The Garland encyclopedia of world music
The Garland encyclopedia of world music
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加兰世界音乐百科全书
DOI：
10.2307/3086435
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发表时间：
2001
影响因子：
0.1
通讯作者：
T. Rice
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作者：
Bruno Nettl;R. Stone;James Porter;T. Rice
学者们创造了各种各样的百科全书，致力于保存和传播关于世界的知识。音乐研究本身就是许多语言的百科全书的主题。然而，到目前为止，音乐百科全书一词一直是对欧洲传统的历史、理论和表演实践的调查的同义词。1988年7月，《加兰世界音乐百科全书》的编辑们聚集在一起开会，以确定一项庞大的新事业的性质和范围。为此，作为第一部致力于世界各国人民音乐的百科全书，编辑们决定摒弃传统的按字母顺序将知识从A到Z划分的方法。取而代之的是，他们选择了一种地域方法，每卷都专注于一个地区，并将报道分配给世界上特定音乐文化的专家。几十年来，民族音乐学家(沿袭了前几代比较音乐学家的做法)一直通过田野调查、录音和分析来记录世界音乐。现在，他们第一次创建了一本百科全书，在一个地方总结了自20世纪60年代以来此类文献爆炸产生的主要发现。这一系列的书包含了从一开始就定义了民族音乐学领域的所有专家的贡献：人类学家、语言学家、舞蹈民族学家、文化历史学家、民俗学家、文学学者，当然还有音乐学家、作曲家和表演家。这种多学科的方法继续丰富这一领域，未来几代学生和学者将发现《加兰世界音乐百科全书》是一个无价的资源，有助于提供各种类型的知识。每一卷都有相似的设计和组织：三大部分涵盖了一个地区的主要主题，从广泛的一般问题到具体的音乐实践。每一节都由主要研究人员撰写的文章组成，大量的词汇表和索引使读者可以轻松地访问术语、名称和感兴趣的地方。
Scholars have created many kinds of encyclopedias devoted to preserving and transmitting knowledge about the world. The study of music has itself been the subject of numerous encyclopedias in many languages. Yet until now the term music encyclopedia has been synonymous with surveys of the history, theory, and performance practice of European-based traditions. In July 1988, the editors of The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music gathered for a meeting to determine the nature and scope of a massive new undertaking. For this, the first encyclopedia devoted to the music of all the world's peoples, the editors decided against the traditional alphabetic approach to compartmentalizing knowledge from A to Z . Instead, they chose a geographic approach, with each volume devoted to a single region and coverage assigned to the world's experts on specific music cultures. For several decades, ethnomusicologists (following the practice of previous generations of comparative musicologists) have been documenting the music of the world through fieldwork, recording, and analysis. Now, for the first time, they have created an encyclopedia that summarizes in one place the major findings that have resulted from the explosion in such documentation since the 1960s. The volumes in this series comprise contributions from all those specialists who have from the start defined the field of ethnomusicology: anthropologists, linguists, dance ethnologists, cultural historians, folklorists, literary scholars, and—of course—musicologists, composers, and performers. This multidisciplinary approach continues to enrich the field, and future generations of students and scholars will find The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music to be an invaluable resource that contributes to knowledge in all its varieties. Each volume has a similar design and organization: three large sections that cover the major topics of a region from broad general issues to specific music practices. Each section consists of articles written by leading researchers, and extensive glossaries and indexes give the reader easy access to terms, names, and places of interest.