Nettl's elephant : on the history of ethnomusicology / Bruno Nettl ; foreword by Anthony Seeger.

Surveying the field he helped establish, Bruno Nettl investigates how concepts such as evolution, geography, and history serve as catalysts for advancing ethnomusicological methods and perspectives. Nettl moves from reflections on the history of ethnomusicology to evaluations of the principal organi...

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