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Ethnomusicology is the study of music within the context of its larger culture, though there are various definitions for the field. Some define it as the study of why and how humans make music. Others describe it as the anthropology of music. If anthropology is the study of human behavior, ethnomusicology is the study of the music humans make.
Mar 1, 2023 · From religious ceremonies to social gatherings, music plays a significant role in different cultures around the world. Ethnomusicology is the study of music across cultures and seeks to understand how music reflects cultural values and beliefs.
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Ethnomusicologists believe that humans make music as a constituent element of culture. To narrow down their study of music and culture, ethnomusicologists study the connections through particular themes, issues, and questions.
Ethnomusicology (from Greek ἔθνος ethnos ‘nation’ and μουσική mousike ‘music’) is the multidisciplinary study of music in its cultural context, investigating social, cognitive, biological, comparative, and other dimensions involved other than sound.
In Spain, the establishment of ethnomusicology as a discipline fully conscious of its methods and objectives is relatively recent. Procursors can be seen in early studies of folk song which were catalyzed in European society by Herder and other scholars.
Spanish ethnomusicology in the twenty-first century must take up his excellent work, expand it, and push to catch up with other recent trends in the discipline—which has been Ethnomusicology Translations, no. 15 (2024) 7 subject, if only in the last two decades, to an intense and ongoing debate (a true academic fervor) about its epistemology ...
In order to check whether the findings are in line with recent discussions in ethnomusicology, I have reviewed the latest volumes of two key journals: Ethnomusiciology (journal of the Society of Ethnomusicology) and Ethnomusicology Forum (journal of the British Forum for Ethnomusicology). This review finds a number of studies that are relevant ...
