Shadows in the field
Subtitle: new perspectives for fieldwork in ethnomusicology
By: edited by Gregory Barz & Timothy J. Cooley.
Contributors: Barz, Gregory F., 1960-; Cooley, Timothy J., 1962-
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780195324952; 9780195324969
Subjects: Ethnomusicology -- Fieldwork
Description: The contributors consider fieldwork as an issue-laden practice rather than as a methodology requiring a prescriptive manual, challenging the very notion of fieldwork, its goals and its place in historical studies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Casting shadows : fieldwork is dead! Long live fieldwork! : introduction / Timothy J. Cooley and Gregory Barz; title: Knowing fieldwork / Jeff Todd Titon; title: Toward a mediation of field methods and field experience in ethnomusicology / Timothy Rice; title: Phenomenology and the ethnography of popular music : ethnomusicology at the juncture of cultural studies and folklore / Harris M. Berger; title: Moving : from performance to performative ethnography and back again / Deborah Wong; title: Virtual fieldwork : three case studies / Timothy J. Cooley, Katharine Meizel, and Nasir Syed; title: Fieldwork at home : European and Asian perspectives / Jonathan Stock and Chou Chiener; title: Working with the masters / James Kippen; title: The ethnomusicologist, ethnographic method, and the transmission of tradition / Kay Kaufman Shelemay; title: Shadows in the classroom : encountering the Syrian Jewish research project twenty years later / Judah Cohen; title: What's the difference?, reflections on gender and research in Village India / Carol Babiracki; title: (Un)doing fieldwork : sharing songs, sharing lives / Michelle Kisliuk; title: Confronting the field(note) in and out of the field : music, voices, texts, and experiences in dialogue / Gregory Barz; title: The challenges of human relations in ethnographic inquiry : examples from Arctic and Subarctic fieldwork / Nicole Beaudry; title: Returning to the ethomusicological past / Philip V. Bohlman; title: Theories forged in the crucible of action : the joys, dangers, and potentials of advocacy and fieldwork / Anthony Seeger.