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Aug 25, 2021 · In my view therefore, the key areas of work from an ethnomusicological perspective for performance practice as research might therefore include: Practice research for translational ethnomusicology: Analytically informed practice as research where practice research informs the analysis of musical meaning and structure (see Cook Citation 2018).
- Simon McKerrell
- 2021
Ethnomusicology research consists of four main activities: interviews; participant-observation of musical events and community life; music and dance lessons; and audio and video recordings. Keywords: Deep Forest , ethnomusicology , Jewish music , Alan Lomax , Charles Seeger , Turkish Music
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- The Still-Shaky Position of Analysis in Ethnomusicology
- A Panoply of Analytical Methods
- Computational Ethnomusicology
- The New Comparative Musicology
- The Challenges of Interdisciplinarity
- What Happens Now?
Despite the rocky history examined here, many ethnomusicologists do see the value of music theory and analysis, and a not insignificant number of us include them in our studies. As Gabriel Solis has argued [48.39, p. 533]: And Michael Tenzer contends [48.65, pp. 6–7]: That music theory and analysis are an integral part of ethnomusicological researc...
Over the last half-century, ethnomusicologists interested in analysis have been grappling with the lessons of anthropological study and relativism, and we have learned that we cannot apply the same analytical approaches to every music culture. The paradigmatic analysis that Arom used to unravel underlying models and rules of variation for Central A...
The rise of new computer technologies has provided many opportunities for ethnomusicological analysis in recent decades. The use of computers and other machines by ethnomusicologists is by no means new – Charles Seeger developed the Melograph for graphic transcription and the real-time analysis of pitch, dynamic, and timbre back in the 1950s – but ...
The interest in interdisciplinary approaches currently fueling the growth of CE has also helped to reinvigorate comparative research. This renewed focus opposes the general perception in the field [48.3, p. 315] Yet it seems premature to throw the baby out with the bath water. Comparative musicology was in many ways a groundbreaking, forward-lookin...
It seems, then, that many of the most innovative new directions in analytical ethnomusicology are interdisciplinary. So now the question becomes how to do work in a multidisciplinary project that speaks faithfully to each field involved. Whether or not we wish it were so, each field to some extent speaks its own language and has its own assumptions...
With all these opinions and methodologies at our disposal, the role of an ethnomusicologist now is to select, from an ever-expanding toolkit, those approaches best suited to the individual genre or piece under examination. Each may draw into focus (and conversely, obscure from view) certain aspects of the music, and thus the researcher may wish to ...
- Leslie Tilley
- tilley@mit.edu
- 2018
Updated on December 20, 2019. Ethnomusicology is the study of music within the context of its larger culture, though there are various definitions for the field. Some define it as the study of why and how humans make music. Others describe it as the anthropology of music.
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.
- Georgia Curran, Mahesh Radhakrishnan
- 2021
Nov 17, 2020 · Ethnomusicology is an area of study that encompasses distinct theoretical and methodical approaches to the study of music that emphasizes the cultural, social, material, cognitive, biological, and other dimensions or contexts of musical behavior instead of or in addition to its isolated sound component.
Apr 25, 2024 · Ethnomusicology is the study of music in its cultural context. Ethnomusicologists approach music as a social process in order to understand not only what music is but why it is: what music means to its practitioners and audiences, and how those meanings are conveyed ... all ethnomusicologists share a coherent foundation in the following ...
