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Dec 5, 2017 · Medical Ethnomusicology. The term medical refers to that which increases health, well-being, balance or wholeness; facilitates healing or cure; and redounds to the well-being of the individual, group, society or humanity. It is not limited to a conventional biomedical or mechanistic definition.
- Benjamin D. Koen
- 2018
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
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Aug 25, 2021 · Practice research as translational ethnomusicology. One can claim as an ethnomusicologist that ‘learning to perform’ an already established research methodology of traditional music, whether at home or elsewhere in the world, is adding new knowledge or insights where practice is not the object of study but a methodology that informs the social and cultural.
- Simon McKerrell
- 2021
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. If anthropology is the study of human behavior, ethnomusicology is the study of the music humans make.
Mar 1, 2023 · Ethnomusicology is the study of music in cultural context, and it encompasses a wide range of approaches and methods. Ethnomusicologists seek to understand how music is created, performed, and experienced within different cultures around the world. One key aspect of ethnomusicology is its focus on musical systems.
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. To further their goal of understanding why and how humans are musical, ethnomusicologists, like other scholars, study in libraries, archives, and laboratories.
If all ethnomusicological knowledge is put to use in one way or another, then the term applied ethnomusicology is redundant. All of this may be so, but for strategic reasons the editors of this volume find the term useful, in order to highlight a certain kind of activity and distinguish an ethnomusicology based in social responsibility where ...
