Analytical Ethnomusicology: How We Got Out of Analysis and How to Get Back In
2018; Springer International Publishing; Linguagem: Inglês
10.1007/978-3-662-55004-5_48
ISSN2522-8706
Autores Tópico(s)Music and Audio Processing
ResumoAnalysis has had a long and somewhat tenuous history under the umbrella of ethnomusicology. In this chapter, we examine the trajectory of analytical ethnomusicology, from its parallel beginnings in late 19th-century Europe and North America through its relative obscurity in the field in the mid-20th century to its panoply of new methods in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. The aim of the chapter is threefold. Looked at in one way, it is a simple historical overview of analysis in ethnomusicology: an examination of the major players, from Erich Moritz von Hornbostel to Alan Lomax to many of today's central scholars, as well as the major trends and intellectual frameworks influencing its execution, from cultural evolutionism to cultural relativism to interdisciplinarity. Yet it is also designed as an exploration of the myriad methods and approaches in the analytical ethnomusicologist's toolkit, from transcription and trait listing to structural analysis, computational analysis, and the new comparative analysis. And finally, woven throughout is the story of the place of analysis in ethnomusicological research: its strengths and weaknesses, successes and mistakes, practitioners and detractors. Through these discussions, we then begin to unpack the ebbs and flows of its use, reception, and usefulness in the field.
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