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Nettl and Merriam Reflections on Two Classic Works on Their 50Th Volume 49, Number 4 Autumn 2015 Nettl and Merriam Reflections on Two Classic Works on their 50th Anniversary Introduction, Timothy Rice, UCLA e celebrated the 50th anniversary of our Society Most important, I believe, is to realize that these two Win 2005, and in the future we will have many more books appeared at a time when a lot of other things were opportunities to celebrate important 50th anniversaries. At also going on in ethnomusicology. Things were clearly this meeting in 2014, I thought that the 50th anniversary stirring, including the idea of training people in consider- of the publication of two important books would provide an able numbers to be ethnomusicologists. Let me mention interesting locus for reflection of the history of ethnomusi- a few milestones of the time. Curt Sachs’s last book, The cology and on its changing nature. Those books, pub- Wellsprings of Music, in which he changed his mind about lished in 1964, are Bruno Nettl’s Theory and Method in a number of his older beliefs, was published in 1961. Ethnomusicology and Alan P. Merriam’s The Anthropology In 1962, Alan Lomax began his cantometrics project in of Music. Sadly, we lost one of these authors in 1980, but, his association with Columbia University. Also in 1962, thankfully, one of the authors is with us today. a major meeting of SEM, with a program that aimed to For this panel, I invited people who I thought had prob- present a holistic view of the field, took place in Blooming- ably entered the field as graduate students in the few ton, many of its papers published in the tenth anniversary years or decade after the publication of these books. I issue of Ethnomusicology in 1963. This issue includes asked them to reflect on the impact of these books when significant items—basic position statements by Merriam they were graduate students. So, if you are young, try to and Hood; historical accounts by McAllester and Rhodes; imagine us as you, when we entered the field at your age a long review of Sachs’s book by Kolinski; a substantial and were encountering recent scholarly literature in the big symposium on dance. SEM seemed to be staking out field for the first time. Let’s begin with our honored guest, its territory. Bruno Nettl. Also in 1963, Alain Daniélou established the Interna- tional Institute for Comparative Music Studies in Berlin. Bruno Nettl, University of Illinois And the symposium on transcription and analysis, which I want first to express appreciation (and a degree of aimed to solve certain problems once and for all, took embarrassment) to find that the publication of my book place at 1963 meeting at Wesleyan University, the results Theory and Method in Ethnomusicology should be com- published in a 1964 issue of Ethnomusicology. And also, memorated, and indeed along with Alan Merriam’s The 1963 saw publication of the book Musicology by Frank Ll. Anthropology of Music, which I think has been far more Harrison, Mantle Hood, and Claude Palisca, containing influential. I have to confess that I feel rather surprised Hood’s position essay, “Music, the Unknown.” I want to to find that my book is still remembered after fifty years come back to that. 1965 saw the first attempts at text- and I want to thank Tim Rice and all of the panelists for books on world music, two volumes (by William Malm and considering it worthy of some attention. My feelings of myself) in the Prentice-Hall Music History series. pleasure have to be mitigated as it is also a moment of I think this was a short period in which ethnomusicology sadness because my counterpart must be represented by matured into a discipline or a field with substantial inde- an empty chair. pendence. I appreciate being given a chance to say a few words by Let me say a few words on how my book came about. It way of background of these two books, what it was like to was really the result of a conversation in 1962 with work in this field at that time. Let me make a few distinct Theodore Karp, then the music editor for Free Press, later points. a distinguished medievalist at Northwestern, about the need for a text. 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