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Book SynopsisA highly personal narrative on the evolution of the field
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Table of ContentsCoverTitle PageCopyrightContentsForeword: ANTHONY SEEGERIntroduction: Histories, Narratives, SourcesI: Central Issues in a Grand History1. The Seminal Eighties: Historical Musicology and Ethnomusicology2. Look at It Another Way: Alternative Views of the History3. Speaking of World Music: Then and Now4. A Tradition of Self-Critique: For Beverly Diamond5. Revisiting Comparison, Comparative Study, and Comparative MusicologyII: In the Academy6. Ethno among the Ologies7. On the Concept of Evolution in the History of Ethnomusicology8. The Music of AnthropologyIII. Celebrating Our Principal Organizations9. The IFMC/ICTM and the Development of Ethnomusicology in the United States10. Arrows and Circles: Fifty Years of the ICTM and the Study of Traditional Music11. We're on teh Map: Reflections on the Society for Ethnomusicology in 1955 and 2005IV: A Collage of Commentary12. Recalling Some Neglected Classics in Musical Geography: For Tullia Magrini13. Minorities in Ethnomusicology: A Meditation on Experience in Three Cultures14. Riding the Warhorses: On the Ethnomusicology of Canons15. A Stranger Here?: Free Associations around Kurt Weil16. Music—What's That? Commenting on a Book by Carl Dahlhaus and Hans Heinrich EggebrechtReferencesIndex
