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

Other author Barz, Gregory F., 1960- editor.
Other author Cooley, Timothy J., 1962- editor.
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Oxford University Press, 1997.
Descriptionxii, 243 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Subjects

Contents Casting shadows in the field: an introduction / Timothy J. Cooley -- (Un)doing fieldwork: sharing songs, sharing lives / Michelle Kisliuk -- Confronting the field(note) in and out of the field: music, voices, text, and experiences in dialogue / Gregory F. Barz -- The challenges of human relations in ethnographic inquiry: examples from Arctic and Subarctic fieldwork / Nicole Beaudry -- Knowing fieldwork / Jeff Todd Titon -- Toward a mediation of field methods and field experience in ethnomusicology / Timothy Rice -- What's the difference? Reflections on gender and research in village India / Carol M. Babiracki -- Fieldwork in the ethnomusicological past / Philip V. Bohlman -- Selecting partners: questions of personal choice and problems of history in fieldwork and its interpretation / William Noll -- The ethnomusicologist, ethnographic method, and the transmission of tradition / Kay Kaufman Shelemay -- Chasing shadows in the field: an epilogue / Gregory F. Barz.
Abstract The contributors consider fieldwork as an issue-laden practice rather than as a methodology requiring a prescriptive manual, challenging the very notion of fieldwork, its goals and its place in historical studies.
General noteEssays; most originally prepared for the year-long colloquium series "Fieldwork in contemporary ethnomusicology" sponsored by the Graduate Program in Ethnomusicology at Brown University.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 211-228) and index.
LCCN 96012479
ISBN0195109104 (cloth)
ISBN0195109112 (pbk.)

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Music Music Stacks ML3799 .S5 1997 ✔ Available Place Hold