Theory for Ethnomusicology

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.
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   *  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
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ch 2. Cultural Evolutionism and Diffusionism in Comparative Musicology

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
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   *  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
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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
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   *  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
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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
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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
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   * 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
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   *  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
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   *  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
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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
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   *  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
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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
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   *  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
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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
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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
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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
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   *  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
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Kapferer, Bruce. 1979. Emotion and Feeling in Sinhalese Healing Rites. Social Analysis 1:153-176.

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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
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   *  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
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   *  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
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   *  "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
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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
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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
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ch. 12. Historical Research

   *  Historical Aspects of Ethnomusicology
   * Author(s): Bruno Nettl
   * Source: American Anthropologist, New Series, Vol. 60, No. 3 (Jun., 1958), pp. 518-532
   * Publisher: Blackwell Publishing on behalf of the American Anthropological Association
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   *  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
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   *  "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
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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
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   *  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
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   *  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
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MF approach

Ritual theory: LP

SNA

Practice approach

Systems theory

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