In Following the Elephant, Bruno Nettl edits articles drawn from fifty years of the pioneering journal Ethnomusicology. The roster of acclaimed scholars hail from across generations, using other works in the collection as launching points for dialogues on the history and accomplishments of the field. Nettl divides the collection into three sections. In the first, authors survey ethnomusicology from perspectives that include thoughts on defining and conceptualizing the field and its concepts. The second section offers milestones in the literature that critique major works. The authors look at what separates ethnomusicology from other forms of music research and discuss foundational issues. The final section presents scholars considering ethnomusicology—including recent trends—from the perspective of specific, but abiding, strands of thought. Contributors: Charlotte J. Frisbie, Mieczylaw Kolinski, Gerhard Kubik, George List, Alan P. Merriam, Bruno Nettl, David Pruett, Adelaida Reyes, Timothy Rice, Jesse D. Ruskin, Kay Kaufman Shelemay, Gabriel Solis, Jeff Todd Titon, J. Lawrence Witzleben, and Deborah Wong| Cover Title Contents Introduction Bruno Nettl PART I Ethnomusicology, the Field and the Society - David P. McAllester Definitions of "Comparative Musicology" and "Ethnomusicology": An Historical-Theoretical Perspective - Alan P. Merriam Ethnomusicology: A Discipline Defined - George List A View of Ethnomusicology from the 1960s - Charlotte J. Frisbie The Individual in Musical Ethnography - Jesse D. Ruskin and Timothy Rice PART II Recent Trends in Ethnomusicology - Mieczyslaw Kolinski Toward the Remodeling of Ethnomusicology - Timothy Rice Whose Ethnomusicology? Western Ethnomusicology and the Study of Asian Music - J. Lawrence Witzleben What Do Ethnomusicologists Do? An Old Question for a New Century - Adelaida Reyes PART III In Honor of Our Principal Teachers - Bruno Nettl Music, the Public Interest, and the Practice of Ethnomusicology - Jeff Todd Titon Toward an Ethnomusicology of the Early Music Movement: Thoughts on Bridging Disciplines and Musical Worlds - Kay Kaufman Shelemay Ethnomusicology and Difference - Deborah Wong Thoughts on an Interdiscipline: Music Theory, Analysis, and Social Theory in Ethnomusicology - Gabriel Solis |Bruno Nettl is professor emeritus of music and anthropology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and the author of The Study of Ethnomusicology: Thirty-Three Discussions and many other books.