Gregory F Barz
Biographic Data
| ID | 143372 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gregory F Barz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gregory F |
| FAMILY NAME | Barz |
| SIGNATURE | BARZ G F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vanderbilt University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 60 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Shadows in the field
The contributors consider fieldwork as an issue-laden practice rather than as a methodology requiring a prescriptive manual, challenging the very notion of fieldwork, its goals and its place in historical studies
Zimia
N'Dour, Youssou
South Africa, Republic of
Seeger, Anthony
Soukous
Kubik, Gerhard
Seeger family
Meaning inbengamusic of western Kenya
This article presents three ethnographic case studies relating to benga music and related genres in Kisumu town in western Kenya that point to ways in which musical performances can be understood as affording multiple layers of meaning. I suggest that musical performance be approached as a multivalent process within which many meanings and interpretations are projected and received, and I outline ways in which benga and related musical performanc…
Tanzanie
Shadows in the Field
Jukwaa la Taarab Zanzibar [The Stage of Zanzibar Taarab]
Dedication
Chasing Shadows in the Field
The goal of the year-long colloquium series sponsored by the graduate program in ethnomusicology at Brown University from which the majority of these essays emerged was to shift the focus of recent writing, research, and teaching in the discipline of ethnomusicology away from issues of representation toward matters of experience. The essays in Shadows in the Field suggest that a major paradigm shift in ethnomusicological thought has occurred, emb…
Title Pages
Confronting the Field(Note) In and Out of the Field
Field research is performed. The performance of field research is one of the most meaningful processes engaged by ethnomusicologists to define themselves. And writing about field research—ethnography, field diaries, fieldnotes-is often part of the process of re-performing field research. In this period of post-postmodernism the social sciences can no longer claim that the fieldworker escapes significant participation in the total cultural perform…
Shadows in the Field
Shadows in the Field
Meaning inbengamusic of western Kenya
This article presents three ethnographic case studies relating to benga music and related genres in Kisumu town in western Kenya that point to ways in which musical performances can be understood as affording multiple layers of meaning. I suggest that musical performance be approached as a multivalent process within which many meanings and interpretations are projected and received, and I outline ways in which benga and related musical performanc…
Dedication
Chasing Shadows in the Field
The goal of the year-long colloquium series sponsored by the graduate program in ethnomusicology at Brown University from which the majority of these essays emerged was to shift the focus of recent writing, research, and teaching in the discipline of ethnomusicology away from issues of representation toward matters of experience. The essays in Shadows in the Field suggest that a major paradigm shift in ethnomusicological thought has occurred, emb…
Title Pages
Confronting the Field(Note) In and Out of the Field
Field research is performed. The performance of field research is one of the most meaningful processes engaged by ethnomusicologists to define themselves. And writing about field research—ethnography, field diaries, fieldnotes-is often part of the process of re-performing field research. In this period of post-postmodernism the social sciences can no longer claim that the fieldworker escapes significant participation in the total cultural perform…
Shadows in the Field
Jukwaa la Taarab Zanzibar [The Stage of Zanzibar Taarab]
Shadows in the Field
Tanzanie
N'Dour, Youssou
South Africa, Republic of
Seeger, Anthony
Soukous
Kubik, Gerhard
Seeger family
Meaning inbengamusic of western Kenya
This article presents three ethnographic case studies relating to benga music and related genres in Kisumu town in western Kenya that point to ways in which musical performances can be understood as affording multiple layers of meaning. I suggest that musical performance be approached as a multivalent process within which many meanings and interpretations are projected and received, and I outline ways in which benga and related musical performanc…
Zimia
Shadows in the field
The contributors consider fieldwork as an issue-laden practice rather than as a methodology requiring a prescriptive manual, challenging the very notion of fieldwork, its goals and its place in historical studies
Art (7 works) · Diverse Musicological Studies (6 works) · Music History and Culture (6 works) · Musicology and Musical Analysis (6 works) · Anthropology (5 works) · Ethnography (5 works) · Ethnomusicology (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Field (mathematics) (4 works) · History (4 works)