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- 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.
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Jun 30, 2021 · The transcultural appeal of music-making facilitates rapid and deep intercultural engagement and knowledge transfer such that ethnographic research on music comes from a unique vantage point with understandings and methodological approaches being deeply informed by those of musical practitioners.
- Georgia Curran, Mahesh Radhakrishnan
- 2021
‘The nature of music’ looks at the contribution of the study of ethnomusicology to current theoretical thinking on what music fundamentally is. Ethnomusicologists have been able to combine the specificity of fieldwork with anthropological and social science theories to learn a great deal about music as a human behavior and cultural practice.
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.
Ethnomusicology is the study of why, and how, human beings are musical. This definition positions ethnomusicology among the social sciences, humanities, and biological sciences dedicated to understanding the nature of the human species in all its biological, social, cultural, and artistic diversity.
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
Aug 25, 2021 · This article sets out to examine the trajectory and scholarly potential of practice research in ethnomusicology and to examine the utility of performance in ethnomusicological research.
Just as music differs among individuals and social groups throughout the world, so do people’s ideas about it differ, and this has been so throughout history. Applied ethnomusicology puts ethnomusicological scholarship, knowledge, and understanding to practical use. That is a very broad definition.
