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© 2017, V&R unipress GmbH, Göttingen ISBN Print: 9783847107217 – ISBN E-Lib: 9783737007214 ethnomusicology there’s a certain sense inwhich he occupied a foun- dationalposition formusic scholarship that includeddiversity. BN: There was one time, when John Blacking42 (1928–1990) undertook to labelAdlerasaracist.Ihaven’tthoughtaboutthisuntil justnow.Ibelieve thereisabookhewrote,calledÜberHeterophonie.43Itsomehowtakesan intercultural view and isn’t very complimentary. Somehow, Blacking consideredAdler as someonewhomovedthings in thewrongdirection. PVB: That’s an interesting kind of push-back. It comes from an anthro- pologist’sperspective. BN: Ofcourse, Blackingwasverymuchamusician.Thiswasoneof the few negative associations regardingAdler thatoccurs tome. Adler’s InfluenceonBrunoNettl BN: There’ssortofacuriousthing.Youcanmakeacase forastronginfluence, andon the other hand, you canmake a case for a relativelymodest, and evennegative, influencecomingfromAdler.Ihadn’treallyhadmuchtodo with anything aboutAdler. I saw something about it in Charles Seeger’s work.44 I didn’t paymuch attention. Then, in 1985, there came suddenly this notion that, oh, yes, everybody’s interested suddenly in Adler. I thoughtitwouldbegoodtodosomethingintheMusicologyDivisionatthe University of Illinois because, somehow, most of our graduate students didn’t really knowanything about this.Or, if theydid, theydidn’t attach any significance to it, that is, the 1885 article.45 Alexander Ringer46 (1921–2002)andIgavetwotalks,sidebyside.Itwasn’texactlyafunevent.I gave a talk that I’ve since published in a couple of places, it’s calledThe SeminalEighties.47Alexgaveatalkinwhichhecriticizedeverybodyfornot beingmore likeAdler. Idon’tknowwhathewanted,butwhat itmeant to himtobelikeAdler?Ithink, inaway,itwasaviewofmusicologyinwhich, 42 JohnBlackingwasaBritishethnomusicologistandanthropologist,whoseresearchfocused largelyonmusicinAfricaandthebasicmusicalityofhumanbeings.Teachingformanyyears attheQueen’sUniversityofBelfast,hearguedforthecriticalimportanceofanthropologyfor the studyofmusic inculture. 43 BrunoNettl refershere to thebook,GuidoAdler:ÜberHeterophonie.Leipzig:Peters1908. 44 See, e.g., the essays in Charles Seeger: Studies inMusicology, 1935–1975. Berkeley: Uni- versityofCaliforniaPress1977. 45 Adler:Umfang,MethodeundZiel (Anm.18). 46 AlexanderRingerwasanAmericanmusicologistofGerman,Dutch,andJewishheritage.A concentration campsurvivor, he immigrated to theUnited States after studies at theUni- versityofAmsterdamandtookaPh.D.atColumbiaUniversity.Hetaught formanyyearsat the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and played a critical role in establishing musicologyat theHebrewUniversityof Jerusalem. 47 See, e.g., Chapter1 in: BrunoNettl:Nettl’s Elephant.On theHistoryofEthnomusicology. Urbana:Universityof IllinoisPress2010, S. 3–21. PhilipV.Bohlman/BrunoNettl216 Open-Access-Publikation im Sinne der CC-Lizenz BY-NC-ND 4.0