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Oskar Kolberg is regarded as one of the earliest European ethnomusicologists as he first began collecting Polish folk songs in 1839 (Nettl 2010, 33). Comparative musicology, the primary precursor to ethnomusicology, emerged in the late 19th century and early 20th century.
Oskar Kolberg is regarded as one of the earliest European ethnomusicologists as he first began collecting Polish folk songs in 1839 (Nettl 2010, 33). The International Musical Society in Berlin in 1899 acted as one of the first centers for ethnomusicology.
In general, the first meetings of the Study Group dealt with European folk music exclusively. However, at the 5th meeting in Seggau in 1977, for the first time two non-European colleagues from Japan participated, but did not deliver a paper.
In 1950, Dutch musicologist Jaap Kunst coined the term “ethnomusicology,” combining two disciplines: musicology (the study of music) and ethnology (the comparative study of different cultures). Building on this new name, musicologist Charles Seeger, anthropologist Alan Merriam, and others established the Society for Ethnomusicology in 1955 ...
Beginning in the late 1970s, ethnomusicologists began to engage with ideas from phenomenology (a movement within continental European philosophy). This article discusses key concepts from phenomenology and explores how ethnomusicologists developed them to address fundamental issues in the study of music and culture—the problem of musical ...
May 23, 2018 · By about 1950, ethnomusicologists studied what was then called “ primitive, ” “ folk, ” or “ ancient ” music. The first term was used to describe “ unschooled ” music, especially music from indigenous, colonial peoples.
Nov 29, 2017 · Ethnomusicology is thought to have its starting point in 1885, but it has a substantial prehistory of publications about Asian and European folk musics. From 1885 it was ordinarily known as “comparative musicology” ( vergleichende Musikwissenschaft in German, the language of most of its early literature).
