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v. t. e. Ethnomusicology (from Greek ἔθνος ethnos ‘nation’ and μουσική mousike ‘music’) is the multidisciplinary study of music in its cultural context, investigating social, cognitive, biological, comparative, and other dimensions involved other than sound. Ethnomusicologists study music as a reflection of culture and ...
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 ...
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.
Anthropology - Ethnomusicology, Culture, Society: Music can be described as humanly organized, meaningful sounds that have physical properties and physiological, psychological, social, and cultural attributes (to the extent these can or should be distinguished in practice). Ethnomusicology, literally the study of the music of communities (ethnos), has been defined as the study of music in its ...
A Short History of the Founding of SEM. by Willard Rhodes. A quarter of a century is a short span of time by any standard, but for the Society for Ethnomusicology it is an occasion for celebration—the founding of the Society, and twenty-five years of achievement and continuing development of a humanistic discipline that recognizes music as a ...
Mantle Hood took his definition from the Journal of the American Musicology Society, with the insertion of the prefix "ethno'. in suggesting that "[Ethno musicology is a field of knowledge, having as its. object the investigation of the art of music as a physical, psychological, aes-. thetic, and cultural phenomenon.
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 ...
