Nettl's Elephant
by Nettl, Bruno; Seeger, AnthonyFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2010-08-11
Publisher(s): Univ of Illinois Pr
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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 ethno-musicological methods and perspectives. Nettl's entertaining collection covers his 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. Bruno Netll is professor emeritus of music and anthropology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and the author ofThe Study of Ethnomusicology: Thirty-One Issues and Conceptsand many other books.
Author Biography
Bruno Nettl is professor emeritus of music and anthropology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the author of The Study of Ethnomusicology: Thirty-One Issues and Concepts and many Other books.
Table of Contents
| Foreword | p. ix |
| Introduction: Histories, Narratives, Sources | p. xiii |
| Central Issues in a Grand History | |
| The Seminal Eighties: Historical Musicology and Ethnomusicology | p. 3 |
| Look at It Another Way: Alternative Views of the History | p. 22 |
| Speaking of World Music: Then and Now | p. 33 |
| A Tradition of Self-Critique | p. 54 |
| Revisiting Comparison, Comparative Study, and Comparative Musicology | p. 70 |
| In the Academy | |
| Ethno among the Ologies | p. 93 |
| On the Concept of Evolution in the History of Ethnomusicology | p. 108 |
| The Music of Anthropology | p. 119 |
| Celebrating Our Principal Organizations | |
| The IFMC/ICTM and the Development of Ethnomusicology in the United States | p. 137 |
| Arrows and Circles: Fifty Years of the ICTM and the Study of Traditional Music | p. 146 |
| We're on the Map: Reflections on the Society for Ethnomusicology in 1955 and 2005 | p. 159 |
| A Collage of Commentary | |
| Recalling Some Neglected Classics in Musical Geography: For Tullia Magrini | p. 173 |
| Minorities in Ethnomusicology: A Meditation on Experience in Three Cultures | p. 180 |
| Riding the Warhorses: On the Ethnomusicology of Canons | p. 194 |
| A Stranger Here? Free Associations around | p. 204 |
| Music-What's That? Commenting on a Book | p. 215 |
| References | p. 229 |
| Index | p. 251 |
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