"Historical Ethnomusicology": Reconstructing Falasha Liturgical History
"Historical Ethnomusicology": Reconstructing Falasha Liturgical History
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《历史民族音乐学》：重建法拉沙礼仪史
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1980
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K. K. Shelemay
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K. K. Shelemay
近几十年来，我们的学科的关注已经从分析音乐作为声音现象接近声音作为一个特定的文化系统的组成部分。我们已经意识到“音乐知识是文化知识”（霍夫曼1978：69）。然而，我们并没有经常充分利用通过研究现存音乐文化所获得的见解来更好地了解他们的过去。这里的主题可以称为“历史民族音乐学”。虽然一系列的主题可以包括在这个标题下，这个讨论将集中在潜在的共时性研究，以阐明它出现的历史连续性。一个简短的讨论，过去和潜在的贡献，民族音乐学的历史重建将遵循一个说明性的案例研究。民族音乐学内部对历史研究的缺乏重视，在很大程度上可以归因于与历史音乐学决裂的持久影响。尽管早期的民族音乐学家在历史竞技场中活动，但音乐学被视为一种本质上的历史追求，而民族音乐学则将生活传统作为其主题。虽然在历史研究中断断续续地提出了使用口头材料的建议，但大多数关于音乐学和民族音乐学关系的讨论继续加强了历时/共时的二分法（Chase 1958：7）
In recent decades, the concerns of our discipline have grown from analyzing music as sound phenomenon to approaching sound as an integral part of a particular cultural system. We have become aware that "musical knowledge is cultural knowledge" (Hoffman 1978:69). Yet, we do not often enough employ the insights gained through studies of living music cultures to better understand their pasts. The subject here is what may be termed "historical ethnomusicology."l Although a range of topics can be included under that rubric, this discussion will focus upon the potential that a synchronic study holds for illuminating the historical continuum from which it emerged. A brief discussion of the past and potential contribution of ethnomusicology to historical reconstruction will be followed by an illustrative case study. The lack of emphasis upon historical studies within ethnomusicology can be largely attributed to the lasting impact of the break from historical musicology. Despite activity of early ethnomusicologists in the historical arena, musicology was seen as an essentially historical pursuit while ethnomusicology had as its subject matter living traditions. Although suggestions were made intermittently for the use of oral materials in historical studies, most discussions of the relationship of musicology and ethnomusicology continued to reinforce a diachronic/synchronic dichotomy (Chase 1958:7)