Bruno Nettl on Insider and Outsider

You will never understand this music.

You will never understand this music.
Imbalance
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 Defence
• Ethnomusicologists have abandoned old paradigms that
dehumanize and look down upon other musical cultures.

The ethnomusicologists do their best to represent culture in its own terms.

They go against they own countries’ colonial policies to represent

their hosts’ musical cultures.
Who is the insider?
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 In summary
• It might be impossible for us to fully
appreciate the uniqueness and grandness of
the music cultures we study.
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