Theory for Ethnomusicology
Contents
- 1 ch 1. Inquiry in Ethnomusicology
- 2 ch 2. Cultural Evolutionism and Diffusionism in Comparative Musicology
- 3 ch. 3. Structural-Functional Approaches
- 4 ch. 4. Linguistic Approaches
- 5 ch. 5. Paradigmatic Structuralism
- 6 ch. 6. Marxist Explanations
- 7 ch. 7. Literary and Dramaturgical Theories
- 8 ch. 8. Cognition and Communication Theory
- 9 ch. 9. Performance Theory (and emotion) in Ethnomusicology
- 10 ch. 10. Gender, Ethnicity, and Identity Issues
- 11 ch. 11. Phenomenology and Experiential Ethnomusicology
- 12 ch. 12. Historical Research
- 13 ch. 13. Postmodern, Postcolonial, and Global Issues
- 14 MF approach
ch 1. Inquiry in Ethnomusicology
Theory
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* Concept and Theory Formation in the Social Sciences * Author(s): Alfred Schutz * Source: The Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 51, No. 9 (Apr. 29, 1954), pp. 257-273 * Publisher: Journal of Philosophy, Inc. * Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/stable/2021812
* Can Social Theory Escape from History? Views of History in Social Science * Author(s): Peter Knapp * Source: History and Theory, Vol. 23, No. 1 (Feb., 1984), pp. 34-52 * Publisher: Blackwell Publishing for Wesleyan University * Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/stable/2504970
Application
ch 2. Cultural Evolutionism and Diffusionism in Comparative Musicology
Theory
Application
* The Ethnology of African Sound-Instruments. Comments on "Geist und Werden der Musikinstrumente" by C. Sachs * Author(s): E. M. Von Hornbostel * Source: Africa: Journal of the International African Institute, Vol. 6, No. 2 (Apr., 1933), pp. 129-157 * Publisher: Edinburgh University Press * Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/stable/1155180
* Indonesia and Africa: The Xylophone as a Culture-Indicator * Author(s): A. M. Jones * Source: The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. 89, No. 2 (Jul. - Dec., 1959), pp. 155-168 * Publisher: Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland * Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/stable/2844267
ch. 3. Structural-Functional Approaches
* On the Concept of Function in Social Science * Author(s): A. R. Radcliffe-Brown * Source: American Anthropologist, New Series, Vol. 37, No. 3, Part 1 (Jul. - Sep., 1935), pp. 394-402 * Publisher: Blackwell Publishing on behalf of the American Anthropological Association * Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/stable/661962
* The Group and the Individual in Functional Analysis * Author(s): Bronislaw Malinowski * Source: The American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 44, No. 6 (May, 1939), pp. 938-964 * Publisher: The University of Chicago Press * Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/stable/2769422
Merriam, Anthropology of Music, Ch. XI
Daniel Neuman, The Life of Music in North India, ch. 4
* The Value of Music in Human Experience * Author(s): John Blacking * Source: Yearbook of the International Folk Music Council, Vol. 1, (1969), pp. 33-71 * Publisher: International Council for Traditional Music * Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/stable/767634
ch. 4. Linguistic Approaches
* 'Are'are Classification of Musical Types and Instruments * Author(s): Hugo Zemp * Source: Ethnomusicology, Vol. 22, No. 1 (Jan., 1978), pp. 37-67 * Publisher: University of Illinois Press on behalf of Society for Ethnomusicology * Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/stable/851365
* Signs of Imagination, Identity, and Experience: A Peircian Semiotic Theory for Music * Author(s): Thomas Turino * Source: Ethnomusicology, Vol. 43, No. 2 (Spring - Summer, 1999), pp. 221-255 * Publisher: University of Illinois Press on behalf of Society for Ethnomusicology * Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/stable/852734
* Processes of Musical Semiosis * Author(s): Charles L. Boiles * Source: Yearbook for Traditional Music, Vol. 14, (1982), pp. 24-44 * Publisher: International Council for Traditional Music * Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/stable/768069
* Linguistic Models in Ethnomusicology * Author(s): Steven Feld * Source: Ethnomusicology, Vol. 18, No. 2 (May, 1974), pp. 197-217 * Publisher: University of Illinois Press on behalf of Society for Ethnomusicology * Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/stable/850579
ch. 5. Paradigmatic Structuralism
Levi-Strauss, Structural Anthropology, Vol. I, chapter VIII.
Levi-Strauss, Structural Anthropology, Vol. II, chapter X.
* The Homology of Music and Myth: Views of Lévi-Strauss on Musical Structure * Author(s): Pandora Hopkins * Source: Ethnomusicology, Vol. 21, No. 2 (May, 1977), pp. 247-261 * Publisher: University of Illinois Press on behalf of Society for Ethnomusicology * Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/stable/850946
* What Can We Learn When They Sing? Vocal Genres of the Suya Indians of Central Brazil * Author(s): Anthony Seeger * Source: Ethnomusicology, Vol. 23, No. 3 (Sep., 1979), pp. 373-394 * Publisher: University of Illinois Press on behalf of Society for Ethnomusicology * Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/stable/850911
Feld, Sound and Sentiment, ch. 1
ch. 6. Marxist Explanations
* From Ranchero to Jait?n: Ethnicity and Class in Texas-Mexican Music (Two Styles in the Form of a Pair) * Author(s): Manuel Pena * Source: Ethnomusicology, Vol. 29, No. 1 (Winter, 1985), pp. 29-55 * Publisher: University of Illinois Press on behalf of Society for Ethnomusicology * Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/stable/852323
* How Autonomous Is Relative: Popular Music, the Social Formation and Cultural Struggle * Author(s): Reebee Garofalo * Source: Popular Music, Vol. 6, No. 1 (Jan., 1987), pp. 77-92 * Publisher: Cambridge University Press * Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/stable/853167
ch. 7. Literary and Dramaturgical Theories
* 'Flow like a Waterfall': The Metaphors of Kaluli Musical Theory * Author(s): Steven Feld * Source: Yearbook for Traditional Music, Vol. 13, (1981), pp. 22-47 * Publisher: International Council for Traditional Music * Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/stable/768356
Feld, Steven. 1988. Aesthetics as Iconicity of Style, or 'Lift-Up-Over Sounding': Getting into the Kaluli Groove. Yearbook for Traditional Music 20:74.
ch. 8. Cognition and Communication Theory
* Universals in Music: A Perspective from Cognitive Psychology * Author(s): Dane L. Harwood * Source: Ethnomusicology, Vol. 20, No. 3 (Sep., 1976), pp. 521-533 * Publisher: University of Illinois Press on behalf of Society for Ethnomusicology * Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/stable/851047
ch. 9. Performance Theory (and emotion) in Ethnomusicology
* Drama, Script, Theatre, and Performance * Author(s): Richard Schechner * Source: The Drama Review: TDR, Vol. 17, No. 3, Theatre and the Social Sciences (Sep., 1973), pp. 5-36 * Publisher: The MIT Press * Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/stable/1144841
* Verbal Art as Performance * Author(s): Richard Bauman * Source: American Anthropologist, New Series, Vol. 77, No. 2 (Jun., 1975), pp. 290-311 * Publisher: Blackwell Publishing on behalf of the American Anthropological Association * Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/stable/674535
Kapferer, Bruce. 1979. Emotion and Feeling in Sinhalese Healing Rites. Social Analysis 1:153-176.
February 1979. Ritual Process and the Transformation of Context. Social Analysis 1:3-19.
* Passion and Performance in Fiji Indian Vernacular Song * Author(s): Donald Brenneis * Source: Ethnomusicology, Vol. 29, No. 3 (Autumn, 1985), pp. 397-408 * Publisher: University of Illinois Press on behalf of Society for Ethnomusicology * Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/stable/851796
* Performing Passions: Aesthetics and Politics in an Occasionally Egalitarian Community * Author(s): Donald Brenneis * Source: American Ethnologist, Vol. 14, No. 2 (May, 1987), pp. 236-250 * Publisher: Blackwell Publishing on behalf of the American Anthropological Association * Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/stable/645372
* Head, Heart, Odor, and Shadow: The Structure of the Self, the Emotional World, and Ritual Performance among Senoi Temiar * Author(s): Marina Roseman * Source: Ethos, Vol. 18, No. 3 (Sep., 1990), pp. 227-250 * Publisher: Blackwell Publishing on behalf of the American Anthropological Association * Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/stable/640336
* "Pulling the Ancestors": Performance Practice and Praxis in Mapuche Ordering * Author(s): Carol E. Robertson * Source: Ethnomusicology, Vol. 23, No. 3 (Sep., 1979), pp. 395-416 * Publisher: University of Illinois Press on behalf of Society for Ethnomusicology * Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/stable/850912
Tambiah, S. J. 1979. A Performative Approach to Ritual. Proc. of the British Academy 65:113-70.
ch. 10. Gender, Ethnicity, and Identity Issues
* The Nightingale and the Partridge: Singing and Gender among Prespa Albanians * Author(s): Jane C. Sugarman * Source: Ethnomusicology, Vol. 33, No. 2 (Spring - Summer, 1989), pp. 191-215 * Publisher: University of Illinois Press on behalf of Society for Ethnomusicology * Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/stable/924395
ch. 11. Phenomenology and Experiential Ethnomusicology
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* "Tails out": Social Phenomenology and the Ethnographic Representation of Technology in Music-Making * Author(s): Thomas Porcello * Source: Ethnomusicology, Vol. 42, No. 3 (Autumn, 1998), pp. 485-510 * Publisher: University of Illinois Press on behalf of Society for Ethnomusicology * Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/stable/852851
ch. 12. Historical Research
* The Survival of Some Aspects of Medieval Arabic Performance Practice * Author(s): George D. Sawa * Source: Ethnomusicology, Vol. 25, No. 1 (Jan., 1981), pp. 73-86 * Publisher: University of Illinois Press on behalf of Society for Ethnomusicology * Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/stable/850975
* "Min al-Mash?yikh": A View of Egyptian Musical Tradition * Author(s): Virginia Danielson * Source: Asian Music, Vol. 22, No. 1 (Autumn, 1990 - Winter, 1991), pp. 113-127 * Publisher: University of Texas Press * Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/stable/834292
ch. 13. Postmodern, Postcolonial, and Global Issues
* How Beautiful Is Small? Music, Globalization and the Aesthetics of the Local * Author(s): Veit Erlmann * Source: Yearbook for Traditional Music, Vol. 30, (1998), pp. 12-21 * Publisher: International Council for Traditional Music * Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/stable/768551
* Riffs, Repetition, and Theories of Globalization * Author(s): Ingrid Monson * Source: Ethnomusicology, Vol. 43, No. 1 (Winter, 1999), pp. 31-65 * Publisher: University of Illinois Press on behalf of Society for Ethnomusicology * Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/stable/852693
* The Invention of "African Rhythm" * Author(s): Kofi Agawu * Source: Journal of the American Musicological Society, Vol. 48, No. 3, Music Anthropologies and Music Histories (Autumn, 1995), pp. 380-395 * Publisher: University of California Press on behalf of the American Musicological Society * Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/stable/3519832
MF approach
Ritual theory: LP
SNA
Practice approach
Systems theory