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Ethnomusicology is the study of music within the context of its larger culture, though there are various definitions for the field. Some define it as the study of why and how humans make music. Others describe it as the anthropology of music. If anthropology is the study of human behavior, ethnomusicology is the study of the music humans make.
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.
that "ethnomusicology" calls up have changed, and by and large the word is no longer the puzzler it was in 1950. But if the term i; bro.adiy · accepted ~ the academy, elsewhere we're not yet out of the woods. Only recently, when I told my faithful physician that 1 taught a .specialized field called ethnomusicology, he
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
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society with such a vague conception of its field can be so successful. But successful it now is, with over 1800 individual members. As you can see, the field of ethnomusicology changed its perspectives and its con ception of its tasks, even its name, substantially over the past 125 years. I could have given much more evidence.
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 ...
ethnomusicology, field of scholarship that encompasses the study of all world musics from various perspectives. It is defined either as the comparative study of musical systems and cultures or as the anthropological study of music. Although the field had antecedents in the 18th and early 19th centuries, it began to gather energy with the ...
