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© 2017, V&R unipress GmbH, Göttingen ISBN Print: 9783847107217 – ISBN E-Lib: 9783737007214 firstofall,you’rereallysupposedtoknoweverything.Intheearlydoctoral exams at theUniversity of Illinois, that’s the way it was. There was this comprehensive viewofmusicology, but the centerof itwas thehistorical studyofWestern artmusic. The other thingswere somehow in anouter circle. That included ethnomusicology. I think that’swhatAdler actually did.Inhislifetime(writingin1885)onecouldhardlyblamehimfortaking this kind of a restricted view. Alex Ringer, by 1985, wanted to have eth- nomusicology,butnotverymuch.Ofcourse,therewereothercelebrations of thatevent intheworld. Iwent toaconference inAustria in1985,about this article and related things. I was the only American, and there was YoshihikoTokumaru48 fromJapan.EverybodyelsewasGerman-speaking. I don’t think there were any English there. They were all Germans and Austrians.Therewasaveryunpleasant talk–unpleasantvis-/-vis ethno- musicology – I remember, byHans Heinrich Eggebrecht49 (1919–1999). Theoddthing is that, at the time,1985, thiswasan importantmoment. If youaskstudentsnowinourdepartment,orevensomeoftheotherfaculty, Idon’t thinktheyknowaboutthismoment.Or if theydo, it’sprettyvague in theirminds, that is, about the1885article. The1885Article:Umfang,MethodeundZiel PVB: The1885article, of course, is knowntous in ethnomusicology through Charles Seeger and thenTony Seeger,50who returned to it, but also be- causeofourpride thatMusikologie is really ethnomusicology. BN: Ofcourse, I’vementioned it in severalplaces. PVB: It’s interesting ina certain sense, it hashadakindofniche influence in ethnomusicology. BN: It’shadmore influenceonethnomusicology thanonmusichistorians. I think you’re right, andmaybe it’s because of Seeger’s use and latermy own. 48 YoshihikoTokumaruisaJapanesemusicologist,whoseresearchandteachingincludesboth Western artmusic and the traditional artmusics of Japan.His publications use both his- torical andethnomusicological approaches. 49 HansHeinrichEggebrechtwas aGermanmusicologistwhosewritinghad strongaesthetic and cultural underpinnings. He wrote widely about themeaning ofmusic and the long historyofWesternartmusic.Hetaughtprimarilyat theUniversityofFreiburg imBreisgau. 50 AnthonySeeger isanAmericanethnomusicologistwhoseworkincludesIndigenousmusics of Brazil, American folkmusic, and cultural rights andmusic. He took his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago, directed FolkwayRecords at the Smithsonian Institution formany years, and taught at IndianaUniversity andUCLA. See the chapter byAnthonySeeger in: ComparativeMusicology andAnthropologyofMusic. Essays on theHistory of Ethnomu- sicology.Hg.vonBrunoNettlundPhilipV.Bohlman.Chicago:UniversityofChicagoPress 1991, S. 342–55. Adler inAmerica–AConversation 217 Open-Access-Publikation im Sinne der CC-Lizenz BY-NC-ND 4.0