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Looking back upon a long tradition in Berlin, the huge collection has many purposes to serve. Besides receiving many musicologists and other guests, the Phonogramm-Archiv has increasingly become a source in the field of non-European music for other museums as well as radio, television and film companies, teachers and interested music lovers.
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.
May 28, 2013 · Now including the study of any music, ethnomusicology is less topically defined than it has been historically. Rather, it is characterized by its approach to music as a social phenomenon, investigated primarily through the interpretive science and art of ethnography. Ethnomusicologists render their work in writing, recording, and performing and ...
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.
Feb 20, 2012 · As evidence for such convergence, Cook cites both the 2000 joint conference of the American Musicological Society, the Society for Ethnomusicology and other North American scholarly music societies, at which it was often difficult to tell which society was sponsoring a particular session; and his experience of reading two doctoral dissertations by authors in distinct fields of music research ...
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.
The Society for Ethnomusicology defines ethnomusicology as “the study of music in its social and cultural contexts” (n.d.). Ethnomusicology is complex, requiring the work of many scientific disciplines. It requires study of many geographic areas, with a focus on the social practice of music and the human experience.
