Research Catalog

Title

Pioneers of ethnomusicology / Mervyn McLean.

Author

McLean, Mervyn

Publication

Coral Springs, FL : Llumina Press, c2006.

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Subject

• Ethnomusicologists > Biography
• Ethnomusicology

Genre/Form

Biographies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 357-404) and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• The growth of the discipline -- Philosophical underpinnings: World view ; Nationalism ; The rise of science ; Evolution ; The idea of progress -- Antecedents: Françoise Joseph Fétis -- Organology -- Schools of music -- The seminal eighties -- The Austro-German schools: Development of the Berlin Phonogram-Archiv ; Dispersal of Hornbostel's Berlin group ; The Vienna school ; Methods of the Austro-German schools, from simple to complex, the stone in the pond ; The quest for origins, The Darwin hypothesis, Darwin on natural selection ; Other theories of origin ; The contemporary ancestor, The genesis of the idea -- The American school: The earliest pioneers ; George Herzog ; Curt Sachs ; Charles Seeger -- International societies -- The middle years in America: Jaap Kunst ; The waning influence of Europe ; The UCLA/Indiana divide, Mantle Hood Bi musicality, Alan P. Merriam music in culture -- New directions: Writings on the wall ; Remodelling ethnomusicology? : Earlier work ; Analysis ; Product and process ; Theory building ; Other disciplines ; Comparison ; The crisis of representation ; John Blacking, The holistic approach ; Whither ethnomusicology? -- Paradigms past and present.
• The subject divisions: Folk music, definition ; European folk song ; Anglo-American folk song, early collectors of English folk song, Cecil Sharp, Frank Kidson, Later collectors, A.L. Lloyd ; Scholarship in America -- Oriental music -- Tribal music: The Americas, Africa, Oceania -- The biographies: The role of the individual ; Personal qualities ; Disciplinary background -- Intellectual ancestry charts: Berlin school, Vienna school, American school -- Issues: Field work, Insider/outsider relations ; Authenticity ; The role of the observer ; Instruction ; Bi-musicality -- Archiving and documentation: Archiving ; cataloguing, classification ; Armchair ethnomusicology ; Bibliography -- Transcription: Prescriptive v. descriptive notation, Conceptual notation, The case for literacy, Composite transcription ; Intonation ; Machine transcription, the limits of perception ; Reliability of transcription -- Analysis: Aesthetics ; Methods of analysis, Standard analysis, Cantometrics, Kolinski, Linguistic approaches ; Text/music relationships ; Statistics ; Music and communication ; Music structure v. social structure, Perspectives from Oceania, Feld and the muni bird, Structural terminolgy, The case for independence ; Music system analysis.
• Comparison: Music areas ; Diffusion ; Cantometics ; Universals -- Product and process: Repertoire ; Mechanisms of change ; The role of the subliminal ; Merriam's feedback model ; Anthropology v. music -- Aftermath: UCLA v. Indiana ; Popular music ; Models ; Leaps of logic ; Split brains.

ISBN

• 1595265961 ($30.00)
• 9781595265968 ($30.00)

OCLC

• 71891746
• SCSB-11042606

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library