Ethnomusicology category: 491 books
by Timothy Rice
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Ethnomusicology is an academic discipline with a very broad mandate: to understand why and how human beings are musical through the study of music in all its geographical and historical diversity. Ethnomusicological scholarship, however, has been remiss in articulating such goals, methods, and theories....
Public Ethnomusicology, Education, Archives, & Commerce
An Oxford Handbook of Applied Ethnomusicology, Volume 3
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2019
The seven ethnomusicologists who contributed to this volume discuss the role and impact of applied ethnomusicology in a variety of public and private sectors, including the commercial music industry, archives and collections, public folklore programs, and music education programs at public schools....
Performing Ethnomusicology
Teaching and Representation in World Music Ensembles
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2004
Performing Ethnomusicology is the first book to deal exclusively with creating, teaching, and contextualizing academic world music performing ensembles. Considering the formidable theoretical, ethical, and practical issues that confront ethnomusicologists who direct such ensembles, the sixteen essays...
Ethnomusicology
A Contemporary Reader
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Ethnomusicology: A Contemporary Reader is designed to supplement a textbook for an introductory course in ethnomusicology. It offers a cross section of the best new writing in the field from the last 15-20 years. Many instructors supplement textbook readings and listening assignments with scholarly...
by John Baily, Michelle Bigenho, Caroline Bithell
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2008
Over the past twenty years, a range of radical developments has revolutionized musicology, leading certain practitioners to describe their discipline as 'New.' What has happened to ethnomusicology during this period? Have its theories, methodologies, and values remain rooted in the 1970s and 1980s...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
Ethnomusicology: A Contemporary Reader, Volume II provides an overview of developments in the study of ethnomusicology in the twenty-first century, offering an introduction to contemporary issues relevant to the field. Nineteen essays, written by an international array of scholars, highlight the relationship...
Theory, Method, Sustainability, and Conflict
An Oxford Handbook of Applied Ethnomusicology, Volume 1
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2019
The nine ethnomusicologists who contributed to this volume, balanced in age and gender and hailing from a diverse array of countries, share the goal of stimulating further development in the field of ethnomusicology. By theorizing applied ethnomusicology, offering histories, and detailing practical...
Shadows in the Field
New Perspectives for Fieldwork in Ethnomusicology
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2008
Ethnomusicological fieldwork has significantly changed since the end of the the 20th century. Ethnomusicology is in a critical moment that requires new perspecitves on fieldwork - perspectives that are not addressed in the standard guides to ethnomusicological or anthropological method. The focus...
Following the Elephant
Ethnomusicologists Contemplate Their Discipline
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2016
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....
De-Colonization, Heritage, and Advocacy
An Oxford Handbook of Applied Ethnomusicology, Volume 2
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2019
The nine ethnomusicologists who contributed to this volume present a diverse range of views, approaches, and methodologies that address indigenous peoples, immigrants, and marginalized communities. Discussing participatory action research, social justice, empowerment, and critical race theory in relation...
Postmodernism and Globalization in Ethnomusicology
An Epistemological Problem
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2002
Is the music world clinging to an outdated school of thought in ethnomusicology? Nercessian shows how the theory of cultural relativism continues to detrimentally pervade ethnomusicological thought, and then offers a solution that may better serve musical study in today's more globalized world. At...
Arnold Bake
A Life with South Asian Music
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2018
Arnold Bake (1899–1963) was a Dutch pioneer in South Asian ethnomusicology, whose research impressed not only the most renowned Indologists of his time but also the leading figures in the emerging field of ethnomusicology. This long overdue biography sheds light on his knowledge of the theory and...
by Jonathan McCollum, Keith Howard, Judah M. Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
Theory and Method in Historical Ethnomusicology demonstrates various ways that new approaches to historiography––and the related application of new technologies––impact the work of ethnomusicologists who seek to meaningfully represent music traditions across barriers of both time and space....
by John Fenn, Lisa Gilman
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2019
This book is the first textbook to address the shared fieldwork methods used by both the fields of folklore and ethnomusicology. Information will be relevant to anthropological fieldwork courses as well.
It is a significant update to the fieldwork textbooks currently being used in folklore...