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‘Music as culture’ examines the connections that ethnomusicologists make between music and culture. Culture, in an ethnomusicologist sense, refers to all forms of human knowledge, creativity, and values, and to their expression in various activities.
Aug 14, 2018 · Abstract. Music is inextricably linked with the context in which it is produced, consumed and taught and the inter-relationship between music, society and culture has been researched for many decades. Seminal research in the field of ethnomusicology has explored how social and cultural customs influence music practices in macro and micro ways.
- Georgina Barton
- 2018
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Two assumptions were fundamental to much of the work of the founding gures of fi comparative musicology: Cultures evolved from simple to complex, and as they do so they move from primitive to ...
- Patrick E. Savage
- 2019
Anthropology is defined as “the scientific study of the origin: the behavior: and the physical, social and cultural development of humans.”3 In seminar, Dr. Guerron-Montero defines culture as learned and shared knowledge that people use to generate behavior and interpret experience.
While there is no inter-culturally valid definition of music, and the cover term music is found in only selected cultures, a number of presumptive universals indicate that musicality is a prominent and distinctive characteristic of humankind. All peoples engage in activities that we would call music, often in relation to play, and everywhere in ...
- Sandra E. Trehub, Judith Becker, Iain Morley
- 2015
In addition, her study demonstrated that anthropological methods were useful in the study of dance. The influence of Boas, as mediated by Herskovits and Merriam, can be seen in her definition of dance: Dance is a transient art of expression, performed in a given form and style by the human body moving in space.
Nov 27, 2023 · Music makes us human. Every culture on earth has music. In fact, every human society extending back into prehistoric times has had music. Most of us are surrounded by music. We use it to enhance our mood and to regulate our metabolism, to keep us awake and help us go to sleep, as background to accompany the work, study, exercise, and relaxation that fills our days. But it is precisely when ...
