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Title: Study of Ethnomusicology by Bruno Nettl ISBN: 0-252-01039-6 Publisher: Univ of Illinois Pr (Pro Ref) Pub. Date: March, 1983 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Very well done!
Comment: This book is an overview and introduction to the field of ethnomusicology. In the introduction, Nettl mentions that the book could be used as an introduction to ethnomusicology for graduate students. However, the text is quite accessible and the terminology and concepts are easily comprehensible to the general reader. The book consists of essays by Nettl on numerous topics that cover the field of ethnomusicology. Many of the essays have catchy titles that address commonly-held beliefs about ethnomusicology directly, such as "The Non-Universal Language", or "Music Hath Charms". The book is very well referenced, and it provides a succinct introduction to the ethnomusicology literature. If you want to know what ethnomusicologists do (or think about), this book will be quite useful.
As a linguist, I was struck when reading this book by how relevant much of linguistic theory and research could be for the field of ethnomusicology. The methods of historical linguistics could be quite useful for researchers studying the spread of instruments or musical forms. Formal theories of syntax and phonology could also be applied to intervals in scales and rhythms. Nettl considers many of these possibilities, and reviews published research in these areas. One important area that could receive even more focus is the association of form and meaning, a concept that is at the foundation of linguistic research, but doesn't seem to be a central issue for ethnomusicologists, at least as discussed in these essays.
Rating: 4
Summary: The Study of Ethnomusicology is ethnomusicologist's bible.
Comment: The Study of Ethnomusicology is very usefull book to a person who's mother tongue is not English.The way Mr. Nettl uses English in his book is very colourfull and understandable,and it is NOT boring!To describe my experieces of this book shortly is; a stranger became a friend. The Study of Ethnomusicology is not only for ethnomusic researchers, but for all kind of music studies. Why 8? Well, nobodys perfict.
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Title: Anthropology of Music by Alan P. Merriam ISBN: 0810106078 Publisher: Northwestern University Press Pub. Date: December, 1964 List Price(USD): $27.00 |
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Title: How Musical Is Man? (Jessie and John Danz Lectures) by John Blacking ISBN: 0295953381 Publisher: University of Washington Press Pub. Date: September, 1995 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Ethnomusicology: Historical and Regional Studies (Norton/Grove Handbooks in Music) by Helen Myers, Stanley Sadie ISBN: 0393033783 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: April, 1993 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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Title: The Cultural Study of Music by Martin Clayton, Trevor Herbert, Richard Middleton ISBN: 0415938457 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: 01 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: Comparative Musicology and Anthropology of Music: Essays on the History of Ethnomusicology (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology) by Bruno Nettl, Philip V. Bohlman ISBN: 0226574091 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: March, 1991 List Price(USD): $32.00 |
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