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Nov 17, 2020 · The term ethnomusicology, said to have been first coined by Jaap Kunst from the Greek words ἔθνος ( ethnos, “nation”) and μουσική ( mousike, “music”), is often defined as the anthropology or ethnography of music, or as musical anthropology. [1] During its early development from comparative musicology in the 1950s ...
The movement has a deep historical relationship with the discipline of ethnomusicology; not only did the nineteenth-century German philosopher Carl Stumpf serve as the habilitation supervisor for the founder of phenomenology, Edmund Husserl (Fisette 2009), but Stumpf and others in his milieu were also among the parents of comparative musicology ...
Jul 16, 2023 · 213976. Ethnomusicology is the study of music from the cultural and social aspects of the people who make it. It encompasses distinct theoretical and methodical approaches that emphasize cultural, social, material, cognitive, biological, and other dimensions or contexts of musical behavior, in addition to the sound component.
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.
Nov 29, 2017 · Introduction. Ethnomusicology is most frequently defined as the study of music in its relationship to the rest of human culture, and as the study of the musics of the world from a comparative perspective. But it has also been defined many other ways, including “the study of social and cultural aspects of music and dance in local and global ...
Nov 21, 2023 · Ethnomusicology grew out of the field of comparative musicology, which examined aspects of world music such as a pitch, scales, instruments, and form in relation to the music of the western ...
Abstract. ‘A bit of history’ charts the history of the study of ethnomusicology. The literate cultures of China and Greece generated philosophical treatises on music because they believed that music is an important cultural expression with significant cosmological, metaphysical, religious, social, and political implications.
