Common Threads: Following the Elephant (ePub)

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. Nettl divides the collection into three sections. In the first, authors survey ethnomusicology from perspectives that include thoughts on defining and conceptualizing the field and its concepts. The second section offers milestones in the literature that critique major works. The authors look at what separates ethnomusicology from other forms of music research and discuss foundational issues. The final section presents scholars considering ethnomusicology—including recent trends—from the perspective of specific, but abiding, strands of thought. Contributors: Charlotte J. Frisbie, Mieczylaw Kolinski, Gerhard Kubik, George List, Alan P. Merriam, Bruno Nettl, David Pruett, Adelaida Reyes, Timothy Rice, Jesse D. Ruskin, Kay Kaufman Shelemay, Gabriel Solis, Jeff Todd Titon, J. Lawrence Witzleben, and Deborah Wong|
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Introduction Bruno Nettl
PART I
Ethnomusicology, the Field and the Society - David P. McAllester
Definitions of "Comparative Musicology" and "Ethnomusicology": An Historical-Theoretical Perspective - Alan P. Merriam
Ethnomusicology: A Discipline Defined - George List
A View of Ethnomusicology from the 1960s - Charlotte J. Frisbie
The Individual in Musical Ethnography - Jesse D. Ruskin and Timothy Rice
PART II
Recent Trends in Ethnomusicology - Mieczyslaw Kolinski
Toward the Remodeling of Ethnomusicology - Timothy Rice
Whose Ethnomusicology? Western Ethnomusicology and the Study of Asian Music - J. Lawrence Witzleben
What Do Ethnomusicologists Do? An Old Question for a New Century - Adelaida Reyes
PART III
In Honor of Our Principal Teachers - Bruno Nettl
Music, the Public Interest, and the Practice of Ethnomusicology - Jeff Todd Titon
Toward an Ethnomusicology of the Early Music Movement: Thoughts on Bridging Disciplines and Musical Worlds - Kay Kaufman Shelemay
Ethnomusicology and Difference - Deborah Wong
Thoughts on an Interdiscipline: Music Theory, Analysis, and Social Theory in Ethnomusicology - Gabriel Solis|Bruno Nettl is professor emeritus of music and anthropology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and the author of The Study of Ethnomusicology: Thirty-Three Discussions and many other books.