What Are the Great Discoveries of  Your Field? Informal Comments  on the Contributions of  Ethnomusicology

Bruno Nettl

doi:10.4312/mz.51.2.163-174

What Are the Great Discoveries of Your Field? Informal Comments on the Contributions of Ethnomusicology

Authors

Bruno Nettl University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, School of Music and Department of Anthropology

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4312/mz.51.2.163-174

Keywords:

ethnomusicology, origins of music, music in culture, improvisation, authenticity

Abstract

This is an attempt to sketch some of the principal discoveries or contributions of the field of ethnomusicology since 1885. These include consideration of the world of music as comprised of musics, the origin of music, universals, the study of music in culture, the relationship of composition and
improvisation, the issue of authenticity, and the practical contributions of ethnomusicology to education and social life.

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Published

17. 06. 2015

Issue

Vol. 51 No. 2 (2015)

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How to Cite

Nettl, B. (2015). What Are the Great Discoveries of Your Field? Informal Comments on the Contributions of Ethnomusicology. Musicological Annual, 51(2), 163-174. https://doi.org/10.4312/mz.51.2.163-174