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A Tropical Meditation on Comparison in Ethnomusicology: A Metaphoric Knife, a Real Banana and an Edible Demonstration
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 March 2019
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Asked to comment on several excellent papers in a session at the 2001 ICTM World Conference, I was inspired by a Brazilian metaphor and a breakfast banana to develop a description of the challenges of analysis and comparison in ethnomusicology. While what follows is a short meditation on an overextended metaphor, I hope it makes some more profound points in a way that can be reproduced at breakfast tables or classrooms anywhere in the world. Since the conference, I have found it useful in courses at the University of California at Los Angeles.
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- Copyright © 2002 By The International Council for Traditional Music
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I am very grateful to Maria Elizabeth Lucas and Judith Seeger for their extremely helpful suggestions on earlier drafts of the manuscript, but they are exempt from any responsibility for its final state.
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