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© 2017, V&R unipress GmbH, Göttingen ISBN Print: 9783847107217 – ISBN E-Lib: 9783737007214 PVB: AndbecauseofEricaMugglestone’s translation in theYearbook forTra- ditionalMusic,whichonlyethnomusicologistswouldread.51 IntellectualHistoriesofMusicologyandEthnomusicology BN: It’s also true that for some reasons ethnomusicologists, at least in the United States, have always beenmore interested in the history of the discipline. Ithastodowiththisnotionofthefourheroicfounders:David McAllester,52Alan P.Merriam,53Willard Rhodes,54 and Charles Seeger. Maybealso, intheUnitedStates, thehistoryofethnomusicology ismore important than thehistoryof historicalmusicology. PVB: I think this is an interesting point. One of the things I notice in the CambridgeHistoryofWorldMusic55 is that,where there is a fair amount about theBerlinPhonogramm-Archiv, there is quite abit less about the ViennaPhonogrammarchiv.There is a senseof foundation takingplace when ethnomusicology is given names, like with “Volkslied” in 1778/ 1779.56Adlerdid this in1885, in thevergleichend sense. BN: Hedoes say vergleichendeMusikwissenschaft. I don’t think he thought, “I’mgoing to establisha termfor this.” PVB: All this is readinghistorybackwards. BN: Iknow,peoplesay,“Whendidthis termoriginate?”Anybodycouldhave thoughtofthat.Ontheotherhand,ofcourse,Ithinkthevergleichendhas nothing todowithcomparing, rather it’s a codeword formulticultural. That’s somethingonehas to explain forothers. PVB: What about some of these other influences. TheAdlerianmodel was a certain type ofwriting ofmusic history, which is comparative in some ways.HewasmoreorlessobservingitratherthansayingI’mdoingit.Do wehaveany senseof other things that influenced, not necessarily other 51 EricaMugglestone:GuidoAdler’s“TheScope, theMethod,andtheAimofMusicology”.An EnglishTranslationwithanHistorico-AnalyticalCommentary. In:YearbookforTraditional Music13 (1981), S. 1–21. 52 DavidMcAllesterwasoneof themost importantethnomusicologistsdedicatedtothestudy of themusic ofNativeAmericans.He taught atWesleyanUniversity formanyyears, esta- blishing theprograms inworldmusic andethnomusicology there. 53 AlanP.MerriamwasanAmericanethnomusicologistandanthropologistwhospecializedin Africanmusic,NativeAmericanmusic,andjazz.Hestronglyadvocatedanthropologyasthe basis for ethnomusicological study. 54 WillardRhodeswasanAmericanethnomusicologistwhosework largely focusedonNative American traditions.He taught formany years atColumbiaUniversity, where he also de- veloped theethnomusicologyarchive. 55 TheCambridgeHistoryofWorldMusic.Hg.vonPhilipV.Bohlman.Cambridge:Cambridge UniversityPress2013. 56 JohannGottfried Herder: Volkslieder, 2 Bde. Leipzig:Weygandsche Buchhandlung 1778/ 1779. PhilipV.Bohlman/BrunoNettl218 Open-Access-Publikation im Sinne der CC-Lizenz BY-NC-ND 4.0