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Author Rice, Timothy

Title Ethnomusicology : a Very Short Introduction
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, USA, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (168 pages)
Series Very Short Introductions
Very short introductions.
Contents Cover; Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgments; 1 Defining ethnomusicology; 2 A bit of history; 3 Conducting research; 4 The nature of music; 5 Music as culture; 6 Individual musicians; 7 Writing music history; 8 Ethnomusicology in the modern world; 9 Ethnomusicologists at work; References; Further reading; Listening; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
Summary Ethnomusicologists believe that all humans, not just those we call musicians, are musical, and that musicality is one of the essential touchstones of the human experience. This insight raises big questions about the nature of music and the nature of humankind, and ethnomusicologists argue that to properly address these questions, we must study music in all its geographical and historical diversity. In this Very Short Introduction, one of the foremost ethnomusicologists, Timothy Rice, offers a compact and illuminating account of this growing discipline, showing how modern researchers go about s
Notes Print version record
Subject Ethnomusicology.
ethnomusicology.
Ethnomusicology
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780199794584
0199794588