Table of Contents

List of illustrations
Chapter 1: Defining ethnomusicology
Chapter 2: A bit of history
Chapter 3: Conducting research
Chapter 4: The nature of music
Chapter 5: Music and culture
Chapter 6: Individual musicians
Chapter 7: Writing music history
Chapter 8: Ethnomusicology in the modern world
Chapter 9: Ethnomusicologists at work
References
Further reading
Suggestions for listening

About the Author

Timothy Rice is Professor of Ethnomusicology and the Director of the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music at the University of California, Los Angeles. His books include May it Fill Your Soul: Experiencing Bulgarian Music and Music in Bulgaria: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture. A leader in the field, he is a former editor of the journal Ethnomusicology and a past president of the Society for Ethnomusicology.

Reviews

"Rice's short book delivers a well-structured and comparatively accessible look both into the development of ethnomusicology and into important areas of research, introduces influential studies and researchers, and can well be recommended as a concise alternative to Bruno Nettl's more comprehensive The Study of Ethnomusicology."--Die Musikforschung