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Definition. Stated broadly, ethnomusicology may be described as a holistic investigation of music in its cultural contexts. [4] Combining aspects of folklore, psychology, cultural anthropology, linguistics, comparative musicology, music theory, and history, [5] ethnomusicology has adopted perspectives from a multitude of disciplines. [6]
Nov 29, 2017 · Introduction. Ethnomusicology is most frequently defined as the study of music in its relationship to the rest of human culture, and as the study of the musics of the world from a comparative perspective. But it has also been defined many other ways, including “the study of social and cultural aspects of music and dance in local and global ...
May 28, 2013 · Now including the study of any music, ethnomusicology is less topically defined than it has been historically. Rather, it is characterized by its approach to music as a social phenomenon, investigated primarily through the interpretive science and art of ethnography. Ethnomusicologists render their work in writing, recording, and performing and ...
Sep 8, 2016 · The 35 chapters which comprise Musical Prodigies: Interpretations from Psychology, Education, Musicology, and Ethnomusicology are organized according to three sections: Theoretical Frameworks, Aspects of Development, and Individual Examples. Each chapter retains the style and referencing of the author’s area of research.
Musicology & Ethnomusicology. Brown’s Ph.D. program in Musicology and Ethnomusicology allows students to study music of any kind from several perspectives, within a richly interdisciplinary environment. The program’s distinctively flexible curriculum permits students to sample liberally from departmental graduate seminars, and also ...
If all ethnomusicological knowledge is put to use in one way or another, then the term applied ethnomusicology is redundant. All of this may be so, but for strategic reasons the editors of this volume find the term useful, in order to highlight a certain kind of activity and distinguish an ethnomusicology based in social responsibility where ...
Timothy Rice proposes that. ethnomusicologists view all of humanity as “musical” in the sense that the “capacity to make and. make sense of music” is a touchstone of human experience—one that is arguably just as. important as the ability to communicate and understand speech.1 This, Rice adds, is why it is.
