Some Notes on Popular Music in my (Professional) Life
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1558/jwpm.35121Keywords:
Charles Hamm, ethnomusicology, George Herzog, Indiana University, University of Illinois, Society for Ethnomusicology, taxonomy of musicAbstract
This article sketches the author’s experience with popular music as a student of music and ethnomusicology in the United States, and as a professional in this field. Principally it is a personal meditation on the role of popular music in the history of ethnomusicology, particularly in the Society for Ethnomusicology, in the history of American musical academia, and the reasons for its initial neglect. It recalls some incidents witnessed by the author that were turning points in the eventual acceptance of popular music by both ethnomusicologists and historical musicologists.
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Hamm, Charles. 1978. Yesterdays: Popular Song in America. New York: Norton.
Herskovits, Melville J. 1945. “Problem, Method, and Theory in Afroamerican Studies”. Afroamerica 1: 5–24.
Herzog, George. 1950. “Song: Folksong and the Music of Folksong”. In Funk and Wagnalls Standard Dictionary of Folklore, Mythology, and Legend, edited by Maria Leach, vol. 2, 1032–50. New York: Funk and Wagnalls.
Hood, Mantle. 1971. The Ethnomusicologist. New York: McGraw-Hill.
Kunst, Jaap. 1959. Ethnomusicology, 3rd edn. The Hague: Nijhoff. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-9068-8
McLean, Mervyn. 2006. Pioneers of Ethnomusicology. Coral Springs, FL: Llumina Press.
Merriam, Alan P. 1964. The Anthropology of Music. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press.
—1977. “Definitions of ‘Comparative Musicology’ and ‘Ethnomusicology’: An Historical-Theoretical Perspective”. Ethnomusicology 21: 189–204. https://doi.org/10.2307/850943
Nettl, Bruno. 1972. “Persian Popular Music in 1969”. Ethnomusicology 16: 218–39. https://doi.org/10.2307/849722
—1995. Heartland Excursions: Ethnomusicological Reflections on Schools of Music. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press.
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Nettl, Paul. 1927. Beiträge zur böhmischen und mährischen Musikgeschichte. Brno: Rohrer.
Silverberg, Ann. 1995. A Sympathy with Sounds: A Brief History of the University of Illinois School of Music to Celebrate the Centennial. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois School of Music.
Thompson, Stith, ed. 1950. Four Symposia on Folklore, Held at the Midcentury International Folklore Conference, Indiana University July 21–August 4, 1950. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Turino, Thomas. 2010. Music as Social Life. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Vega, Carlos. 1966. “Mesomusic: An Essay on the Music of the Masses”. Ethnomusicology 10: 1–17. https://doi.org/10.2307/924181
Published
2017-12-03
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Disciplinary Perspectives on Popular Music
How to Cite
Nettl, B. (2017). Some Notes on Popular Music in my (Professional) Life. Journal of World Popular Music, 4(2), 280-289. https://doi.org/10.1558/jwpm.35121
