The Study of Ethnomusicology: Thirty-One Issues and Concepts Book

1	The harmless drudge : defining ethnomusicology	3
2	The art of combining tones : the music concept	16
3	Inspiration and perspiration : the creative process	27
4	The universal language : universals of music	42
5	The nonuniversal language : varieties of music	50
6	Apples and oranges : comparative study	60
7	I can't say a thing until I've seen the score : transcription	74
8	In the speech mode : contemplating repertories	92
9	The most indefatigable tourists of the world : tunes and their relationships	113
10	Come back and see me next Tuesday : essentials of fieldwork	133
11	You will never understand this music : insiders and outsiders	149
12	Hanging on for dear life : archives and preservation	161
13	I am the greatest : ordinary and exceptional musicians	172
14	You call that fieldwork? : redefining the "field"	184
15	What do you think you're doing? : the host's perspective	197
16	Music and "that complex whole" : music in culture	215
17	The meat-and-potatoes book : musical ethnography	232
18	Music hath charms : uses and functions	244
19	In the beginning : on the origins of music	259
20	The continuity of change : on people changing their music	272
21	Recorded, printed, written, oral : traditions	291
22	The basic unit of all culture and civilization : signs and symbols	302
23	Location, location, location! : interpreting geographic distribution	320
24	The whys of musical style : determinants	339
25	I've never heard a horse sing : musical taxonomies	357
26	The creatures of Jubal : instruments	376
27	How do you get to Carnegie Hall? : teaching and learning	388
28	I'm stranger here myself : women's music, women in music	404
29	Diversity and difference : some minorities	419
30	A new era : the 1990s and beyond	431
31	The shape of the story : remarks on history	443