ISBN:
0-226-42549-5
,
978-0-226-42549-8
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
XIX, 329 Seiten
Serie:
Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology
Schlagwort(e):
Musikethnologie Musikinstrument
;
Musikwissenschaft
;
Musik und Kultur
;
Geschichte
;
Typologie
;
Handbuch
Kurzfassung:
Kartomi first moves through a culture-specific inspection of several societies in Europe, Asia, and Africa, and then, synthesizing current ethnomusicological trends, proceeds to make a large-scale comparative study of classification schemes and the concepts which govern them. (Verlagsangaben)
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- I. On the Nature of Classifications of Musical Instruments -- 1. Any Classification Is Superior to Chaos -- 2. On the Methodology of Classification: Taxonomies, Keys, Paradigms and Typologies -- 3. Cognitive Directions: Downward and Upward Grouping -- II. Classification in Societies Oriented toward Literary Transmission -- 4. Continuities and Change in Chinese Classifications -- 5. Indian and Srilankan Classifications from Ancient to Modern Times -- 6. The Priority of Musical over Religious Characters in Grouping Tibetan Monastic Instruments -- 7. The Case of Java--Classifications in Oral Tradition and the Recent Development of Literary Schemes -- 8. Greek Taxonomical Thought from Archaic to Hellenistic Times -- 9. National Identity and Other Themes of Classification in the Arab World -- 10. European Classifications from Medieval Times to the Eighteenth Century -- 11. The Expanding Concept of Instruments in the West during the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries -- 12. Upward Classification of Instruments: The Method of the Future? -- III. Classification in Societies Oriented toward Oral Transmission -- 13. Parallels between Social Structure and Ensemble Classification in Mandailing -- 14. Taxonomical Models of the Instrumentarium and Regional Ensembles in Minangkabau -- 15. Groupings Governed by Key Cultural Concepts of the T'boli -- 16. The Personification of Instruments in Some West African Classifications -- 17. Cognitive Categories, Paradigms, and Taxonomies among the 'Are'are -- 18. A Finnish-Karelian Taxonomy as a Historiographical Tool -- Epilogue: The Seamless Web -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Glossary of Terms Used in Classification Theory -- Index
Anmerkung:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 303-317
