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Aug 25, 2021 · This paper argues for ethnomusicologists to begin using performance not just as a tool to understand the social and cultural field, but to use music and dance as methods in ‘translational’ ethnomusicology that focuses upon the translation and communication of artistic performance aesthetics and to theorise a space for research outcomes that ...
- Simon McKerrell
- 2021
From the early 1980s to 2000 ethnomusicologists turned their attention to gender and music; the effect of media and technology on music; music, politics, and power; individual agency in culture; social and individual identity; and the effect on music of migrations, diaspora, and globalization.
Based in principles of social responsibility, applied ethnomusicology puts ethnomusicological knowledge to practical use through a music-centered intervention into a particular community, whose purpose is to benefit that community.
social group to another in ways that speak of, and to, the distinct charac teristics of social organization in these societies. Not only do all societies make music, but the results of the study of one group may be relevant in reaching an understanding of another; in the words of John Blacking, it is all "humanly organized sound" (1973:3-31).
- Jonathan P. J. Stock
- 1997
as “music is a social behavior,” “music is a nonverbal practice that can, outside verbal discourse, create gendered individuals and other socially constructed subjectivities,” or “music’s particular form and ef ects depend on its means of production” (ibid.:111). Likewise, in the discussion of “interlocal theory about musical ...
Aug 25, 2021 · This paper argues for ethnomusicologists to begin using performance not just as a tool to understand the social and cultural field, but to use music and dance as methods in ‘translational’...
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Yet all ethnomusicologists share a coherent foundation in the following approaches and methods: 1) Employing a global perspective on music (encompassing all geographic areas and types of music). 2) Understanding music as social practice (viewing music as a human activity that is interrelated with its social and cultural contexts).
