Title: Nettl's elephant : on the history of ethnomusicology /
Authors: Nettl, Bruno, 1930-2020
Publisher: University of Illinois Press,
Year: 2010
Subjects: Ethnomusicology History.; Ethnology History; Musicology History.; Musicology.
Abstract: Surveying the field he helped establish, Bruno Nettl investigates how concepts such as evolution, geography, and history serve as catalysts for advancing ethnomusicological methods and perspectives. Nettl moves from reflections on the history of ethnomusicology to evaluations of the principal organizations in the field, interspersing those broader discussions with shorter essays focusing on neglected literature and personal experiences. --from publisher description.
Contents: Central issues in a grand history. The seminal eighties : historical musicology and ethnomusicology ; Look at it another way : alternative views of the history ; Speaking of world music : then and now ; A tradition of self-critique ; Revisiting comparison, comparative study, and comparative musicology -- In the academy. Ethno among the ologies ; On the concept of evolution in the history of ethnomusicology ; The music of anthropology -- Celebrating our principal organizations. The IFMC/ICTM and the development of ethnomusicology in the United States ; Arrows and circles : fifty years of the ICTM and the study of traditional music ; We're on the map : reflections on the Society for Ethnomusicology ini 1955 and 2005 -- A collage of commentary. Recalling some neglected classics in musical geography : for Tullia Magrini ; Minorities in ethnomusicology : a meditation on experience in three cultures ; Riding the warhorses : on the ethnomusicology of canons ; A stranger here ? : Free associations around Kirt Weill ; Music -- What's that ? Commenting on a book by Carl Dahlhaus and Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht.