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- Particularly in relation to performance of music and dance, the three key differences that distinguish much of the canon of artistic research in music from ethnomusicology are: (1) the lack of a central canon of repertoire in ethnomusicology as compared to other musicological disciplines who share a more or less accepted (or even continually negotiated) canon of works against which the novelty and originality of new music can be compared; (2) the extreme relativism inherent in the training and...
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Ethnography involves conducting research with people, namely musicians, to understand their role within their larger culture, how they make music, and what meanings they assign to music, among other questions. Ethnomusicological research requires the researcher to immerse him/herself in the culture about which he/she writes.
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 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.
Jun 30, 2021 · Research on musical diversity is optimally positioned to make unique contributions to anthropology, and social science at large, yet faces tensions when placed in terms of the dominant approaches of these intellectual paradigms.
- Georgia Curran, Mahesh Radhakrishnan
- 2021
Ethnomusicology research consists of four main activities: interviews; participant-observation of musical events and community life; music and dance lessons; and audio and video recordings. Keywords: Deep Forest, ethnomusicology, Jewish music, Alan Lomax, Charles Seeger, Turkish Music.
Interpreted as practical extension of ethnomusicological research, it allows a given ethnomusicologist to decide whether or not to step beyond the usual goal of deepening and broadening knowledge in order to intervene into the researched human and cultural environment.
Aug 25, 2021 · Ethnomusicology. practice research. artistic research. Scotland. bagpipes. Introduction. 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.
