{"product_id":"heartland-excursions","title":"Heartland Excursions","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eHeartland Excursions,\u003c\/i\u003e a legendary ethnomusicologist takes the reader along for a delightful, wide-ranging tour of his workplace. Bruno Nettl provides an insightful, sometimes tongue-in-cheek, always pithy ethnography of midwestern university schools of music from a different perspective in each of four chapters, alternating among three distinct voices: the longtime professor, the \"native informant,\" and the outside observer, an \"ethnomusicologist from Mars.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf you've ever been to a concert or been connected to a university with a school of music, you ll discover yourself--or someone you know--in these pages. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In the music building you can't tell the quick from the dead without a program.\"--Chapter 1, \"In the Service of the Masters\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The great ability of a violin student whom I observed was established when his dean was persuaded to accompany him.\"--Chapter 2, \"Society of Musicians\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Some teachers of music history would accuse students who listen to Elvis Presley not only of taking time away from hearing Brahms, but also of polluting themselves.\"--Chapter 3, \"A Place for All Musics?\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt commencement, the graduates \"were perhaps not aware that they had just participated in an event in which the principal values of the Western musical world . . . had been taken out of storage bins for annual exercise.\"--Chapter 4, \"Forays into the Repertory\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bruno Nettl","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53614351909244,"sku":"9780252064685","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/missing-cover_298eac16-d0ed-4e2d-a711-977a00633fbb.jpg?v=1746711326","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/heartland-excursions","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}