Description: This collection of essays addresses and critically examines key issues in contemporary ethnomusicology. Set in two parts, the volume explores ethnomusicology's shifting disciplinary relationships and plots a range of potential developments for its future.
Brief description: Philip V. Bohlman is Ludwig Rosenberger Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, USA and Artistic Director of the cabaret ensemble, New Budapest Orpheum Society. He is the author of many books including Wolokolamsker Chaussee (2021) part of Bloomsbury's 33 1/3 Europe series. He is the 2022 International Balzan Prize Laureate in Ethnomusicology.
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"The book includes something for everybody." --Choice Reviews
"This volume brings to the fore pivotal issues that problematize the contemporary disciplinary identity of ethnomusicology....It provides rich insights into ethnomusicological discourses and raises many unanswered questions that stimulate a re-thinking about the contemporary identity of ethnomusicology. In short, this volume will not only be an invaluable addition to university programs in ethnomusicology, but it will also be of significant interest to the wider academic community in ethnomusicology." --Ethnomusicology