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Timothy Rice proposes that. ethnomusicologists view all of humanity as “musical” in the sense that the “capacity to make and. make sense of music” is a touchstone of human experience—one that is arguably just as. important as the ability to communicate and understand speech.1 This, Rice adds, is why it is.
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ETHNOMUSICOLOGY AND AFRICAN MUSICOLOGY In Western Civilization there is misconception with the understanding of African Musicology as highlighted by researchers (Mapaya, 2012, 2014) with his statement: The concept indigenous African music interchangeable with indigenous music or African music refers to an aggregation of ...
Musicology (from Greek μουσική mousikē 'music' and -λογια -logia, 'domain of study') is the scholarly study of music. Musicology research combines and intersects with many fields, including psychology, sociology, acoustics, neurology, natural sciences, formal sciences and computer science . Musicology is traditionally divided into ...
Ethnomusicology, literally the study of the music of communities (ethnos), has been defined as the study of music in its social and cultural context. In this sense it is a combination of anthropology and musicology, and it shares many of its formative influences with anthropology, sociology, psychology, and folklore on the one hand and ...
v. t. e. 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. Ethnomusicologists study music as a reflection of culture and ...
Musicologists and Ethnomusicologists ask questions about music, the ways people use it and the significance they assign to it. They gather and analyse information about different musical practices and the relation of music to other aspects of cultures. They make their findings available to others in many media, including websites, films, books ...
Feb 7, 2006 · Ethnomusicology. The word "ethnomusicology" was adopted by a group of music scholars in the 1950s to replace "comparative musicology". In the early and mid-20th century, the field was often defined to encompass musical traditions other than European art music (the study of which is sometimes labelled "historical musicology").
