Sources for the history of ethnomusicology

Music 665
Michael Frishkopf
September – December 2012

Important developments

Early recording technology and archives

http://www.firstsounds.org/

Researchers play tune recorded before Edison

Wikipedia article on the phonograph

Early phonograph recordings from the 1888 Crystal Palace exhibition

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berliner_Phonogramm-Archiv

Cylinders from the Berlin phonogram archive

Tonal analysis

On cents

Organology

http://www.music.vt.edu/musicdictionary/texth/Hornbostel-Sachs.html

http://www.wesleyan.edu/vim/svh.html

Museums

http://www.mimo-db.eu/mimo/infodoc/default.aspx

http://learningobjects.wesleyan.edu/vim/

Landmark publications

There follows a selective listing of landmark publications in the history of EM, biased towards the past...

Note: besides the following listing, also see Kay Shelemay's edited collections:

• The Garland library of readings in ethnomusicology : a core collection of important ethnomusicological articles
• Ethnomusicology : history, definitions, and scope : a core collection of scholarly articles[1] {ON RESERVE at the MUSIC LIBRARY]

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Abraham, O., & Erich, M. v. H. (1994): Suggested Methods for the Transcription of Exotic Music. Ethnomusicology, 38(3), 425-456. http://www.jstor.org/stable/852110

Asch, M. (1948): Folkways Records and Service Co. – (Browse the Folkways catalogue)

 EJOURNAL http://www.folkways.si.edu/about_us/mission_history.aspx

Asch, M. (1956): Folk Music. Notes, 14(1), 29-32

 EJOURNAL http://www.jstor.org/stable/891896

Benthall, J. (1990): The Debt to 'Other' Musics. Anthropology Today.

http://www.jstor.org/stable/3032720

Bingham, W. V. (1914): Five years of progress in comparative musical science. Psychological Bulletin, 11(11), 421-433.

 EJOURNAL

Blacking, J. (1973): How musical is man? (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1973)

 ML 3838 B62 1973 y
ML 3838 B62 1973 cass y

Burnim, M. (1985): Culture Bearer and Tradition Bearer, an Ethnomusicologists Research on Gospel-Music. Ethnomusicology, 29(3), 432-447

 EJOURNAL - http://www.jstor.org/stable/851798

Charron, C. (1978): Toward Transcription and Analysis of Inuit Throat-Games: Micro-Structure. Ethnomusicology, 22(2), 245-259

 EJOURNAL  http://www.jstor.org/stable/851489

Chase, G. (1958): A dialectical approach to music history. Ethnomusicology, 2, 1-9

 EJOURNAL http://www.jstor.org/stable/924165

Chernoff (1979) African rhythm and African sensibility : aesthetics and social action in African musical idioms. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

 ML 3760 C52 1979 yy
 ML 3760 C52 1979 cass y

Ellis, A. (1885): On the Musical Scales of Various Nations. Journal of the Society of Arts, 33, 485-527.

 EJOURNAL http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pio-us:&rft_dat=xri:pio:article:q549-1884-033-00-000896
 (see also http://artsites.ucsc.edu/faculty/lieberman/Cents.html)

England, N. M. (1964): Introduction: Symposium on Transcription and Analysis: A Hukwe Song with Musical Bow Ethnomusicology, 8(3), 223-233

 EJOURNAL http://www.jstor.org/stable/850124

Feld, S. (1974): Linguistic Models in Ethnomusicology. Ethnomusicology, 18, 197-217

 EJOURNAL http://www.jstor.org/stable/850579

Feld, S. (1984): Sound structure as social structure. Ethnomusicology,

 EJOURNAL http://www.jstor.org/stable/851232

Feld, S. (1990): Sound and sentiment: birds, weeping, poetics, and song in Kaluli expression, 2nd ed. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1990)

   ML 3770 F44 1990 y

Gilman, B. I. (1909): The science of exotic music. Science (new series), 30(772), 532-535.

 EJOURNAL http://www.jstor.org/stable/1635211

Gourlay, K.A. (1978): Towards a reassessment of ethnomusicologist role in research. Ethnomusicology, 22 (1), 1-35.

 EJOURNAL http://www.jstor.org/stable/851364

Henry, E.O. (1976): The variety of music in a north Indian village: reassessing cantometrics. Ethnomusicology, 20 (1)

 EJOURNAL http://www.jstor.org/stable/850820

Herndon and McLeod (eds.) (1982). Music as culture (2nd ed.). Norwood, Pa.: Norwood Editions.

 ML 3798 H46 1982 y   

Herzog, G. (1946): Comparative musicology, Music Journal 4:6 (1946)

 EJOURNAL - http://search.proquest.com/iimp/docview/740712217?accountid=14474

Hood, M. (1957): Training and research methods in ethnomusicology. Ethnomusicology 1 (11), 2-8

 EJOURNAL - http://www.jstor.org/stable/924482

Hood, M. (1964): The Ethnomusicology Program. Western Folklore, 23(1), 37-38.

 EJOURNAL - http://www.jstor.org/stable/1520541

Hood (1983): The Ethnomusicologist (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1971) (1982, Kent State University Press)

  ML 3798 H77 1971 y 
 ML 3798 H77 1982 disc     

Kolata, G. B. (1978): Singing Styles and Human Cultures: How Are They Related? Science.

 EJOURNAL - http://www.jstor.org/stable/1746003

Kolinski, M.(1957): Ethnomusicology, its problems and methods. Ethnomusicology, 1(10), 1-7.

 EJOURNAL - http://www.jstor.org/stable/924113

Kolinski, M. (1967): Recent trends in ethnomusicology. Ethnomusicology, 11, 1-24

 EJOURNAL - http://www.jstor.org/stable/850496

Koskoff (1987): Women and Music in Cross-cultural Perspective (New York: Greenwood, 1987)

 ML 82 W872 1987 y

Kunst (1959): Ethnomusicology: a study of its nature, its problems, methods and representative personalities to which is added a bibliography (The Hague: Nijhoff, 1959)

  ML 3797 K96 1959 y     

Lieberman, F (1976): Should ethnomusicology be abolished?

 http://artsites.ucsc.edu/faculty/lieberman/profession.html

List, G. (1979): Ethnomusicology: A Discipline Defined. Ethnomusicology, 23(1), 1-4.

 EJOURNAL - http://www.jstor.org/stable/851335

Lomax, A. (1962): Song structure and social structure. Ethnology, 1(4).

 EJOURNAL -  http://www.jstor.org/stable/3772850

Lomax (1968). Folk song style and culture. (American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1968)

 ML 3545 L83 y

Lomax (1976): Cantometrics: an approach to the anthropology of music (Berkeley: University of California Extension Media Center, 1976)

 ML 3798 L839 1976 folio 

McAllester, D. P. (1963): Ethnomusicology, the Field and the Society. Ethnomusicology, 7(3), 182-186.

 EJOURNAL - http://www.jstor.org/stable/924575

McLeod, N. (1974): Ethnomusicological Research and Anthropology. Annual Review of Anthropology.

 EJOURNAL - http://www.jstor.org/stable/2949284

Merriam, A. P. (1960): Ethnomusicology Discussion and Definition of the Field. Ethnomusicology, 4(3), 107-114

 EJOURNAL - http://www.jstor.org/stable/924498

Merriam, A.P. (1964): Review of Harrison, Hood, and Palisca. Ethnomusicology, 8, 179-185

 EJOURNAL -  http://www.jstor.org/stable/849865

Merriam (1964): The anthropology of Music (Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press, 1964)

 ML 3797 M56 y

Merriam, A. P. (1977): Definitions of "Comparative Musicology" and "Ethnomusicology": An Historical-Theoretical Perspective. Ethnomusicology, 21(2), 189-204

 EJOURNAL - http://www.jstor.org/stable/850943

Merriam, A.P., et al. (1966): A CA book review: The anthropology of music. Current Anthropology, 7 (2), 217-230

 EJOURNAL - http://www.jstor.org/stable/2740034

Meyer, L.B. (1960): Universalism and relativism in the study of ethnic music. Ethnomusicology, 4 (2)

 EJOURNAL - http://www.jstor.org/stable/924262

Myers ed. (1992): Ethnomusicology: an introduction (New York & London: W.W. Norton & Co., 1992)

 ML 3799 E87 1992 v.1 y 

Mugglestone, E., & Adler, G. (1981): Guide Adler’s “The Scope, Method and Aim of Musicology” (1885): An English translation with an Historico-Analytical Commentary. Yearbook for Traditional Music, 13, 1-21.

 EJOURNAL - http://www.jstor.org/stable/768355

Nettl (1964) Theory and method in ethnomusicology. New York: Free Press of Glencoe.

 ML 3797 N47 y    

Nettl and Bohlman, eds.(1991): Comparative musicology and anthropology of music: essays on the history of ethnomusicology (Chicago & London: The University of Chicago Press, 1991)

 ML 3799 C737 1991 y 

Nettl, B. (2005): The study of ethnomusicology: thirty-one issues and concepts, new ed. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2005)

 ML 3798 N47 2005 y

Nketia, J.H.K. (1963): The problem of meaning in African music. In Ethnomusicology (Vol.6) pp. 1-7

 EJOURNAL - http://www.jstor.org/stable/924242

Rhodes, W. (1956): Toward a Definition of Ethnomusicology. American Anthropologist, 58(3), 457-463

 EJOURNAL -  http://www.jstor.org/stable/665277

Rice, T. (1987): Towards the remodeling of Ethnomusicology (and responses) Ethnomusicology.

 EJOURNAL - http://www.jstor.org/stable/851667

Roseman, M. (1984): The social structuring of sound: the Temiar of peninsular Malaysia. Ethnomusicology

 EJOURNAL - http://www.jstor.org/stable/851233

Sachs, Curt: The wellsprings of music / edited by Jaap Kunst (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1962)

 	  ML 3800 S12 y 

Sadie, S. (1979): Ethnomusicology and the New Grove. Ethnomusicology, 23(1), 95-102

 EJOURNAL - http://www.jstor.org/stable/851341

Seeger, C. (1961): Semantic, logical and political considerations bearing upon research in Ethnomusicology. Ethnomusicology, 5, 77-80

 EJOURNAL - http://www.jstor.org/stable/924321

Seeger [Charles] (1977a): Studies in Musicology 1935-1975 (Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press 1977) pp. 16-30

ML 3797.1 S45 1977 y    

Seeger, Charles (1994): Studies in musicology II, 1929-1979. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994)

 ML 60 S441 1994 y

Shelemay, Kay Kaufman (1990): Ethnomusicology, volume 4: musical transcription. (New York: Garland Publishing, 1990)

 ML 3799 G37 1990 v.4 y

Shelemay, Kay Kaufman (1992): Ethnomusicology: History, definitions, and scope (Garland Publishing, 1992)

 ML 3799 E852 1992 y

Stokes, M. (1997, i.e. 1994): Ethnicity, identity, and music: the musical construction of place (Oxford: Berg, 1994)

 ML 3799 E78 1994 y 

Stone (2008): Theory for Ethnomusicology (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2008)

 ML 3798 S76 2008 y  

The Teaching of Ethnomusicology: a curriculum in Ghana (1963): Ethnomusicology, 7(1), 44-45

 EJOURNAL -  http://www.jstor.org/stable/924149

von Hornbostel, E., M. , & Sachs, C. (1961): Classification of Musical Instruments: Translated from the Original German by Anthony Baines and Klaus P. Wachsmann. The Galpin Society Journal, 14, 3-29.

 EJOURNAL - http://www.jstor.org/stable/842168

Wallaschek, Richard (1970): Primitive music. (New York: Da Capo Press, 1970)

 ML 3547 W195 1970 y

Wachsmann, K. P. (1958): Recent Trends in Ethnomusicology. Proceedings of the Royal Musical Association, 85, 65-80

 EJOURNAL - http://www.jstor.org/stable/766227

Wiora, W. (1965): Ethnomusicology and the History of Music. Studia Musicologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, 7(1/4), 187-193.

 EJOURNAL - http://www.jstor.org/stable/901426

Wachsmann, K. (1973): Spencer to Hood: a changing view of non-European music. Proceedings of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, 1973, 5-13

 EJOURNAL -  http://www.jstor.org/stable/3031717