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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.
Ellen Koskoff introduced this theme in a collection of essays, published in 1989, called Women and Music in Cross-Culture Perspective. In the wake of this intervention, ethnomusicologists routinely study how musical styles and performance register gender differences.
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Jan 1, 2014 · An uncommon merging of retrospective and rumination, A Feminist Ethnomusicology: Writings on Music and Gender offers a witty and disarmingly frank tour through the formative decades of the...
- Ellen Koskoff
Jun 30, 2021 · Extending Anthony Seeger's recent flagging of areas for improvement in ethnomusicological research, this special issue is framed in terms of several concerns: engagement with cultural tradition, music and essentialism, and music as sustainability activism.
- Georgia Curran, Mahesh Radhakrishnan
- 2021
Women, Representation, and the Myth of the Unitary Self. One of the pioneers of gender studies in music, Ellen Koskoff edited the foundational text Women and Music in Cross Cultural Perspective, and her career evolved...
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. Peripheral within ethnomusicology until the late 1970s, when ethnomusicology took a humanistic turn, and ethical ...
A young boy might sing an adult song to signal his evolving sense of self. An aging adult male might begin to sing less forcefully to signal his passage into old age. An older woman, on the other hand, “might retain the sober demeanor characteristic of a younger woman.”
