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Aug 25, 2021 · ABSTRACT. This paper argues for ethnomusicologists to begin using performance not just as a tool to understand the social and cultural field, but to use music and dance as methods in ‘translational’ ethnomusicology that focuses upon the translation and communication of artistic performance aesthetics and to theorise a space for research outcomes that are sited in original performative ...
In this chapter, we examine the trajectory of analytical ethnomusicology, from its parallel beginnings in late 19th-century Europe and North America through its relative obscurity in the field in the mid-20th century to its panoply of new methods in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. The aim of the chapter is threefold.
Table 1 Articles with transcription in the journal Ethnomusicology from 1964–2013 (volumes 8–57). The upper graph shows the number of articles containing transcription relative to the total number of articles in each volume. The lower graph shows the percentage of articles containing transcription per volume. Data compiled by Johannes Snape.
Apr 20, 2017 · “Ethnomusicological theory,” despite its name and despite the fact that it in some ways permeates our field, has yet to take firm root in our disciplinary imagination. 1 Indeed, the phrase appears to be used rarely, in comparison to references to an unmodified “theory” in or for ethnomusicology. Minimally, ethnomusicology today engages ...
Ethnomusicology is the study of music in its social and cultural contexts. Ethnomusicologists examine music as a social process in order to understand what music is and what it means to its practitioners and audiences. Ethnomusicology is highly interdisciplinary. Individuals working in the field may have training in music, sound studies ...
History of ethnomusicology. Ethnomusicology is the study of music from the cultural and social aspects of the people who make it. It encompasses distinct theoretical and methodical approaches that emphasize cultural, social, material, cognitive, biological, and other dimensions or contexts of musical behavior, in addition to the sound component.
Nevertheless, academia in the United States as well as in many other countries has been slow to accept dance studies, in spite of the important roles that dance has played in the early development of the disciplines of anthropology and ethnomusicology. his introduction discusses the history of dance in the ields of folklore and ethnomusicology ...
