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Feb 12, 2019 · Overall, since changing its name from comparative musicology to ethnomusicology during the middle of the 20th century, the field has largely avoided discussion of musical evolution, and recent...
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Ethnomusicology has evolved both in terminology and ideology since its formal inception in the late 19th century. Although practices paralleling ethnomusicological work have been noted throughout colonial history, an Armenian priest known as Komitas Vardapet is considered one of the pioneers to ethnomusicology's rise to prominence in 1896.
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).
Over time, ethnomusicologists have gradually abandoned the detailed analytical study of music and increased their focus on the anthropological study of music as a domain of culture.
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The field of Ethnomusicology has taken a great journey since it began over 120 years ago. The expansion of the field has been greatly helped by the advances in musical recording devices and, as in any field, time has brought increased understanding. The field blossomed in the 1880’s under the name of Musikologie (Nettl 1983). Some of
Two assumptions were fundamental to much of the work of the founding gures of fi comparative musicology: Cultures evolved from simple to complex, and as they do so they move from primitive to ...
The ancient literate cultures of China and Greece generated philosophical treatises on music because they believed, like modern ethnomusicologists, that music is an extraordinarily important cultural expression with deep cosmological, metaphysical, religious, social, and political implications.
