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Jun 30, 2021 · 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 communities ...
- Georgia Curran, Mahesh Radhakrishnan
- 2021
- Music-Mind Dynamics
- Psychological Flexibility
- Entrainment
- Embeingment
- Human Certainty Principle
This part of the model is developed from earlier versions used to explore the dynamic and affective relationship among music, specialised practices (e.g., meditation), health and healing (see Koen 2009, p. 65). For the purpose of the current model and to lay out a conceptual frame for the future of medical ethnomusicology, music-mind dynamics empha...
Psychological flexibility is a broad category that entails cognitive and emotional flexibility (Hinton 2008, pp. 125–129). In addition, it is involved in all aspects of flexibility based on the five factors model. Thus, physical, social or relational and spiritual flexibility are also in a dynamic and affective relationship with psychological flexi...
Entrainment has recently received more attention in ethnomusicological research, with one track being focused on cognition and the brain, and another on health and healing (e.g., see Berger and Turow 2011; Clayton et al. 2004; Koen 2009). It is puzzling why it has not been the focus of more research across fields interested in music’s role in healt...
It is arguable that neologisms are rarely needed today; however, at times they can be helpful, even if simply to help redefine existing terms that have come to limit the discourse. One example from the history of biomedicine and its concept of how medical research and practice should be conducted is instructive. Biomedicine proceeded from the notio...
Perhaps the most abstract or challenging of the concepts I have put forth is the Human Certainty Principle (HCP). Perhaps there is a better term that will arise from our discourse, however, let me explain my intent here. Across diverse cultures and clinical contexts of illness and healing, there is a dynamic I have noticed and experienced myself th...
- Benjamin D. Koen
- 2018
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Aug 25, 2021 · This article sets out to examine the trajectory and scholarly potential of practice research in ethnomusicology and to examine the utility of performance in ethnomusicological research. Ethnomusicologists have always been people who play music or dance in their fieldwork, with different emphases on its function, agency and reception, depending ...
- Simon McKerrell
- 2021
Abstract. ‘Music as culture’ examines the connections that ethnomusicologists make between music and culture. Culture, in an ethnomusicologist sense, refers to all forms of human knowledge, creativity, and values, and to their expression in various activities. Ethnomusicologists believe that humans make music as a constituent element of ...
Mar 1, 2023 · Ethnomusicologists have conducted numerous case studies to better understand the role of music in different cultures. One example is the study of Balinese gamelan, a traditional ensemble consisting of percussion instruments such as metallophones, gongs, and drums.
Jan 1, 2014 · An uncommon merging of retrospective and rumination, A Feminist Ethnomusicology: Writings on Music and Gender offers a witty and disarmingly frank tour through the formative decades of the...
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.
