Ruth M. Stone (Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana)

Submitted:  Wed, 3 September 2003


Ruth M. Stone
Chair, Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology
Professor of Ethnomusicology
Indiana University

Mail address:
504 N. Fess
Bloomington, Indiana  47405  USA

phone:   812-855-0398
fax:     812-855-4008
e-mail:  stone@indiana.edu



Select Publications: Books

Author of:

Let the Inside Be Sweet: The Interpretation of Music Event among the Kpelle
of Liberia.  Bloomington: Indiana University Press, xxvi, 182 pp., 1982.

Dried Millet Breaking: Time, Words, and Song in the Woi Epic of the Kpelle.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, xvii, 150 pp., 1988.

Editor of:

African Music and Oral Data: A Catalog of Field Recordings 1902-1975. Edited
with Frank J. Gillis. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, xviii, 412 pp.,
1976.

Performance in Contemporary African Arts. Edited by Ruth M. Stone.
Introduction by Ruth M. Stone. Bloomington: African Studies and Journal of
Folklore Research.

Also published as a double issue of the Journal of Folklore Research, vol.
25, nos. 1/2. 140 pp., 1988.

Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: Africa. Volume 1. New York: Garland
Publishing, xv, 851 pp., 1998.

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.  New York: Routledge, 2002.

Traveling Home: Music, Politics, and the Commemoration of a Life.  In
Five Windows on Africa.  CD-ROM. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 
2000.  See: http://www.indiana.edu/~iupress/books/0-253-33759-3.shtml