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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
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 ...
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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
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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.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
Abstract. Ethnomusicology is at a new point in history, marked by the growing role of media- tion, advocacy, and ethnomusicologists ' experiences in familiar home environments. In studying a musical system/tradition that is in some sense the ethnomusicologist s. own culture, ethnomusicologists have increasingly focused on the "applied work".
One might be “to make music,” giving us ethnomusicology as the study of how and why people make music, or more simply, the study of people making music, a definition advanced by Jeff Todd Titon. This definition works if we understand “making music” to include not only the playing of music but also how humans “make” music ...
