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The name change signaled another shift in the field: ethnomusicology moved away from studying the origins, evolution, and comparison of musical practices, and toward thinking of music as one of many human activities, like religion, language, and food. In short, the field became more anthropological.
As you can see, the field of ethnomusicology changed its perspectives and its con ception of its tasks, even its name, substantially over the past 125 years. I could have given much more evidence. Can we who are in ethnomusicology claim that the field, as a whole?and not just in accumulating data on individual cultures and repertories?has
What directions might or should it take in the new millenium? With contributions from a number of key figures in Ethnomusicology and related disciplines, this volume explores Ethnomusicology’s shifting relationship to other disciplines and to its own ‘mythic’ history, and plots a range of potential developments for its future.
- Sidney Monteiro
In 1981 the IFMC changed its name to the International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM), and it continues to flourish today as an important institution supporting an international dialogue among scholars studying primarily the music of their own nations.
name musikologie did not last long because Guido Adler renamed the field in 1885, and Comparative Music was born. Guido defined the field as dealing with folksongs of different peoples for ethnographical and comparative purposes. Later the definitions were adapted to focus only on the music of non-western cultures (Merriam 1977).
Mantle Hood took his definition from the Journal of the American Musicology Society, with the insertion of the prefix "ethno'. in suggesting that "[Ethno musicology is a field of knowledge, having as its. object the investigation of the art of music as a physical, psychological, aes-. thetic, and cultural phenomenon.
Ethnomusicology is the study of why, and how, human beings are musical. This definition positions ethnomusicology among the social sciences, humanities, and biological sciences dedicated to understanding the nature of the human species in all its biological, social, cultural, and artistic diversity.
