Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Preface
PART I: Contemplating the Musics of the World
1. A Harmless Drudge: Reaching for the Dictionary
2. Combining Tones: On the Concept of Music
3. Is Music the Universal Language of Mankind?: Commonalities and the Origins of Music
PART II: As Sounds and Structures
4. Inspiration and Perspiration: Creative Processes
5. A Nonuniversal Language: On the Musics of the World
6. The Fundamental Skill: Notation and Transcription
7. Contemplating Musical Repertories: A Sampling of Descriptive and Analytical Approaches
8. The Most Indefatigable Tourists of the World: Units of Musical Thought
9. Apples, Oranges, and a Model T: Comparison and Comparative Study
PART III: In the Field
10. Come Back and See Me Next Tuesday: Essentials of the Fieldwork Tradition
11. You Will Never Understand This Music: Insiders and Outsiders
12. Citadels of the Profession: Archives, Preservation, and the Study of Recordings
13. No One Plays It Like Me: Ordinary and Exceptional Musicians
14. You Call That Fieldwork?: Redefining the “Field”
15. Who Owns This Music?: The Host’s Perspective
PART IV: In Human Culture
16. Music and “That Complex Whole”: Studying Music in or as Culture
17. Writing the Meat-and-Potatoes Book: Musical Ethnography
18. “If Music Be the Food of Love . . .”: Uses and Functions
19. The River of Heraclitus: On People Changing Their Music
20. Traditions: Recorded, Printed, Written, Oral, Virtual
21. The Basic Unit of All Culture and Civilization: Signs, Symbols, and Meaning
22. The Whys of World Music: Determinants of Musical Style
PART V: In All of Its Varieties
23. The “Where” of World Music: Interpreting Geographic Distribution
24. Never Heard a Horse Sing: Taxonomies and Boundaries
25. The Creatures of Jubal: Instruments
26. How Do You Get to Carnegie Hall?: Teaching and Learning
27. I’m a Stranger Here Myself: Women’s Music, Women in Music
28. Diversity and Difference: A Variety of Minorities
PART VI: From a Broad Perspective
29. Are You Doing Anyone Any Good?: Thoughts on Applied Ethnomusicology
30. Musing about an Interdiscipline: Musicology, Anthropology, and the Study of Dance
31. Second Thoughts: Some Personal Disclosures
32. On the Shape of the Story: Perspectives on the History of Ideas and Practices
33. A Snapshot of the New Century: Notes on Ethnomusicology Today
References
Index
