Toward a Mediation of Field Methods and Field Experience in Ethnomusicology

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ID23633205
AuthorsTimothy Rice (0000-0003-2555-5793, corresponding author)
Year1996
Pages101-120
Publication date1996-11-21
Open AccessNo
TypeCHAPTER
VenueShadows in the Field (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOxford University PressNew York, NY (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/oso/9780195109108.003.0006
OpenAlexW4388342993
ISBN9780195109108
LanguageEN
Citations received9

Fieldwork is so central to contemporary ethnomusicology that I would suppose nearly every graduate program devoted to training ethnomusicologists has a course on it, probably with a title containing the phrase “fieldwork methods:’ The three nouns in these courses’ titles (method, field, and work) speak volumes about our collective understanding of theory and method in ethnomusicology, and thus pro vide the place where I would like to begin this reflection on fieldwork. I hope to show the limits of the usefulness of this phrase and the possibilities for an alternative view of where the field is and what happens in the field, a view that balances method and working with experience and playing. To do so, I move narratively between theoretical or philosophical reflection and some of my own fieldwork experiences, just as I do in practice.

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