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This book seems to be academically oriented, and the material would be challenging for someone who is not a devotee of the subject to understand (in other words, it's "deep").
Title: The Historiography of Music in Global Perspective.
Format: Pdf.
Author(s): Sam Mirelman (editor).
Publisher: Gorgias Press.
Pages: viii + 207.
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Book Description (from the Preface):
This book is based on a Study Day which I convened at the Institute of Musical Research (University of London) on July 4, 2009. The authors address issues surrounding the perception of music’s past in various historical periods, and various parts of the world. Many of the essays in this volume offer evaluations of episodes in the history of musical enquiry which are barely known in (ethno-) musicology, as well as archaeology or anthropology. Such episodes of enquiry or scholarship are important for several reasons. They may or may not contribute towards a greater factual understanding of music history, but they certainly have much to offer in terms of improving our understanding of wider cultural history, as well as musical thought, during the period in question. In particular, studies concentrating on the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries allow for a closer examination of the context in which the modern disciplines of musicology and ethnomusicology emerged. Furthermore, such episodes contextualise the history and background through which the contemporary discipline of music archaeology developed in the twentieth century (Lund). Indeed, this collection of articles highlights the extent to which the serious,
methodical study of music’s distant past has been a flourishing field of research since at least the mid nineteenth century until the present.
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URL: http://gorgiaspress.com/bookshop/dow...of%20Music.pdf.