Following the Elephant : Ethnomusicologists Contemplate Their Discipline / [edited by] Edited by Bruno Nettl.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nettl, Bruno, 1930- editor of compilation.

Series:

Common threads

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (217 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Urabana, Chicago, Springfield, [Illinois] : University of Illinois Press, 2016.

Summary:

In Following the Elephant, Bruno Nettl edits articles drawn from fifty years of the pioneering journal Ethnomusicology. The roster of acclaimed scholars hail from across generations, using other works in the collection as launching points for dialogues on the history and accomplishments of the field. Nettl divides the collection into three sections. In the first, authors survey ethnomusicology from perspectives that include thoughts on defining and conceptualizing the field and its concepts. The second section offers milestones in the literature that critique major works. The authors look at what separates ethnomusicology from other forms of music research and discuss foundational issues. The final section presents scholars considering ethnomusicology--including recent trends--from the perspective of specific, but abiding, strands of thought. Contributors: Charlotte J. Frisbie, Mieczylaw Kolinski, Gerhard Kubik, George List, Alan P. Merriam, Bruno Nettl, David Pruett, Adelaida Reyes, Timothy Rice, Jesse D. Ruskin, Kay Kaufman Shelemay, Gabriel Solis, Jeff Todd Titon, J. Lawrence Witzleben, and Deborah Wong

Contents:

Introduction / Bruno Nettl

Ethnomusicology, the field and the society, Vol. 7, no. 3 (Sept. 1963) / David P. McAllester

Definitions of "comparative musicology" and "ethnomusicology" : an historical-theoretical perspective, Vol. 21, no. 2 (May 1977) / Alan P. Merriam

Ethnomusicology : a discipline defined, Vol. 23, no. 1 (Jan. 1979) / George List

A view of ethnomusicology from the 1960s, Vol. 50, no. 2 (spring/summer 2006) / Charlotte J. Frisbie

The individual in musical ethnography, Vol. 56, no. 2 (spring/summer 2012) / Jesse D. Ruskin and Timothy Rice

Recent trends in ethnomusicology, Vol. 11, no. 1 (Jan. 1967) / Mieczyslaw Kolinski

Toward the remodeling of ethnomusicology, Vol. 31, no. 3 (fall 1987) / Timothy Rice

Whose ethnomusicology? : western ethnomusicology and the study of Asian music, Vol. 41, no. 2 (summer 1997) / J. Lawrence Witzleben

What do ethnomusicologists do? : an old question for a new century, Vol. 53, no. 1 (winter 2009) / Adelaida Reyes

In honor of our principal teachers, Vol. 28, no. 2 (May 1984) / Bruno Nettl

Music, the public interest, and the practice of ethnomusicology, Vol. 36, no. 3 (fall 1992) / Jeff Todd Titon

Toward an ethnomusicology of the early music movement : thoughts on bridging disciplines and musical worlds, Vol. 45, no. 1 (winter 2001) / Kay Kaufman Shelemay

Ethnomusicology and difference, Vol. 50, no. 2 (spring/summer 2006) / Deborah Wong

Thoughts on an interdiscipline : music theory, analysis, and social theory in ethnomusicology, Vol. 56, no. 3 (fall 2012) / Gabriel Solis.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-252-09960-5

OCLC:

965168063