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- However, the broader effect of the study of ethnomusicology is the ability to connect individuals from entirely different backgrounds through their music. By teaching individuals about music from other cultures, they can have insight into those people from a different perspective and understand what music means to them.
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Ethnomusicology is the study of music within a cultural context. Explore the history of ethnomusicology, definition, research questions, methods, and ethical concerns.
Jun 30, 2021 · Abstract. Musical performances are at the heart of many significant cultural events and often represent and affirm distinct cultural identities. Ethnographic research on music thus provides an important lens through which to understand distinct cultural worlds. In this introductory article we consider the value of research on music—for the ...
- Georgia Curran, Mahesh Radhakrishnan
- 2021
Winnie Lai, Hong Kong, 2020. 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.
Aug 25, 2021 · Ethnomusicology has largely used performance as a means to learn more about global cultures and values, primarily through its use as a research method of ‘learning to perform’ in an instrument or vocal tradition.
- Simon McKerrell
- 2021
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.
Ethnomusicologists believe that humans make music as a constituent element of culture. To narrow down their study of music and culture, ethnomusicologists study the connections through particular themes, issues, and questions.
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.
