Designed as a tribute to Robert Garfias, who has conducted field work in more cultures than any other living ethnomusicologist, this volume explores the originating encounter in field work of ethnomusicologists with the musicians and musical traditions they study. The nineteen c…
Ethnomusicology is an academic discipline with a very broad mandate: to understand why and how human beings are musical through the study of music in all its geographical and historical diversity. Ethnomusicological scholarship, however, has been remiss in articulating such goal…
Introduction : Ethnomusicological Theorizing -- Toward the Remodeling of Ethnomusicology -- Toward Mediation of Field Methods and Field Experience in Ethnomusicology -- Reflections on Music and Meaning: Metaphor, Signification, and Control in the Bulgarian Case -- Time, Place, a…
Thirty years of thinking and theorizing about the field come together in Modeling Ethnomusicology, a collection of essays by one of its leading figures. Author Timothy Rice weaves together his most important work about music and the way ethnomusicologists study it, and from this…