Shadows in the Field: New Perspectives for Fieldwork in Ethnomusicology - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0195109112 ISBN 13: 9780195109115

Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc, 1996

Inhaltsangabe

What are the new directions in ethnomusicological fieldwork? What do we see when we acknowledge the shadows we cast in the field? Will fieldwork continue as an integral part of ethnomusicological theory and method? Glancing forward and backward, the authors in this collection explore a range
of issues that can help ethnomusicologists and those who study human experience and creativity to conceptualize the nature of fieldwork. This is the first book by ethnomusicologists to consider fieldwork as an issue-laden practice, rather than as a methodology requiring a prescriptive manual. The
contributors challenge the very notion of fieldwork: its goals, the nature of knowledge gained, and the place of fieldwork in historical studies. Until now the focus in ethnomusicological writing and teaching centered around analyses and ethnographic representations of musical cultures. This book
signals a new fieldwork, shifting the balance away from the data-collecting model toward an approach that is reflexive, humanistic, and experiential. It makes provocative reading for all fieldworkers, those in ethnomusicology as well as anthropology, sociology, folklore, area studies, linguistics,
and other ethnographic disciplines.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0195109112
• ISBN 13: 9780195109115
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256
• Herausgeber: Barz Gregory F., Cooley Timothy J.
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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