Document Type
Article
Department/Program
Music
Department
Global Studies
Journal Title
Ethnomusicology
Pub Date
Spring 2015
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Volume
59
Issue
2
First Page
173
Abstract
In a critical appraisal and expansion of the historical methodology championed by ethnomusicologist and anthropologist Richard Waterman, this essay reconsiders the historicity of musical performance and demonstrates ways in which treating ethnography genealogically may serve as a means of doing what Thomas Solomon calls “postcolonial music history.” This essay is broadly divided into three parts: a review of Waterman’s work, a theoretical revamping and an abbreviated case study taken from my own research on Catholic patron saint rituals in Bahia, Brazil.
Recommended Citation
Iyanaga, Michael, On Flogging the Dead Horse, Again: Historicity, Genealogy, and Objectivity in Richard Waterman's Approach to Music (2015). Ethnomusicology, 59(2), 173-201.
https://doi.org/10.5406/ethnomusicology.59.2.0173
DOI
https://doi.org/10.5406/ethnomusicology.59.2.0173
