Provocative and timely, "Disciplining Music" confronts a topic that has sparked considerable debate in recent years: how do musicians and music scholars "discipline" music in their efforts to confer order and meaning on it? This collection of essays addresses this issue by formulating questions about music's canons-rules that measure and order, negotiate cultural constraints, reconstruct the past, and shape the future. Written by scholars representing the fields of historical musicology, ethnomusicology, and music theory, many of the essays tug and push at the very boundaries of these...
Provocative and timely, "Disciplining Music" confronts a topic that has sparked considerable debate in recent years: how do musicians and music schola...
Nineteen scholars from five countries explore significant issues in the history of ethnomusicology and its methodological and theoretical foundations, while providing a critique of the discipline. "This is a useful and enriching collection of articles of interest to musicologists and ethnomusicologists. . . . The authors manage to cover much ground, presenting fascinating insights into the history of the discipline while also exploring new directions in both theory and analysis. . . . the most sweeping work of this kind to be published since the 1960s."-L. D. Loeb, University of Utah,...
Nineteen scholars from five countries explore significant issues in the history of ethnomusicology and its methodological and theoretical foundations,...
'This book is unique not only for its approach but also for the scope of its content....It is definitely a must for libraries of research centers and institutions with ethnomusicology programs.' - Kazadi wa Muduna, Choice
'This book is unique not only for its approach but also for the scope of its content....It is definitely a must for libraries of research centers and ...
" This book] is a contribution of considerable substance because it takes a holistic view of the field of folk music and the scholarship that has dealt with it." Bruno Nettl
..". a praiseworthy combination of solid scholarship, penetrating discussion, and global relevance." Asian Folklore Studies
..". successfully ties the history and development of folk music scholarship with contemporary concepts, issues, and shifts, and which treats varied folk musics of the world cultures within the rubric of folklore and ethnomusicology with subtle generalizations making sense to serious...
" This book] is a contribution of considerable substance because it takes a holistic view of the field of folk music and the scholarship that has d...
