Timothy Rice
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780190616885
- eISBN:
- 9780190696979
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190616885.003.0002
- Subject:
- Music, Ethnomusicology, World Music
This chapter proposes a model of the research foci of ethnomusicologists in the 1980s and model for the formative processes at work in music cultures. The simple three-part model indicates that music ...
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This chapter proposes a model of the research foci of ethnomusicologists in the 1980s and model for the formative processes at work in music cultures. The simple three-part model indicates that music is historically constructed, socially maintained, and individually created and experienced. The model responds to and extends the thinking of Alan Merriam. The chapter claims that simple models, rather than complex models such as one that Charles Seeger proposed, are easy to remember. It also claims that simple models are particularly useful as heuristic devices for planning and carrying out research in ethnomusicology.Less
This chapter proposes a model of the research foci of ethnomusicologists in the 1980s and model for the formative processes at work in music cultures. The simple three-part model indicates that music is historically constructed, socially maintained, and individually created and experienced. The model responds to and extends the thinking of Alan Merriam. The chapter claims that simple models, rather than complex models such as one that Charles Seeger proposed, are easy to remember. It also claims that simple models are particularly useful as heuristic devices for planning and carrying out research in ethnomusicology.
