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- This global dispersal of ethnomusicological research mitigates against any central canonical set of aesthetic or artistic values and practices, and is one of the key attractions of the field for many scholars. That is to say, the real object of study is people, culture and society, and the subject is music.
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Ethnomusicologists study a wide range of topics and musical practices throughout the world. It is sometimes described as the study of non-Western music or “world music,” as opposed to musicology, which studies Western European classical music.
Ethnomusicology, field of scholarship that encompasses the study of all world musics from various perspectives. It is defined either as the comparative study of musical systems and cultures or as the anthropological study of music.
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
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.
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.
Nov 17, 2020 · Stated broadly, ethnomusicology may be described as a holistic investigation of music in its cultural contexts. [4] Combining aspects of folklore, psychology, cultural anthropology, linguistics, comparative musicology, music theory, and history, [5] ethnomusicology has adopted perspectives from a multitude of disciplines. [6]
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 meaning and musical interpretation, the nature of the performance event, and questions of music and being.
