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1 day ago · Analytical and research methods have changed over time, as ethnomusicology has continued solidifying its disciplinary identity, and as scholars have become increasingly aware of issues involved in cultural study (see Theoretical Issues and Debates).
May 10, 2024 · Instruments and musical systems have also been documented to have diffused and evolved across this trade route (e.g., the modern Japanese shamisen and European violin evolved from their shared ...
Music has the power to alter emotions and alter states of consciousness. Ethnomusicology. Throughout history, for over a millennia, different cultures have harnessed this power… with what seems like advanced understandings of sound and acoustic technology. Ethnomusicology simply put is: Ethno = people or culture. Musicology = the study of music.
6 days ago · In a new study, researchers found universal features of songs across many cultures, suggesting that music evolved in our distant ancestors. A research team that comprised musicologists ...
We thus assume that they followed the common practice in ethnomusicology of defining music as “humanly organized sound” other than speech, with the distinction between speech and music being left to each culture’s emic (insider and subjective) conceptions, rather than being defined objectively by outsiders. Thus, our analyses suggest that ...
6 days ago · Song lyrics have become simpler and more repetitive since 1980, study finds Mar 28, 2024 New research shows how cultural transmission shapes the evolution of music
May 7, 2024 · Ethnomusicology is the study of music in its cultural context. Ethnomusicologists approach music as a social process in order to understand not only what music is but why it is: what music means to its practitioners and audiences, and how those meanings are conveyed ... all ethnomusicologists share a coherent foundation in the following ...
