Book Reviews

[Monograph 35].- M. Estellie Smith, Peter J.M. Nas, Issues in urban development; Case studies from Indonesia. Many scholars have argued for some decades now that ethnomusicology be defined by its approach to music {any music) and not by the place or culture of origin of that music; and, indeed, numerous ethnomusicological studies of the last fifteen years interpret Western art music through the cultural hermeneutics we now readily identify as 'ethnomusicological.' [...]the author states, 'Besides all these "foreign" authorities on Florenese music, the Florenese themselves are very knowledgeable about their traditional music. While I would disagree with Gomperts when he states that 'a clear, unambiguous notion of scales and tuning systems [...] is one of the essential objectives of ethnomusicology' (p. 178), his article offers one of the best statistical studies of tuning