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Ethnography of Performance and Identity In New Orleans and French Louisiana. This course focuses on symbolic meaning in the vernacular expressive culture or folkloric forms of community groups in New Orleans, French Louisiana, the Gulf South region and selected out migrant locations.
A series of conversations, workshops, and performances with Leandro Moré: Fall 2024. This series will bring veteran Cuban percussionist Leandro Moré to New Orleans to perform, discuss, and teach the mozambique, a rhythm that rose to prominence in the mid-1960s as the sound of a new, youthful, revolutionary Cuba.
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Will Buckingham is a New Orleans-based researcher, educator, writer, and musician. His doctoral dissertation was the first book-length study on the Isleño décima, a unique tradition of Spanish folk song from St. Bernard Parish, in over twenty years. He founded the Institute for Public Ethnomusicology in order to leverage his research and ...
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Ethnomusicologists study a wide range of topics and musical practices throughout the world. It is sometimes described as the study of non-Western music or “world music,” as opposed to musicology, which studies Western European classical music. However, the field is defined more by its research methods (i.e., ethnography, or immersive fieldwork with...
The field, as it is currently named, emerged in the 1950s, but ethnomusicology originated as “comparative musicology” in the late 19th century. Linked to the 19th-century European focus on nationalism, comparative musicology emerged as a project of documenting the different musical features of diverse regions of the world. The field of musicology w...
Ethnomusicology takes as given the notion that music can provide meaningful insight into a larger culture or group of people. Another foundational concept is cultural relativismand the idea that no culture/music is inherently more valuable or better than another. Ethnomusicologists avoid assigning value judgments like “good” or “bad” to musical pra...
Ethnography is the method that most distinguishes ethnomusicology from historical musicology, which largely entails doing archival research (examining texts). Ethnography involves conducting research with people, namely musicians, to understand their role within their larger culture, how they make music, and what meanings they assign to music, amon...
There are a number of ethical issues ethnomusicologists consider in the course of their research, and most relate to the representation of musical practices that are not “their own.” Ethnomusicologists are tasked with representing and disseminating, in their publications and public presentations, the music of a group of people who may not have the ...
Barz, Gregory F., and Timothy J. Cooley, editors. Shadows in the Field: New Perspectives for Fieldwork in Ethnomusicology. Oxford University Press, 1997.Myers, Helen. Ethnomusicology: An Introduction. W.W. Norton & Company, 1992.Nettl, Bruno. The Study of Ethnomusicology: Thirty-three Discussions. 3rded., University of Illinois Press, 2015.Nettl, Bruno, and Philip V. Bohlman, editors. Comparative Musicology and Anthropology of Music: Essays on the History of Ethnomusicology. University of Chicago Press, 1991.Apr 24, 2018 · Submitted by Molly Jones on April 24, 2018 - 1:22am. The Gabriel family, with their roots in New Orleans and a strong foothold in Detroit, has seen six generations of musicians anchor and pioneer the musical styles of New Orleans. Read more.
Feb 20, 2012 · Nettl himself, in a landmark article published in 1963, sought to apply the techniques of ethnomusicology to ‘western’ music by conducting a questionnaire survey of college students examining their classifications of music, and asking what these might reveal about aspects of culture beyond music.
Arguably, ethnomusicology—and to some extent historical musicology—have already used this approach: primarily in regard to localized genres, with a wealth of focused ethnographic studies from the 1960s, and regarding individual music cultures and genres more in their diasporic and global contexts since the 1980s.
