Nineteen scholars from five countries explore significant issues in the history of ethnomusicology and its methodological and theoretical foundations, while providing a critique of the discipline. "This is a useful and enriching collection of articles of interest to musicologists and ethnomusicologists. . . . The authors manage to cover much ground, presenting fascinating insights into the history of the discipline while also exploring new directions in both theory and analysis. . . . the most sweeping work of this kind to be published since the 1960s."--L. D. Loeb, University of Utah, for Choice
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Informed by the World's Cultural Diversity European Musical Terminology and the Music of Africa by Stephen Blum From Reaction to Synthesis: Chinese Musicology in the Twentieth Century
Wong Reflections on the Ideological History of Latin American Ethnomusicology
Tribal Music in the Study of Great and Little Traditions of Indian Music
Ideas, Principles, Motivations, and Results in Eastern European Folk-Music Research
Dominated by a Group of Abiding Issues Muddying the Crystal Spring: From Idealism and Realism to Marxism in the Study of English and American Folk Song
Representation and Cultural Critique in the History of Ethnomusicology
Whose Music? Sources and Contexts in Indic Musicology
The Uneven Development of Africanist Ethnomusicology: Three Issues and a Critique
One World Or None? Untimely Reflections on a Timely Musicological Question
Carl Stumpf, and the Institutionalization of Comparative Musicology
The First Restudy of Arnold Bake's Fieldwork in India
Jairazbhoy Marginality and Musicology in Nineteenth-Century Calcutta: The Case of Sourindro Mohun Tagore
Women and the Society for Ethnomusicology: Roles and Contributions from Formation through Incorporation (1952/53-1961)
The Dual Nature of Ethnomusicology in North America: The Contributions of Charles Seeger and George Herzog
Nourished by a Variety of Disciplines Recording Technology, the Record Industry, and Ethnomusicological Scholarship
Shelemay Psychological Theory and Comparative Musicology
Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Musical Communication Structures
Styles of Musical Ethnography
Contributors
Index