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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.
May 28, 2013 · Introduction. Questions concerning the social significance of music have a long history within the interdisciplinary field of ethnomusicology. The emergence of comparative musicology in Europe in the early 20th century, and of ethnomusicology subsequently in North America, generated topical distinctions between Western classical music and the music of “others,” with attendant distinctions ...
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.
Sep 9, 2008 · Shadows in the Field deliberately shift the focus of ethnomusicology and of ethnography in general from representation (text) to experience (fieldwork). The “new fieldwork” moves beyond mere data collection and has become a defining characteristic of ethnomusicology that engages the scholar in meaningful human contexts.
acoustics, etc., represent adjunct fields of study." So much for musicology in its broadest outline. What now of that special field of investigation which we have designated ethnomusicology? Recognized as a division of musicology by Guido Adler in 1885, it has been more or less consistently practiced since that time under the term comparative ...
Analysis has had a long and somewhat tenuous history under the umbrella of ethnomusicology. Beginning as one of the central activities of both North American music ethnologists and European comparative musicologists in the late nineteenth century, it fell out of favor in the post-World War II era with the rise of anthropology-based ethnomusicological studies, and since the late 1960s has been ...
the field's ability to account for data and to employ diverse theories to interpret the data expands, in turn causing the field itself to expand. Especially significant in the history of ethnomusicology is the conceptual network or template that results from the juxtaposition of traditional music and cultural identity.
