Ethnomusicology : A Study of Intercultural Musicology/S.A.K. Durga. Madras, Center for Ethnomusicology, 1996, viii, 123 p., $11 (pbk). [Monograph Series No. 2]
Contents: Foreword. Preface. Introduction. 1. Understanding ethnomusicology. 2. Ethnomusicology as a methodology. 3. Ethnomusicology and folk music research. 4. Ethnomusicology in India. 5. Western influence upon the musics of Japan, China, India and Indonesia. 6. Intercultural aspects in the classical musics of India. 7. Intercultural aspects in the musics and theatre of South East Asia. 8. Interculturalism in the non-classical musics of South Asia. Bibliography.
"This work describes how the discipline Ethnomusicology is a study of Intercultural Musicology. The history, theory and methodology of Ethnomusicology, the emergence of Ethnomusicology in India, the Intercultural aspects in the scholastic and performing traditions in the musics and theatre of Asia are dealt with to highlight that Ethnomusicology is oriented more towards Intercultural studies and is a study of Intercultural Musicology."