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TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgments xi Preface: Prof. Jonathan McCollum xiii INTRODUCTION Defining: What and Why? 1 CHAPTER ONE The Defining Method and the Ethnomusicologist's Suitability as Definer 5 Defining 7 A few preliminaries about definition 10 Towards a set of areas covered by most definitions of nouns 13 The criteria and their relation to scholars 16 Arguing for ethnomusicologists' suitability to define music 17 General arguments 23 Particular factors 31 Conclusion 38 CHAPTER TWO Common patterns in defining music and their problems 41 Organisation 41 What is being organised? 56 Qualities 61 Properties 69 Refining the categorisation of relations 82 Conclusion 85 CHAPTER THREE Folk Music 87 Situating the discussion historically 87 The larger category: Music or folk culture 98 Other limitations of subsuming folk music under folk culture 106 Folk music as music 122 Musical constituents 125 Qualities 134 Properties 143 Defining folk music as a means of demarcating ethnomusicological subject-matter 144 CHAPTER FOUR Classical Music 147 Usage of the term 'classical' in music 148 Factors in defence of a singular concept 154 Against similarities between the various classical musics 168 Does classical music parallel folk music in its relation to a social group and its culture? 179 CHAPTER FIVE Popular Music 183 Popular music and popular culture 183 Popular music as communication 197 Constituent categories 200 Qualities 202 Properties 210 Concluding note 212 CHAPTER SIX The Persistence of Genres 213 Justifying on traditionally accepted grounds 215 The problem of ready identifiability of broad genres 219 A simple theoretical model 220 Refinements 224 Musical characteristics as representational or sensational 224 Visibility 231 A position? 245 CHAPTER SEVEN The Concept of Music 249 Sign, reference, and sense 251 Different ideas of the same reference 253 The problem of different references 256 Cross-cultural methodologies 258 Hiromi Sakata's description of the concept of music in Afghanistan 259 A visual model for the concept of music 265 APPENDIX A 267 Selected English Language Definitions (Mainly Primary Entries) 267 APPENDIX B 273 Selected Non-English Language Definitions 273 APPENDIX C 289 English Language Encyclopedia Definitions 289 APPENDIX D 293 European Language Encyclopedia Definitions 293 APPENDIX E 297 Musicological Definitions or Relevant Assertions 297 SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 305 NAME INDEX 325 INDEX 329
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
Ethnomusicology.