Heartland Excursions: Ethnomusicological Reflections on Schools of Music

by Bruno Nettl

In Heartland Excursions, a legendary ethnomusicologist takes the reader along for a delightful, wide-ranging tour of his workplace. Bruno Nettl provides an insightful, sometimes tongue-in-cheek, always pithy ethnography of midwestern university schools of music from a different perspective in each of four chapters, alternating among three distinct voices: the longtime professor, the "native informant," and the outside observer, an "ethnomusicologist...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252064682
• ISBN13: 9780252064685
• Release Date: February 1995
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"