Shadows in the field : new perspectives for fieldwork in ethnomusicology / edited by Gregory Barz & Timothy J. Cooley.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Barz, Gregory F., 1960- editor.

Cooley, Timothy J., 1962- editor.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnomusicology--Fieldwork.

Ethnomusicology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (346 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The contributors consider fieldwork as an issue-laden practice rather than as a methodology requiring a prescriptive manual, challenging the very notion of fieldwork, its goals and its place in historical studies.

Contents:

Casting shadows: Fieldwork is dead! Long live fieldwork! : Introduction / Timothy J. Cooley and Gregory Barz

Knowing fieldwork / Jeff Todd Titon

Toward a mediation of field methods and field experience in ethnomusicology / Timothy Rice

Phenomenology and the ethnography of popular music: ethnomusicology at the juncture of cultural studies and folklore / Harris M. Berger

Moving: from performance to performative ethnography and back again / Deborah Wong

Virtual fieldwork: three case studies / Timothy J. Cooley, Katharine Meizel, and Nasir Syed

Fieldwork at home: European and Asian perspectives / Jonathan P.J. Stock and Chou Chiener

Working with the masters / James Kippen

The ethnomusicologist, ethnographic method, and the transmission of tradition / Kay Kaufman Shelemay

Shadows in the classroom: encountering the Syrian Jewish research project twenty years later / Judah Cohen

What's the difference? Reflections on gender and research in Village India / Carol Babiracki

(Un)doing fieldwork: sharing songs, sharing lives / Michelle Kisliuk

Confronting the field(note) in and out of the field: music, voices, texts, and experiences in dialogue / Gregory Barz

The challenges of human relations in ethnographic inquiry: examples from Arctic and Subarctic fieldwork / Nicole Beaudry

Returning to the ethomusicological past / Philip V. Bohlman

Theories forged in the crucible of action: the joys, dangers, and potentials of advocacy and fieldwork / Anthony Seeger.

Notes:

Formerly CIP.

Previously issued in print: 2008.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-311) and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-772905-3

0-19-988670-9

1-281-86827-2

9786611868277

0-19-971719-2

OCLC:

476244755