Shadows in the field : new perspectives for fieldwork in ethnomusicology / edited by Gregory F. Barz & Timothy J. Cooley

Barz, Gregory F

ISBN 10: 0195109112 / ISBN 13: 9780195109115

Verlag: New York : Oxford University Press, 1997

Beschreibung

Fine copy in the original color-printed, stiff-card wrappers. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: xii, 243 p.: ill. Notes: Essays: most originally prepared for the year-long colloquium series "Fieldwork in contemporary ethnomusicology" sponsored by the Graduate Program in Ethnomusicology at Brown University. Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-228) and index.Contents: Contributors.1. Casting Shadows in the Field: An Introduction/ Timothy J. Cooley p. 3.2. (Un)doing Fieldwork: Sharing Songs, Sharing Lives/ Michelle Kisliuk p. 23. 3. Confronting the Field(Note) In and Out of the Field: Music, Voices, Text, and Experiences in Dialogue/ Gregory F. Barz p. 45. 4. Challenges of Human Relations in Ethnographic Inquiry: Examples from Arctic and Subarctic Fieldwork/ Nicole Beaudry p. 63. 5. Knowing Fieldwork/ Jeffodd Titon p. 87. 6. Toward a Mediation of Field Methods and Field Experience in Ethnomusicology/ Timothy Rice p. 101. 7. What's the Difference? Reflections on Gender and Research in Village India/ Carol M. Babiracki p. 121. 8. Fieldwork in the Ethnomusicological Past/ Philip V. Bohlman p. 139.9. Selecting Partners: Questions of Personal Choice and Problems of History in Fieldwork and Its Interpretation/ William Noll p. 163. 10. Ethnomusicologist, Ethnographic Method, and the Transmission of Tradition/ Kay Kaufman Shelemay p. 189. 11. Chasing Shadows in the Field: An Epilogue/ Gregory F. Barz p. 205. References. p. 211. Index. p. 229.Subjects: Ethnomusicology Fieldwork. Musicology.Genre: Bibliography. Illustrated. 1 Kg. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 322993

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Titel: Shadows in the field : new perspectives for ...

Verlag: New York : Oxford University Press

Erscheinungsdatum: 1997

Einband: Softcover

Auflage: 1st edition.

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Shadows in the Field 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 to this volume challenge the very notion of fieldwork: its goals, the nature of knowledge gained in fieldwork, and the place of fieldwork in historical studies. The book ranges widely through the history of the discipline of ethnomusicology and the key theoretical issues to be addressed including ethics, politics, gender, and relations with the people studied in the contemporary fieldwork environment. It represents the most significant aspects of the new ethnography, shifting the balance away from the data-collecting model of fieldwork toward an approach that is reflexive, humanistic, and experiential.

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"Shadows in the Field should be required reading in all such courses because the essays represent a sustained effort by ethnomusicologists to grapple with experimental and representational issues that are central to contemporary research and writing practices in the discipline....a welcome--and essential--addition to the ethnomusicology syllabus and bookshelf."--Ethnomusicology"The essays in Shadows in the Field address one of the key facets of ethnomusicological research, providing a stimulating set of reflections on fieldwork as experienced in a number of different settings."--The World of Music "Shadows in the Field should be required reading in all such courses because the essays represent a sustained effort by ethnomusicologists to grapple with experimental and representational issues that are central to contemporary research and writing practices in the discipline....a welcome--and essential--addition to the ethnomusicology syllabus and bookshelf."--Ethnomusicology "The essays in Shadows in the Field address one of the key facets of ethnomusicological research, providing a stimulating set of reflections on fieldwork as experienced in a number of different settings."--The World of Music "Shadows in the Field should be required reading in all such courses because the essays represent a sustained effort by ethnomusicologists to grapple with experimental and representational issues that are central to contemporary research and writing practices in the discipline....a welcome--and essential--addition to the ethnomusicology syllabus and bookshelf."--Ethnomusicology "The essays in Shadows in the Field address one of the key facets of ethnomusicological research, providing a stimulating set of reflections on fieldwork as experienced in a number of different settings."--The World of Music "Shadows in the Field should be required reading in all such courses because the essays represent a sustained effort by ethnomusicologists to grapple with experimental and representational issues that are central to contemporary research and writing practices in the discipline....a welcome--andessential--addition to the ethnomusicology syllabus and bookshelf."--Ethnomusicology"The essays in Shadows in the Field address one of the key facets of ethnomusicological research, providing a stimulating set of reflections on fieldwork as experienced in a number of different settings."--The World of Music