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Indiana University Bloomington
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Adjunct and Affiliated Faculty : Faculty & Staff

Ruth StoneRuth Stone

  • Affiliated Professor, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, and Folklore and Ethnomusicology
  • Director, Ethnomusicology Institute

Education

  • Ph.D. at Indiana University, 1979

Research Interests

  • Music as culture and performance
  • Theory of ethnomusicology, Africa, the Middle East

Contact Information

stone@indiana.edu
508 N. Fess 104
(812) 855-0398

Courses Recently Taught

  • Pilgrimage & Music in the Middle East
  • Fieldnotes in African Research

Publication Highlights

  • Music of the Kpelle of Liberia. New York: Folkways Record Corporation,
    FE4385. Field recordings by Ruth M. and Verlon L. Stone, notes by Ruth M. Stone, 1972.
  • Let the Inside Be Sweet: The Interpretation of Music Event among the Kpelle of Liberia. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, xxvi, 182 pp., 1982.
  • Garland Handbook of African Music. New York: Garland Publishing, xv, 397 pp. 1999.
  • Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: The World’s Music: General Perspectives and Reference Tools. Vol.10. New York: Routledge, 2002.
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