The Cherokee Ballgame Cycle: An Ethnomusicologist's View

Abstract

A lthough the original task set before Dr. Fogelson and myself was a comparison of differences of approach when an ethnographer and an ethnomusicologist study the same phenomenon, we discovered that our basic methods and goals were almost identical. Our original points of focus and our theoretical stances were different, but the results of our respective work on the Cherokee ballgame cycle were much the same. This is not to say, however, that any ethnographer and any ethnomusicologist who study the same people will agree in conclusions, or even in field observations. The general agreement of Dr. Fogelson and myself is in large measure due to the fact that the Cherokee ballgame cycle is a cultural performance, or occasion. Various types of activity may be approached as cultural performances, or occasions. According to Milton Singer

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