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If so, what was new in and for ethnomusicology, and what directions might it now wish to take? The chapters in this volume explore some of these questions, firstly focusing on ethnomusicology’s disciplinary relationships, and secondly reflecting on a few potential areas for future development.
- Henry Stobart
In the wake of “new” musicology and in the context of a new critical mass of popular music scholarship, Stobart 2008 debates the ideological distinctions between contemporary musicology, ethnomusicology, and anthropology of music, addressing the mutual influence of these fields as well as some shared intellectual questions and presumptions.
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Feb 20, 2012 · In asking what a truly integrated field of music studies might look like, Born questions whether earlier promises of sub-disciplinary dialogue or integration (for instance in Mark Everist and Nicholas Cook's [Citation 1999] volume Rethinking Music), have delivered; she suggests that any such field would need to both ‘disrupt[ing] the conceptual boundary between music and the social’ (221 ...
- Laudan Nooshin
- 2011
In particular, there is a focus on the conditions of stability, integration, and effectiveness of the system. 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.
What directions might or should it take in the new millennium? The New (Ethno)musicologies seeks to answer these questions by addressing and critically examining key issues in contemporary ethnomusicology.
Jun 30, 2021 · Extending Anthony Seeger's recent flagging of areas for improvement in ethnomusicological research, this special issue is framed in terms of several concerns: engagement with cultural tradition, music and essentialism, and music as sustainability activism.
Over the last few decades, ethnomusicologists have asked questions about urban and popular music, music's role in religious life, the economics of music, gender and music, the use of technology, music and politics, and the effect on music of migration, diaspora, and globalization.
