Shadows in the Field: New Perspectives for Fieldwork in Ethnomusicology

Edited by Gregory Barz and Timothy Cooley; Introduction by Timothy Cooley; Contributing authors: Carol Babiracki, Gregory Barz, Nicole Beaudry, Philip Bohlman, Michelle Kisliuk, William Noll, Timothy Rice, Kay Kaufman Shelemay, and Jeff Todd Titon.

ISBN 10: 0195109112 / ISBN 13: 9780195109115

Edité par Oxford University Press, New York, New York / Oxford, England, 1997

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XII, 243 pp. Softcover. LCC: 9612479 Good condition; on covers: traces of wear, and very light yellowing on rear; some foxing on edges of papers.

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• Titre: Shadows in the Field: New Perspectives for Fieldwork in Ethnomusicology
• Éditeur: Oxford University Press, New York, New York / Oxford, England
• Date de parution: 1997
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0195109112
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780195109115
• Reliure: Softcover
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Synopsis

This work, written by ethnomusicologists, considers fieldwork as an issue-laden practice, rather than as a methodology requiring a prescriptive manual. The contributors to this volume challenge the notion of fieldwork: its goals, the nature of knowledge gained in fieldwork and the place of fieldwork in historical studies. The book ranges widely through the history of the discipline of ethnomusicology and the key theoretical issues to be addressed including ethics, politics, gender and relations with the people studied in the contemporary fieldwork environment. It represents the most significant aspects of the new ethnography, shifting the balance away from the data-collecting model of fieldwork toward an approach that is reflexive, humanistic and experiential.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Ethnomusicological fieldwork has significantly changed since the end of the the 20th century. Ethnomusicology is in a critical moment that requires new perspecitves on fieldwork - perspectives that are not addressed in the standard guides to ethnomusicological or anthropological method. The focus in ethnomusicological writing and teaching has traditionally centered around analyses and ethnographic representations of musical cultures, rather than on the personal world of understanding, experience, knowing, and doing fieldwork. Shadows in the Field deliberately shift the focus of ethnomusicology and of ethnography in general from representation (text) to experience (fieldwork). The "new fieldwork" moves beyond mere data collection and has become a defining characteristic of ethnomusicology that engages the scholar in meaningful human contexts. In this new edition of Shadows in the Field, renowned ethnomusicologists explore the roles they themselves act out while performing fieldwork and pose significant questions for the field: What are the new directions in ethnomusicological fieldwork? Where does fieldwork of "the past" fit into these theories? And above all, what do we see when we acknowledge the shadows we cast in the field? The second edition of Shadows in the Field includes updates of all existing chapters, a new preface by Bruno Nettl, and seven new chapters addressing critical issues and concerns that have become increasingly relevant since the first edition.