Shadows in the field : new perspectives for fieldwork in ethnomusicology / edited by Gregory F. Barz & Timothy J. Cooley
1997, 1st edition. New York : Oxford University Press. Fine copy in the original color-printed, stiff-card wrappers. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #322993
ISBN: 0195109112
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.
Price: €12.95