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Barz, Gregory. 2006. Singing for Life . New York: Routledge.

Barz, Gregory F. and Timothy J. Cooley, eds. 1997. Shadows in the Field: New Perspectives for Fieldwork in Ethnomusicology . New York: Oxford University Press.

Blacking, John.1971. How Musical is Man? Seattle: University of Washington Press.

----- . 1995.  Music Culture & Experience: Selected Papers of John Blacking .   C hicago: University of Chicago Press.

Bohlman, Philip V. 1988. The Study of Folk Music in the Modern World . Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

-----. 2004. The Music of European Nationalism: Cultural Identity and Modern History . Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO

Feld, Steven. 1989. Sound and Sentiment: Birds, Weeping, Poetics, and Song in Kaluli Expression . Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Hood, Mantle.1971 . The Ethnomusicologist .   New York: McGraw Hill.

Koskoff, Ellen, ed. 1989.   Women and Music in Cross-Cultural Perspective . Urbana:  U niversity of Illinois Press.

Merriam, Alan. 1964. The Anthropology of Music . Evanston: Northwestern University Press.

Myers, Helen, ed. 1992. Ethnomusicology: An Introduction . London: Macmillan.

Nettl, Bruno. 2005. The Study of Ethnomusicology : Thirty-One Issues and Concepts . Urbana: University of Illinois Press.

Nettl, Bruno and Philip V. Bohlman, eds. 1991. Comparative Musicology and Anthropology of Music: Essays on the History of Ethnomusicology . Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Post, Jennifer C., e d.  2006.   Ethnomusicology:  A Contemporary Reader .  New York:  Routledge

----- .  Ethnomusicology: A Research and Information Guide .  New York:  Routledge, 2004.

Roseman, Marina. 1993. Healing Sounds from the Malaysian Rainforest . Berkeley: University of California Press.

Seeger, Charles . 1977.  Studies in Ethnomusicology 1935- 1975 . Berkeley : University of California Press.

Shelemay, Kay Kaufman, editor. 1992. Ethnomusicology History, Definitions, and Scope . New York: Garland.

Stone, Ruth. 2008. Theory in Ethnomusicology . Upper Saddle River , NJ: Pearson/Prentice Hall.