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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Barz, Gregory F., 1960-

Cooley, Timothy J., 1962-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnomusicology--Fieldwork.

Ethnomusicology.

Musicology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 p.) ill

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.

Summary:

What are the new directions in ethnomusicological fieldwork? What do we see when we acknowledge the shadows we cast in the field? Will fieldwork continue as an integral part of ethnomusicological theory and method? Glancing forward and backward, the authors in this collection explore a rangeof issues that can help ethnomusicologists and those who study human experience and creativity to conceptualize the nature of fieldwork. This is the first book by ethnomusicologists to consider fieldwork as an issue-laden practice, rather than as a methodology requiring a prescriptive manual. Thecontributors challenge the very notion of fieldwork: its goals, the nature of knowledge gained, and the place of fieldwork in historical studies. Until now the focus in ethnomusicological writing and teaching centered around analyses and ethnographic representations of musical cultures. This booksignals a new fieldwork, shifting the balance away from the data-collecting model toward an approach that is reflexive, humanistic, and experiential. It makes provocative reading for all fieldworkers, those in ethnomusicology as well as anthropology, sociology, folklore, area studies, linguistics,and other ethnographic disciplines

Notes:

Essays: most originally prepared for the year-long colloquium series "Fieldwork in contemporary ethnomusicology" sponsored by the Graduate Program in Ethnomusicology at Brown University.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-228) and index.

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ISBN:

1-4237-4128-5

1-60256-148-6