Shadows in the Field
New Perspectives for Fieldwork in Ethnomusicology
1st Edition
Published on 13. March 1997
256 pages
978-0-19-802689-1 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Contributors
- INTRODUCTION
- 1. Casting Shadows in the Field: An Introduction
- PART I: DOING AND UNDOING FIELDWORK
- 2. (Un)doing Fieldwork: Sharing Songs, Sharing Lives
- 3. Confronting the Field(Note) In and Out of the Field: Music, Voices, Text, and Experiences in Dialogue
- 4. The Challenges of Human Relations in Ethnographic Inquiry: Examples from Arctic and Subarctic Fieldwork
- PART II: KNOWING AND BEING KNOWN
- 5. Knowing Fieldwork
- 6. Toward a Mediation of Field Methods and Field Experience in Ethnomusicology
- 7. What's the Difference? Reflections on Gender and Research in Village India
- PART III: THE ETHNOMUSICOLOGICAL PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE
- 8. Fieldwork in the Ethnomusicological Past
- 9. Selecting Partners: Questions of Personal Choice and Problems of History in Fieldwork and Its Interpretation
- 10. The Ethnomusicologist, Ethnographic Method, and the Transmission of Tradition
- 11. Chasing Shadows in the Field: An Epilogue
- References
- Index
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