The Study of Ethnomusicology: Thirty-One Issues and Concepts Unknown - 2005
by Bruno Nettl
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The first edition of this book, The Study of Ethnomusicology: Twenty-Nine Issues and Concepts, has become a classic in the field.This revised edition, written twenty-two years after the original, continues the tradition of providing engagingly written analysis thatoffers the most comprehensive discussion of the field availableanywhere. This book looks at the field of ethnomusicology - defined asthe study of the world's musics from a comparative perspective, and thestudy of all music from an anthropological perspective - as a field ofresearch. Nettl selects thirty-one concepts and issues that have beenthe subjects of continuing debate by ethnomusicologists, and he addsfour entirely new chapters and thoroughly updates the text to reflect newdevelopments and concerns in the field. Each chapter looks at itssubject historically and goes on to make its points with case studies, many taken from Nettl's own field experien
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- Title The Study of Ethnomusicology: Thirty-One Issues and Concepts
- Author Bruno Nettl
- Binding unknown
- Publisher University of Illinois Press
- Date 2005-12
- ISBN 9780252030338
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