ABSTRACT
Literature and drama have offered models and analytic devices that ethnomusicologists have found to be useful tools. Among the most pertinent are metaphor, dramaturgical, and deconstruction theories. All derive from the humanities and are attractive for certain kinds of ethnomusicological studies. They are also significant because, in this book, the theories presented have borrowed from anthropology, biology, and linguistics. In metaphor, we see a model that emerges, in part, from literary criticism and the humanities.
