Nettl's Elephant
- Author: Nettl, Bruno
Light and entertaining, moving and head-noddingly simple without sacrificing the complexity of its implications. . . . Classic Bruno Nettl —
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$39.25Contents
- CoverTitle PageCopyrightContentsForeword: ANTHONY SEEGERIntroduction: Histories, Narratives, SourcesI: Central Issues in a Grand History
- 1. The Seminal Eighties: Historical Musicology and Ethnomusicology
- 2. Look at It Another Way: Alternative Views of the History
- 3. Speaking of World Music: Then and Now
- 4. A Tradition of Self-Critique: For Beverly Diamond
- 5. Revisiting Comparison, Comparative Study, and Comparative MusicologyII: In the Academy
- 6. Ethno among the Ologies
- 7. On the Concept of Evolution in the History of Ethnomusicology
- 8. The Music of AnthropologyIII. Celebrating Our Principal Organizations
- 9. The IFMC/ICTM and the Development of Ethnomusicology in the United States
- 10. Arrows and Circles: Fifty Years of the ICTM and the Study of Traditional Music
- 11. We're on teh Map: Reflections on the Society for Ethnomusicology in 1955 and 2005IV: A Collage of Commentary
- 12. Recalling Some Neglected Classics in Musical Geography: For Tullia Magrini
- 13. Minorities in Ethnomusicology: A Meditation on Experience in Three Cultures
- 14. Riding the Warhorses: On the Ethnomusicology of Canons
- 15. A Stranger Here?: Free Associations around Kurt Weil
- 16. Music-What's That? Commenting on a Book by Carl Dahlhaus and Hans Heinrich EggebrechtReferencesIndex