090233

0252090233

OCLC:

709664733