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Jun 2, 2015 · to conceive of the field of ethnomusicology as “the study of people making music,”. and to define “making” in tw o w ays: (1) making the sounds that peoples call music, and. (2) making or ...
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
Thoughts on Applied Ethnomusicology. Known affectionately as "The Red Book," Bruno Nettl'sThe Study of Ethnomusicologybecame a classic upon its original publication in 1983. Scholars...
- Bruno Nettl
- 1983
What directions might or should it take in the new millenium? With contributions from a number of key figures in Ethnomusicology and related disciplines, this volume explores Ethnomusicology’s shifting relationship to other disciplines and to its own ‘mythic’ history, and plots a range of potential developments for its future.
- Sidney Monteiro
In some ways, ethnomusicology has come to represent a conduit through which a more open, reflexive, representative, democratic and interdisciplinary approach to the study of music might be achieved. It also offers a range of methodologies, some of which have become increasing pertinent with the shifting priorities and foci of music scholarship.
Ethnomusicology is the study of people making music. People make sounds that are recognized as music, and people also make “music” into a cultural domain. This 1989 conference paper defined ethnomusicology and contrasted music as a contingent
