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Nettl's Elephant

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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Contents

  • 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