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Heartland Excursions - Ethnomusicological Reflections on Schools of Music (Paperback, New)
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Heartland Excursions - Ethnomusicological Reflections on Schools of Music (Paperback, New)
Series: Music in American Life
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Loot Price R534
Discovery Miles 5 340
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In Heartland Excursions, a legendary ethnomusicologist takes the
reader along for a delightful, wide-ranging tour of his workplace.
Bruno Nettl provides an insightful, sometimes tongue-in-cheek,
always pithy ethnography of midwestern university schools of music
from a different perspective in each of four chapters, alternating
among three distinct voices: the longtime professor, the "native
informant," and the outside observer, an "ethnomusicologist from
Mars." If you've ever been to a concert or been connected to a
university with a school of music, you ll discover yourself--or
someone you know--in these pages. "In the music building you can't
tell the quick from the dead without a program."--Chapter 1, "In
the Service of the Masters" "The great ability of a violin student
whom I observed was established when his dean was persuaded to
accompany him."--Chapter 2, "Society of Musicians" "Some teachers
of music history would accuse students who listen to Elvis Presley
not only of taking time away from hearing Brahms, but also of
polluting themselves."--Chapter 3, "A Place for All Musics?" At
commencement, the graduates "were perhaps not aware that they had
just participated in an event in which the principal values of the
Western musical world . . . had been taken out of storage bins for
annual exercise."--Chapter 4, "Forays into the Repertory"
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