The study of ethnomusicology : thirty-one issues and concepts / Bruno Nettl

Includes bibliographical references (pages [455]-494) and index

Contents 1 The harmless drudge : defining ethnomusicology 2 The art of combining tones : the music concept 3 Inspiration and perspiration : the creative process 4 The universal language : universals of music 5 The nonuniversal language : varieties of music 6 Apples and oranges : comparative study 7 I can't say a thing until I've seen the score : transcription 8 In the speech mode : contemplating repertories 9 The most indefatigable tourists of the world : tunes and their relationships 10 Come back and see me next Tuesday : essentials of fieldwork 11 You will never understand this music : insiders and outsiders 12 Hanging on for dear life : archives and preservation 13 I am the greatest : ordinary and exceptional musicians 14 You call that fieldwork? : redefining the "field" 15 What do you think you're doing? : the host's perspective 16 Music and "that complex whole" : music in culture 17 The meat-and-potatoes book : musical ethnography 18 Music hath charms : uses and functions 19 In the beginning : on the origins of music 20 The continuity of change : on people changing their music 21 Recorded, printed, written, oral : traditions 22 The basic unit of all culture and civilization : signs and symbols 23 Location, location, location! : interpreting geographic distribution 24 The whys of musical style : determinants 25 I've never heard a horse sing : musical taxonomies 26 The creatures of Jubal : instruments 27 How do you get to Carnegie Hall? : teaching and learning 28 I'm stranger here myself : women's music, women in music 29 Diversity and difference : some minorities 30 A new era : the 1990s and beyond 31 The shape of the story : remarks on history