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v. t. e. 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. Ethnomusicologists study music as a reflection of culture and ...
Abstract. ‘A bit of history’ charts the history of the study of ethnomusicology. The literate cultures of China and Greece generated philosophical treatises on music because they believed that music is an important cultural expression with significant cosmological, metaphysical, religious, social, and political implications.
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 ...
Feb 20, 2012 · As evidence for such convergence, Cook cites both the 2000 joint conference of the American Musicological Society, the Society for Ethnomusicology and other North American scholarly music societies, at which it was often difficult to tell which society was sponsoring a particular session; and his experience of reading two doctoral dissertations by authors in distinct fields of music research ...
What directions might or should it take in the new millenium? With contributions from a number of key figures in Ethnomusicology and related disciplines, this volume explores Ethnomusicology’s shifting relationship to other disciplines and to its own ‘mythic’ history, and plots a range of potential developments for its future.
Nov 17, 2020 · The term ethnomusicology, said to have been first coined by Jaap Kunst from the Greek words ἔθνος ( ethnos, “nation”) and μουσική ( mousike, “music”), is often defined as the anthropology or ethnography of music, or as musical anthropology. [1] During its early development from comparative musicology in the 1950s ...
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 ...
