The New (Ethno)musicologies / Edition 1

by Henry Stobart, John Baily, Michelle Bigenho, Caroline Bithell, Philip V. Bohlman

Overview

Over the past twenty years, a range of radical developments has revolutionized musicology, leading certain practitioners to describe their discipline as 'New.' What has happened to ethnomusicology during this period? Have its theories, methodologies, and values remain rooted in the 1970s and 1980s or have they also transformed? What directions might or should it take in the new millennium? The New (Ethno)musicologies seeks to answer these questions by addressing and critically examining key issues in contemporary ethnomusicology. Set in two parts, the volume explores ethnomusicology's shifting relationship to other disciplines and to its own 'mythic' histories and plots a range of potential developments for its future. It attempts to address how ethnomusicology might be viewed by those working both inside and outside the discipline and what its broader contribution and relevance might be within and beyond the academy. Henry Stobart has collected essays from key figures in ethnomusicology and musicology, including Caroline Bithell, Martin Clayton, Fabian Holt, Jim Samson, and Abigail Wood, as well as Europea series editors, Martin Stokes and Philip V. Bohlman. The engaging result presents a range of perspectives, reflecting on disciplinary change, methodological developments, and the broader sphere of music scholarship in a fresh and unique way, and will be a key source for students and scholars.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780810861015
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	05/05/2008
Series:	Europea: Ethnomusicologies and Modernities , #8
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	234
Sales rank:	1,026,890
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Henry Stobart is Senior Lecturer in the Music Department of Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the author of Music and the Poetics of Production in the Bolivian Andes (2006) and is co-editor of Knowledge and Learning in the Andes (2002) and Sound (2000).

Table of Contents

Series Editors' Foreword   Philip V. Bohlman   Martin Stokes     vii
Introduction   Henry Stobart     1
Questions of Discipline
Perspectives on Ethnomusicology
A View from Musicology   Jim Samson     23
Why I'm Not an Ethnomusicologist: A View from Anthropology   Michelle Bigenho     28
A View from Popular Music Studies: Genre Issues   Fabian Holt     40
We Are All (Ethno)musicologists Now   Nicholas Cook     48
Exorcising the Ancestors?
Ethnomusicology, Alterity, and Disciplinary Identity; or "Do We Still Need an Ethno-?" "Do We Still Need an -ology?"   Laudan Nooshin     71
Praisesong to the Ancestors and the Post-New Nuclear Family   Caroline Bithell     76
Beyond the Academy   Tina K. Ramnarine     83
Other Ethnomusicologies, Another Musicology: The Serious Play of Disciplinary Alterity   Philip V. Bohlman     95
A New Ethnomusicology?
Ethnomusicology, Intermusability, and Performance Practice   John Baily     117
Toward an Ethnomusicology of Sound Experience   Martin Clayton     135
E-Fieldwork: A Paradigm for the Twenty-first Century?   Abigail Wood     170
New Directions in Ethnomusicology: Seven Themestoward Disciplinary Renewal   Jonathan P. J. Stock     188
Afterword   Martin Stokes     207
About the Contributors     217
Index     221

Editorial Reviews

A lively and engaging read.

MUSICultures

The book includes something for everybody.

Choice Reviews

This volume brings to the fore pivotal issues that problematize the contemporary disciplinary identity of ethnomusicology….It provides rich insights into ethnomusicological discourses and raises many unanswered questions that stimulate a re-thinking about the contemporary identity of ethnomusicology. In short, this volume will not only be an invaluable addition to university programs in ethnomusicology, but it will also be of significant interest to the wider academic community in ethnomusicology.

Ethnomusicology

The book includes something for everybody.

November 2008 Choice Reviews

The book includes something for everybody.

November 2008 Choice

The book includes something for everybody.--CHOICE, November 2008

This volume brings to the fore pivotal issues that problematize the contemporary disciplinary identity of ethnomusicology....It provides rich insights into ethnomusicological discourses and raises many unanswered questions that stimulate a re-thinking about the contemporary identity of ethnomusicology. In short, this volume will not only be an invaluable addition to university programs in ethnomusicology, but it will also be of significant interest to the wider academic community in ethnomusicology.--Ethnomusicology

A lively and engaging read.--MUSICultures

From the Publisher

The book includes something for everybody.

November 2008 CHOICE