- Paperback: 216 pages
- Publisher: Trickster Press (August 25, 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0915305496
- ISBN-13: 978-0915305490
“With the publication of Let the Inside Be Sweet in 1982, Ruth M. Stone
broke new methodological and analytical ground in ethnomusicology and
related disciplines. Let the Inside Be Sweet was the first
ethnomusicological monograph to make use of the feedback interview, a
method now pervasive in ethnographic research. Equally innovative was
Stone’s decision to use the “music event” as an analytical frame. A
masterful move, the music event served as an ideal locus for the study
of human interaction in the making of music and meanings. Synthesizing
symbolic interactionism, ethnosemantics, semiotics, and performance
theory, Let the Inside Be Sweet serves as a model for the study of
indigenous interpretations of music, communication and social life.”
-Daniel B. Reed, Associate Professor of Folklore and Ethnomusicology
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