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Author Nettl, Bruno, 1930-2020.

Title Nettl's elephant : on the history of ethnomusicology / Bruno Nettl ; foreword by Anthony Seeger.

Publication Info. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2010]
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 Talbott: Circulating Collection  ML3799 .N38 2010    Available  ---
Description xxix, 256 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-249) and index.
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 in 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 Kurt Weill -- Music: what's that? : commenting on a book by Carl Dahlhaus and Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht.
Subject Ethnomusicology -- History.
Ethnomusicology.
History.
ISBN 9780252035524 cloth alkaline paper
0252035526 cloth alkaline paper
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